This week’s episode is all about Sacred Discipline - not the authoritarian, “I told you so” type of discipline, but a sacred discipline that comes from creating what WE wants. A Sacred Discipline that can set us free and help us live our Soul Purpose into the world (which, BTW, really needs it right now!). We will explore how Sacred Discipline isn’t anti-freedom at all, and jam on some ways to develop our own Sacred Discipline in a daily practice.

// How our sneaky minds make us resist discipline - even when it’s our own damn selves wanting to do it!

// Why over-identifying as a rebel or someone who only does “spontaneous” puts our dreams at risk

// How the concept of Sacred Discipline is different than the OG idea of authoritarian, controlling discipline

// The ways that Sacred Discipline helps us actualize our Soul Purpose

// The importance of seeing Sacred Discipline as a practice, not a command

// Why doing what you say you’re doing to do ISN’T anti-freedom

// How to develop our own Sacred Discipline as a part of our daily practice

// Episode 81: The Importance of a Daily Routine

// Episode 210: Spiritual Friends and How to Make Them

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This week’s episode is all about forgiveness as a practice, and beginning again (and again). We often think of forgivensss as a singular act, but if you’ve ever tried to truly forgive, you likely know it’s a process. And if we succeed, it’s also something we might have to go through again when old wounds are reopened. We’ll be jamming on WHY we have to revisit forgiveness over and over again, and I’ll give some tools that will help you approach forgiveness as a practice.

// Why forgiveness is a practice that often requires us to being again (and again…) 

// Examples of forgiveness after unthinkable suffering that give us hope that forgiveness is possible for us as well - no matter what has transpired. 

// How forgiveness is a CHOICE we make every day - not a one-time gig.

// 5 things we can do today to help us approach forgiveness as a practice

// Episode 34: How to Forgive

// Episode 51: Self-Compassion

// Episode 53: How to Forgive Yourself

// Cancilde’s story - her husband and 5 of her children were killed in the Rwandan genocides and she later forgave the perpetrator: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/how-far-does-forgiveness-reach

// Emmanuel’s story (the young man who killed Cancilde’s husband and 5 of her children and was later forgiven by her): https://youtu.be/U8xDZnfOG34

// A video from Tony Robbins of another story of forgiveness from the Rwandan massacres - Immaculée’s story and that of the healing of Rwanda as a country (58min) https://youtu.be/yBOu2rE8Ljg

// Check out my video on the Tong Len Meditation

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This week’s episode is all about breaking the rules - really! We’ll jam on why some rules should be broken, and the importance of breaking little rules every day. Plus I’ll tell you some ways you can figure out which rules should be broken in the first place.

// Why some rules are worth breaking

// What “resistance calisthenics” are, and how we can apply them to our own spiritual practice

// How to discern if a rule is worth breaking

// The importance of practicing being rebellious in preparing for - and creating - profound change

// The importance of trusting our inner compass and values when deciding which rules to challenge

// Why rebellion is so complex in today’s world

// How to practice if you’re part of a vulnerable population that can’t afford to take outward risks of breaking even more trivial rules

// Episode 7: Know Your Values - The Rebel Buddhist Manifesto

// Episode 37: How to Disagree Like a Buddha

// Episode 154: Off the Cushion - Activism + Spirituality

// The Harper’s article by James Scott on anarchist calisthenics

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This week we’re going to dive into how discomfort doesn’t always mean danger. We’ll also explore how we need not look for guarantees of complete safety - because nothing can guarantee 100% safety and comfort for everyone. You’ll also learn about some ways we can practice stepping INTO discomfort when we’ve found our safe enough space.

// Why there’s no such things as 100% safe 

// The trap of equating comfort with safety 

// The difference between discomfort and true danger

// How to use “safe enough” to step into discomfort for the good of our close relationships as well as the world around us

// 6 ways we can make our spaces “safe enough”

// 5 questions we can ask ourselves to gauge the safety of a situation and differentiate discomfort from true danger

//How the ultimate safety is within us 

// Episode 211: Navigating Our Edges

// Episode 246: Choosing to STAY During Challenging Times

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This week we talk about what we CAN do when - for myriad reasons - we can’t show up the way we’d like to in the world. We’ll talk about why we tend to ignore the not-so-awakened moments in our practice, and how that actually limits our growth. Plus I’ll tell you how we can look at our journey with a little more self-compassion and give you a super-special mantra from Larry Yang that can help us in these times.

