Sylvia uses stories from popular culture to teach that, no matter what has happened in people’s past, there is the potential to achieve peace in the future, through the compassionate support of others.
A quality of awareness is discernment, which can be active or passive. Passive discernment is seeing, "just this" without doing anything about it, while active discernment is uncovering what is hidden and unconscious. It uses an energetic and curious probing to broaden the expanse of awareness and welcome it beyond its egoic boundaries.
The mind is like a painting hung on a hook on the wall. It depends on an object in order to arise. Identify which object your mind entertains, look at that mind and understand its creator (Hook, painting , painter)
This talk explores the origins and negative impacts of the judging mind and how to practically understand and use effective procedures based in mindfulness, metta, and inquiry.
Without desire, this world would not exist. While this universal energy is entirely natural, if we are not mindful of it, desire can become a narrowed fixation or addiction that creates deep suffering. This talk explores the ways we can pay attention that honor this energy without allowing it to cut us off from presence and possess us
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
When life doesn't go our way, we often launch into a chain reaction of obsessive thinking, blaming and unpleasant emotions. This talk explores how we can use meditative practices to step out of reactive patterns and respond to life's challenges from our naturally wise heart.
After a review of the material of the last weeks, we explore, partly experientially three methods of accessing extraordinary awareness: 1) dropping ordinary constructions 2) exhausting the ordinary mind 3) touching pure awareness
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness is the ability to discern what limits freedom and to see the value of open awareness when it is not limited. It encourages a complete examination and investigation of mind until there is existence without obstructions.
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
This series of guided meditations and instructions presents a set of tools and approaches for working skilfully with emotions and mind states in practice.
