Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly - Awakening Through Grief with Mirabai Starr

Awakening Through Grief with Mirabai Starr

07/24/24 • 40 min

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes spiritual teacher and author Mirabai Starr about how grief is a portal to the sacred. They explore the mystics' poetic teachings on embracing both the transcendent and immanent - the ultimate reality and our embodied human experience.

Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr is about “living the fierce and tender wisdom of the women mystics.” Drawing on the feminine wisdom traditions and others, Loch and Mirabai Starr discuss how loss and the heart's longing can reveal our belonging to the "holy hush" where the fragrance of the sacred perfumes suffering with ultimate meaning. Loch also shares his own early awakening through the crisis of his father's death, emphasizing an integration of the absolute and relative, the personal and collective.

[TIMECODE] The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called Knowing From HeartMind. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness.

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.

Mirabai Starr Bio

Mirabai Starr is an author, speaker and philosopher who lives for beauty, especially the beauty of language found in literary fiction and mystical poetry. Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr has been called “essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within.” Born to secular Jewish parents active in the counter-culture, she embraced an ecumenical spiritual path from an early age at communities like the Lama Foundation. Starr taught Philosophy and World Religions for 20 years, making connections between the perennial teachings at the heart of all spiritual traditions. Her work explores the transformational power of grief and loss, illuminated by her own profound experiences of loss. Starr speaks and teaches internationally on the wisdom of the mystics and contemplative practices. https://mirabaistarr.com/

Loch Kelly Bio

Loch Kelly is the creator of the

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.Loch Kelly Bio

Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and non-dual meditation teacher. He is also known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, which combines an ancient form of nondual meditation and IFS psychology that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as our calm, clear, and compassionate healing capacity.

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Mirabai Starr Bio

Loch Kelly Bio

Loch Kelly is the creator of the

Connect with Loch:

Mobile App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpsesWebsite: https://lochkelly.org/Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donatePodcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast

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Living From Awakening: Adyashanti Part II

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes his dear friend and colleague Adyashanti for an insightful conversation on different doorways for awakening. This conversation is significant as it's the last public interview before the official Adyashanti retirement announcement. Loch has been an authorized teacher by Adyashanti since 2007 and he carries on the modern nondual tradition. Adyashanti meditation style is discussed as he shares personal insights into his journey of awakening, emphasizing the importance of embodiment and connection in his path towards deeper understanding.

The discussion touches on the individualized nature of awakening experiences and the various phases one may encounter along the way. They discuss Loch’s Mindful Glimpses approach and Adyashanti Guided Meditation style as complements to each other. Delving into the essence of awakening, Loch and Adyashanti explore the transition from the narrative mind to pure awareness, and then into embodiment and love, highlighting the dynamic interplay between relative and ultimate realities. Throughout the dialogue, they offer nuanced perspectives on non-duality, emphasizing the integration of awareness and love into everyday life.

43:36 The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called “Infinite No Self.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

SPECIAL EPISODE BONUS - An Adyashanti Guided Meditation can be found in the Mindful Glimpses App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses

Adyashanti, whose name means “primordial peace,” has been a spiritual teacher for 26 years, offering Adyashanti meditation and teachings across various formats worldwide. With a reach extending to over 30,000 people in 120 countries through his website, Adyashanti's teachings transcend religious points of view and belief systems. Since the Adyashanti retirement announcement, he has retired from teaching and resides in the Eastern Sierras with his wife, Mukti, who now is the Head Teacher of the Open Gate Sangha. https://www.opengatesangha.org/

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An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind

In this episode, Loch introduces a pillar of the Effortless Mindfulness model called the Five Levels of Mind. He refers to these five levels as Everyday Mind, Subtle Mind, Awake Aware Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. In this show, Loch explores and unpacks how the first two levels of mind involve working with the body and mind to calm and stabilize them. The next three levels of mind make up a second tier, so to speak, providing access to a deeper sense of fundamental well-being, compassion and wisdom. Effortless Mindfulness really begins with the shift into the awake aware mind—an awareness-based way of knowing that exists prior to thought and can use thought as needed. Then the next two levels allow us to embody and live from a more connected feeling of flow. This episode provides tools, tips, and insights for how you can tune into your already awake mind, shift through the deeper levels of mind, and navigate your own consciousness with greater compassion, clarity, and loving flow.

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Every great meditative tradition the world over has major maps of the significant steps or stages in meditation as their tradition has come to understand and practice them. And what significant research has demonstrated is that virtually all of them follow the four or five major natural states of consciousness given cross-culturally and universally to all human beings. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher and Author

[25:48] The episode also features Loch offering a guided practice called Knowing From Heart-Mind. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion.

Connect with Loch:

Mobile App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpsesWebsite: https://lochkelly.org/Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donatePodcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast