Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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| These are talks digitised from Gaia House's cassette tape archive. Though their sound quality and date accuracy sometimes suffer, we nonetheless hope you find them nourishing. |
2014-10-17 (7 days)
Gaia House
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2014-10-19
What Goes On In The Head
60:06
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Leela Sarti
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When we get out of the stories, the proliferation and fragmentation of the mind, through sustained embodied presence, the true capacity of our mind is revealed: to allow emptiness and a quality of allowing. A welcoming space for things to happen without rejection, without trying to hold on. It can be a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the the space. Silence is the language of God, all else is a bad translation sais the sufi poet Rumi. To treasure and train our capacity to quiet down can open up our life. |
2014-10-21
The Heart Centre and Earthly Awakening
48:52
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Leela Sarti
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The heart is where things are made personal. The outrageous heart puts gentle, clear pressure on all our defenses and structures. To learn to stay with things, with presence, opens the heart to its true capacity, opens our life and accelerates our metabolization of experience.As we open to life we can rediscover our belonging to the ancient and venerable sangha of all beings. Craving, aversion and delusion within the human mind and heart is the root cause of our own suffering, and the cause of global destruction of land, of water and beings.
We can make our heart and mind a good place to live. For our own well-being and for the love of the earth and the divesity of beings. |
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