Talks 2024
Click on the links below to watch on YouTube or listen to the audio.
January 14, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
When two people gather in my name I am there. Seek out the other. It will complete you. It will bring you joy.
January 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Yea thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil," even though I'll be shitting in my pants every step of the way. Rudi added that postscript. It reminds me that a spiritual journey is a human journey as well.
January 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Celebrating Rudi on the occasion of his 96th Birthday with a remarkable film by Bob Sink capturing this remarkable teacher during two extraordinary days in his life over 50 years ago.
February 4, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The secret of a spiritual life in the 21st century is not chopping wood and carrying water, it is making your bed and cleaning the toilet.
February 11, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
When times get tough, we need to get tougher. Not harder, not walled in, but open to the strength of simply being. Use that openness to love and nurture the world, no matter the circumstances. Toughness is spreading love – no matter what.
February 25, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The volatility of the "now" and the path to stillness. Let the past awaken you to the present. Let the "now" stop you in your tracks.
March 3, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Foreshadowing" is a writer's term for invoking fear and dread in an audience. When I grabbed my mom during scary scenes during a film she reminded me, "It's only a movie." That comfort now comes from deep within me. I hope you can all find it in yourself as well.
March 10, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Optimism is not about the future. It is about now.
March 17, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Many people want to experience fulfillment at the end of their lives. My experience is that fulfillment is found in every moment. It's not just about a good career or raising a loving family. It's about washing the dishes well.
March 24, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
An alien presence appeared in my home. It opened my heart.
March 31, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Rebirth comes from touching Source. It is never not around you but you have to know that with the fullness of your Being. You are in an endless state of Grace.
April 7, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Spiritual ignorance is thinking that your spiritual journey is about you. In truth, it is about others. If you are lucky or blessed there will be no you in the end to reap the rewards. You will be free.
April 14, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
In many ways social media and its algorithms are metaphors for our own mind and the programming we have undergone since birth. We must learn to enjoy and turn off both or they will dominate our lives. Turning off the mind is a life’s work. Turning off social media may be as well.
April 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The spiritual journey may lead to transcendent enlightenment and profound awakening. For me though it has moved on to the simplicity and joy of being a four year old. I wake up amazed by life and thrilled by the day ahead.
April 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The Universe does not care about us, about our story, about our struggle. It created us to do the caring. It created us to love, to care about one another, and serve and honor Creation. That is the work of being human. It is the core joy of existence. Suffering is abandoning that opportunity. Learn to love.
May 5, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
All movies have two halves, everything up to the end and the end. If the end doesn’t work, half of your movie doesn't work. Inspiration will guide the story. Seek stillness and guidance will come. Be inspired.
May 12, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
We are birthed by an Infinite Knowing. It cannot be grasped by the ego mind, the cognitive structuring of thought or the analysis of emotion. It simply Is. And you are That. We exist for a reason. Don't try to understand it. You already Know.
May 19, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
In the ultimate sense, you are all alone. Parents and teachers can prepare you for this awareness but in the end you walk this path alone. Great grief and sadness will arise. But then you will realize that there is no "you" vanishes. You are Everything and Nothing. You are all there is.
May 26, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There is an old saying, "If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans." You can also tell God your hopes and expectations. This was one of those weeks for me. If stories about my personal life bore you, skip this talk.
June 2, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Trust the Force, Luke."
June 16, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Tests are embedded into the framework of life, both material and spiritual. Failure to learn requires repeating the class. Graduation is passing to a higher level. It is all a journey upward but it takes work. There are always teachers, inner and outer. Just learn to ask for help.
June 23, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
I am a catastrophizer. As a dramatist, I see catastrophe looming all around me, environmentally, politically, physiologically. In the end, we are all impermanent, we all age and die. But there is a Witness to all this. It is inside you. It offers comfort and guidance. Find it. It will help.
