Dharma talk from the morning session of the daylong - Eight Ways to Awaken As We Age.
As we age, we naturally experience new perspectives on life which, although sometimes unwelcome, are actually conducive to waking us up. The eight ways reveal a path of practice to follow which offers true refuge and deep nourishment for our spiritual aspiration.
A talk, followed by discussion, helping us to understand this time we have entered, after the 2016 election, and pointing to our core practices and understandings as our foundations and guides.
Developing flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with everyday disappointments is the heart of any transformative process. Modern neuroscience illuminates how the brain encodes its strategies for coping and has shown mindfulness and compassion practices to be two of the most powerful agents of brain change, thus behavior change.
Developing flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with everyday disappointments is the heart of any transformative process. Modern neuroscience illuminates how the brain encodes its strategies for coping and has shown mindfulness and compassion practices to be two of the most powerful agents of brain change, thus behavior change.