"Who are you without referring to any thought to tell you who you are?" After our sitting and walking meditation - and a tea break, naturally - we'll contemplated this question through a guided meditation by Adyashanti.
Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher who has been teaching for...
This week, after sitting and walking meditation, we'll use VOICE (Voice Of Innate Clarity Exercise) to work with the Tao Te Ching. This classic text, something like 2500 years old, has been a perennial source of wisdom and curiousity. The writer and lifelong fan Ursula Le Guin wrote:
It is the mos...
We explored how our interpretations and the stories we tell ourselves affect our ability to deal with challenges. We'll do this using an excerpt from an article titled "The Benefits of Optimism are Real" and a technique from therapist and creative coach Eric Maisel that he describes as follows:
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Our topic this week, after sitting and walking meditation, is how to work with change and loss. We used a podcast by Tara Brach, titled Skeleton Woman, to lead us into this unavoidable part of every human life. Brach says:
There's going to keep on being this stream - there's going to be pleasa...