Change Your Mind to Change Your World with Stephen Fulder

It is easy to assume that meditation practice is another project and a training that is a bit of a burden, especially in the context of our daily life. Non-dual meditation practice goes in another direction and is a good reminder that meditation need not be hard work. Although it does not mean that at other times we will benefit from practice, which does need some determination and consistent prac...

When things get really difficult, whether personally, such as sickness, or socially, such as violent conflict, it can feel hard to engage in normal psychospiritual development practice. We may feel too exhausted, agitated or disturbed to sit in meditation, or we may feel numb, reactive and overwhelmed. In such situations, the dharma is actually needed more than ever. It can be lifesaving. But it i...

This non-dual guided meditation is bilingual - English with some Hebrew. It is a reminder that if we drop completely into this spontaneous moment, we discover a completeness and a total presence. We see how we shine the light on everything that arises. We can get closer to the light itself. This is bodhicitta, awakened awareness.

This guided non-dual meditation is in Hebrew and English. It emphasises deep resting in the primal awareness and presence that holds us. It guides us to trust and explore the nature of presence and awareness itself, not just what the awareness knows. In the well-known language of Krishnamurti, we can go beyond the duality of the observer and the observed and be within observation itself. This is a...

This guided meditation is mostly in Hebrew. It is designed to help us practice open non-dual awareness at home and in daily life. We can start with refuge and coming home to presence. We practice welcoming and allowing the richness of this moment, and let go of struggle to practice in a certain way or to fight distraction. We rest in is-ness, in the kaleidoscope of experiences that come and go, an...

We are not in charge of things. We can live a peaceful, kind and aware life, and we get an unexpected beating from karma: whether from conflict, disease, relationships, and a host of conditions which can turn against us. We need to develop an internal protection, an internal steadiness, with which to meet uncontrollable life. We do this by a sense of inner freedom to dance with circumstances, like...

We usually resist and try to stop, prevent, deny or escapefrom difficulty. But often resistance creates more obstacles to action. We are busy avoiding the difficulty and finding ways around it, which uses a lot of energy and can make us feel lost and powerless. But meeting things as they are, even surrendering to them, can activate an energy from a deeper place. If we surrender to the earth beneat...

Presence is a power that drives healing and transformation. It can help us look with new eyes at what we experience, including the pains and struggles of mind and body. The deep listening and caring that is part of presence will help us to hear what the pain is trying to tell us, what might be some wise and caring ways to respond, and where the healing might be. It is abit like our inner child tha...

We can sometimes feel we are swept along by life, andespecially by difficult circumstances over which we have no control. As in the Buddhist image, we can feel like a man in a boat on a rushing river that is swept along by the current helplessly. He tries to catch hold of branches to stop, but each time the current is too strong, and he cannot stop. We need tolearn how to get off the boat, to choo...

Sometimes life feels like it is confusing, chaotic and uncertain, especially today when we might feel that the kind of civilisationand values which have sustained us for generations are collapsing. And so many around us, including in the media, are responding with conflict and extreme views, or helplessness and despair. We are living in a post-truth era, and itmay not look so nice. So we all need...

We all want to help ourselves, help each other, support life, and look after things. It is very natural and basic. Life wants to live. This is the essence of compassion. Our heart responds to the world and vibrates with all existence. Looked at this way, compassion is a basic energy that we all have. But it is often limited by fears, concerns and our narratives. So we have a responsibility to expa...

This guided meditation while lying, starts with ways of totally softening and relaxing all the parts of us, the stories that we carry, the tensions that accumulate, and the blocks in both body and mind. It goes on to explore the nature of trust and surrender instead of resistance, and uses the power of the earthe to reveal what it is like to let go into a vaster world.

This meditation explores a presence which is both inner and outer, our personal experience of the world of our body and mind, and the experience of he world around us, and the seamless connection and inimacy with both. It is a meditation that we can practice anywhere, while waiting in line or walking in the park. It opens worlds with kind awareness.

This is a complete sitting meditation of about 40 minutes, emphasising refuge, settling into presence, celebrating the life of the body and mind, and discovering the freedom of allowing everything to flow naturally.

The mud, or a better term would be compost, is all the stuff that gives us difficulty, that seems stuck to us, that we struggle with and sometimes feel drowned in. It could be social, personal, psychological, spiritual or the physical pains and issues with our body. These days, everything can seem muddy. In this talk, we explore how to work with the mud based on the great wisdom of the dharma, the...

The most sacred day of the Jewish practice, Yom Kippur, is a day of fasting and prayer when we remember and look directly at our existence in this world and ask ourselves what kind of world do we make, for ourselves and others. The words of Leonard Cohen, in his song, The Future, are relevant. He asks: "When they say Repent, Repent, I wonder what they meant?" He is right to ask. Instead...

Jonah, like many of us today, was faced with an utterly impossible mission - to change a whole city that had gone into violence and crime. He sank into despair, but was saved by a kind of suicidal intuition to go down to his most basic place. The dark, primal basis of existence. Like a death. From which he was reborn into new powers and was able to achieve the impossible. We can find new power to...

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