Discovering how to rest in being requires us to examine the compulsive doing activity through which we seek to establish our worthiness and identity. Trusting where we are, we can come to rest in the wide-open nature of aliveness.
Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and the key meditative heart- trainings that lead us to realizing and living from the truth of our connectedness.
As we shed our identification with our past and free ourselves from the belief, "I am my story," we open to a larger field of reality and to infinite possibilities of expressing who we truly are.
Awakening arises out of presence with the changing ground of our lives. This talk explores three key gateways to liberating presence: forgiveness, inner fire (aspiration) and a deep inquiry into the nature of our own mind.
A discussion of the factor of Faith and its importance in meditation, followed by a look at ways we can draw inspiration from those who have walked the path and show us the way - stories and poems from the Therigatha.
Opening Talk for a retreat dedicated to cultivating a heart rooted in calm, receptive insight. This talk also includes Rob Burbea, Jake Dartington and Chris Cullen.
