Clear Water Sangha

  • Letting *Letting Go* Happen

    “Let yourself begin to find a natural, easy stillness.  In allowing yourself simply to be aware — to be awareness — you literally begin to feel or see as spaciousness, as presence; as vast, boundaryless consciousness itself, enriching and enlivening your whole being.” Recorded 6/13/2015 in Santa Cruz.

  • The Miracle of Pure Aliveness

    “Forget everything you know: your past, your future, your beliefs. Because what happens here is a mysterious, amazing, miraculous process of becoming unburdened, of lightening up — of enlightening! — so that the light that you are actually can shine, the loving heart that you are can radiate, and you can be happy — unconditionally…

  • Discovering What’s Real

    “The real gift of awakening and opening is truly loving. We open into being authentically loving beings — enlightened, radiant, filled with spirit, and completely grounded in authentic humanity.” Recorded 4/13/2015 in San Francisco.

  • What’s In the Way?

    What is “awake”? Awake is when you’re connected, when you’re actually available to what you’re sensing and feeling, and to what others are sensing and feeling. When we stop, when we open, we see and feel how we’ve been holding back, and how we can begin to get out of our own way.

  • Spiritual Bypassing–the danger of neglecting your humanity

    Being in Presence can become a high, a state you want to maintain. Recorded at the Spring Retreat 2015 in San Rafael CA. Topics:  ~ shakti ~ trauma work ~ nonduality ~ therapy and spirituality ~  spiritual maturity ~

  • The Reality of Connection

    Connection is our true nature. It’s an aliveness, a presence, a vastness. The reason we come here — the reason we *are* here — is to discover that for the first time; or to rediscover it; or to deepen into what is already present for us.

  • Each Moment is New: part 3 of the spiritual laboratory

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  • Turning Awareness On

    Suffering is when we’re very identified, when we’re so contracted in our beliefs that there’s no sense of humor, no lightness. It’s heavy. It’s a bummer! But you can bring awareness in such a way that opening happens; you can question in such a way that the mind dissolves. And when you’re fully here the…

  • Being Available for Connection

    When we are here–not in the future–we are available for connection…which is our true nature. We need love–to feel connected on a human level–not just this groovy bliss of spirituality…that’s just the beginning….The follow-up is the ongoing healing of transformation. Being open is the ability to be with that mystery as it unfolds. Recorded at…

  • Noticing with the Heart

    The noticing that I’m describing is free of judgment, interpretation, comparison, analysis. So bring yourself back to a place where there’s spacious awareness. Widen your field to find that place where there is no resistance. Feel your heart opening, moving, unwinding. Feel your mind relaxing. There’s nothing like being unburdened. It’s fresh, and it’s always…