Clear Water Sangha

  • The Intimacy of Allowing

    “What’s it like to just allow waiting? Allow expecting? Allow wanting to know? How can you become familiar with the intimacy of allowing?” Recorded 1/16/2012 in San Francisco.

  • Silence, Energy and Vastness

    “As listening into the silence deepens — that realization that we are just pure energy, that we are vastness itself — then I think we finally learn to be human, we finally learn to take care of ourselves, and the planet, and whatever’s next. And resting in equanimity becomes the default setting.” Recorded 1/14/2012 in…

  • No One In the Way

    “It’s ok to have beliefs, as long as you don’t believe them — as long as you know they’re beliefs, as long as you’re not bound, imprisoned, chained by them. Then seeing is seeing, and listening is listening, even when it’s silent. There’s the flow of receiving and giving. There’s no one in the way.…

  • An Infinite Array of Possibilities

    “The purpose of life is to be fully alive, however that’s appearing right now, and it appears in an infinite array of possibilities. Uniquely, creatively discovering each moment, the presence that we are is the creative intelligent force of the universe. We are that! And I think we’re just beginning to tap into the possibility…

  • The Ultimate Generosity

    “You’ve probably heard the saying, ‘give until it hurts’. But what I want to offer is: give until you don’t exist anymore, until you dissolve. That’s complete giving, when you give of yourself so completely that there’s no more holding back… Because then the light that you are can just shine, the energy that you…

  • The Great Silence

    The great silence is filled with light, and it illuminates from the inside out as we listen into it — as we tune in and allow ourselves to be healed of our loss, of our dissappointment, our pain, our lack of control. Our natural state, our natural being, is really no holding, no holding back.…

  • Permission to Transform

    “If you can have permission to keep discovering, then you can also have compassion for the blowback that awakening precipitates — the transformation that can often happen at the human, personal level, when we begin to align with… full aliveness. The purpose of our life is to become fully alive, to live fully in each…

  • The Freshness of Each Moment

    “When listening is happening, you’ve never heard this before, and we’ve never met before. It’s brand new, right now. So there’s this aliveness, this vibrancy of being. That’s the freshness, the innocence of pure consciousness — always learning new things and becoming more sensitive, and totally, totally ok with being human, because the illusion of…

  • Freeing the Thinking Mind

    “Let’s talk about thinking, about finding out how to allow the mind to be the creative, flexible tool that it really is. What does it take to cultivate a really flexible thinking mind, so that it can be a useful support in this so-called journey?” Recorded 10/22/2011 in Santa Cruz.  

  • The Offering Into Awareness

    “So we learn to let go, by sitting, by being available. By resting in awareness. By dropping all the comparisons, and judgments, and expectations, and agendas. How do you do that? It’s impossible, actually; you can’t do it. So you give up trying. Just notice that they’re there, that’s all. The awareness of them is…