Meditation & Mindfulness

Lodro Rinzler is the co-founder of MNDFL meditation studios, has taught meditation for 20 years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and is the award-winning author of 7 books. He has spoken across the world at conferences, universities, and businesses as diverse as Google, Harvard University, and the White House.

In this episode, Eric and Lodro talk about his new book, Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times and they walk through many practical strategies to employ on the spot when you’re feeling stressed or anxious to help you come back to a sense of “okay-ness” in the present moment.

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In This Interview, Lodro Rinzler and I discuss Meditation for Anxious People and…

• His book, Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times
• The difference between anxiety and stress
•  Useful vs Not Useful thinking
• What to do when thoughts come up during meditation
• The question “Is this helpful?”
• The question “Is this useful?”
• Discovering what happens when we unhook from anxious thoughts
• How to deliberately experience “30 seconds of contentment”
• Dispelling the myth that your mind is too busy to meditate
• Buddhists connecting our faith as being rooted in our direct experience
• How turning a boat one degree at a time leads to a completely different land
• Working with your mind vs your mind working you
• Meditating without judging ourselves
• Learning to be with difficult emotions through meditation
• Saying to yourself, “It’s ok to feel this”
• What it means to drop the story and feel the feeling
• Asking yourself, “What can I enjoy right now?”
• What it means to have a “thought party”
• The idea of “basic goodness”
• The metaphor of going to get a box of cereal from the grocery store when you already have a cupboard full 

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Justin Michael Williams is an author, a top 20 recording artist, and a transformational speaker who is using music and meditation to wake up the world. With over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice of color for the new healing movement. Between his podcast, keynotes, and motivational online platforms, Justin’s teachings have now spread to more than 40 countries around the globe. His new book is, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us.
In this episode, Eric and Justin Michael Williams explore the connection between meditation and activism, which is to say, the work we do to heal ourselves and then the work we go do to help heal our world. 

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In This Interview, Justin Michael Williams and I Discuss Meditation and Activism and…

• His new book, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us
• The role, place, and importance of inner work and outer work
• That out of all the healing modalities he’s tried, meditation has had the biggest impact on his life
• How it’s not always our thoughts that create our reality
• That awareness calls us to get up off of our meditation cushion and take action
• That the real reason we meditate is to become more alive
• That we meditate not to disconnect but to reconnect
• That actions create our world
• The two things that co-create our reality: What happens to us and our reaction to it 
• That privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through, it’s about what you haven’t had to go through
• De-colonizing the oppression that lives within us and de-colonizing the external structures that hold us back in the world
• Calling people forward vs calling people out
• How we can’t shame people into long term change
• The type of meditation he teaches: Freedom Meditation
• That the guru is within you

Justin Michael Williams Links:

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Henry Shukman is a poet, writer, and Associate Zen Master who lives in New Mexico where he teaches at Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has published eight books to date of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He writes regularly for Tricycle, The New York Times, and other publications. In this episode, Eric and Henry discuss his beautifully written book, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.

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In This Interview, Henry Shukman and I discuss Paths of Spiritual Awakening and…

• His book, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
• How to work with the 3 poisons that we all have: Greed, Ill Will, Delusion
• Opening up to pain (rather than turning away from it) so that we can heal
• His experience with dysthymia 
• The awakening experiences he has had in his life
• Learning how to be with his pain and wounds in order to heal
• A major myth of meditation
• How he knew he was ready to work with a spiritual teacher
• His realization that awakening experiences are doorways and we must then step onto the paths they open up to in order to continue our spiritual growth
• The value of community in spiritual growth
• The trouble with thinking you have to do things alone
• Discovering for ourselves the deep experience of the ordinary moments of our lives
• The wisdom of cherishing the normal and finding beauty in ordinary things
• Poetry as the practice of paying very close attention to things
• The different levels of love

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Loch Kelly is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and the founder of The Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch works to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. by offering in-person retreats, workshops, and online video and audio courses. He has served on the New York Insight Teachers Council and has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, U Penn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and well being. Loch also studied extensively with Mingyur Rinpoche and was invited to teach direct realization by Adyashanti. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians and practicing awareness psychotherapy in New York City for 30 years. His latest book is called, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life.

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In This Interview, Loch Kelly and I discuss Effortless Mindfulness and…

• His book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
• The good wolf & the bad wolf: how there are no “bad” parts of us
• Feed the one who is aware of the two wolves
• How he defines “effortless mindfulness”
• Flow consciousness
• Deliberate mindfulness vs effortless mindfulness
• Objects of consciousness vs the space that objects are in
• Mindfulness is about awakening rather than it just being about stress management
• Relieving suffering at it’s root
• Small glimpses, many times and the practice of the “small glimpses” techniques.
• Dropping from head mind to heart mind
• Non-dual awareness as well as Awareness-based knowing

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