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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Sheltering In Love – Part 1
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…
Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (27:22 min.)
…in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (from retreat)….
Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
…and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. All you need…
Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
…our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging….
Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (39:29 min.)
…The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat). Photo: Jon…
Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
…fall out of your belonging with each other, May the depths you have reached hold you still.” For Love in a Time of Conflict. ~ John O’Donohue NOTE: Video is…
Establishing a Meditation Practice
…in energizing and deepening practice, and feeling your belonging to a larger community of practitioners. Resources to assist in establishing a meditation practice: Mindfulness Daily – a free 40-day online…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1
…that larger loving space. And you can feel from your own intuitive wisdom that remembering your belonging to something larger IS a pathway to peace and to freedom. And just…
Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness
…of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life. https://youtu.be/mmxieERAGVE Photo credit:…
Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield (Part 1)
…that reveal our belonging to this world and open us to caring. Here’s a link to Jane’s most recent book: The Asking: New and Selected Poems. The interview includes readings…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1
…that larger loving space. And you can feel from your own intuitive wisdom that remembering your belonging to something larger IS a pathway to peace and to freedom. And just…
Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in…
Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in…
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2
…doing what you love. Know that this is another pathway to belonging – to your heart – to aliveness. This is a pathway to living with the sense of possibility…
Blog ~ What is Love Asking from Us: Reflections on Gaza, the West Bank and Israel
…and biases, and intimate with loss and grief. When there’s an awake tender presence with my inner life, there’s a natural compassion and feeling of belonging with other beings. •…
Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness
…belonging to loving awareness, and offers a powerful set of practices that shine a light on self-centeredness and relaxes its grip. Link to: Connirae Andreas’ new book – Coming to…
Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield (Part 2)
…that reveal our belonging to this world and open us to caring. Here’s a link to Jane’s most recent book: The Asking: New and Selected Poems. The interview includes readings…
Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk)
…depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging (from the 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat). How I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind…
Article: Letting Life Live Through Us: Healing and Awakening Through our Bodies
…of our body, we begin to see that our experience of sensations is part of belonging to this natural world. This entire universe is made up of changing, moving energies…