Tuning into the sacred rhythms of earth, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee describes pathways to living a more conscious and connected life.

In this episode featuring Stories from a Living Future, Llewellyn discusses:

• Our relationship to the earth
• The Sufi path drawing us towards union
• Spiritual responsibility in a time of global crisis
• Listening to the earth with our heart, soul, and senses
• An ecology of consciousness
• Bearing witness to the forces in nature
• Connecting the threads between our inner and outer world
• Keeping an awareness of patterns
• The pandemic, war, and collapse of biodiversity
• What divisiveness is doing to our collective soul
• Love as the universal language of all people
• Global prospects for the future generations
• The unchanging sacred nature of creation
• Finding living stories that we can connect to
• Extinction, greed, and global warming

“Today we no longer know how our individual life forms part of a living whole. We no longer have a center or a foundation. Yet, the ancient rhythm of creation still exists within our body and our psyche within every breath, even if it has been buried and almost forgotten.” – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

About Llewellyn:

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of Sufism, the Transformation of the Heart, and the founder of The Golden Sufi Center. Check out his new podcast Working With Oneness.

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Gil Fronsdal talks about the importance of posture in our meditation practice and offers a bevy of suggestions for staying comfortable and pain-free both on the floor and in a chair.

This dharma talk was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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In this episode, Gil explores:

• How posture can really help anchor us to the present moment
• Being intentional with our posture in meditation versus giving into posture driven by emotions that arise during meditation
• Why there is no perfect posture for meditation, only the posture that works best at this moment in time
• Tips and tricks for various meditation postures, from sitting on the floor to using a chair

“And so the dharma posture is a posture that we can hold our sadness in, hold our grief, despair, whatever it might be, but without giving into it, collapsing into it. So it’s not denying it, but it’s also not getting entangled with it.” – Gil Fronsdal

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Using poetry and story-telling, Trudy Goodman melds together present moment awareness and Metta in this beautiful ode to mindfulness.

This dharma talk was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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In this 2008 talk recorded at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Trudy Goodman demonstrates:

• What mindfulness actually means
• Experiencing metta as a byproduct of being mindful
• Noticing we are lost as a sign of awareness
• Having Metta for ourselves when we veer off course
• Self-worth and our capacity for compassion
• Being alive as our greatest achievement
• Developing strategies for painful emotions
• The practice of taking a step back
• Making the shift into receptivity
• The Zen tradition and calling out to yourself
• The contour of the Dharma and being in service of aliveness
• Appreciating our surroundings through the non-interfering presence of mindfulness

“The beauty of our mindfulness practice is that it can go anywhere, that the quality of our attention when we’re mindful, it really doesn’t depend on the content of the experience.“ – Trudy Goodman

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Delving into the power of meditation, Jackie Dobrinska and Sharon Salzberg tie together the skills of concentration, mindfulness, and compassion.

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In this episode from the Ram Dass Fellowship, we hear Sharon Salzberg and Jackie Dobrinska explore:

• The three skills of Concentration, Mindfulness and Compassion
• How distractions waste our energy
• Always being able to start over
• The difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves
• Opening our attention through lovingkindness practices
• The practical and transformational power of meditation
• Insight as the most precious gift of mindfulness
• A guided meditation from Sharon
• A Q&A from listeners on the subjects of meditation, coping, and more

“We begin again all the time. That’s what resilience is. It’s that adjustment. It’s being alive to change, being able to move, being able to flow. That’s what we’re actually practicing in meditation when we get distracted, when we let go, when we begin again. – Sharon Salzberg

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Offering listeners the gift of receiving metta, JoAnna Hardy leads a guided meditation using The Awesome Book of Love.

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In this episode, JoAnna describes:

• The ways that love can be felt and expressed
• Touch deprivation and the power of a hug
• Mātā Amritānandamayī, the hugging saint
• Allowing ourselves to receive kindness and love
• The generosity in letting someone give
• The Awesome Book of Love and the beauty of listening to stories
• A guided meditation on love

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About JoAnna Hardy: 

JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation (Vipassanā) practitioner and teacher; she is on faculty at the University of Southern California, a meditation trainer at Apple Fitness+, a founding member of the Meditation Coalition, a teacher’s council member at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a collaborator on many online meditation Apps and programs.

Her greatest passion is to teach meditation in communities that are dedicated to seeing the truth of how racism, gender inequality and oppression go hand in hand with the compassionate action teachings in Buddhism and related perspectives to social and racial justice. 

“Maybe the expression or experience of love, maybe it’s through the way that you feed your body, or the way that you eat, or the way that you exercise, or the way that you share a smile with a stranger when you’re walking down the street. Maybe it’s how hard you work and the care that you put into your profession. Maybe you’re a good friend. Maybe you’re a good listener. – JoAnna Hardy

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Pondering what it means to awaken spiritually, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee examines the possibility of life beyond the illusions of ego that are fed by our distorted culture.

Two cultural icons. Two unique perspectives... One understanding of the presence of the way.

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In this episode, Llewellyn tells us his thoughts on:

• What a spiritual awakening can look and feels like
• Being here now for our individual self and the world
• Having an awareness for the distortions of our culture
• Perception versus what is present
• Culturally created illusions and conditioning
• The primal experience of life and creation
• The relationship between humanity and the world
• The archetypal Garden of Eden and divine presence
• When reality meets with our illusions
• How the ego manipulates our thoughts
• The non-existence of separateness in nature

“A primary spiritual experience is to be awake in the moment, to experience life as it is. In this moment we experience life not through the patterns of the mind, or the illusions of the ego, but a simple, direct experience of life around us.”

 – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

About Llewellyn:

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of Sufism, the Transformation of the Heart, and the founder of The Golden Sufi Center. Check out his new podcast Working With Oneness.

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Honoring the full spectrum of human experiences, Trudy Goodman explores our interconnection to all things and how to reconcile personal and universal truths.

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In this episode, Trudy Goodman weaves through:

• Awareness of impermanence
• Emptiness and the vast universal activity of the Dharma
• Deepening our practice and gaining clarity
• The Heart Sutra
• The Form and Formless
• Tantra of the spiritual world and the conventional world
• Letting go of control
• Identifying with our mental illness versus being aware
• Being mindful when we are out of balance
• Honoring our personal truths an unique human experiences

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats and workshops worldwide.

Learn more about Trudy’s offerings at trudygoodman.com

This Dharma talk was originally recorded in 2008 at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center during a month long insight-meditation retreat. Find the rest of the talks from this retreat on Dharmaseed.org.

“To be whole and complete on our spiritual path, we need to honor the full catastrophe; the darkness and the light, the relative and the absolute, the personal and the universal, the whole spectrum of our experience, of humanness.” – Trudy Goodman

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Exploring the hindrances of mind, Gil Fronsdal offers a Buddhist perspective on the many forms of doubt and how we can embrace it.

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In this Guest episode recorded at the Te Moata Retreat Center, Gil Fronsdal uncovers:

• Doubt as the fifth hindrance of mind
• The many forms of doubt (self-questioning, spiritual confusion, indecisiveness)
• Recognizing when we are in a hindrance of mind
• Having an uncompromising acceptance of the moment
• The usefulness of doubt and doubt as an indicator of necessary change
• Becoming comfortable with discomfort
• Naming what we feel and moving on as a method of mindful acceptance
• The zen practice of know, feel, relax
• Trusting the walkway and knowing that things work themselves out
• Acknowledging what is beneficial and what is not (the 'ouch' vs. the 'ahhh')
• Reactivity as an instinctual way of responding with greed, delusion, resistance, etc.

“It turns out there’s always a walkway right next to you. Whatever the hindrance is, there’s always a walkway just a breath away.” – Gil Fronsdal

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Activist, writer and yoga teacher Seane Corn joins Jackie Dobrinska, host of the Ram Dass Fellowship, for a conversation about nurturing the soul with love and attention in a way that allows for a ‘revolution of the soul’.

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In this interview for the Ram Dass Fellowship, Jackie speaks with Seane Corn about:

• Tapping into our inner strength and pursuing a ‘revolution of the soul’
• How the practices of yoga, mindfulness and meditation can offer relief for those who have experienced severe trauma
• Learning to befriend ourselves

Today’s episode was recorded as part of the Ram Dass Fellowship’s regular online gatherings. To learn more about the Ram Dass Fellowship and sign up to join a fellowship gathering near you, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship.

“Getting real is recognizing not only the grief and the anger, but the sense of powerlessness that a lot of people feel in this day and age.” – Seane Corn

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Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee describes the multi-tiered transformations that can come from from working with light.

Be sure to check out his new podcast Working With Oneness for more insightful and flowing wisdom from Llewellyn.

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In this episode Llewellyn explores:

• The deep ecology of our consciousness
• Developing the light of our divine nature
• Inner life and outer service
• Bringing primal, spiritual energy into our lives and communities
• Individual and societal transformations
• The illusion of separateness

“When a human being prays and looks towards God, turns towards the divine inside of them, then that light shines through them. It is the light of pure awareness.” – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

About Llewellyn:

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of Sufism, the Transformation of the Heart, and the founder of The Golden Sufi Center. 

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