2014-03-26 – Planting Ourselves in the Universe – When we are lost in the trance of thinking, we disconnect from the aliveness, awareness and love that is our source. Mindfulness, a key capacity of our evolving consciousness, awakens us from an identif…
2014-11-19 – Awakening Through Change and Loss
2014-11-19 – Awakening Through Change and Loss – Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely related to how we open to the truth of impermanence. This talk examines how our ways of trying to control life solidify our perception of being separate an…
2014-11-12 The Sacred Art of Listening
2014-11-12 The Sacred Art of Listening – Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely related to how we open to the truth of impermanence. This talk examines how our ways of trying to control life solidify our perception of being separate and threat…
161 Switching Careers and Doing What You Love for a Living – Tripp Lanier and Steve Chandler
Thinking about switching careers? Hungry to do work that matters? Master coach Steve Chandler interviews Tripp Lanier about doing what you love for a living.
2014-11-05 Radical Self-Honesty – The Joy of Getting Real
2014-11-05 Radical Self-Honesty – The Joy of Getting Real – Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live wit…
2014-10-08 – Part 2 – Unconditional Love
2014-10-01 – Part 2 – Unconditional Love – These two talks explore key elements in manifesting our innate capacity for unconditional love. Both talks include teachings and meditative strategies for recognizing our blocks to loving, and, through courag…
2014-10-01 – Part 1 – Unconditional Love
2014-10-01 – Part 1 – Unconditional Love – These two talks explore key elements in manifesting our innate capacity for unconditional love. Both talks include teachings and meditative strategies for recognizing our blocks to loving, and, through courage…
2014-09-17 – Earth’s Crisis – On the Edge of the Roof
2014-09-18 – Earth’s Crisis – On the Edge of the Roof – This talk views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the destruction of our environment, and the …
2014-08-13 – Listening to the Song
2014-08-13 – Listening to the Song – Tara was away this week, so asked for this favorite talk to be posted. Listening with our full heart and attention is the gateway to understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening, and o…
Planting Ourselves in the Universe
2014-03-26 – Planting Ourselves in the Universe – When we are lost in the trance of thinking, we disconnect from the aliveness, awareness and love that is our source. Mindfulness, a key capacity of our evolving consciousness, awakens us from an identif…
Return of the Prodigal Son
2014-03-19 – Return of the Prodigal Son – Drawing on Henri Nouwen’s book that interprets this famous parable, this talk looks at the ways we cut off from loving awareness, and the process of homecoming. Our inquiry, reflections and a guided meditation …
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…
2014-02-05 – Part 1: Universal Faces of Love
2014-02-05 – Part 1: Universal Faces of Love – Lovingkindness, or metta, is the first of the four divine abodes in buddhist teachings. This talk explores the habitual patterns of fears and wants that obscure this innate quality of heart and key ways th…
Awakening from Virtual Reality (retreat talk)
2009-05-02 – Awakening from Virtual Reality – This talk examines how we get stuck in identifying as a separate, deficient self, and the way that a deep attention frees us from trance.
“The invitation of the Path is that we can wake up out of our storie…
Listening to the Song
2014-01-22 – Listening to the Song – Listening with our full heart and attention is the gateway to understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening, and offers ways of paying attention that awaken a healing listening presence.
Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk)
2013-12-29 – Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) – It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three …
Path of True Refuge
2014-01-08 – Path of True Refuge – This talk explores the three archetypal gateways to liberation – awareness (Buddha), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha). It includes guided reflections and a refuge ceremony that can help us discover the path “inside ou…
Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
2013-12-18 – Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love – This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence – in relating inwardly and i…
Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
2013-12-11 – Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love – This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence – in relating inwardly and i…
Wings of Homecoming (retreat talk)
2013-10-23 – Wings of Homecoming (retreat talk) – Part of incarnating is to feel separate and forget the mysterious oneness that is our home. This talk explores the two dimensions of awareness that when awakened reveal the openness, lucidity and love …
148 How to Stop Fighting with Your Wife or Girlfriend – Marcus Ambrester
Marcus Ambrester delivers tips for how to stop fighting with with your wife or girlfriend. Are you in a draining relationship because you love her or just because you don’t want to go through a break up and deal with the uncertainty?