Talks 2023
Click on the links below to watch on YouTube.
January 8, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rudi always said, the mind is the slayer of the soul. He did not say that emotions, circumstance, fears or anxieties were slayers. It is the mind that engages, reacts, and projects these forces into a constant war zone that upends life. Find your soul, surrender the mind. Let go.
January 15, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What do you do when the world is falling apart, the world around you, the world inside you or even your own body--or all at the same time? I only have one answer for that, do the work. Enter the space of surrender and be grateful that you have been shown the doorway into your own embrace.
January 29, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is a difference between living deeply or superficially. Pick one.
February 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Prayer is not for making miracles in the material world but to help guide us through the struggles and difficulties that arise along the way. The real miracle is discovering that you are already held and comforted by a Greater Power in every moment of your life.
February 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The death of a student and dear friend and how to serve them on their journey as well as those left behind.
February 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
An appreciation of Rudi by his students on his approaching Samadhi day--Tuesday, February 21—the 50th Anniversary of his passing.
February 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
An infant in the crib has no story, no idea of the future. It knows the joy of being held, hugged and fed. It experiences moments of hunger, pain, delight and wonder. In its stillness, it knows I AM. That awareness remains present in our lives. It is not to be found in the future. It is always here.
March 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What are "spiritual tests" and how do you pass them? They are not like history exams or final papers in English. They are easier than that and far more important.
March 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
On turning 80.
March 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
On being lost and being found.
March 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spirituality can be a security blanket, for better and for worse. Don't cloak yourself in security. Allow security to embrace you. It always will.
April 2, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The inner voice that so invisibly fills our heads, our emotions and our lives, is not our friend. It is a narrative pattern that can cause undue suffering for a lifetime. You have the power to step out of it. Use that power.
April 9, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
A spiritual tool kit is meant to be used all day. Yesterday I took the family to see THE LIFE OF PI on Broadway, out to two meals, discussed the power of Easter, experiencing death, and listened to a podcast on the emerging power of AI on the drive home. I needed my tool kit every step of the way.
April 16, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The antidote to misery is within you--whether it is self inflicted or exposure to the growing toxicity of the world. Get to work.
April 23, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The mind feels suffering where the heart senses blessing. Viewing the world solely through the mind is an unwelcoming path. Learn to step away from your brain to sense the embrace of all things.
April 30, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It's not about you. It's about us. It's about the collective, the communal us. Serve the us and you serve the Self. You may want to think this is about being spiritual. In fact, it is about being human. Show up. That is our great path.
May 7, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Artificial Intelligence is already impacting our lives and and is changing the world as we know it. Never has a spiritual practice been more central and important. It is our doorway, our path to the endless mystery of Truth.
May 14, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spiritual urgency. Spiritual depth can be deepened with meditation or by sitting in a cave, but the world around you, your daily life, is your spiritual life, and it needs you now. The world is changing fast. This is the time for spiritual work.
May 21, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The molecular nature of spiritual work and why it is so important as we grow and especially as we age.
May 28, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Our minds are brilliantly manipulated by forces in the world around us and we are guilty of encouraging and succumbing to them. We can break the cycle by observing these forces with detachment. Meditation offers the tools. Use them.
June 4, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rudi often said, "If it’s in front of you, it's yours". I would change that to, "If it's in front of you, it's God."
June 11, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are receivers and transmitters of energy, worldly and spiritual. Our channels are either open or closed, highly functioning or in disrepair. In the best of cases we receive and transmit from infinite dimensions. Connect.
June 18, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is no solution to the Mystery. Delusion is thinking you have found it. Enlightenment is surrendering to the awe of not knowing. Be the wonder.
June 25, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Social media has made the world into one family. Wars between countries are like uncles fighting. It's all close to home. Higher consciousness allows you to be a peace maker in the family, to see the world as artists see it, to witness the beauty all around you and to help your family see it too.
July 2, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The power and grace of channeling.
July 16, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The inevitable loss of personal narrative, concepts, identity, truth, belief, and reality. Be prepared. It's rushing at us.
July 23, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Trust the journey.
July 30, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are all products of stories, the ones we tell ourselves, the ones others tell about us. They explain and define us. They can be false narratives or self promoting. They can even be spiritual. But one day there will be no stories left. Perhaps that's when we find Ourself. Unless that's another story.
August 6, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Some people will tell me that their meditation is not working. I would suggest instead that 'they' are not working. Meditation is an ongoing practice, not an occasional sit. Its benefits accrue over a lifetime and increase dramatically in value as you age.
