Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine

00:00:00 Introduction  00:02:00 Productivity and ecology of love 00:09:21 Rules of erotic exchange 00:13:00 Looking out to confirm our realness as an obstacles for relationship 00:17:00 Narcissism and success 00:24:00 Meaning of love from Erich Fromm and the risk of acting in accord with reality. 00:28:00 Non-duality, shared pool of aliveness and emotion 00:36:00 Serving others and self-enlightenment. 00:40:00 Hitting rock bottom and receiving gifts through existing  00:44:00 Being the circle of the gift and the difficulty of trusting our existence as being enough.  00:53:00 Surrounding and helping each other becoming real.   LINKS: Andreas https://biologyofwonder.org Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/ Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain PhD is an Interfaith Minister, an internationally acclaimed spiritual singer, theologian, writer, musicologist, and Celtic Spirituality expert.  00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:31 As a singer coming out of stage fright 00:06:00 Living for years at Glenstal Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Ireland 00:06:56 Blessing a separation or a divorce 00:12:45 Noirin sings her favorite Psalm.  00:14:00 Gregorian chanting and healing power 00:16:00 Theosony, listening to the divine, the ear of the heart and listening all around. 00:21:00 Stories of her friendship and time with Irish poet and Hegelian philosopher John O’Donohue 00:24:00 Learning patience and trust 00:27:00 On choices and mistakes 00:30:00 Qualities of loving 00:36:00 Rituals and being with people during times of transition   LINKS: Norin https://www.noirin.love Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:28 Background to Dark Retreat 00:05:44 Some experiences that Justin has had in dark retreat and what he learned about himself. 00:13:00 Freeing oneself of narrative of a dharma practitioner looking a certain way 00:16:00 The essentiality of giving oneself to space and formlessness and the fear of space. 00:20:44 How to know if one is qualified to do dark retreat. 00:27:14 Dream yoga in dark retreat 00:31:00 Visionary experiences and tögal in dark retreat and technology of dark retreat. 00:40:00 Manifestation of elements in dark retreat, destabilization and losing one’s mind.  00:44:00 What Justin finds particularly interesting about Ati Yoga for this time  00:47:00 Lived Ati Yoga Links: Justin https://justinvonbujdoss.com/   Past conversations: Resting in the Mind Beyond Time & Being Consumed by Dharma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0RvHW6fOMQ&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=8 Ati Yoga, the Becoming of Indigenous Western Tantra & the Ministry of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAi9RnjcA0&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=14   Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts   Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

Some of what Andrea shares: 00:00:00 Meeting her teacher 16th Karmapa  00:22:00 Bone Relics and losing a skull that impacted her life 00:27:00 Proper care of ritual objects 00:30:00 Legendary snow lion expedition 00:36:00 How monastic institutions changed tantric rituals  00:44:00 Dalai Lama on the most important legacy for Buddhism 00:47:00 Benefits and uses of different malas based on their materials 00:50:00 Learning Chöd Practice with Chatral Rinpoche  00:53:55 Things to note when using a bone trumpet 00:56:00 What to do when snakes and scorpions are close to you 00:58:56 What Andrea practices right now 01:02:34 Cremation ground practice 01:06:00 Women in the charnel ground  01:18:00 Andrea’s charnel ground practice and special rituals ~ Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

Today Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation. Listen to our full conversation on Neuroscience, Dharma and Healing: https://oliviaclementine.com/dr-rick-hanson-neuroscience-dharma-healing/ Links: https://www.rickhanson.net/ Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

Neuroscientist Dr. Rick Hanson discusses mind, brain, consciousness, breath influence, empathy, healing from bullying, working with resentment, forgiveness types, awareness for yogic practice, timelessness, and resetting societal foundations in an enlightening conversation.

00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:42 Intimacy Essentials 00:02:51 Working with resistance to the journey of intimacy  00:05:07 When a relationship is workable and when it is not. 00:05:58 Projections  00:07:24 Conditioning, erotic wounding and sexual habits. 00:13:10 Vulnerability and safety for trust 00:14:59 Reactivity and deep listening. 00:22:33 Our inner critic and self-worth. 00:26:13 Hoping and potential, fear of aloneness 00:29:00 Connection as the aphrodisiac 00:30:23 Radical subjectivity 00:33:00 Men and the need to work with shame.  00:39:19 Healthful anger and freeing one’s expressive capacities.  00:45:51 On reflecting on death, enlivenment of death 00:47:22 When Robert nearly died in 2016.  00:49:21 Robert reads a poem, “Which of us will die first?” 00:51:59 Ease and connection over spark 00:54:16 On gratitude and faith    Links: Robert Augustus Masters https://www.robertmasters.com/   Free music from Robert’s wife, Diane Bardwell https://www.robertmasters.com/music/   Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607  

00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:15 Being a zen priest at Daihonzan Chozen-ji and taking away fear.  00:03:38 Being a good leader from the perspective of Rinzai Zen 00:07:54 Rinzai Zen’s perspective of leaders and followers 00:09:31 Zen arts as a path of awakenment, on Omori Sogen and blending martial arts and zazen meditation. 00:14:42 Breaking through self-imposed limits through martial arts 00:17:00 On kendo, “the way of the sword,” historically and prior to WWII.  00:20:27 Unified action and intention  00:25:41 Martial arts fundamentals and flavors 00:29:42 Supporting someone through silence 00:35:36 Asian Buddhism in America in the 19th century. 00:43:55 Engaging in Asian culture today   Links: Cristina Moon www.cristinamoon.com Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 Charles experience of gaslighting into greater self-trust through the corona pandemic days.  00:12:00 Shadow versus light side of spirituality, health and self-improvement.  00:18:36 Being an agent of change through friendship and self-knowing.  00:23:28 Different causes for the desire to control society and each other. 0027:00 Blame as a trap rather than a key 0029.55 What is it about our society that is goes against life and our natural instincts? 00:33:18 Meaning of growth economy and it’s impact on our intimate lives.  00:39:17 Parenting, belonging, community 00:44:00 Trusting the principle of the gift and how Charles engages in gifting his work. 00:50:34 Tuning into forgotten questions, rather than living in habit and filters of reality.  00:55:59 Conclusion Links: Charles: https://charleseisenstein.org/ Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607

Christina Monson is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and Tibetan language translator, and interpreter with over 30 years of study, translation and practice experience in Buddhism. Some of what Christina shares today: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:42 Meeting self-made Buddha Chatral Rinpoche 00:09:15 Recounting moments with Rinpoche. 00:13:00 Realization energy 00:17:44 Mountain retreat 00:21:00 Guru Yoga and releasing hope and fear  00:27:00 Retreat schedule 00:36:00 Illness, grief and this year being the most transformational for Christina 00:50:00 A reading and elaboration on "A Song of Amazement Inspired by Practice Experience" by Uza Khandro (Sera Khandro). 01:00:00 Uniqueness of Sera Khandro as a human and realized being. 01:02:00 Reading and reflections on “Spontaneous Advice, Connected with a Prayer,” by Chatral Rinpoche   01:07:00 Challenges in translation and specifically this prayer. 01:12:00 Conclusion   Links: Spontaneous Advice Connected with a Prayer  https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/spontaneous-advice-connected-with-prayer A Song of Amazement Inspired by Practice Experience https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/song-of-amazement Podcast https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Support Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607