…“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of not belonging.” In our own society, this disease has reached epidemic proportions. We long to belong…
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Part 2: From Fight-Flight-Freeze to Attend-Befriend
How do we reconcile conflict when caught in reactivity sourced in trauma or deep wounding? This talk looks at the need for a larger field of belonging – a trusted…
The World in Our Heart
…practice of attending and befriending consciously facilitates the unfolding of our full evolutionary potential. The talk includes a guided meditation that helps us widen the circles of belonging to include…
Back to the Garden
…our wholeness, and the timeless presence that is home. This inquiry includes a guided meditation on the power of prayer to carry us back to our natural belonging. https://youtu.be/9f_iz1E31Lk https://youtu.be/ZY8Tm0x_NBI…
Ask the Friend for Love
…how living prayer, the prayer that arises from consciously inhabiting longing, can carry us home to loving presence. As John O’Donohue writes, prayer is the bridge between longing and belonging….
Intimacy with Life
…reviews the often unconscious ways that we habitually block intimacy and two trainings of attention that foster a natural sense of belonging to this living world and to timeless presence….
Divine Abodes – Compassion
…be touched by suffering–our own, those we know, all beings. As we discover our shared vulnerability, the pain of separation dissolves and our hearts open to widening circles of belonging….
The Blessings of Soul Recognition
One understanding of suffering is that as individuals and a culture we are uprooted, that we have disconnected from our natural world, our inner life and a sense of belonging…
Planting Yourself in the Universe
One understanding of suffering is that as individuals and a culture we are uprooted, that we have disconnected from our natural world, our inner life and a sense of belonging…
Part 1: Basic Trust
One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to…
Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love
…the sake of freedom, how do we deepen our attention to see the forces that cut us off from wholeness, from belonging, from living from an awake, compassionate heart? https://youtu.be/rKktTPbEzYg…
Sheltering In Love – Part 6: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 2 of 2)
The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to all of life….
Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
…way to bring down barriers is to set boundaries.” Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You “When the gentleness between you hardens And you fall out of your belonging with…
Blog: Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year
…or alienation. It can call forth their natural intelligence, creativity, courage and love. It can reveal our shared belonging with those of different races, religions and classes. And, beyond the…
Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)
…and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the IMCW Fall 2018 7-Day Silent Retreat). How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world…
Meditation: Tonglen – Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (5:53 min.)
…formless heartspace that is our true belonging. This meditation was recorded during Tara’s livestreamed Satsang QA session on Saturday, July 25, 2020. To register for this week’s Satsang class, please…
Anti-Racism
…a call to groups and organizations committed long-term to developing racial self-awareness, mindful leadership, and cultures of belonging. Milagros Phillips, speaker, author, coach, creator of Race Demystified; Ongoing Workshop: Healing…
Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (27:22 min.)
…direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat). “My soul tells me, we were all broken from…
Sheltering In Love – Part 4
During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path…
Sheltering In Love – Part 3
During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path…
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