August 13, 2023 Big Indian, NY 1 (watch)
A celebration of the idea of pilgrimage and what it means to honor the memory of sacred beings in our lives.
August 27, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Anxiety-medication-meditation.
September 3, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What to do when life no longer makes sense. How to let go of your mind instead of lose it.
September 10, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It seems we are living in Biblical times. But has it ever been other? Welcome to Now. But has it ever been other? Welcome to Now.
September 17, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is an old adage, "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." But in truth, you can just let yourself in. The door is always open. Go inside. You are waiting for you.
October 1, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The true focal point of life is others. They are the reason we are here. It is all about love, care and service. You are secondary and only around for a short while. Put others first.
October 15, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven, a time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap…. a time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastics 3:1-8. We live in challenging times. It has never been different.
October 22, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real war zone is the human mind. Wars can only be stopped by ending the battles within.
October 29, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
If it's in front of you it's sacred. Lean in.
November 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
This may feel like an inconvenient piece of information but... there is no you. Try to be okay with that. It is amazing what "knowing" that reveals.
November 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The best cure for helplessness is—be helpful. The best cure for fragility is—be strong. "Being" is the secret and it's already your very essence. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
November 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Oh, this again!" The shocking familiarity of the journey into old age, death, darkness and war--and the power of the psyche to find peace and love in the midst of the worst upheavals.
November 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Walt Whitman famously said, "I contain multitudes.” We all do. We are the Source and the manifestation simultaneously. Like light, we are both wave and particle. At our core we are not an alternating force. We are Everything illuminated at the same time.
December 3, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Physician, heal thy self. You will not always have teachers, healers or guides in your life. Now is the time to learn how to embrace and heal yourself. This will help.
December 10, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Locked-in syndrome. I am finding many people frozen in their material and spiritual lives. It doesn't get better by itself. People are smug, fearful, hiding, detached. Fix it. Move toward openness and flow. There is a path. Do the work!
December 17, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rudi knew when he was going to die. He had vivid premonitions. I've been having them too. I don't know if what is approaching is the end of my life or a new beginning. I only know that I feel complete and grateful. I love you all.
Rudi always said, the mind is the slayer of the soul. He did not say that emotions, circumstance, fears or anxieties were slayers. It is the mind that engages, reacts, and projects these forces into a constant war zone that upends life. Find your soul, surrender the mind. Let go.
January 15, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What do you do when the world is falling apart, the world around you, the world inside you or even your own body--or all at the same time? I only have one answer for that, do the work. Enter the space of surrender and be grateful that you have been shown the doorway into your own embrace.
January 29, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is a difference between living deeply or superficially. Pick one.
February 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Prayer is not for making miracles in the material world but to help guide us through the struggles and difficulties that arise along the way. The real miracle is discovering that you are already held and comforted by a Greater Power in every moment of your life.
February 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The death of a student and dear friend and how to serve them on their journey as well as those left behind.
February 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
An appreciation of Rudi by his students on his approaching Samadhi day--Tuesday, February 21—the 50th Anniversary of his passing.
February 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
An infant in the crib has no story, no idea of the future. It knows the joy of being held, hugged and fed. It experiences moments of hunger, pain, delight and wonder. In its stillness, it knows I AM. That awareness remains present in our lives. It is not to be found in the future. It is always here.
March 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What are "spiritual tests" and how do you pass them? They are not like history exams or final papers in English. They are easier than that and far more important.
March 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
On turning 80.
March 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
On being lost and being found.
March 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spirituality can be a security blanket, for better and for worse. Don't cloak yourself in security. Allow security to embrace you. It always will.
April 2, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The inner voice that so invisibly fills our heads, our emotions and our lives, is not our friend. It is a narrative pattern that can cause undue suffering for a lifetime. You have the power to step out of it. Use that power.
April 9, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
A spiritual tool kit is meant to be used all day. Yesterday I took the family to see THE LIFE OF PI on Broadway, out to two meals, discussed the power of Easter, experiencing death, and listened to a podcast on the emerging power of AI on the drive home. I needed my tool kit every step of the way.
April 16, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The antidote to misery is within you--whether it is self inflicted or exposure to the growing toxicity of the world. Get to work.
April 23, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The mind feels suffering where the heart senses blessing. Viewing the world solely through the mind is an unwelcoming path. Learn to step away from your brain to sense the embrace of all things.
