In this episode I share with you a powerful tool that we all need right now: The Lovingkindness Blessing. You can use this every day to transform your life and relationships - the world is starving for lovingkindness right now so I hope you will give this practice a try! This episode includes:

• The power of tiny acts of kindness
• Metta as a Buddhist practice
• How I began to use The Lovingkindness Blessing
• The 5 components of the blessing

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In this episode I'm sharing my own up and down journey of learning how to step forward with love in this world where hatred surrounds us. This episode includes:

• My desire to not add to the burden of hatred the world is already bearing
• How the March for Peace by Buddhist monks inspired me this week
• Why we need to stay motivated by love even during times of fear, anger, dismay
• What fierce love really means and why it's not soft or weak
• The Milgram Experiment and what it tells us about our human nature

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In this episode I talk about the horrific state of affairs in the world and especially here in the US where we are confronted on a daily basis with violence, hatred, and inhumanity. We are awake now to the reality of the dark side of human nature and though we feel change is coming we don't know how long it will take. This episode includes:

• Societal change takes time - we have to be in it for the long haul
• Every little step makes a difference
• Find a reason to stay hopeful and grateful every day rather than falling into despair
• Keep working on your own shadow
• Be creative in your own unique way every day

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This episode is a post-illness reflection on what happens when all our plans and aspirations get waylaid and we end up getting nowhere that we had planned to be. It includes:

• How my end of year plans got upended
• A metaphor of going NOWHERE on a forlorn highway
• Why nowhere is exactly the right place to be (Now Here in fact)
• How inspiration arises when the ego runs out of certainty
• Why this matters during the holiday season

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In this episode I discuss "immortality projects" - a term coined by Ernest Becker to describe the ego's efforts to escape the fear of death. This episode includes:

• What type of "projects" the ego creates to hide from death
• The cost of denying death
• Why denying death makes us vulnerable to cults, conspiracy theories, and manipulation
• Why we need to awaken to our Higher Selves, our witnessing and observing selves, and help the ego surrender to our own higher wisdom
• Why even "death work" can be an immortality project for the ego

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Today I'm sharing Thich Nhat Hahn's 4 elements of true love, which is a Buddhist perspective on love that I find valuable. This episode includes:

• Loving-kindness: May you be truly well
• Compassion: Your pain is not separate from mine
• Joy: Your joy is my joy
• Equanimity/Freedom: Love that doesn't possess or control

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In this episode I talk about the timing of delivering bad news and the experience of carrying that bad news until the moment it can be shared. This episode includes:

• The weight of carrying bad news
• The divine timing that sometimes asks us to wait
• Why pausing is a survival skill in our current hurry-up society
• How synchronicity can occur when we slow down and allow for pauses
• The value of saying Not Just Yet

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In this episode I'll share insights from my recent Substack post on the metaphor of the butterfly life cycle and why as a society we are in a "chrysalis phase" right now. This episode includes:

• The need for grief rituals - both individual and collective - as we navigate this time of dissolution
• Why forgiveness is an essential part of grief work
• Why each of us must find our own unique form of creativity to bring to the world
• How to protect what is new and fragile
• Recognizing other "imaginal cells" in order to collaborate

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This episode is Part 2 on the mini-series on dealing with the fear of death. Today we look again at the 5 doorways of exploring death and I share verses from The Tao of Death that can help us contemplate the deeper meaning of each doorway. The episode includes:

• Why we need to go within to learn about our fear of death
• How to "die before we die" by releasing ego attachments
• Why we must learn to live in the present moment rather than the imagined future
• Connecting to something larger than ourselves
• Speaking and connecting to others about our fears of death

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In this episode I share some thoughts from ChatGPT along with my own about how to deal with our innate fear of death. Next week I'll continue with this topic and share some wisdom from The Tao of Death but first we begin with a deep dive into death. This episode incudes:

• What if we dive beneath the fear of death instead of trying to rise above it

• Look beneath the fear
• Learn to die before you die
• Practice presence
• Connect to something larger
• Speak the fear aloud

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