The Heart of Light Podcast

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on May 16, 2022, about the attachment to being right.  What are the profound differences between being right and right understanding?   How does dogmatism of any kind reveal our deepest wounding? How do infantile traumatized places, in their fixation on being right, perpetuate our suffering in adult life?

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on May 9, 2022, about helpfulness vs. compassion.   How much of our giving aligns with the true ideals of generosity?  How well do we understand our own motivation for being helpful?  What are the rich lessons of being completely unable to help despite our sincere desire to do so? 

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on May 2, 2022, about celebration as a spiritual practice.  What are the permissions we feel around celebrating?   What does celebrating imply about the quality of our attention?  What would it mean to celebrate the ordinary?  This talk fell on the Muslim holiday of Eid. 

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on April 25, 2022, about discipline vs. tameness.   How does the Buddhist paramita of discipline differ from  neurotic over-control? How do we practice healthy discipline without over-taming our authentic animal nature? What is the relationship between animal wildness and wisdom?  This talk fell in the week leading up to Beltaine.   

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on April 11, 2022, about healing into life.  What parts of us feel dead, imprisoned, or closed off from life?  How do we open the inner conversation and initiate the process of re-integration?  What is the role of truth in healing?  This talk fell on Easter Monday in the Christian calendar. 

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on April 11, 2022, about arrival and loss.  What is our relationship with our imagined future moments of fulfillment?  What is our story about when or how we will arrive at who we are?  Are we ready to embrace the letting go and loss that are essential parts of the cycle of arriving? This talk drew on themes from the events of Christian narrative of Holy Week.

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on April 4, 2022, about the sacrifice of love.  What do you really stand for?  What are you willing to risk yourself for? How much are you willing to give in the name of love?  This talk fell on the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 28, 2022, about vulnerability.  How deeply do you feel Life?  How vividly do you taste the juiciness of human connection? What does vulnerability reveal about the Mahayana ideal of the Bodhisattva?

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 21, 2022, inner renewal.  What habits of mind keep us mired in the same old patterns?  How do we explode the veneer of jaded familiarity?  How do we recover the essential freshness and vitality at the heart of human experience? 

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This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 14, 2022, about the ego-cage.  How do our preoccupations prevent us from seeing life as it is it? How do we create the vast majority of our misery? What does freedom really look like?

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