Listening with an awakened heart.

Groundlessness: Letting Go Into the Unknown

Recorded : January 26, 2025

Pema Chödrön writes, “It’s not impermanence per se, or knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation.” The truth of impermanence means that ultimately there is nothing we can rely on for lasting happiness. We will investigate the underlying feeling…

Precepts as Orientation

Recorded : March 27, 2022

The 5 precepts often given to lay practitioners are (with positive instructions in parenthesis): I vow not to kill (Love and support all beings)I vow not to steal (generosity)I vow not to misuse sexuality (contentment)I vow not to lie (compassionate truthfulness)I vow not to intoxicate self or other (staying mindful) We can think of precepts…

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla König – Week of December 7, 2020

This week’s theme is The Paramis — Building a Powerful Support System.

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of October 18, 2021

This week’s theme is: The Abundant Middle-Way.

The Buddha in his last steps of awakening turned away from austerities and the practiced hardships he had endured. He did not turn back to the indulgences of his youth, but uncovered a kind and sensitive middle-way between a sense of self-importance and self-negation. The awakened one then invited others to a way of living between common extremes of views, states, and habitual actions.

This week we will walk the path of peace supporting the deep well-being and boundless heart of the middle-way.

Receptivity: Deep Listening as an Antidote to Reactivity and Violence

Recorded : October 14, 2018

In these hyped up divisive times, there is an ever-greater need for tools to de-condition ourselves from reactivity. The practice of listening – within ourselves and with others – is much more significant than we often acknowledge. The contrast of receptivity against the backdrop of a world conditioned to impose, label, judge, and solve, is…