Lumen

IN THIS PODCAST I TALK ABOUT: – Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them.  – Wounding in Childhood, being disliked – Conscious engagement with our pain – The heart and the mind – How to use experience as fodder for the work – Taking the lessons from our practice out into life – Resistance, preferences, acceptance, allowance, process & the pillars of practice – Enduring the long journey – Opening up to our true nature   NOTE: Near the end of the podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty.  When I listen to myself, I heard irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. I took the podcast down to edit it and make it right but through great urging, from those who had a chance to listen, to put it back up, un-edited and raw, I am re-posting it without any edits. I want everyone who listens to know that the moment these two students are in