This talk explores how slowing down, coming into the body, and paying attention to the living world around us can help heal the sense of separation so many of us carry. Drawing from Buddhist practice, we’ll reflect on how presence, embodiment, and relationship with the Earth can open the heart and deepen our capacity for love. At its core, this is an invitation to fall back in love with the Earth — not as an idea, but as a living relationship that can sustain and transform us.

Open Awareness in Nature Meditation

The Buddha taught, “Whoever is addicted to society and worldly bustle, they will not partake of the happiness of renunciation, dispassion, peace, and awakening.” Wisdom and awareness practice is an invitation to wholeness and intimacy. We practice opening and receiving the activities of the mind and body with a wisdom that discerns the futility and stressfulness of attachment. The renunciation of attachment is a natural result of seeing things as they are, that all experiences arise and pass lawfully following impersonal causes and conditions. Renunciation, letting go, or letting be, is a profound giving of the heart to the moment just as it is.

Instructions on cultivating compassion by starting small and gradually building to an expansive orientation of the compassionate heart.

Drawing on the Buddha's Simile of the Cloth (MN7), this talk explores how greed, aversion, and delusion stain the mind and obscure clear seeing. We look at how these defilements manifest in meditation and everyday experience, and how to meet them with awareness rather than resistance.

Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with a poem by Mark Nepo | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning

Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.

Mudita is an elixir of joy that offers resilience and strength to face a world that daily brings suffering and global conflict directly to the heart.

An introduction to the retreat theme of Awakening the Pure Heart.