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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...

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)

This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing with whatever arises, letting life be just as it is. The underlying...

3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform Everything

3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform Everything

What might change if you were three degrees friendlier than you are now? Not more accommodating or self-sacrificing, but authentically friendlier—to your inner life, with others, and in how you meet the world. In this talk, I explore what friendliness actually is, why...

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

What if hope is not something we cling to—but a capacity we can cultivate? In this talk, we'll explore how hope becomes a healing and liberating force when it is rooted in awareness, trust, and compassionate action. The mature expression of hope includes three...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)

This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising and passing life. In the final part of the practice, we explore how...