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Rashid Hughes seeks to bridge the worlds of contemplative practice and collective care. He is a proud graduate of the Howard University Department of Music and the Howard University School of Divinity. Rashid is a certified Mindfulness Teacher, a certified Yoga Instructor, a Restorative Justice Facilitator, and currently in training to become a Fire Pujari. All of Rashid's perspectives flow from the two wisdom traditions of contemplative and restorative practices. In 2019, Rashid co-founded the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community, a community in Washington, DC that inspires Black, Indigneous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to live with love and courage in the face of systemic inequities and ongoing racial-violence. Out of his unwavering love for community care and healing, Rashid facilitates weekly mindfulness sessions to support BIPOC in living with joy, while also understanding and resolving the impact of trauma on their bodies and lives. Due to his interest in challenging the ideas and systems that uphold a culture of patriarchy today, he also facilitates mindfulness sessions for BIPOC masculine & male identifying people who are particularly committed to addressing issues of masculinity and the culture of patriarchy. As a Restorative Justice Facilitator, Rashid holds the title of Restorative Justice Program Specialist at the non-profit SchoolTalk Inc. in Washington, DC. In that role, he collaborates with DC schools to create restorative spaces for youth to envision healing-centered approaches to school discipline, accountability and community building. When school classrooms went virtual in 2020, Rashid launched SchoolTalk's Our School Our Voice initiative, a citywide collaboration between SchoolTalk and four schools in the District of Columbia. Our School Our Voice is student-designed, student-led, and rooted in Rashid's vision of creating peer groups for students to engage with other students from different communities and elevate their voices. In 2020, during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rashid created a contemplative practice, R.E.S.T.-A Practice for the Tired & Weary, to provide practical means for people to find clarity and confidence in the midst of such devastating and uncertain times. In 2021, Rashid expanded the R.E.S.T. practice into a 5-Week Online Course & Practice Group. In collaboration with the Garrison Institute's Fellowship Forum, Rashid joined Dr. Angel Acosta in conversation around the intersections of the R.E.S.T. practice, liberation and contemplative practice with a particular focus on how this practice is an antidote to the systems of capitalism and white supremacy. Rashid's writings have been published by Mindful Magazine, Lion's Roar Magazine, and his first peer reviewed essay on R.E.S.T. was featured in the Journal for Contemplative Inquiry's volume, Transcendent Wisdom and Transformative Action: Reflections from Black Contemplatives, a “special edition focusing on the insights and wisdom of Black contemplative practitioners, researchers, scholars, educators and artists. Today, Rashid is devoting his time to a new interest, exploring the role of ceremony and contemplative practice in creating the conditions for a more just and caring world.In this special episode, we discuss:Freedom and liberationFear as a path to clarityPurposeSpiritual practiceAuthenticityReclamationShared realityConsuming chaosR.E.S.TA modern wisdom goddess Connect with Rashid on his website or on Instagram @justbeandbreathe.Podcast music by Charles Kurtz+ Read transcript
Phyllis "Sweet Potato" Jeffers-Coly aka Ta Ta Phyllis is the co-founder and co-owner of DIASPORIC SOUL, which she and her husband, Eddy "Professor Onion Sauce" Coly, established in 2016. DIASPORIC SOUL offers heritage and healing experiences that integrate both culture (SOUL) and contemplative practices. DIASPORIC SOUL Heritage & Healing Experiences hold space for Black people to deepen their capacity to practice self-care and for healing and restoration, resilience and resistance. Phyllis is the author of We Got Soul; We Can Heal: Overcoming Racial Trauma Through Leadership, Community and Resilience. She is also the author of “When Grandma Comes to Visit: Exploring How Communion with Our Ancestors & Nature Deepens Our Capacity for Healing, Restoration, Resilience, and Resistance” that was recently published in Transcendent Wisdom and Transformative Action: Reflections from Black Contemplatives Journal of Contemplative Inquiry (19 April 2022). Phyllis is also co-author of "They Are Coming to Get Something”: A Qualitative Study of African American Male Community College Students' Education Abroad Experience in Senegal, West Africa" in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (August 2022).As celebrated in Chapter XI|#LoveHeals of We Got Soul; We Can Heal, she is a proud North Carolina native and graduate of North Carolina Central University where she majored in English Language & Literature and served as the Shut Em Down SGA President and Editor of Ex Umbra literary magazine. Jeffers-Coly's love for HBCUs is reflected in her six year tenure as Dean of Enrollment Management at Central State University where she held space for primarily first-generation, Pell-eligible Black students who lovingly referred to her as Ma Dean She completed her M.A. in English Language & Literature at the University of Maryland.Phyllis is a certified yoga instructor (600-hour) and continues to explore ways that culture (SOUL) and contemplative practices can allow us to experience healing and restoration. In this special episode, we discuss:Collective CareShowing Up For Each OtherAncestorsPrayerGriefVisioningDreamingCreating a Space For BelongingWho Do You Belong to?We Belong To Each OtherAffirming Black PeopleThe Resonance of Slavery and Liberation Held Within GeographyFalling Apart and Piecing Oneself Back TogetherThe Importance of a Practice You can connect with Phyllis Jeffers-Coly on her website or on Instagram @diasporicsoulPodcast music by Charles Kurtz+ Read transcript
In this episode Robert Thurman details the concept of emptiness, giving a teaching on the power of the mind to develop transcendent wisdom in order to understand reality as it is using critical thinking, debate, direct experience and meditation. This podcast includes discussions of: the scientific nature of the Buddha's teachings, the illusion-like nature of the appearance of reality, the three types of wisdom (wisdom born of learning, critical reflection, and meditative insight), and an explanation of the differences between Objective Selflessness and Subjective Selflessness. Thurman concludes this episode with a guided Four Keys of Selflessness meditation weaving in the modern understanding of quantum physics and the scientific method. “Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a wish-fulfilling jewel tree for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings. This path to enlightenment, it is taught, requires more than a sitting meditation practice alone. With “The Jewel Tree of Tibet”, honored scholar and teacher Robert Thurman brings these insights to you as they were meant to be transmitted through the spoken word.” – Text from endorsement of “The Jewel Tree of Tibet” This episode is an excerpt from “The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism” 12-Part audio retreat by Robert Thurman, available from www.soundstrue.com. Transcendent Wisdom, The Root of Liberation: Jewel Tree of Tibet - Ep. 311 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Image via www.shutterstock.com.
༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ། ། The Sūtra of the Heart of Transcendent Wisdom by Gyalwang Karmapa ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ། ། | The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo The Heart Sūtra or Sherap Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is one of the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly among the most widely used and chanted sutra-s in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom. The followers of Mahāyāna Buddhism consider it as sacred literature that falls within the category of the words of the Buddha. Thus, it is placed within the Perfection of Wisdom (ཤེར་ཕྱིན་) section of the Kagyur (བཀའ་འགྱུར་) canon. According to the sūtra itself, the Heart Sūtra was taught by the Buddha while he was on Vulture Peak, Rajagṛha, with his monastic and bodhisattva followers. https://thongdrol.org/sherab-nyingpo/
Do you want to overcome those fearful feelings that keep you in bondage, lack or limitation, this year? Are you ready for a "breakthrough" that will change your life forever? If you are, DON'T MISS THIS EPISODE!!! Your will learn the GREATEST SECRET ABOUT YOURSELF IN THE WORLD and when you apply it, you will never be the same again. You will also hear the story of how, Sista' Joy, the Host of the Podcast came upon this Transcendent Wisdom and how it changed, and is still changing her life. She now shares this knowledge with you in hopes that, if you are open to receive and apply it, your life will be changed as well! Yes, you can overcome your fears this year! You can call forth your highest self!www.saintgermainpress.comhttps://www.theiamdiscourses.com
It is the first day of the sixth month of the year 2564 of the Buddhist calendar. In this episode we discuss the Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra, also known as the Heart of Transcendent Wisdom or the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore. Key Question: what does it mean for your chosen path to be merely a vehicle to be discarded once you reach your destination?
Pastor Jordan's message for March 22, 2020, "Transcendent Wisdom for Uncertain Times." The preaching passage is Ephesians 5:15-17.
Pastor Jordan's message for March 22, 2020, "Transcendent Wisdom for Uncertain Times." The preaching passage is Ephesians 5:15-17.
Pastor Jordan's message for March 22, 2020, "Transcendent Wisdom for Uncertain Times." The preaching passage is Ephesians 5:15-17.
Pastor Jordan's message for March 22, 2020, "Transcendent Wisdom for Uncertain Times." The preaching passage is Ephesians 5:15-17.
Proverbs 13:20 (ESV) 20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Proverbs 27:5-6 (ESV) 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. Proverbs 27:17 (ESV) 17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 18:24 (ESV) 24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchrist.com
Proverbs 5 (ESV) Warning Against Adultery 5 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. 7 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. Proverbs 2:16-17 (ESV) 16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 23:17-18 (ESV) 17 Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. 18 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 14:30 (ESV) 30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 6:6-11 (ESV) 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 14:29-30 (ESV) 29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. 30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. Proverbs 16:32 (ESV) 32 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. Proverbs 19:19 (ESV) 19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. Proverbs 22:24-25 (ESV) 24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 21:5 (NIV) 5 The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. Proverbs 16:33 (NIV) 33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 27:1 (NIV) 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Proverbs 15:22 (NIV) 22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 11:3 (NIV) 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. Proverbs 16:3-4 (NIV) 3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. 4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 18:21 (ESV) 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. Proverbs 12:18 (ESV) 18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Proverbs 5:15-23 (ESV) 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated[a] always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[b] 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders[c] all his paths. 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. Sermons from Cross of Christ Church. For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com
Learn about the ceremonies and symbolism of a living tradition with anthropologist and Maya shaman-priestess Gabriela Jurosz-Landa.
