The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the…
Evolving Consciousness–Beyond limiting Identities
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Part 1: Realizing True Well-Being
Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two…
Part 2: Embodied Spirit
…aliveness of our senses. NOTE: Part 2 specifically addresses the challenge of arriving in embodied presence when we are facing traumatic fear, and other intense and difficult emotions. http://www.youtube.com/embed/hs1b85JjDZs http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Y6U8s9f-Y8…
Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence – in relating inwardly…
Nourishing a Liberating Intention
The Buddha taught that this entire world arises out of the tip of intention. Intentions can arise from an egoic wants and fears, and they can arise from the wisdom…
Guided Meditation: Listening to Life (25:44 min.)
…or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, always meeting again on the myriad paths of life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear…
Blog: Learning to Respond, Not React
…tap the wisdom and the kindness that is intrinsic to our nature. We then can respond with intelligence instead of a kind of fear-based reaction. This is similar to what…
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,…
Living Whole-Heartedly
…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 in about falling short, the…
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: Freedom Finds Us When We Pause
…of coolness, of wholeness and ease. In fact, they last longer than the fires of our grasping and fear. It is this that sustains us.” We incline ourselves toward this…
Blog: “Something is Wrong with Me”
…of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. When we practice Radical Acceptance, we begin with the fears and wounds of our own life and discover that our heart…
Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (21:04 min.)
…you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being….
The Revolution of Tenderness – Part I
…evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging and the preciousness of all life. The talks examine the…
Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees Our Heart
…grasping or fear, and intentions that are the call of our awakening heart. You will learn how to identify and shift from a “limbic” to wise intention, and several different…
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…
River of Change – Part 2 – 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…
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…
Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering – CC ~ We can either repeat old fear based patterns, or our suffering can awaken us to a deeper…
Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real
…is really happening here and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.” You might explore Tara’s book, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha….
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