The Heart of Light Podcast

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 27, 2019, about radical self-responsibility.   How does taking deep responsibility for yourself unlock access to your power? Why is self-responsibility a reliable path to catalyzing your human greatness?

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This link has Mike's version of the Serenity Prayer  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 19, 2019, about the Christian rite of baptism from a Buddhist perspective.  What is it to live with “an inquiring and discerning heart”? What is it to live with “the gift of joy and wonder” in all of life?

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 12, 2019, about the cost of the conversations we are not having in Life and the power we can claim by stepping more into our own voice. 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is the Dave Matthew's song that inspired this talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on August 5, 2019, about the process of “othering,” the way humans put some other people into other categories than their own, regarding those people as meaningfully different in some way from themselves.  Who is “not like us”? Who are not part of “our people”? Whom do we consider enemies? 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is a related blog article.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 29, 2019, about saying “yes” to Life and about what Buddhism reveals about the benefits of deeply affirming Life.  This talk came a few days before the Celtic holiday of Lughnasa, 7/31-8/1.   

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 22, 2019, about deep listening.  What do Buddhism and the other Wisdom Traditions reveal about how to listen well, how to give others the gift of being heard deeply? This is a precious gift so rare and so needed in our time. 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 8, 2019, about transformational healing.  What do Buddhism and the other Wisdom Traditions reveal about introducing deep healing into the most painful places within and completely changing the script in the most stuck areas of our lives? 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 1, 2019, about patriotism and other political attitudes one may have in this divisive time, from the point of view of Buddhist Right Thought and Right Speech.  What do these timeless values have to say about living at this particular moment in time?

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 24, 2019, about having no attachment to outcome, one of the ideals discussed in the Bhagavad Gita.   June 24 in the Christian liturgical calendar is the birthday of John the Baptist, whose story very much exemplifies this ideal. 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.  

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 17, 2019, about deep belonging.  What does it mean to live and to relate with others from a place of deep belonging? 

This is the quote sheet for the talk.