Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine

In today's episode Olivia offers practical pathways, including a guided meditation, to help alleviate the suffering of those in our life and beyond. When we notice someone suffering, we want to do anything to help them return to well being. Sometimes the actions we take create further suffering, while other times we support the person we care for, as well as ourselves. In this episode, we mainly focus on the many ways we can relate with someone suffering to help them, and all we can learn from the wisdom that suffering reflects to us. ~ To send along future topics to be explored visit Olivia's website and share what you would like to hear about. Also you can sign up for the newsletter at the top of that page or follow Olivia through instragram ~ May this be of benefit ~

In this episode we have Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, a buddhist author and teacher who brings ancient teachings into a modern context without losing the depth or detail. Today we delve into dependent arising and her book: the Logic of Faith. Some of what Elizabeth shares includes: the natural joy of one's mind, relating to a complex world, how our lack of realness makes us free, becoming limitless and loving in a world we can't fix, realistic activism versus righteous activism, how justice has nothing to do with the nature of reality, and why everything we do matters, plus so much more.

Elizabeth : https://www.elizabethmattisnamgyel.com/ Logic of Faith: https://www.shambhala.com/the-logic-of-faith.html Training in Tenderness: https://www.shambhala.com/training-in-tenderness.html

Arawana Hayashi has spent her life exploring the path of "making a true move" while being an active change agent in our the world. Invested in fresh thinking and collaboration, gentleness and fearlessness, she brings the world of embodiment, art and meditation into the realm of social change.

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Arawana's pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater for the Presencing Institute. Bringing her background in the arts, meditation and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities.

Arawana is an acharya (senior teacher) in Shambhala – a global network of meditation centers dedicated to applying mindfulness to “creating enlightened society.” She teaches both meditation and art based on bringing out the basic goodness of individuals, of relationships and of society.

Arawana Hayashi website: https://arawanahayashi.com/

Olivia Clementine site: https://www.oliviaclementine.com/

00:02:57 Social Presencing Theatre

00:06:40 Dharma art

00:09:00 True activity, non-manipulation and non-aggression.

00:12:00 Listening to the moment and nothing being toxic to its core

00:14:00 Attending to the larger beauty, humor and natural kindness in the world

00:19:00 Using the body to find words and suspending meaning-making

00:21:00 Arts and direct knowing

00:22:00 Japanese principle Ma and not projecting what you think you already know

00:25:00 Unconditional well-being.

00:31:00 Resting with experiences and building trust

00:37:00 Noticing what you love

00:41:00 Origins of Bugaku, 7th C Japanese court dance, excruciatingly leisurely, breath time.

00:46:00 Form and freedom

00:51:00 A practice to nourish your spacious self

Links:

Arawana:

https://arawanahayashi.com/

Arawana's Book: Social Presencing Theatre: The Art of Making a True Move

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Presencing-Theater-Making-True/dp/0999717979/ref=sr_1_1

Podcast

https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts

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