April 30, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It's not about you. It's about us. It's about the collective, the communal us. Serve the us and you serve the Self. You may want to think this is about being spiritual. In fact, it is about being human. Show up. That is our great path.
May 7, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Artificial Intelligence is already impacting our lives and and is changing the world as we know it. Never has a spiritual practice been more central and important. It is our doorway, our path to the endless mystery of Truth.
May 14, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Spiritual urgency. Spiritual depth can be deepened with meditation or by sitting in a cave, but the world around you, your daily life, is your spiritual life, and it needs you now. The world is changing fast. This is the time for spiritual work.
May 21, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The molecular nature of spiritual work and why it is so important as we grow and especially as we age.
May 28, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Our minds are brilliantly manipulated by forces in the world around us and we are guilty of encouraging and succumbing to them. We can break the cycle by observing these forces with detachment. Meditation offers the tools. Use them.
June 4, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rudi often said, "If it’s in front of you, it's yours". I would change that to, "If it's in front of you, it's God."
June 11, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are receivers and transmitters of energy, worldly and spiritual. Our channels are either open or closed, highly functioning or in disrepair. In the best of cases we receive and transmit from infinite dimensions. Connect.
June 18, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is no solution to the Mystery. Delusion is thinking you have found it. Enlightenment is surrendering to the awe of not knowing. Be the wonder.
June 25, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Social media has made the world into one family. Wars between countries are like uncles fighting. It's all close to home. Higher consciousness allows you to be a peace maker in the family, to see the world as artists see it, to witness the beauty all around you and to help your family see it too.
July 2, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The power and grace of channeling.
July 16, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The inevitable loss of personal narrative, concepts, identity, truth, belief, and reality. Be prepared. It's rushing at us.
July 23, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Trust the journey.
July 30, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
We are all products of stories, the ones we tell ourselves, the ones others tell about us. They explain and define us. They can be false narratives or self promoting. They can even be spiritual. But one day there will be no stories left. Perhaps that's when we find Ourself. Unless that's another story.
August 6, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Some people will tell me that their meditation is not working. I would suggest instead that 'they' are not working. Meditation is an ongoing practice, not an occasional sit. Its benefits accrue over a lifetime and increase dramatically in value as you age.
August 13, 2023 Big Indian, NY 1 (watch)
A celebration of the idea of pilgrimage and what it means to honor the memory of sacred beings in our lives.
August 27, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Anxiety-medication-meditation.
September 3, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
What to do when life no longer makes sense. How to let go of your mind instead of lose it.
September 10, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
It seems we are living in Biblical times. But has it ever been other? Welcome to Now. But has it ever been other? Welcome to Now.
September 17, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
There is an old adage, "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." But in truth, you can just let yourself in. The door is always open. Go inside. You are waiting for you.
October 1, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The true focal point of life is others. They are the reason we are here. It is all about love, care and service. You are secondary and only around for a short while. Put others first.
October 15, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven, a time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap…. a time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastics 3:1-8. We live in challenging times. It has never been different.
October 22, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The real war zone is the human mind. Wars can only be stopped by ending the battles within.
October 29, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
If it's in front of you it's sacred. Lean in.
November 5, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
This may feel like an inconvenient piece of information but... there is no you. Try to be okay with that. It is amazing what "knowing" that reveals.
November 12, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
The best cure for helplessness is—be helpful. The best cure for fragility is—be strong. "Being" is the secret and it's already your very essence. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
November 19, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
"Oh, this again!" The shocking familiarity of the journey into old age, death, darkness and war--and the power of the psyche to find peace and love in the midst of the worst upheavals.
November 26, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Walt Whitman famously said, "I contain multitudes.” We all do. We are the Source and the manifestation simultaneously. Like light, we are both wave and particle. At our core we are not an alternating force. We are Everything illuminated at the same time.
December 3, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Physician, heal thy self. You will not always have teachers, healers or guides in your life. Now is the time to learn how to embrace and heal yourself. This will help.
December 10, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Locked-in syndrome. I am finding many people frozen in their material and spiritual lives. It doesn't get better by itself. People are smug, fearful, hiding, detached. Fix it. Move toward openness and flow. There is a path. Do the work!
December 17, 2023 Red Hook, NY (watch)
Rudi knew when he was going to die. He had vivid premonitions. I've been having them too. I don't know if what is approaching is the end of my life or a new beginning. I only know that I feel complete and grateful. I love you all.