Beloved Community (2015-06-17) – Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, an…
The Sacred Art of Listening (2015-08-05)
The Sacred Art of Listening (2015-08-05) – Deep listening – the kind of listening that brings intimacy and understanding—takes intentional practice. This talk looks at the societal and inner obstacles to an undistracted presence, and the mindfulness st…
Meditation: Relaxing, Breathing, Opening (2015-08-05)
Meditation: Relaxing, Breathing, Opening (2015-08-05)
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Beloved Community (2015-06-17)
Beloved Community (2015-06-17) – Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, an…
2015-04-08 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 3 – Looking in the Mirror
2015-04-08 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 3 – Looking in the Mirror – This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our na…
2015-04-01 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 2 – Inner Fire
2015-04-01 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 2 – Inner Fire – This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural aware…
2015-03-25 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 – Forgiveness
2015-03-25 – Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 – Forgiveness – This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awar…
Part 5 – Equanimity – A Heart That is Ready for Anything
2014-03-12 – Part 5 – Equanimity – A Heart that is Ready for Anything – Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a d…
Part 2: The Sure Heart’s Release
2011-02-16 – Part 2 – The Sure Heart’s Release – Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringi…
Part 1: The Sure Heart’s Release
2011-02-29 – Part 1 – The Sure Heart’s release – Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringi…
A Forgiving Heart – Embracing our Inner Life
2012-12-05 – A Forgiving Heart – Embracing our Inner Life – Self-aggression, whether it’s low key blame or deep condemnation, prevents us from intimacy with others and discovering the truth and wholeness of our Being. This talk explores how we can rele…
What’s the Easiest Way to Listen to The New Man on your iPhone or iPad?
Wanting to find the easiest way to find and listen to The New Man Podcast on the go? Check out this free Podcast app available for the iPhone and iPad. You can easily subscribe, download and listen to The New Man (and any other podcast) available thro…
Committing to Joy
2012-06-13 – Committing to Joy – What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to “love what is.” Please support this podcast by d…
Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty
2012-03-07 – Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty – We suffer when we forget who we are and get caught in a limited sense of self. This talk explores how we become identified with a sliver of what we are, and the pathway to remembering our wholeness. Whe…
Unconditional Love for the Life Within
2011-10-08 – Unconditional Love for the Life Within – (Retreat Talk) The tyranny of “should” prevents us from living and loving fully. This talk explores how we get trapped in the identity of a flawed self and the ways a wise attention can free us. Ple…
Finding The Juice Inside Fear
2011-09-07 – Finding The Juice Inside of Fear – Learning to bring a mindful presence to fear is an intrinsic part of spiritual awakening. In this talk we look at the ways we get caught in the trance of fear, and how the two wings of presence–clear rec…
Soul Recognition – Seeing Past the Mask
2011-06-15 – Soul Recognition – Seeing Past the Mask – We each long to be true to ourselves–to live from the love, creativity and wisdom that is our essence. This talk explores how, by attending to three key domains, we train ourselves to see beyond e…
Remembering Love (Retreat Talk)
2011-05-01 – Remembering Love (from IMCW Spring Retreat) – The habit of self-judgment not only causes emotional pain, it creates a trance that obscures the purity and vastness of our Being. This talk explores how a wakeful and forgiving heart can heal …
Part 2 – The Sure Heart’s Release
2011-02-16 – The Sure Heart’s Release – Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mind…
The Sure Heart’s Release
2011-02-09 – The Sure Heart’s Release – Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mind…
Releasing Karmic Patterns
2010-11-10 – Releasing Karmic Patterns – We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfuln…