Finding a “YES” to our challenging times In this brief audio clip, Terry invites you to consider the possibility that your soul chose to be born into this time, in this place, under these exact circumstances as part of its initiatory journey. Consider that you chose to be born …
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Going Beyond “Re-activism” — from a dialogue with Adyashanti
2:31 minutes (5.77 MB) Going Beyond “Re-activism” In this brief audio clip from American spiritual teacher and author Adyashanti, he explains how our best intentions, in the form of “re-activism,” can exacerbate the storm of polarization, political or otherwise. If we can …
Letting current events into our hearts in ways that empower us—Mark Nepo
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 …
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