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“But if we realize that where we're going, our destination is the happiness, that is our authentic nature, we can be motivated to stay the course”. In this thought-provoking episode of SoulTalk, we explore the transformative power of mindset with the insightful Cheri Huber,  We welcome Cheri for the second time on this podcast. Cheri is a meditation teacher in the Sōtō School of Zen Buddhism tradition, she is also the founder and guiding teacher of Zen Monastery Peace Center. As an  expert in personal growth and self-awareness, Cheri shares her invaluable wisdom on how shifting from a fixed mindset to one focused on growth can be a game-changer in all areas of life.  Through her extensive experience, she walks us through practical strategies for recognizing and overcoming limiting beliefs, helping us break free from the thought patterns that hold us back. Cheri emphasizes the importance of embracing discomfort as a catalyst for personal evolution and highlights how small, intentional changes in how we think and act can lead to profound, lasting transformations.  Whether you're navigating challenges in your personal life or striving to elevate your professional growth, this conversation will inspire you to think bigger, act bolder, and live more authentically.  Listen to this episode and learn how to unlock your full potential.  Timestamps:  (00:01:59) - The foundation of suffering: identifying with the ego. (00:07:08) - Cheri's journey and how she began teaching mindfulness. (00:10:11) - The role of awareness in breaking free from patterns of suffering.  (00:15:39) - Practical techniques to silence the ego's voice. (00:20:44) - Insights from Cheri's book: Suffering Is Optional. (00:25:28) - Navigating difficult emotions with self-compassion. (00:26:18) - The impact of attitude on one's life. (00:35:00) - Challenges of remaining present while facing injustices. (00:47:49) - Moving towards transformation without self-hatred. (00:50:30) - The complexity of moral judgment. (00:55:15) - Painful lessons people often learn and the transformative potential of self-awareness. Some Questions I Ask: What does karma mean, and how does it impact our lives? How can we practice gratitude and presence in our daily lives? What role does judgment play in our relationships and self-perception? Why is forgiveness important, and how do we cultivate it? How do commitment and self-growth shape meaningful relationships? How do awareness and conditioning influence people's morality and actions? In This Episode You Will Learn:  How  karma reflects the interconnectedness of actions rather than a system of reward and punishment. How gratitude and living in the moment can transform your relationships and overall well-being. The role of commitment and self-improvement in fostering deeper connections with others. How judgment often masks personal insecurities and how self-reflection can lead to growth. Discover why forgiveness naturally emerges when emotions are processed and human flaws are understood. How people's actions are shaped by their level of awareness and personal conditioning, even in extreme situations. LINKS CHERI HUBER URL:   https://www.livingcompassion.org  , http://www.recordingandlistening.org , https://www.keepitsimple.org CHERI HUBER PREVIOUS SOULTALK EPISODE:  http://podcast.kuteblackson.com/235-cheri-huber-how-to-get-from-where-you-are-to-where-you-want-to-be Get in Touch: Email me at kuteblackson@kuteblackson.com Visit my website: www.kuteblackson.com Events with Kute Blackson: Join me on a life-changing journey in Bali this December. Apply here: www.boundlessblissbali.com            

DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is an engaged Buddhist teacher, spiritual activist, author, eco-dharma educator, and facilitator of The Work That Reconnects, a field created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our love and pain for our world into compassionate action. Eden teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She has practiced meditation for 30 years and  trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center, a silent Zen monastery in the Sierra foothills. She has been teaching for over 20 years. Eden's teaching emphasizes relational presence, acknowledging the personal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, mystical, and global impacts of embodied dharma. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and spiritual teachers to those practicing or teaching secular mindfulness, to concerned citizens, activists, leaders, and change agents, to parents, schools, inner city youth, nonprofits, corporations, and people who are incarcerated. Eden taught for many years with UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, and has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers since 2012, on the topics of Regenerative Leadership, Women's Leadership, and Sacred Activism. She is also a member of the national Eco-Dharma Advisory Committee of Buddhist teachers and leaders in the eco-dharma movement. Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry and fierce compassion, and bridging personal, ancestral, and collective healing. Weaving dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, somatic awareness, ancestral healing, and conscious movement/dance, she helps people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love. Having lived in or taught about sustainable communities and organic gardening/permaculture for decades, Eden weaves the essential wisdom of nature into everything she teaches. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, originally Cherokee land, with her husband Mark. She offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally and internationally, integrating presence and partnership with nature. Eden feels that the most important aspect of being a teacher is continually being a student. She continually immerses herself in trainings and retreats, recognizing direct experience as our truest guide. She works closely with mentor Pam Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, to deepen her embodiment of Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.

DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is an engaged Buddhist teacher, spiritual activist, author, eco-dharma educator, and facilitator of The Work That Reconnects, a field created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our love and pain for our world into compassionate action. Eden teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She has practiced meditation for 30 years and  trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center, a silent Zen monastery in the Sierra foothills. She has been teaching for over 20 years. Eden's teaching emphasizes relational presence, acknowledging the personal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, mystical, and global impacts of embodied dharma. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and spiritual teachers to those practicing or teaching secular mindfulness, to concerned citizens, activists, leaders, and change agents, to parents, schools, inner city youth, nonprofits, corporations, and people who are incarcerated. Eden taught for many years with UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, and has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers since 2012, on the topics of Regenerative Leadership, Women's Leadership, and Sacred Activism. She is also a member of the national Eco-Dharma Advisory Committee of Buddhist teachers and leaders in the eco-dharma movement. Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry and fierce compassion, and bridging personal, ancestral, and collective healing. Weaving dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, somatic awareness, ancestral healing, and conscious movement/dance, she helps people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love. Having lived in or taught about sustainable communities and organic gardening/permaculture for decades, Eden weaves the essential wisdom of nature into everything she teaches. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, originally Cherokee land, with her husband Mark. She offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally and internationally, integrating presence and partnership with nature. Eden feels that the most important aspect of being a teacher is continually being a student. She continually immerses herself in trainings and retreats, recognizing direct experience as our truest guide. She works closely with mentor Pam Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, to deepen her embodiment of Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.

Cheri has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 35 years. She is the author of over 20 books on Zen, and founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center. Cheri also founded a non-profit dedicated to transforming lives and ending suffering, Living Compassion, whose primary work is the Africa Vulnerable Children Project in Zambia.  Ashwini co-facilitates and creates workshops with Cheri. She runs the operations of the two nonprofits that Cheri founded. Her eclectic background includes degrees in physics, business, and computer science to working in advertising, an investment bank, a social enterprise, and several technology startups in the Silicon Valley.  Cheri and Ashwini have co-written multiple books, including their latest Don’t Suffer, Communicate. Today’s episode isn’t just about awareness practice, it’s about a framework for navigating life. A few highlights: Zen isn’t just the practice of keeping things nicely organized, it’s also a spiritual practice largely focused on awareness and where you direct attention.  Self-improvement is an endless diss. The very nature of saying we need improvement implies we’re not enough. Cheri and Ashwini share some useful tools to redirect the attention, such as using a recorder to access the wisdom, love, and compassion that is our true nature. We are not our ego. Over the years we are programmed to think in particular ways and believe how things should be. How do we begin to practice presence and become aware of what is really true? Enjoy! Today's episode is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times. 

