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You Don’t Have to Fix It
The main point of this talk is that once you find yourself with strong opinions, use that as an anchor to wake up. Even if you are morally correct, once you are attached to an idea, you start to become just as lost...
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How to Stop Worrying
All worry is the same thing and we need to learn what it really is: An irrational habit of imagining a future that often doesn’t come. We ruin this moment when we worry. We think we’re helping ourselves by planning...
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From Form to Feeling
What is the definition of form? I’m not sure I’ve seen as many different definitions for a word before. On dictionary.com there are twelve different definitions before moving into forming and other variations of the...
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The Paradox of Change
A talk about impermanence.
Mentioned that pain comes when we try to hold on to things that can’t be held onto: relationships, jobs, hopes. In holding onto those ideas, we are not free to appreciate the true quality...
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Guided Meditation – Sort Of
Meditation is the realization of this moment. The “practice of meditation” is the sitting down to work on this before it becomes fully natural to live that way. To abstract it further, we can use anchors such as...
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The Gift of Trauma
Trauma is horrible, and we shouldn’t forget that. We all have trauma to one degree or another. We all have “our stuff.”
Trauma has the potential to widen and deepen our experience of pain. Which allows us to have a...
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The Human Condition – An Overview
What is the human condition? Humanity seems quite insane. What is the root of that insanity?
Our core problem is the fact that we feel separate. We are ego, but we are not only ego. We need to evolve into the...
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The World Is Your Body
This is an advanced talk. Many people may find this content weird, but I’m serious when I say that the world is your body. We’re trying to learn to look at the world differently. This is very literally a different way...
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Nationalism and Levels of Identification
Consciousness expands from being an infant through different identifications with social groups. The highest level on average is the national level. We identify with our family, our neighborhood, our state, our...
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The Beauty of an Itch
In this talk we widened the definition of an itch to include not only physical itches, but also emotional and mental bothers as well.
How can an itch be beautiful? We described actually enjoying an itch. Diving into...
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Using Anchors
What are anchors? The dictionary defines an anchor as something that is the source of security or stability. I’m discussing using things that occur in the world as reminders to bring your attention back to the moment,...
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To Think or Not to Think
We don’t want to avoid things through meditation. The act of dropping thought is used to learn about thinking, and to show that thinking isn’t all there is. It is not used to abandon thought entirely. Krishnamurti’s...
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