Living From the Heart

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores all the ways to think about and cultivate compassion. We must look at compassion as a shared experience, that requires a movement of the heartspace. By being present to suffering and removing the armor around the heart, we naturally feel compassion for ourselves and all beings. Intro poem is part

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the sacred I-thou relationship, based on 1923 work of Martin Buber, Ich Und Du, meaning I and Thou, or I and You. While our modern capitalistic, materialistic, and nationalistic culture thrives on I-it relationships, we must bring our whole being to the I-Thou relationship to enter into a world of

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the unification of dualities, and how to live on multiple planes of awareness at the same time. We can simultaneously recognize we are both everything and nothing, both perfect and growing, both living and dying. Spirituality means releasing all rigid attachments to beliefs, thoughts, and opinions, and not clinging to

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores all the many different meanings of the Sanskrit word “Dharma.” Like many Sanskrit concepts, there are many different translations of this word, including duty, purpose, path, teachings, method, law, Tao, and Cosmic law. While seemingly separate ideas, there is an underlying unity behind them all. Intro Poem is part of

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores seeing our spirituality as one of cultivating positive emotion and social connection. Although we say we want love, and spending a lot of time looking for “the one,” we often aren’t ready for it. Because love asks a lot of us, it requires us to look at our own stuff

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the idea that understanding is the bedrock of love. The deeper the understanding, the deeper the love. We must understand ourselves if we are to love ourselves. Intimacy is “into-me-see,” it’s seeing deeply into another person and honoring, accepting, and validating who they are. Intro Poem part of the Pebbles

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach dives deep into a famous line from the Dhamma Pada, “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.” 2,000 years later, humanity still hasn’t learned this law of the Universe. In a world with conflict, violence, and war, love is the