Archive for April, 2009

“When you see through the addiction to a separate sense of selfhood you’ve got an opportunity to move past ‘I’ddiction.”

 

 ISmile216 - "I"ddiction [40:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At last night’s sitting, I read one of my favorite poems. The intent was to clarify what this Path is really about. So often, deep spiritual work is seen as a way to escape from what is going on when in actuality, awakening involves nothing less than an intimacy with what is going on. The [...]

“The moment we recognize that the white hot fire of desire won’t kill us, we begin deepening a practice that can’t help but show Freedom.”

 

 ISmile215 - Just Being [34:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The light of awareness has the ability to break the bonds that continually prevent deep clarity from tearing down the boundary between self and Infinite.”

 

 ISmile214 - The Boundary Between Self and Peace [23:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“I wrote Awake in This Life because I didn’t have much of a choice. Too many people have an awful choice that involves either trying to fit into the religious tradition of their past which no longer holds much relevance, or they can choose to have no spiritual life at all. This isn’t a choice that people have to make. There is another way.”

 

 Interview: Becoming the Wildest Thing of All [50:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“Let clarity reflect itself internally so that the question of what you want allows you to get out of your own way.”

 

 ISmile212 - What We Really Want [41:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The mask of personality is also a blinder to what is infinite in others.”

 

 ISmile211 - The Mask of Self-concern: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download