Delirium, Dancing, Deep Meditation, and More Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got delirium, dancing, deep meditation, and more. For all the links, please check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/2018-08-14-process-hacker-news-delirium-dancing-deep-meditation-and-more/ Enjoy! Launches There’s a new book out by Andrew Nance, Mindful Arts in the Classroom, which allows educators to introduce mindfulness in class. Events Allowances is the name of Jenny Feinberg’s new painting exhibit which will be open to the public starting September 16 in the Bay Area. Drop by to see Jenny’s bright, lively art. Media Get to know Luam Keflezgy on the Side Hustle Pro podcast as she tells Nicaila Matthews-Okome how she jumped from pre-med to following her passion and becoming a celebrity dance choreographer. In the latest episode of Double Your Freelancing, Brennan Dunn finds out how software engineer Lionel Martin builds trust through roadmapping, which is a process of Identifying your client’s needs by interviewing them. Writing In honor of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, Michelle Kim posted a new essay to remind everyone that equality for Black women extends beyond the issue of wages. In a new article written by Jennifer Riel, she offers a more in-depth description about the integrative thinking process, and how she and co-author Roger Martin use the concept. Press releases aren’t obsolete yet. Get some media coverage for your brand or event by using these powerful tips on how to write a press release from Alistair Clay. Delirium seems to be everywhere. In a new article, Daniel Coffeen defines the word delirium as “the state of being without fixed orientation,” and discusses how it applies in his life. Recommended Resources Deepen your meditation habits with Living Compassion’s Your Practice Retreat starting September 29 to October 6 at the Zen Monastery Peace Center. Cheri Huber, mentioned in the interviews of Kate Swoboda and Mike Massy, leads Living Compassion. On the Crush the Journey Podcast, Dorie Clark, referenced by Ron Carucci, talks about her book Entrepreneurial You, and about speaking, consulting, and jazz. Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s 4th Annual EVOLVE Experience starts on October 26, but early bird tickets will be available on August 15. Dr. Shefali, a resource mentioned by Heather Chauvin, hopes to inspire, awaken, and transform your life with this three-day summit. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a rating in iTunes, and a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

Please Support The Show with a DonationCheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.Visit Bombas www.bombas.com/wolf and enter offer WOLF at checkout for 20% off the most comfortable socks in the worldIn This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHer book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itHow the process IS the outcomeThat now is the only moment there isHow the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionEverything comes into being, togetherShe doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T GodOur dualistic thinkingAll of the ways to refer to the egoThe unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than lifeThe ego is a survival systemBelieving we are not connected to lifeEverything is a verb! A gerundThe illusion of being separate from lifeMy ego is the no to life's yesAlways asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universeHow we are deeply conditioned for negativityAwareness being able to watch the conditioned mindI hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I amApproach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itRecording and ListeningMake recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I loveHearing what's true for you in your own voiceTalking ourselves into a life that's trueHow we direct our attention is the be all and end all in lifeWe have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negativeWe transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist itThe key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are sayingThe habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerfulIf we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attentionHear Cheri Huber talk about her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itCheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcomeCheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itThe quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionPlease Support The Show with a Donation

Is the internet making us dumber? More dumb? How can detachment help us avoid self-hate? And can watching TV be a form of self-care? In this episode, we chat about our collective addiction to scrolling the internet, and the negative effects of screentime (and how to get control.) We also chat with Cheri Huber, author of There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate and founder of the Zen Monastery Peace Center , about the process of letting go of our negative personal narratives. And we chat about television as an escape, and some of our current guilty pleasures on TV. In this episode, we talked about: The StayFocusd chrome extension can kill facebook and twitter after a certain amount of time each day. Rescuetime is the app that can email you a measure of your productivity each week. Have it auto-email to a friend for some real-talk accountability. The moment app can tell you how many times you've checked your phone in a day. In addition to being a must-have internet filter to keep kids off inappropriate sites, the Circle by Disney device can give you a daily overview of how you are spending your time online. Wanna take the challenge to get your phone out of your room? As it turns out, there are alarm clocks! And sound machines! The book Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives is a fascinating look at our collective facebook addiction. Some other good books on this topic: Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us Cheri Huber dropped some knowledge. If you want to explore more, here are some of her books: The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and for All Transform Your Life: A Year of Awareness Practice Be the Person You Want to Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery

Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally. In 1997, Cheri founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. 

Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally. In 1997, Cheri founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.