An indepth exploration of the different ways meditation can help us to creatively engaged in daily life, including within our relationships with loved ones.
This talk discusses how sila is linked to liberation and to human happiness. Discusses how sila is part of Wise View and Wise Intention, steps on the 8 fold path.
A talk of a number of stories that illustrate the hearts release from long conditioned constrictions and identifications that keep us from unconditional connection with others and ourselves.
Four practice techniques towards encouraging and supporting the capacity to access and sustain attention on the breath at the Anapana spot for concentration practice.
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 a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life.
Part 2: Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability.
This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. How do we grow our spiritual aspirations and cultivate beyond the earthly sensory realm? How do we invite and cultivate experiences that set us free of habitual patterns of perception and behavior?
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