We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the “second arrow” of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional reactivity, and the pathways of awakening awareness that reconnect us with...
Given in the early morning on the first day of retreat, this recording can settle you into a meditation of any length. There is no bell at the end, so you can make your session as long or short as you wish.
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindful presence. We then include whatever is predominant, recognizing and...
Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times – Part 2 – The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” – the anger, aggression, hopelessness and...
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over...
Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times – Part 1 On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated ways of practice that help us to awaken from a limiting self-sense...
Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with each other. This short reflection offers guidance in how to bring your presence and heart to truth telling. Listen to the full talk here: Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our...
Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 3 of 3) The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series examines the...
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment – When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment to moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to...
Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness This meditation guides us in recognizing the formless awareness that is always here, but often outside of conscious awareness. As awareness awakens to realize itself, we come home to our primordial nature – boundless,...
Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series...
Meditation: Breath and Presence – For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establishing the breath as a homebase, and then invites a clear and receptive attention...
Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the changing flow of life. When we inhabit that openness, there’s a natural arising...
Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 1 of 3) The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series...
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness in our bodies, and then opening to receive the entire play of sounds,...