// How moments of our non-awakened mind are essential to awakening

// Why we ignore “cringe moments” and screw-ups and put so much pressure on the “awakened” qualities

// What any of this has to do with Mount Everest

// Why it’s important to look at our journey with more self-compassion

// How choosing to think in extremes actually hurts our practice

// A potent mantra from beloved Larry Yang for those moments when we don’t show up how we want to

// Episode 51: Self-Compassion

// Episode 237: The Best I Am Able

// Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang

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This week’s episode is a reminder that safety, stillness, and connection are our birthright. We’re going to remember what’s possible, what’s available, and what we most need today, in this moment. And we’re going to explore ways we can tap into all of it, right now, wherever we are.

// Why safety, stillness, and connection are our natural birthright

// What keeps us from experiencing them more regularly

// How to reclaim our birthright & unlearn the unhealthy patterns that keep us from it

// Ways we can practice safety, stillness, and connection in our own daily lives

// Episode 65: The Art of Doing Nothing

// Episode 139: Nature & Reconnecting

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This week’s episode is all about being a Cycle Breaker. We’ll dive into our lineage of trauma and wounding, how we’re already doing the work to break the cycle of generational trauma, and what we can do to help others break the cycle for themselves. Yes, even in these times.

// How generational cycles and trauma get passed on to future generations

// How to take creaking the cycle of trauma at an individual, family, and community level

// Ways we can meet the challenges of these times without overwhelm

// How trauma can spread like a virus - and how we can address it at many different levels (just like we would a virus!)

// Small ways that won’t overwhelm you when you think about changing things at the community level in these times

// Episode 59: How to Heal Your Parent Wound

// Episode 190: Islands of Sanctuary - Being a Refuge for Your People

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This week, we’re talking about how life is full of unpredictability and change and how resisting reality and clinging to the way we think things “should” be leads to unnecessary suffering. We also explore what we can do to learn to let it all BE, without losing our capacity to take actions for a better, more compassionate world.

// What the Bardo is and how we can shift our reactions to the unexpected endings we experience through our day to day lives

// How to let go of resistance to change and let BE

// The difference between accepting what is and ignoring the suffering of the world around us

// How embracing groundlessness can actually HELP us act with clarity, compassion, and effectiveness

// The importance of our daily practice in helping our mind change how it views groundlessness so we have more peace and less fear

// Episode 24: How to Be With Any Emotion

// Episode 60: How to Avoid Necessary Suffering

// Episode 63: Being Human Is Hard - The First Noble Truth

// Episode 199: What is Liminality? The Space Between Transitions

// Episode 222: Struggling with When Things End

// Episode 234: For Uncertain Times

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This week, we’re diving into an essential topic for these times - how to stay through difficult experiences with others. I’ll talk about the importance of staying with discomfort for the benefit of our community and the more-than-human world around us. Plus we’ll talk about the key elements we need to help stay through the challenging times as well as when to say, “Thanks but no thanks!” and leave with integrity.

// Why discomfort is inescapable in any community… and how it’s a GOOD thing

// Why it’s important to stay present through the discomfort if we want fundamental change

// The difference between staying through discomfort and tolerating bullshit

// When to  LEAVE

// The key elements we need to cultivate so we can stay through the challenging moments

// Episode 1: Why we tolerate and how to stop

// Episode 29: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

// Episode 37: How to Disagree Like a Buddha

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This week’s episode is all about the concept of KINDfulness and the way that being mindfully kind can have an impact on our world and our day-to-day lives… for ourselves, for others, and for the more-than-human world around us. After all, the world could use more kindfulness now, more than ever.

// What KINDfulness means, and why it’s important in our daily practice

// Stories of KINDfulness that touch the heart

// Why if we want to be “selfish,” we should be kind

// How tiny acts of kindfulness affects us, those around us, and the more-than-human world

// How being kindful is actually a radical act in these times

// Episode 130: Generosity - Pillars of Happiness, Part 1

// Episode 162: Lessons from Ram Dass - Walking Each Other Home

// Episode 190: Islands of Sanctuary - Being a Refuge for Your People

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