In this twenty-fifth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion I explored conceit — superiority conceit, inferiority conceit, equality/comparison conceit, how it is related to many ills internally and externally and what to do about it in formal mediation and in the world. AContinue reading “Conceit | September 26, 2024 “Meditation Q & A W̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶W̶e̶n̶d̶y̶ ̶N̶a̶s̶h̶” #25”
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Catalysts For Awakening and Change Series Encore: The Illusion Of Movement With Dean Graves
Dean Graves returns to address the illusion of movement and along the way (mostly he) builds various avenues into this with topics such as the structure of creation, the intoxication of freewill, the five inherent characteristics, meditation, awareness, love, wisdom, unity, perception, Self, time, omniscience, autonomy, ego, and the many levels, the curriculum, and progressionContinue reading “Catalysts For Awakening and Change Series Encore: The Illusion Of Movement With Dean Graves”
Catalysts For Awakening And Change Series: Potency And Experiences With Tim Bui
Tim Bui and I, in this Jan 14, 2024 recording, talk: potency, awakening experiences and processes, removal, identity, ego, embodiment, depression, emotions, wounds, transmutation, visions, clarity, spiritual practices, teachers, Vajrayāna Buddhism, retreats, healing, Mexico, self, not-self, existence, Buddha nature, nothingness, interconnectedness, weak(ening) goal barriers, doing, non-doing Biography High Performance Sleep Coach focused on helping purposeContinue reading “Catalysts For Awakening And Change Series: Potency And Experiences With Tim Bui”
Rote “Spiritual” AI
Around about the time of redirecting the recently acquired innerskilled.com to this website the idea of AI generated website services came to mind. It only took a quick sentence for these AI services to conjure a speciality site. I tasked these AIs to extract existing IntegratingPresence.com content to fit the name innerskilled. Here’s the purposeContinue reading “Rote “Spiritual” AI”
Conveying Contemplativeness And Practical Mysticism With Keith Kristich
On August 23, 2023, Keith Kristich and I talked about slowing down, practical mysticism, practices, opening to what is, truth, the divine, emptiness, nothingness, somethingness, form and formlessness, space between thought and sound, buzzing in ears from too much caffeine before meditation, silence, listening to inner sound of silence, sky as metaphor for our true nature,Continue reading “Conveying Contemplativeness And Practical Mysticism With Keith Kristich”
What Is Meditation? | 11/2/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #02
We primarily address what meditation actually is while spiraling up, around and back on this topic to also include, amongst others: examples of what is and isn’t meditation; mind training; intention; familiarity with the mind; heart qualities; wisdom; aspiration; samatha; ego; Chittamatra or Yogācāra via the statement “emotions are thoughts”; scoundrels; conceit; foolishness; belonging; emotional mirroring; etc.
Thoughts, Emotions & Trauma | 9/29/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #01
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022. For a few months thereafter I did various Insight Timer liveContinue reading “Thoughts, Emotions & Trauma | 9/29/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #01″
Quashing Gossip
Listen to the full unedited version of Quashing Gossip with or without the Wisdom App: https://join.wisdom.audio/WdQK The description to this August 17th, 2022 Insight Timer live event and subsequent notes: Pretty much all considering joining this already know they’d like to gossip less so let’s dig into some teachings to really drive home the importance of quashing our gossipContinue reading “Quashing Gossip”
Neil Elliot’s ‘Higher Road’
Author D. Neil Elliot and I recorded this conversation on June 7th. From Neil’s website: To any outsider, D. Neil Elliott was highly educated, owned a profitable consulting firm, and had a successful career and an amazing wife and family. But things were not all they seemed to be … Neil was facing a lotContinue reading “Neil Elliot’s ‘Higher Road’”
Kate Heartsong: Changing Our World With Confidence
On April, 25th author and confidence coach Kate Heartsong and I spoke to some of the ins, outs and hows of healing and interrelating. Kate Heartsong is the empowering and life-enhancing author of two books, Humanity’s Cry for Change – Actions You Can Take to Create a New Earth and Deeply We Are One. She is also theContinue reading “Kate Heartsong: Changing Our World With Confidence”
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