…“My prayer to god every day: Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.” Enjoy a…
The Three Refuges – Gateways to Belonging and Freedom
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The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk)
We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons…
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
…fear and grasping of our survival brain. This talk explores how we can facilitate the evolution of consciousness with the deliberate cultivation of generosity, and ends with a guided meditation…
Blog: A Heart That Is Ready for Anything
…is fear and suffering. If our hearts are ready for anything, we are free to be ourselves. There’s room for the wildness of our animal selves, for passion and play….
River of Change – Part 1: Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life
…avoiding uncertainty and fear; the consequences of resisting reality; our refuges of presence and compassion in the face of grief; and the gifts of opening fully to the river of…
Without Anxiety About Imperfection
The nature of being human is that we get caught in anger and judgment, hurt and fear. This talk explores what it means to be without anxiety towards this universal…
Blog: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves
…softened some of the tightness around my heart. Now I could more easily give myself to the waves of fear and sorrow, and simply notice the drifting thoughts and physical…
Blog: Deep Listening: Ear of the Heart
…healing. Her inspiration was the image of a fountain. During the workshop, we envisioned our inner life and spirit as a fountain that becomes clogged with unprocessed hurts and fears….
Blog: Prayer in the Face of Difficulty
…most difficult right now. It might be a recent or impending loss, or a situation that summons hurt, confusion, doubt, or fear. As if watching a movie, focus on the…
Blog: I’m Nothing, Yet I’m All I Can Think About
…up to who we are beyond the story of self, our system will register a “stuckness.” It’s a developmental arrest that shows up as dissatisfaction, endless stress, loneliness, fear, and…
Blog: Emptiness Dancing
…our lives with memories of how it used to be and fears of what we have yet to lose. Yet when we surrender into the living moment, we, like Perlman,…
Blog: A Heart That Is Ready for Anything
…is fear and suffering. If our hearts are ready for anything, we are free to be ourselves. There’s room for the wildness of our animal selves, for passion and play….
Compassion
…deepen your attention, you’ll find that everyone you know is living with vulnerability. Everyone is living with fear, with loss, with uncertainty. Everyone, on some level, needs to feel safe,…
Blog: Living Whole-Heartedly
…engaged with friends? You might think of one important relationship and ask yourself: “What is between me and feeling fully present when I’m with this person?” Notice the fears creeping…
Blog: From Longing to Belonging
…myself filled with waves of excitement, sexual arousal, fear. Now, instead of resisting these feelings as demons, I just practiced accepting them and, with some curiosity, exploring them further. The…
Blog: I realized I don’t have to believe my thoughts
…time our thoughts are not really serving us. Many thoughts are driven by fear and lock us into insecurity. During our residential meditation retreats, one of the biggest breakthroughs people…
Blog: Reaching Out For Compassion
…the universe. Sure, God existed, but she felt too sinful and wretched to reach out to him. Fearing she might harm herself, Marian sought counsel from an elderly Jesuit priest…
Listening to the Calling of Our Hearts
…are often driven by egoic fear and grasping. This talk explores how mindfulness can recognize our prevailing intention, and by staying present, kind and accepting, we can reconnect with the…
Choosing Presence
Spiritual awakening is energized by conscious intention. This talk explores how we get waylaid by habitual wants and fears, and the ways we can connect with the power and purity…
Blog: Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends
…pain of his guilt, by looking again and again at his own fearful, reactive self—at the person who had been trained to kill—Richard had faced his own human frailty. In…
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