Menu TestPosted by otherside New menu below MenuTeachingsBasics – building a foundationNuts & Bolts - Short talks (20-40 mins.) Here's a sampling of the over XX Nuts & Bolts teachings. View all titles.AddictionAwakening From BeliefBody SensationsBreath: Observe or Rest?Bringing Practice AliveSeries - Longer, multi-part recordings, some with transcripts, from workshops and retreats. View all titles.Eightfold PathGuru, Deity, ProtectorMonsters Under The BedReleasing Emotional ReactionsStalking Death CloseTraining – building capacityNuts & Bolts - Short talks (20-40 mins.) Here's a sampling of the over XX Nuts & Bolts teachings. View all titles.Justice and VengeanceThe difference between justice and vengeance, how to act.Teacher? Consultant? Coach?Exploring the depth of intereactions between teacher and student when conducted in a western consultent-client setting. Impermanence & IdentityGiven the impermanence of everything, who am I? Don't worry about it. Live according to what is really important to you. Experiencing DiscomfortThe five-step mindfulness practice: Emotion, reaction, calm, ease, understandingSeries - Longer, multi-part recordings, some with transcripts, from workshops and retreats. View all titles.Ideology and WisdomWhat do you seek in practice? What does it mean to rest and relax with a problematic experience? Can you experience whatever arises and be at peace at the same time? Teachings on opening to the totality of experience.Four Immeasurables – classIntroduction: The context for the four immeasurables in Buddhist practice, how they differ from other emotions including their power to transform ordinary experience into presence; how different traditions view the immeasurables; clarifying pain, hurt, suffering and harm; the purpose, cost and benefit of practicing the four immeasurables; meditation instruction on equanimity practice, Q&A Eightfold PathFirst Four Elements: The Four Noble Truths are about finding a way to live without struggling with what we experience; why "struggle" may be the more appropriate term in English to dukkha; the Eightfold Path as a description of a way of living, but usually interpreted as a prescription for practice; confusion of descriptions of results with means of practice and problems that arise; the fallacy of rational decision making and utility theory as a basis for economics, sociology, and spiritual practice; examination of the first four elements of the Eightfold Path from the perspective of practice; right view is practiced by bringing attention to how you view things; the result will be the traditional description of the characteristics of right view; right intention is to bring attention to intention, what am I doing right now and why?; right speech is to bring attention into the act of speaking, listening to the sound of your own voice when you speak; right action is to bring attention into the experience of action, leads to a relationship with power, makes action more effective.37 Practices of a Bodhisattva – WorkshopPart 1a - Introduction: Background information on text, author, and structure of opening verses. Part 1b - Opening verses, Practice 1: Comments on paying homage (verse 1), intention (verse 2), what it is meant by study, reflect, and meditate/cultivate (practice 1), what is meant by ‘experience has no coming and going’, suffering as the result of fighting experience, traditional and internal interpretations of the eight unrestful states, the five individual advantages and the five circumstantial advantages that make practice of Dharma possible. CloseAwareness – when looking matures into seeingNuts & Bolts - Short talks (20-40 mins.) Here's a sampling of the over XX Nuts & Bolts teachings. View all titles.Guilt, Morality, Shame & JoyWorking with emotions: How do I let go of guilt from bad decisions? Is there really such a thing as morality? Impermanence & IdentityGiven the impermanence of everything, who am I? Don't worry about it. Live according to what is really important to you. Series - Longer, multi-part recordings, some with transcripts, from workshops and retreats. View all titles.Mahamudra – classIntroduction: Discussion of the View section from The Lamp of Mahamudra by Tselek Rangdrol and the Shamatha section from Clarifying the Natural State by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal). Sketch of history and relevance of Mahamudra. The view can be seen as a response to life’s basic questions such as ‘What Am I?’ and ‘What is this experience we call “life”?’; the connection between essence and experience; contrast of clarity and openness of natural awareness with the stuff of ordinary experience; how emotional reactions and the six realms arise; examination of the kayas as a way to see things as they are; working with a teacher as one way to transform emotional energy into attention; seeing what you are by seeing what you are not, description of three types of meditations to do while taking this class, questions from class participants. Heart Sutra WorkshopIntroduction: Naropa’s meeting with Tilopa’s sister; introduction to Heart Sutra; guided primary practice meditation; participant’s experience; willingness, know-how, capacity; guided meditation with resting in experience and looking at the experience of resting. CloseLife – living as practiceNuts & Bolts - Short talks (20-40 mins.) Here's a sampling of the over XX Nuts & Bolts teachings. View all titles.Justice and VengeanceThe difference between justice and vengeance, how to act.Guilt, Morality, Shame & JoyWorking with emotions: How do I let go of guilt from bad decisions? Is there really such a thing as morality? Series - Longer, multi-part recordings, some with transcripts, from workshops and retreats. View all titles.Who Am I? – classWho Am I Conventionally?: Introduction of participants; workshop outline; meditation instruction; Who am I conventionally speaking? What are my interests, talents, influences, gifts? Where am I going? Learning from the Lives of Lineage HoldersA talk on the life of the great Indian yogini, Sukhasiddhi, an important figure in the Shangpa Lineage. CloseTraditional – demystifing Tibetan BuddhismNuts & Bolts - Short talks (20-40 mins.) Here's a sampling of the over XX Nuts & Bolts teachings. View all titles.Karma & ReincarnationWhat's going to happen to you if you don't accept the concept of reincarnation? Karma isn't cause and effect. Why burden yourself with extra beliefs? Series - Longer, multi-part recordings, some with transcripts, from workshops and retreats. View all titles.Then and NowIn-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago. Close ClosePlug test Uncategorized Menu Test By otherside / November 1, 2019 New menu below Read More Basics Training One-Breath Meditation By otherside / October 1, 2019 In music, tone is everything. 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