The Heart of Light Podcast

Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.11.05

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on November 5, 2018, about finding meaning in life and about what Buddhism reveals about how our attachment to what things mean prevents us from having a deeply meaningful experience of life itself. 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.10.29

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 29, 2018, about the Celtic holiday of Samhain, a time when the veil is thin between the world of fact & practicality and the world of imagination & wonder.  Samhain begins on 10/31 night and continues through 11/1 day.            

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.10.22

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 22, 2018, about forgiveness and self-forgiveness, looking at all the ways that patterns of holding block the flow of love and healing.          

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.10.15

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 15, 2018, about humility, a virtue extolled across all the Wisdom Traditions, and I will discuss both what it is and what it isn’t.   

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.10.08

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 8, 2018, about control—about what the wisdom of Buddhism reveals about healthy self-control and about the unfortunate consequences of both lack of control and neurotically excessive self-control, the latter typically more of an issue for folks who do spiritual practice. 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.10.01

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 1, 2018, about the spiritual protection found in the rejection of what the Sacred is not, as exemplified in the neti neti of the Upanishads.  The talk is inspired by the archetype of St. Michael, who is said to protect souls by guarding spiritual authenticity.  Michaelmas—the feast of St. Michael the Archangel—was September 29. 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.09.24

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on September 24, 2018, about the symbolism of the Autumnal Equinox and its relation to the Night Sea Journey of the Hero’s story.  The Equinox occurred around 7:00 pm PDT on Saturday, September 22.     

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.09.17

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on September 17, 2018, about equanimity: what this spiritual state really is and how it differs profoundly from other types of apparent imperturbability. 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.09.10

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on September 10, 2018, about sovereignty—the quality of having tremendous self-responsibility for personal boundaries, one’s own and others’.  The term “sovereignty” is taken from T-group practice. 

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2018.09.03

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on September 3, 2018, Labor Day, about the fundamentals of the Buddhist worldview—the so-called “Four Thoughts” that form the preliminaries to lojong practice. 

 

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