2:31 minutes (5.77 MB) A dialogue with Mark Nepo Letting current events into our hearts in ways that empower us In this brief audio clip from Mark Nepo’s dialogue with Beyond Awakening host, Terry Patten, Mark discusses practicing with the shocking violence of the daily …
The Practice of “Losing Face”
In this brief video, Terry invites you to let go of looking good and open up to freedom. Instead of pretending to have it together, celebrate when you look ridiculous! Losing face is the secret to reacquiring the totality of your being. …
Living our question in a time of global change
Our amazingly wonderful and terrible times represent a profound koan, an impossible riddle that we must resolve, an infinitely deep question that undoes our mind and reconfigures our consciousness. We are the most blessed humans in history. We are information and …
The taboo against ecstasy
Part of our unspoken contract with conventional society is that there’s a certain range of how we get to be. It’s fine to be worried. It’s fine to strive. It’s fine to be depleted. But if you break open in the spirit of freedom itself — or joy itself? That’s just …
Co-creating the Buddha-Sangha
Thich Nhat Hanh famously said “the next Buddha may be a Sangha.” It’s a phrase that is repeated so often for a reason — it points to something important. In this brief video, Terry asks — what kind of practice is required to earn our place as a creative participant in such a …
Beyond “sudden” and “gradual” enlightenment
In this brief video, Terry suggests that our time calls for more than one kind of awakening, and more than one kind of role. Our time asks us to be a culture of sudden and gradual awakening, all teachers and students to one another, giving everything we have to helping each other …
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