June 30, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There are moments of collective shared reality that wake people up to the underlying experience of oneness. We are entering that space. Embrace the other as the Self.
July 7, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Man's search for meaning is truly a search for God. It will not be found through the mind. You have to find a way to touch It.
July 14, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There are three essential directives for dealing with life as it is unfolding before us. You will need to listen to this talk to find out what they are.
July 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Love is all you need.
July 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Hope is an uprising energy. It will bring you to yourself. Even losing hope is worth the taste. It is a tase of the Infinite. Enjoy.
August 4, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There is nothing static about your spiritual practice. It's an endless flow. You don't enter the flow or leave it. You are always in it. Only your mind disengages. Only your emotions get lost. Ask deeply for help to remember, to know, where you already are, where you have always been.
August 11, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Radiance.
August 18, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Every Moment Counts. Believe. Hope Survives. The Door To The Mind Is Open. Tag lines on posters for movies I wrote. A life in tag lines. What would yours be?
August 25, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Turbulent times ahead. I would say buckle up, but the better suggestion is "surrender to what is."
September 1, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Radiance is one of the great gifts of being human. Basking in radiance is another. Learn how to radiate. Learn how to bask. Neither are hard.
September 8, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
We are living through a dramatic transformational time. There are challenges ahead. But the only transformation that truly matters is within.
September 15, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Chop wood, carry water, radiate joy. Done.
When two people gather in my name I am there. Seek out the other. It will complete you. It will bring you joy.
January 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Yea thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil," even though I'll be shitting in my pants every step of the way. Rudi added that postscript. It reminds me that a spiritual journey is a human journey as well.
January 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Celebrating Rudi on the occasion of his 96th Birthday with a remarkable film by Bob Sink capturing this remarkable teacher during two extraordinary days in his life over 50 years ago.
February 4, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The secret of a spiritual life in the 21st century is not chopping wood and carrying water, it is making your bed and cleaning the toilet.
February 11, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
When times get tough, we need to get tougher. Not harder, not walled in, but open to the strength of simply being. Use that openness to love and nurture the world, no matter the circumstances. Toughness is spreading love – no matter what.
February 25, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The volatility of the "now" and the path to stillness. Let the past awaken you to the present. Let the "now" stop you in your tracks.
March 3, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Foreshadowing" is a writer's term for invoking fear and dread in an audience. When I grabbed my mom during scary scenes during a film she reminded me, "It's only a movie." That comfort now comes from deep within me. I hope you can all find it in yourself as well.
March 10, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Optimism is not about the future. It is about now.
March 17, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Many people want to experience fulfillment at the end of their lives. My experience is that fulfillment is found in every moment. It's not just about a good career or raising a loving family. It's about washing the dishes well.
March 24, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
An alien presence appeared in my home. It opened my heart.
March 31, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Rebirth comes from touching Source. It is never not around you but you have to know that with the fullness of your Being. You are in an endless state of Grace.
April 7, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Spiritual ignorance is thinking that your spiritual journey is about you. In truth, it is about others. If you are lucky or blessed there will be no you in the end to reap the rewards. You will be free.
April 14, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
In many ways social media and its algorithms are metaphors for our own mind and the programming we have undergone since birth. We must learn to enjoy and turn off both or they will dominate our lives. Turning off the mind is a life’s work. Turning off social media may be as well.
April 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The spiritual journey may lead to transcendent enlightenment and profound awakening. For me though it has moved on to the simplicity and joy of being a four year old. I wake up amazed by life and thrilled by the day ahead.
April 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
The Universe does not care about us, about our story, about our struggle. It created us to do the caring. It created us to love, to care about one another, and serve and honor Creation. That is the work of being human. It is the core joy of existence. Suffering is abandoning that opportunity. Learn to love.
May 5, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
All movies have two halves, everything up to the end and the end. If the end doesn’t work, half of your movie doesn't work. Inspiration will guide the story. Seek stillness and guidance will come. