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Finding God in Your Heart, by Joel Morwood
In this talk and guided meditation, Joel Morwood presents contemplative teachings from various religious traditions related to finding God, or ultimate Reality, in the radiant spiritual heart of being. Joel Morwood is spiritual director at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon USA. This talk was recorded 25 Dec. 2024 in Eugene, Oregon USA.
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Maps of Consciousness in Kashmir Shaivism: The 3 facets, 5 actions, and 36 levels of Consciousness
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This presentation will guide participants through recognizing Trika - the Shiva, Shakti and Anu facets of consciousness; the 5 fundamental activities of consciousness - creation, sustenance, dissolution, concealment, and revelation; and the 36 levels by which transcendent consciousness immanently manifests itself as this tangibly experienced universe. This is the third of a three-part series of...
Aging and the Spiritual Path by Merry Song
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Have you suffered when approaching a certain age? Have you cast off birthdays altogether? Have you observed others suffering over the notion of aging? What are the common stories we tell ourselves about aging? And how does this relate to the spiritual path? In this talk, Merry Song explores what she experienced spiritually by the age of 7 and how her relationship to aging unfolded on the spirit...
Awakening~Together interview with Merry Song
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Merry Song was invited to be a guest of Awakening~Together at their monthly Satsang meeting on March 17, 2024. In this recording, Laura 'Joy' Bedford interviewed Merry Song about her spiritual journey, her teachers, and her unique method of teaching through spiritual writing workshops. Merry Song is a teacher at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon.
Sitaram Dass: Kirtan and the Path of Devotion
มุมมอง 20210 หลายเดือนก่อน
Guest speaker Sitaram Dass spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. In this presentation he leads us in the practice of kirtan and shares some of his personal experiences of his path and time with Ram Dass. Sitaram Dass is an author, teacher, kirtan singer, therapist, and director of the Sac...
Kashmir Shaivism: Nondual Devotion - Jim and Kimberly Carson
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Guest speakers Jim and Kimberly Carson, members of the CSS community based in Portland present the second of a three-part series of talks about Kashmir Shaivism, a very influential Shaiva-Shakta Tantra nondual tradition originated in Kashmir c. 850 CE. This talk delved into the devotional aspects of the tradition, including chanting and meditation. The Carsons have studied, practiced, and taugh...
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 3
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 3
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 2
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 2
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 4
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 4
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 1
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 1
The Needy Beggar, a talk by Merry Song
มุมมอง 56ปีที่แล้ว
Do you ever find yourself longing for love? Praying for approval? Wishing to hear some applause for your efforts? Have you noticed that even if you receive approval, it is never enough? Join Merry Song for a talk about The Needy Beggar. Merry Song will tell her own experiences with metaphorically begging on the side of the road and then ask for others to share their stories of being trapped in ...
Love Poems: Light of Love 2023
มุมมอง 55ปีที่แล้ว
Joel Morwood and members of the Center for Sacred Sciences congregation share poems, music, readings on the topic of love, compassion, mercy, etc. on the occasion of the Light of Love holiday. Recorded December 25, 2023 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Faced and Embraced, a talk by Merry Song
มุมมอง 70ปีที่แล้ว
When we face the things we feel we cannot bear such as world conflict and personal loss, we have an opportunity to embrace them. In so doing we are no longer pushing away that which we think will make us feel bad. We want things to be different than they are, but what happens when we shine the Light of Awareness on those things? It can result in our recognizing the True Nature of Being. We are ...
I Loved You Before I Was Born
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Merry Song presents the poem "I Loved You Before I Was Born" by Li-Young Lee. Music by Jami Sieber.
An Account of Awakening - Matthew Lowes
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Matthew Lowes shares the story of his spiritual path and nondual realization, including some dialogue with Joel Morwood and answers to questions from the audience. In 2016, a sudden, unexpected, and profound spiritual awakening completely transformed his life and perception of reality. Matthew Lowes is a spiritual teacher based in Eugene, Oregon, and author of several books. For more informatio...
Kashmir Shaivism: Tantric Intimacy with the Play of Consciousness - Jim Carson
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Kashmir Shaivism: Tantric Intimacy with the Play of Consciousness - Jim Carson
Longing for the Truth, a talk by Merry Song at the TAT Foundation
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Longing for the Truth, a talk by Merry Song at the TAT Foundation
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop - Intro Trailer
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop - Intro Trailer
Guided Awareness Meditation with Andrea Pucci
มุมมอง 88ปีที่แล้ว
Guided Awareness Meditation with Andrea Pucci
Wholesome Discrimination and Guided Meditation, with Andrea Pucci
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Wholesome Discrimination and Guided Meditation, with Andrea Pucci
The Four Seals of Reality, talk and meditation with Andrea Pucci
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The Four Seals of Reality, talk and meditation with Andrea Pucci
Joel's Favorite Accounts of Awakening
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Joel's Favorite Accounts of Awakening
Merry Song reads "I know the way you can get" - a rendering of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
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Merry Song reads "I know the way you can get" - a rendering of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
Stewardship of the Earth: A Spiritual Perspective on the Climate Crisis
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Stewardship of the Earth: A Spiritual Perspective on the Climate Crisis
Time, Space, Separation, and Knowingness
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Time, Space, Separation, and Knowingness
Returning to the Space of Awareness
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Returning to the Space of Awareness
Realizing Nothing in Nondual Traditions
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Realizing Nothing in Nondual Traditions
Gratitude: Coming Out Of The Story, part 2 of 2
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Gratitude: Coming Out Of The Story, part 2 of 2
Coming Out Of The Story, part 1 of 2
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Coming Out Of The Story, part 1 of 2
Charity: Coming Out Of Hoarding
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Charity: Coming Out Of Hoarding

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  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Following you from the ciberspace. Blessings.

  • @NeytsMore
    @NeytsMore 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks. Especially for not limiting God to one tradition, like many would like to. One can listen of hEAR with hEARt.

  • @jorganjorgan6847
    @jorganjorgan6847 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks 🙏 Joel ! As usual a very precise and concise expression of the pure formless essence of our true nature. Have an awesome 🤩 New Year. Ed J . 🙏🤗💥✨

  • @ClearLight369
    @ClearLight369 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why does Tim keep conspiring with the left in their misrepresentation of Jan 6?

  • @bongwonsa
    @bongwonsa 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I read Joel's spiritual journey -Naked through the Gate - as honest and clear a description of spirituality as anything I've read all rooted in his first hand experiences- Thanks for sharing

  • @Karoltos
    @Karoltos 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what a fantastic talk

  • @BohemianKitsch
    @BohemianKitsch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    why do so many white guys call it SHAY-vism? they don't call the Vishnu traditions VAYshnavism.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember you almost everyday

  • @paulsloan7140
    @paulsloan7140 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do you have a link for the first talk and do the 2 people doing the talk have a website

  • @beingfrank40
    @beingfrank40 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful talk and explanation!

  • @beingfrank40
    @beingfrank40 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview about Swami Muktananda !!! The explanations were just great, the emotion shown elucidated and emphasized the essential. Thank you.🙏

  • @vasukinagabhushan
    @vasukinagabhushan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In Nepal, they say that Shiva is where Shakti is. 🙏🏽

  • @vasukinagabhushan
    @vasukinagabhushan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kashmiri Shaivism is life affirmative philosophy. Eti, Eti, Eti ... 🙏🏽

  • @rhvandergaag4823
    @rhvandergaag4823 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It seems strange that a jnani should be concerned with death.

  • @ooocha1
    @ooocha1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clown boy and clown girl.

  • @zephyrdaz
    @zephyrdaz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really interesting, thank you.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to know that the two of you together helped Franklin in his closing years. My respects to you all.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to find this tape with the two of you together with franklin merrell-wolff (yogi)

  • @grantlawrence611
    @grantlawrence611 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was quite interesting

  • @danielholman7225
    @danielholman7225 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jim, thank you so much for your presentation on K/S. We have something in common. I’am also a Baba devotee, Yeah, I recall when Baba unfolded K/S by writing some books on it. However, it didn’t seem like my fellow devotee liked it nearly as much as I did. They were all happy w Vedanta and, yes, it’s ok but there were some things I didn’t like about it. It seemed that Vedanta was a bit out of step when it came to women. Then too, there is the thing about the reflection. I don think our intellect can take the reflection. It’s Shakti, the universe, which takes the reflection. I also like, “There is nothing that is not Lord Shiva” Thanks again, Om!

  • @SkyLikeMind639
    @SkyLikeMind639 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for posting this. I have been studying this for a while now and to hear your take on it is priceless!

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Me? Still riding a not so merry go arrond. Send you love. Franklin and You are always in my heart.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Long time thinking about your pressence in Lone Pine during the 80's. Maybe you belong to an old lineage of knowledge. Perhaps there was a soundless call. My respects.

  • @jkdhar
    @jkdhar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely

  • @sacredcommunityproject
    @sacredcommunityproject 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    <3 Thank you for sharing <3

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    excellent. Franklin the OG Gandolph

  • @andreasrylander
    @andreasrylander 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Playfully, you hid from me. All day I looked. Then I discovered I was you, and the celebration of That began." - Lalleshwari

  • @TheSoteriologist
    @TheSoteriologist ปีที่แล้ว

    26:29 - 27:37 This is an incomplete heterodoxography of the view of vedanta in tantric propaganda because the full view is contained in 1. Brahman alone is real. 2. The world is an appearance (illusion). 3. Brahman is the world. Your heterodoxography leaves out the all-important step 3. for which 1. and 2. _(in either sequence)_ are preparations. So in fact, the tantric view, namely that appearances are the divine, is just the highest level of vedantic pedagogy and not in contrast or contradiction to it at all. Abhinavagupta's formulation at 27:54 _"cooped up in its concentrated singleness"_ obviously is incommensurable with Brahman which even literally means expansive, uncontained and uncontainable. So one has no choice but to assume either incompetence or polemics here. Why ?

    • @TheSoteriologist
      @TheSoteriologist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Buddhism4Happiness The metaphor of _"being static"_ refers to unchanging objects within time. This cannot apply to brahman because the word _does not_ refer to something within time _(which is one reason why the whole buddhist analysis fails to refute brahman)_ and it is for the same reason that brahman also isn't changing and hence is unchanging. But in fact even to use "brahman" as a grammatical subject in a sentence involving subject, object and predicate, such as _"Brahman is unchanging"_ is inherently false and hence only a symbolic or metaphoric pointer. As regards the vedantic view inclusive of the tantric one, it should fall within _"3. Brahman is the world"_ which in that system has a prior integration of the discrimination indicated by 1. and 2. for a prerequisite. The practice of disciminating between subject and object belongs to the latter, preparatory phase or otherwise to a purely conventional way of communicating with ordinary people.

  • @amosburr2175
    @amosburr2175 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing 🤍

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yogui rides again?

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's all so thrut.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Joel Morwood III

  • @Chase_Myles
    @Chase_Myles ปีที่แล้ว

    Proud Kashmiri Pandit here....

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent report ❤

  • @jorganjorgan6847
    @jorganjorgan6847 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Joel this is Ed Jorgenson. I shared time and space with you back in the eighties at Franklin Woolf’s retreat center in Lone 🌲 Pine CA . I’m living on the island of Kauai Hawaii. Just resting in Being. I’m now eighty eight and I see you have put on some years. ❤Love your teachings . Good to see your face on U-Tube and hear your words of wisdom. Love you 🥰 🙏🤗

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Joel. You are invited to come to the Titicaca Lake in Perú. To the "Isla del Sol" where the "Keepers of the ancient knowledge" guard their thousand years secret Knowledge and wait for the new generation of Sages to share with them their misterious and sacred knowledge . The Old Inca knowledge are but a part or IT.

  • @brightchange6065
    @brightchange6065 ปีที่แล้ว

    This woman is SPOT ON ... "the mind is where the soul goes to hide from the heart" --- stay in NOW, as she said, stay in breathing, presence. The mind is an addiction, a prideful one! Her teachings are similar to those of Michael Singer, "The Untethered Soul". She's right on it ... thank you!

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pleased to find this! Wish, wish I could visit this wonderous place ❤

  • @condottiero3466
    @condottiero3466 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good presentation. Thanks for uploading.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope everything goes well send you my Best wishes

    • @antonionunez4310
      @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I was a teenage I read the Zen Masters and they live in total awareness. One of them lived in the forest and used to go to Town mounted on a tiger. I love the way of these great Masters.

    • @antonionunez4310
      @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

      Joel. I am taking Dr. Wolff's Aphorisms as a set of Koans and I have long used the Koans to meditate upon them. There's something transcendental in them. Vedanta and Zen are my stepping stones to Freedom and Peace. The book I read was "Zen doctrine of no-mind" by D. T. Zusuki. My respects to you.

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 ปีที่แล้ว

    So pleased to find this vid 🙌🏽🎆

  • @aprilturk1559
    @aprilturk1559 ปีที่แล้ว

    ohm so hum

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤ Joel. Thx

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that you joel? Did you live in Lone Pine in 1983? I am Antonio Núñez. How difficult it is to find you. Greetings. Send you a few comentaries at the end of Dr. Wolff's video "inducción". Thanks for everything. Hope to hear from you. My Best wishes.

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤ Joel. Real Gem

  • @mondomonkey8581
    @mondomonkey8581 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My hero.

  • @genieharden612
    @genieharden612 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I appreciate you saying there's no words for this, but I'm very grateful to everyone's attempts, even if less than perfect. I utilize my imagination at the point of proximal development and say: what if this were true? And I let it sink into my heart (curiosity followed by courage and surrender.). These pointings have taken me far on my path to clarity. Thank you!

  • @louiseadvaita
    @louiseadvaita 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clear pointing out - thank you Todd

  • @ActionFigure10
    @ActionFigure10 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great talk, thanks Todd!

  • @SarahDale111
    @SarahDale111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My understanding is that this man-made mind-made world is not real, and so to try to solve problems at the same level of unreality in which the problems were created will never work. Some teachings say to deny this apparent world and its apparent people and their apparent problems, because only Spirit is here. Only God is here, and God is perfection and love. We're mucking about in a world of duality and matter, but God has no opposite, so how can any of this be real? To think we know what to do is insane. Forgiveness seems to be the only hope. We are divided and at war in our minds, and it is reflected in the world. As long as we are not in a state of peace and love, we are believing in something that has no reality. That is our only sin...to think that Christ is not our Truth; to think that we are separate from God...and sin does not exist.