How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
In this follow-up, Martin continues to look at the purificatory nature of dharma practice, opening up a space to meet and transform the impact of past habit energy. The teaching deconstructs the notion of karma, and maps the purification of mind-states.
This teaching examines our problematic associations with ideas of Purity, and explores ways that the practice of sitting meditation can be purificatory - both in terms of developing wholesome qualities, and in healing and releasing stored tension patterns.
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence.
"Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"