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The Changing and the Changeless Discriminating between what is changing and what is changeless. Experiencing the unitive field of nondual awareness while recognizing and attending to the subtle I-thought that maintains separation. Question: What do we do during meditation when we feel gray and dull? This zip file contains Monthly...

Elements that are covered: Chanting "In Praise to Patañjali" Opening Meditation Review of Chapter III Sutras 1-15 Chanting Chapter III Sutras 11-15 Chanting & Discussion of Chapter III Sutras 16-25 Closing Meditation This zip file contains The Flowering of Freedom Study Group Session 27 Recording Part A (MP3), Recording Part...

Elements that are covered: Discussion on Chanting Chanting "In Praise to Patañjali" Chanting of Chapter III Sutras 1-15 Meditation Review of Chapter III 1-8 Discussion of Chapter III Sutras 9-15 Meditation This zip file contains The Flowering of Freedom Study Group Session 26 Recording Part A (MP3), Recording Part B...

The Relative and the Absolute Being Aware of Sensations, Emotions, Thoughts, and World as objects appearing in awareness To being aware of self as a witness of all objective reality To being witnessing and abiding as being To being aware of the subtle I-thought that maintains a sense of separation To relinquishing identification with the I-thought and moving into being awareness To going beyond being awareness into the absolute where there is no self-awareness

Welcoming The heart of meditation is learning how to welcome everything, just as it is. In Welcoming we realize that we have within us the capacity to meet each moment with a perfect response. Knowing how to welcome leads to self-trust and deep relaxation. Welcoming also reveals our self as the field of spacious awareness, in which everything arises. Knowing our self as awareness reveals how everything, including our self, is a facet of the wholeness of life. Knowing our self as awareness brings an end to separation, fear, and suffering.

Elements that are covered: Chanting "In Praise to Patañjali" Chanting of Chapter III Sutras 1-8 Meditation Discussion of Chapter III 1-8 Chanting of Chapter III Sutras 9-15 Discussion of Chapter III 9-15 This zip file contains Chapter III Text (YS III 1-55.PDF), The Flowering of Freedom Study Group Session 25...

Meditation does not involve transcending our humanness. It entails getting in touch with our true essence which is spacious, loving, kind, compassionate, awake, and perfect just as it is, while welcoming and responding to every moment of our life. Informed by the transformative power of awareness, and the teachings of Yoga, nondualism, Taoism, and Buddhism, these meditations form an interwoven tapestry of practices and tools that you can use for life.

The Flowering of Freedom 2013 Complete comprises year two of the Flowering of Freedom Study Group and covers Chapter II of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras. This offering is intended to follow chronologically The Flowering of Freedom 2012 Complete, which covers the Sañkhya Karika and Chapter I of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras. In...

Elements that are covered: Chanting "In Praise to Patañjali" Chanting of Chapter I Sutras 1-51 Meditation Review of Chapter I Chanting of Chapter II. Sutras 1-55 Review of Chapter II Discussion and questions This zip file contains The Flowering of Freedom Study Group Session 24 Recording Part A (MP3), Recording...

Elements that are covered: Chanting "In Praise to Patañjali" Chanting of Sutras II. 53-55 Meditation In-Depth Discussion Chapter II Sutras 53-55 Review of Chapter II This zip file contains The Flowering of Freedom Study Group Session 23 Recording Part A (MP3), Recording Part B (MP3). Recorded November 20, 2013 at...