The Heart of Light Podcast

Title: Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.08.24

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 24, 2020, about silence.  Some kinds of silence stifle us and even support inequity in the world, while other kinds of silence unfold our deeper nature—how do we distinguish? How does working with inner silence paradoxically make our voice more powerful in the world? How can the power of deep inner silence shatter the outer silences that separate us?        

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.08.17

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 17, 2020, about spiritual bypassing.   How is it so human to misuse spiritual ideas & tools as ways to avoid pain and discomfort?  How does using meditation and mindfulness solely for comfort and peace of mind actually lead us away from our deeper nature?  What does spiritual bypassing have to do with White Privilege? How do we move toward a more sincere relationship with ourselves and our practice?       

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.08.10

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 10, 2020, about surrender.  How do the powerful positions of surrender and letting go differ so significantly from resignation and giving up?  What is the kind of courage required to surrender?  How does surrender put us into deeper accord with Life and with what the Wisdom Traditions ask of us?      

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.08.03

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 27, 2020, about the archetypal masculine.  What are the key differences between toxic vs. healthy masculinity?  What is the wisdom of the masculine, and how can we all benefit from drawing on that wisdom from within?  How do embracing the wisdom of the masculine and feminine lead to our true nature?  This sangha will occur two days after the Celtic holiday of Lughnasa, an ancient celebration of the archetypal masculine.      

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.07.27

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 27, 2020, about love vs. fear, one of the most fundamental choices in life.  Which patterns in your life are aligned with love, and which, with fear?  How can we use the tools of Buddhist to move beyond fear and connect more deeply with love?      

 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.07.20

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 20, 2020, about antiracist work in a Buddhist perspective.  How are the challenges and imperatives of antiracist work deeply aligned with the dharma?  How does doing this political work on ourselves move us toward our deeper nature?    

 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.07.13

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 13, 2020, about mystery of being human.  How much are you able to regard yourself and others with a sense of open-ended wonder? How much can you embrace the deeply mysterious and mystical in yourself and in others?     

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.07.06

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 6, 2020, about self-love.  How well do you receive compliments and appreciation?  How deserving do you feel?  How can you move more the direction of lovingkindness and compassion of the self, in spite of feelings to the contrary?     

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.06.29

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 29, 2020, about toxic shame.  What are the many guises of this core emotion, the multiple strategies people use to avoid this primary experience?  What is the work that brings deep healing to the core places of shame?    

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2020.06.22

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 22, 2020, about allowing.   To what extent does your love for others truly invite them to be who they are?  To what extent does your acceptance of Life enthusiastically affirm the world as it is? In your own self-care, how can you give long-withheld permissions to own inner brokenness?     

This is the quote sheet for the talk.