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Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2016-12-31) ~ We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile…

Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness (2017-01-04) – The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at our habitual pursuit of substitutes to feel happy, and re…

The Revolution of Tenderness – Part 2 (2016-12-21) – These two talks explore our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, t…

The Revolution of Tenderness – Part 1 (2016-12-14) – These two talks explore our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, t…

Spiritual Reparenting (2016-12-07) – When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others, and are disconnected from ou…

Spiritual Reparenting (2016-12-07) – When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others, and are disconnected from ou…

Trusting the Gold (retreat talk)(2016-11-10) – When we are unaware of the emotions and beliefs that shape our experience, we are in a trance characterized by an identity as a separate, incomplete self. Trance obscures the awareness and love that is our…

“Play a Greater Part” – Bodhisattva for our Times – Part 2 (2016-11-23) – During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates …

Meditation: Vipassana – 20 min – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (2016-11-23) – 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 path…

“Play a Greater Part” – Bodhisattva for Our Times – Pt1 (2016-11-16) – During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates the…

Meditation: Vipassana (Mindfulness or Insight) – A gift of meditation is learning to open to life just how it is, with awake awareness. This meditation guides us in establishing an embodied presence, and collecting the attention with mindfulness of the…

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty and Love (retreat talk) (2016-11-06) – 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 emot…

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 cyni…

Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (2016-11-02) – 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 mindf…

Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times (2016-10-26) – 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 se…

Reflection: Deepening the Truths We Share (2016-10-19) – 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. From “See…

Seeking What’s True  – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) (2016-10-19)- 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-…

Seeking What’s True  – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) (2016-10-19)- 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-…

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment – When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body, and tense against our moment to moment experience.  This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by lea…