Audio: Stew Glick 2006

The following talks by Stew Glick are available on both CD and audio tape.

Day 4	Is discerning where someone's coming from necessarily judgmental? Respect: looking again, listening again. To appreciate how heavily conditioned this body-mind is. Also be careful with such language-"heavily conditioned." Because the power of presence is amazing.
Day 6	Dogen's, "My life is one continuous mistake." Innumerable causes and conditions for what we call "me" and "my life." Who is there really to blame in a situation? See it as this interlocked human condition. (36 mins)

Day 1	Joshu's, "Wash your bowls." Care and attention communicated through neatly raked gravel. Being told what to do - the mind can manufacture an intonation that's not there. Bankei's, "The mind that isn't expecting that dog's bark." Open, innocent, "is the unborn Buddha-mind." (29 mins)
Day 2	Stress. "I should be assertive, but I'm easygoing, eager to please." Conflict between these images. Wanting to appear some way, to self or others, is the cause of much stress. Memories embedded in body-mind evoke stress in unrelated circumstances. (28 mins)
Day 3	"How to integrate the spiritual with daily life?" "Why is non-separation so much harder to feel with people than with nature?" "Is non-identification with the body dissociation?" Well this work brings greater sensitivity, but what do I call my body? Sitting here now - where is the dividing line, except in thought? (37 mins)
Day 4	Is it possible to stay here, present, in the midst of change? Even to call it change requires some thinking. Jjust each moment what it is. "What use is awareness work if it's not always there?" A question prompted by the accumulation of hurts and regrets in distracted living? A deeply shared human consciousness, deeper than individual conditioned patterns. Nisargadatta: "Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are." Wanting to be aware all the time - is that not pretense? Do I know what I am? (33 mins)

Day 1	There's a not-knowing in the embracing of what's here; our usual knowing brings a veil. Noticing is not dependent on thought. It makes thought and sensation transparent. Sounds, thoughts, feelings - it's all change. Is there something that doesn't change, that holds it all? Some inner quiet stillness? It's what makes true love possible: love not relative to my needs, wants, expectations. Love not seeking to fulfill itself, but allowing everyone and all to be as it is. (28 mins)
Day 2	An image of self or other is a story: based on the past, projected into the future. Does seeing erase residue, like one of those stain-removing sticks? My mother dying, terrified: "Where has my life gone?" Next day she was completely different, having a peace I'd never experienced with her. Fear of ending. (44 mins)
Day 3	"Sit on it" - fear, the urge to move away, understood openly without pressure. In stillness such movements can be truly noticed. "What to do about the world's endless suffering?" We each find our own way - which is manifesting here directly in clear encounter. Everything we do and say brings either disharmony or love and peace to this world. Is that what's important - to make no divisions, not what the world calls lofty? (45 mins)