Teachings

Letting go is always scary, until it’s bliss. At some point, as more is revealed to you in this opening of presence, what emerges through your whole being is profound trust. You will start to traverse that fear/bliss movement, and it’s scary, but intuitively you find your balance. You can’t push it, it’s a natural…

People sometimes go on retreat or come to Satsang and have a difficult time, and they think “I didn’t really get enough Shakti” or, “I don’t feel any different”. But usually you figure out how you are on your path over time; not at the end of your retreat, or when you had your big…

Excerpts from the recent day long retreat in Tiburon, CA. on 09-22-2018.

We are learning to let go of judgements and conclusions – to be vulnerable in the unknown – and to see the profound trust that we are. There is no need to perform or have to be somebody. Recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 09-03-2018.

This can’t really be an accomplishment, it’s just reality. Actually, it’s no big deal. I love that when he was asked what enlightenment was, Suzuki Roshi replied, “Nothing Special”. There’s nothing like telling the truth and not turning it into something unattainable. It’s ordinary. It’s what you always are, even if you’re caught in resistance.…

Even though you might have your laundry list of problems, you can only take care of what’s in front of you. And you can only take care of what’s in front of you right now, if you’re actually here. And when you’re in your garden, that’s all you can do – pick one weed at…

Fully Here is not living in the thought-forms of the past, the future or the present, but deeply communing with the life force of our being. Recorded in Santa Cruz, CA. on 07-07-2018.

Don’t wait for the guidance and reassurance to come from outside of you, it’s within you, it is you. When you bring awareness to the focus that the mind is holding there will be an easing that automatically occurs. Recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 07-02-2018.

Are you familiar with that profound stillness, within the center of your being, when you are at peace? Recorded in Tiburon, CA. on 6-09-2018.

As you become more aware of awareness and more established in presence, trust in the process that naturally grows. Recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 10-23-2017.