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Listening with an Awake Heart – Part 1 (2018-04-11) – Deep listening – to our inner life, each other and our world – is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong conditioning to be caught in wants and fears, there is oft…

Episode 413 –  We humans, for some reason, love to hold on to what holds us back. We love to hold on to the misery that should stay in the past. In this episode, I teach how to overcome the pain of what has happened in the past.

From Head to Heart (2018-04-04) – If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways ou…

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) – (2017-12-30) – The sign of spiritual freedom is a deep trust in our essential nature, and in the light of awareness that lives through all beings.  This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in a trance of …

Part 2 – Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-14) – Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with p…

Part 1 – Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-07) – Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with p…

Part 4 – Equanimity: Present Heart – Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-28) – Equanimity unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the midst of this living, dying world. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise…

Episode 395 – Don’t listen to this episode unless you can take a hard look at your life because it’s time for some tough love. It’s time to take control of your life and get rid of excuses.

Part 3 – Joy – Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-21) – Joy blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart:…

Part 2 – Compassion – Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14) – Compassion – the tender resonance of heart –  awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability. This series reflects on four primary expression…

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14) – This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is…

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07) ~ Lovingkindness: We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, …

Part 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) – A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourse…

Part 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) – A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourse…

Part 2 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24) – A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourse…

Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us – Part 1 – A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves. These t…

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10) – The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of our future. This talk explores the difference between “limbic” intentions driven by grasping or fear, …

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28) – We are conditioned to go into a limbic trance—an emotional reactivity to life within and around us—that keeps us identified with a limited, separate sense of self. This talk helps u…