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Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)

This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home. When difficult or intense experience arises, the practice is to learn to open to what is...

The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and connection. This talk explores the primitive survival strategies that keep us in trance and the evolutionary currents of awakening...

Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom – Part 2

Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom – Part 2

While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence.  This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to...

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)

In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience with tenderness and awareness, the heart naturally softens into ease. This practice begins...

Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom – Part 1

Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom – Part 1

While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence.  This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to...

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind...