The Robert Beatty Podcast

Black Lives Matter; At the Demonstrations 27.07.2020 2:21:02 ↓

Robert Describes his experience at the Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Portland. Excellent community discussion about how to makes sense of the protests and to use them to support love compassion and wisdom.

Being really human: Cultivating Mindfulness 21.07.2020 2:04:10 ↓

Questions:  1. Mindfulness with pain and anxiety 2. mindfulness in the middle of tragic loss

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-07: Do not lose heart: softening the Fight/Flight response 09.06.2020 1:53:01 ↓

Song: We Americans by the Avett Brothers Reading: Letter to a Young Activist during Troubled Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estés PIMC's statement regarding Social Justice and support of #BlackLivesMatter 

Loving-kindness to replace Enemy-Imaging: Morning meditation 2020-06-03 04.06.2020 1:12:56 ↓

Recitation of the meta sutra: the Buddha’s teachings on loving-kindness

The root of spiritual practice and wisdom: Morning Meditation 2020-06-02 04.06.2020 1:11:02 ↓

Topics:  Ahimsa. Non-violence.

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-05-31: Hatred never ends through hatred 03.06.2020 1:21:31 ↓

Readings from the Dhammapada , translated by Gil Fronsdal. The video from Nike that Robert plays at 7:56:  https://youtu.be/drcO2V2m7lw Discussion: Racial Justice and compassionate response    

Choiceless Awareness Insight Meditation Practice: Morning Meditation 2020-05-30 02.06.2020 1:09:41 ↓

Choiceless Awareness - Insight Meditation and the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness: 1. Body 2. Feeling 3. Mental Formations 4. Mental Objects Topics: How to compassionately negotiate with loved ones about safety as Covid restrictions lift Managing anger and hopelessness  

The garden of your Heart: Guided self-love meditation 31.05.2020 1:10:55 ↓

Poem: "No Greater Joy" by Jeff Foster Topics: Generosity story How to relate to praise and blame.

Morning Meditation 2020-05-28: Opening to Everything - including the Shadow 29.05.2020 55:21 ↓

Topics: Compassion and the Limits of Compassion. Setting Appropriate Boundaries. The Wholesome Emotional States. Getting back to external work after experiencing a deepening of internal inquiry. How to cope when friends or acquaintances have wildly different views than your own.

Morning Meditation 2020-05-27: Allowing the Heart to Open as We Recognize Impermanence 27.05.2020 1:07:43 ↓

Poem: "We Should be able to talk": Don Nickerson    www.portlandinsight.org/blog Question: How to work with emotions in their dimensions of feelings and the “story” Topics: The pain of parents observing their teenagers as they make not skillful choices. The sadness of parents who could never speak about their suffering as they went through old age.

Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox 26.05.2020 23:40 ↓

Dharma Talk: Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox Readings: Rumi: "The Embryo" "Love Dogs" "All day I think about it, then at night I say it..." Quote: Reporter (to Carl Jung): "Why do you only work with people in their 50s and on?" Carl Jung: "I don't like working with adolescents."