Changeable Podcast

When faced with death…whether it’s the death of the physical body or the “death” of the dream of being a separate me…the mind will grab for something, anything, to hold onto.  It often grabs at false identities, trying to solidify a sense of ‘me’. It does this by clinging to personal identities, group identities, and

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In truth, nothing is carried through time.  Because there is no time. Time is a thought.In the thought-world, everything refers to time. There is clear and obvious continuity, a clear and obvious past and future for a clear and obvious ‘me’. When thought is not projecting this world, there is none of that. Zilch. Not even

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In this conversation with the amazing Razmik Sargsyan, we discuss how what’s true must always be true. If it’s true that we are okay in any experience, that must always be true. In the East and in the West, for people in luxury and comfort as well as for people in the middle of war.

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I am a guest on a lot of podcasts and I’m not always inspired to share those conversations here.  But this conversation with Razmik Sargsyan for his podcast Brand New Thought felt like one that I wanted more people to hear. Part “the basics” and part pushing the edge, we covered a lot of ground. I

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What do you really know? You think you know your name, that you love your dog, that you’re thinking, that there is a quiet, still space within…Look again. How do you know?What are those things you think you know made of? What is that quiet, still space? What is love for your dog? What’s it

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Andrea says she can easily see other people’s thinking for what it is. She can even see some of her own thinking as thinking, and she can see how being identified with thought led her into past habits.  So why can’t she see this now with regard to her current habit? She says, “I don’t know

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Katie has several questions about listening to her heart rather than her head. How does one do that? Is it even something we can do? She also says she starts to sense freedom from her habits, but then she “clams up”. She wonders if this response is due to being in an unsafe environment in

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I hear some variation on this question a lot. If I’m feeling discomfort and I know an untrue thought is behind it, why lean into that discomfort? The discomfort reveals that something untrue is being identified with. So why lean into that discomfort if it’s rooted in a lie?When someone asks a version of this question

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A listener sent an excellent question. “I’m still confused about how your thinking is not personal. How can this be? Whose thoughts are they?”She says she sees there is a “witness me” who sees everything, but isn’t there a “thinker me” being seen? We examine these “me’s” and the thoughts that apparently belong to them in

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Aneta Mruz was diagnosed with OCD shortly after her son was born, about 6 years ago. As difficult and terrifying as it was at the time, she says OCD healed her and she’d go through it all over again for what it’s given her.  OCD forced Aneta to re-examine everything she thought she was and

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