The Heart of Light Podcast

Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.07.31

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 31, 2023, about archetypal masculinity.  What does it mean to live from the depths of our psyches? what wisdom does the Chinese yin/yang system offer for modern gender roles? In our present time, what does healthy masculinity mean?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.07.24

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 24, 2023, about a heart ready for anything.  What are the ways we resist fully growing up? How does spiritual growth demand letting go? How can we cultivate a heart ready for anything?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.07.17

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 17, 2023, about self-love.  What are the misleading misconceptions about self-love? Why is self-love so difficult? Why is self-love essential for the spiritual path?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.07.10

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 10, 2023, about emotional capacity.  Why is the size of our capacity such a fundamental moral & spiritual issue? What are the everyday consequences of having a small or large capacity? How do we increase our capacity?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.07.02

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 2, 2023, about the spiritual foundations of America.  What does it mean to be American?  What does “pursing happiness” mean in the original sense? What wisdom teachings are contained in the Great Seal of the US?  How do we align our personal spiritual work with the public good

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Great Seal of US, side 1 

Great Seal of US, side 2  

 

Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.06.26

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 26, 2023, about making friends with Death.  What does it mean to have a healthy relationship with death?  How does the awareness of mortality support and strengthen all other spiritual values?  How does affirming death help us to affirm life fully?

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Mike’s I-Revolution Dharma Talk, 2023.06.25

This is my dharma talk from the I-Revolution at East Bay Healing Collective on June 25, 2023, about freedom.  What are the limitations of conventional definitions of freeom? What does the psychology of addiction teach us about freedom? How do we work toward genuine inner freedom?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.06.19

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 12, 2023, about abundance.  How are we ultimately responsible for our own experience of scarcity? How is abundance about growing up? How do we open ourselves more fully to the Love that is greater than we ever could imagine?

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.06.12

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 12, 2023, about insight (prajna).  What are the limits of a head-only experience of Life? How do we connect more genuinely with the wisdom of the body? How do healing, disattachment, and letting-go open up deeper ways of knowing Life?  This talk was the sixth in a series of six talks on the Paramitas in the Mahayana tradition.

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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2023.06.05

This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on June 5, 2023, about concentration.  What does it mean to be an excellent listener?  What is the inestimable healing value of inner silence?  What is the powerful connection between high-quality attention and overall life-satisfaction?  This talk was the fifth in a series of six talks on the Paramitas in the Mahayana tradition.

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