Intimacy with the world

About Intimacy with the world

It's about when life really matters. About letting curiosity, wonder and awe move us towards a purposeful life characterised by meaning. It's about exploring our deepest belonging. Our belonging to this living, breathing earth, to our inherent spiritual nature, to our bodies and to each other in the web of life...

Publisher

Durita Holm

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Dec 2020

Latest episode

25 Jan 2022

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Jan 2022

   Living is an art, where we have to align with REALITY to find wellbeing. With Phillip Moffitt

   A conversation with the former chief editor of Esquire magazine, who abandoned all that outer success to become a ful-time yogi. He is now a renovned meditation teacher and author. This is some of what we speak about: Phillip tells us how in his early life he was both a work aholic as an entrepreneur, but at the same time he never put aside his interest in his inner life, which back then was expressed in his yoga practice. his big concern was always what gives meaning to life Phillip tells us how he took over Esquire magazine and converted the failing magazine into a success. And how then... in the middle of a meeting, he had a revelation flow through him: he had to follow a different path. These revelations that have come to Philip regularly, he calls intuition. He says, we must trust our body, feel ourselves embodied, that will lead to intuition How challenges are more fun than just managing success How it is so easy to become complacent in your life, when you are successful and life is easy We talk about how each of us needs to find our path of wellbeing, which means finding authenticity, meaning, continuity and coherence in our life - and how this is a continuous path... you never arrive... because of the radical impermanence Phillip talks about the basic conditions of this human realm, and how it is not a mistake, that there is suffering in this realm, but also, that we can work with this suffering... we speak about the causes of suffering... living a values-based life, based on wise view and vise intention - in each step living your values. having a life of integrity and dignity is a satisfaction in itself The nature of this realm is difficult when you don't accept the basic reality as it is, you are more likely to create more suffering and unskilful actions staying positive doesn't mean that you don't deeply accept suffering There are two types of suffering, neurotic suffering and necessary suffering. When we are in that reactive state we have bad judgment, and can't see clearly, we can't even see the happiness that is possible in life The nature of this realm is desire, so we do need to work skillfully with them - it is the grasping and attachment to the outcomes of those desires which can easily become unwholesome If you have a desirous mind, it is always going to be in that kind of state, no matter how much it achieves and gets. The jungian notion of the second half of life, where we move away from building up the ego, and start seeing more clearly the reality of how things really are There is nothing wrong with ambition, but what are the motives behind that ambition? Life is always dancing around us, and we can participate in that dance in a skillful and joyful way. We can learn to be a good dance partner... We always have some choice to realign, to adjust our course. It is not skillful to collapse or become bitter under all the suffering in the world, then we just add to the suffering. So much of living is an art, where information must become knowledge. We add to the suffering of the world when we resist reality Phillip explains the four noble truths and how they truly are ennobling Mindfulness without intention doesn't have direction, and intention without mindfulness forgets itself... Phillip Moffitt's websites: www.dharmawisdom.org & https://lifebalance.org/institute/ (https://lifebalance.org/institute/) Link to my course, Rewilding the Soul - Restoring Lifeforce & connecting to aliveness through nature & mindfulness: app.mastermind.com/masterminds/29462 (//app.mastermind.com/masterminds/29462) My website : www.duritaholm.com

2. 

   9 Dec 2021

   The most important question in life: What is sacred to you? with John Lockley, african Shaman/Sangoma

   John Lockley is a South African Shaman or Sangoma. He is also the author of the book: Leopard Warrior. We start our conversation by talking about how the principles of shamanism are the same all over the world, even in cultures that haven't had any contact for millennia. connecting to life-force, and how we are related to this life-force: through the breath, the bones and the blood. The aim of shamanism is to give our ego away in ceremony, to the life-force that created us - and by these practices we become lighter, and we are blessed by grace. Many of these practices are also inspiring humility, for us to let go of our ego. So in the Sangoma practices are very close to the ground. We beseech the ancient ones and the nature spirits through gratitude and through humbling ourselves to the earth mother. enlightenment in shamanism is not a stage you attain, it is rather a continuous giving yourself away through prayer, gratitude and ceremony. the true centre of the human being is actually the foot. and the foot connects you to the hara. John Lockley talks about how the base of the feet in ceremonial trance dancing, gives you that deep connection to the earth, actually feeling the earth. Animals are the true gurus of the world, because they live so close to nature. We speak about how trance-dancing connects us to the mystery, with the elemental forces of nature, at through that connection we can receive the wisdom downloads from the great mystery. John tells us how being in nature is part of his spiritual practice. Listening to the land, the wind, and his to his own body, the rhythm, heartbeat and breathing. And how the walking can even bring him into trance. We need to feel our body touching the earth, and that can be such a joyful and intimate experience. The only real answer to the environmental challenges, is through the deep listening to the earth itself. We speak about what the soul is. To John, it is the immortal part of us, and through the shamanistic practices, including our dreams, we can connect to the soul. We talk about how the people of the past who lived with that connection to the dreams and the life-force, telling them how to live and which plants to use for healing, didn't get ill, they only knew life and death, not illness. And that came down to their deep humility and listening to the earth. The most important question is: what is sacred to you, and if nothing is sacred, then that is where your work lies The purpose of life, is to find your purpose The reason for someones struggles with soullesness, is due to a lack of magic in their life. A lack of wonder... One of the questions to ask to enter into that kind of wonder, is to start with the question: "what brings you joy?" Each person needs to find out what brings them in touch with the magic of life - find what is sacred for them. We speak about feelings of aloneness and loneliness, and how becoming a shaman is a calling, it is not something you choose. And we speak about the western worlds glamourising of shamanism. Whereas it is actually pretty hard being a shaman, as they are so sensitive and feel everything. A shaman is not part of the crowd, because if you are part of the crowd, you can't listen to the spirits. We speak about all the gifts of learning and speaking another language. How you have to learn to really listen, become humble and childlike again. John's website: www.johnlockley.com Link to my course, Rewilding the Soul - Restoring Lifeforce & connecting to aliveness through nature & mindfulness: https://durita75.mastermind.com/masterminds/29462 My website :www.duritaholm.com

3. 

   28 Oct 2021

   We are attached to life as primal as the umbilical cord, thick and coiled and throbbing with blood. With Anne Cushman

   Anne Cushman tells us how she came to meditation when at university, because this world-religions class was the only class that would allow her to sleep in, as it started at 11 o'clock. Then, of course she found that she loved the class, and all its existential issues. And she ended up getting her major in religion, focusing particularly on Buddhism and Hinduism. However, reading all these books about buddhism and Hinduism, it became clear to her, that this couldn't be just theoretical, that she would have to start practicing meditation and yoga to truly understand the texts. We are compelled to continue practicing meditation because there is pain and suffering in our lives, and in meditation and yoga, we find a way through that pain and hardship - a learning to be with life as it is. The overarching theme of Anne's book, The mama sutra, is the path to awakening through motherhood I ask Anne if having children isn't an impediment to awakening? Anne tells us how the teachings were mostly passed down through monastics, who didn't In any case, practice happens where the intention of our wise heart meets the reality of our lives, and that is so whether you are in a monastery or rocking a baby Motherhood also makes you meet your edges, motherhood can me very hard... Motherhood is so good at showing us where we are stuck, where we need to grow Thich nah Han when asked, said that monastic and lay practice is exactly the same, only that lay practice is harder and more challenging What Anne really wants to do in the mama sutra is depict the reality of motherhood. At how hard it actually is... When things are harmonious, its great to practice, but always knowing, that things will change... The fundamental teaching of mindfulness is, that you always start right where you are, so you can never rely only on your past practice, it is always here and now. Children are unpredictable, immediate and authentic, so they call forth those qualities in us. I ask Anne about how her years of prior practice supported her through the loss of a child, and then a year later the birth of her second child, who was very demanding as a baby. Anne tells us how one of the effects of her meditation practice going through all that was the tremendous softening of her heart and being, instead of a hardening, which is also a possibility when life gets really difficult. We are attached to life as primal as the umbilical cord, thick and coiled and throbbing with blood We talk about words like the observer in mindfulness, or witnessing, or meeting experience... How we can train our capacity to hold our experience with more loving kindness We speak about "who" or "what" this observer or witness in mindfulness is... How you can connect deeper to your life through writing, and how sometimes new wisdom you didn't know you had, can emerge through your fingers. Journaling gives us a place to put things, to put aspects of our lives and our character when we are writing we are always connecting to the larger humanity, to something larger than just ourselves We talk about the sacred feminine, or about how some experiences that women have can be qualitatively different. An honouring of the relational, the intuitive, the embodied, the connection to the earth... Anne tells us how online retreats have been such a blessing for many women with children, and how real life reality can then be held in the support of a retreat. If we are paying attention, one of the things we feel as we become a mother, is this intimate connection to the web of life, this cycle of life that sustains us all. Motherhood as a portal to loving all of life. www.annecushman.com (http://www.annecushman.com/) www.duritaholm.com (http://www.duritaholm.com/)

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