June 27, 2009 telecast.

Source:  http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=8001219

Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach, an author, clinical pychologist, and founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (District of Columbia). She’s the author of the Sounds True audio learning program Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame and Meditations for Emotional Healing. Tami and Tara discuss radical acceptance in the face of difficult emotions.

Tami Simon speaks with Jack Kornfield, the author of The Wise Heart and one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Kornfield reflects on four decades of personal meditation practice and how this has informed how he works with students.

In this installment of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Shinzen Young, a meditation teacher and Buddhist scholar. As a child in Los Angeles in the 1950s, Young desired nothing more than to become Asian, and worked very hard to learn Japanese, ultimately graduating from a Los Angeles based Japanese High School in parallel with his conventional English-speaking high school.

Jeff Carreira and Elizabeth Debold host guests Andrew Cohen speaking on the Discovery Cycle and Steve McIntosh, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jenny Wade and Gary Lachman answer the question "What do you see as the relationship between inner and outer evolution and where do you feel it is most important for Evolutionaries/Integralists to focus their efforts for conscious evolution?"

Jeff Carreira and Elizabeth Debold host guests Andrew Cohen speaking on the Discovery Cycle and Steve McIntosh, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jenny Wade and Gary Lachman answer the question "What do you see as the relationship between inner and outer evolution and where do you feel it is most important for Evolutionaries/Integralists to focus their efforts for conscious evolution?"

Vimala Thakar passed away on March 11th 2009 in India. In this webcast we honour the life of this deeply enlightened and independent woman, and share our personal experiences of both meeting and interviewing her. She was a rare and inspiring example for us all of what real spiritual attainment looks like, and of integrating the inner and outer life.

Peter Russell shares his exploration of meditation and mystical phenomena from the perspective of a scientific understanding of consciousness. Peter explains how the solutions to the current crisis faced by our planet and all its species may be found in the practice of meditation; in the practice of spiritual unfolding…
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