This week we speak to anthropologist, writer, teacher and Maya shaman-priestess, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa. Gabriela is the author of Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya and she joins us today to talk about Maya cosmology, ceremony and understanding of time. Show Notes Gabriela's website. Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya. Gabriela's Facebook group.
Jason Interviews Author Gabriela Jurosz-Landa about her new book, Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya. Offering an insider’s experiential account of ancient Maya spiritual wisdom and practices, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa, an anthropologist, details the initiation process she went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess in Guatemala, including ceremonies, prayers, ritual dance, divination, the presence of numinous forces, and the transmission of ancient knowledge. Gabriela explains the foundational spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living entity, its cycles of time, and the significance of “the counting of the days”, which helps keep time itself alive, and she also examines the power of dance and Maya ceremonies, Maya future-telling, and communication with ancestors through the sacred fire. Illustrating how contemporary Maya life is suffused with spiritual tradition and celebration, the author shares the teachings of the Maya to help us all learn from the ancient wisdom of their beliefs and worldview. Because, to truly understand the Maya, one must think like the Maya.
Jason Interviews Author Gabriela Jurosz-Landa about her new book, Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya. Offering an insider's experiential account of ancient Maya spiritual wisdom and practices, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa, an anthropologist, details the initiation process she went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess in Guatemala, including ceremonies, prayers, ritual dance, divination, the presence of numinous forces, and the transmission of ancient knowledge. Gabriela explains the foundational spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living entity, its cycles of time, and the significance of “the counting of the days”, which helps keep time itself alive, and she also examines the power of dance and Maya ceremonies, Maya future-telling, and communication with ancestors through the sacred fire. Illustrating how contemporary Maya life is suffused with spiritual tradition and celebration, the author shares the teachings of the Maya to help us all learn from the ancient wisdom of their beliefs and worldview. Because, to truly understand the Maya, one must think like the Maya.
In this episode Professor Thurman explains the concept of “intrinsic reality” and how it is different from the concept of “relational reality.” He continues by explaining “emptiness,” how it has often been misunderstood for nothingness, and how emptiness is the quality of the relationality of everything, the fact that everything is empty of any non-relational component. By internalizing our understanding of emptiness we realize what is called transcendent wisdom. Out of transcendent wisdom, transcendent love grows, powerful and skillful. This podcast was recorded on December 30, 2015 at the “New Year’s Yoga & Meditation Retreat” at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, Carolyn Christie, & Brooke Myers.
The Wisdom of Compassion: Exploring The Values of Buddhism Through Timeless Meditation Techniques
Welcome to The Wisdom of Compassion, a podcast presented by White Conch Dharma Center. For today’s episode we will be featuring a teaching by Domo Geshe Rinpoche, the Spiritual Director of White Conch, titled “Transcendent Wisdom.” In a continuation of previous commentary on Patrul Rinpoche’s… Read More » The post WC. 015: Transcendent Wisdom appeared first on White Conch.
Author of the new book "LOVE EVERYONE - the Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed", Parvati Markus on the show! Lovers of Yoga, Ram Dass, mystics and seekers - check it out! Parvati Markus is a developmental editor and writer of spiritually oriented nonfiction books and memoirs. She has worked on books by various members of the satsang, from Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now (before she went to India) to those since her time in India with Maharajji (1971–1972)—from Dada Mukerjee’s By His Grace and The Near and the Dear to Krishna Das’s recent Chants of a Lifetime. She is a former president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Temple and a former development con-sultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, held at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. You can buy "LOVE EVERYONE" at Amazon or any local bookstore.
This episode is a continuation of last week’s episode on the fifth chapter of the famous Vimalakirti Sutra. An object of love and inspiration for many lay practitioners, as well as monastics, the Sutra is known for giving an in-depth explanation & analysis of key buddhist concepts, such as emptiness, non-duality, self & non-self, and so on. The 5th chapter relates to Prajnaparamita or Transcendent Wisdom. This episode was recorded on October 8, 2015 in a class taught by Professor Thurman. Relative & Absolute: Conversation between Manjushri & Vimalakirti, Part 2 – Ep. 39 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Vimalakirti Debates Manjushri Dunhuang Mogao Caves image via www.wikimedia.org. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The songs “Trance Tibet” & ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.
In this episode Professor Thurman expounds the profound teaching, contained in the fifth chapter of the famous Vimalakirti Sutra, which he translated and has been teaching for nearly forty years. An object of love and inspiration for many lay practitioners, as well as monastics, the Sutra is known for giving an in-depth explanation & analysis of key buddhist concepts, such as emptiness, non-duality, self & non-self, and so on. The 5th chapter relates to Prajnaparamita or Transcendent Wisdom. This episode was recorded on October 8, 2015 in a class taught by Professor Thurman. Relative & Absolute: Conversation between Manjushri & Vimalakirti, Part 1 – Ep. 38 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Vimalakirti Debates Manjushri Dunhuang Mogao Caves image via www.wikimedia.org. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The songs “Trance Tibet” & ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.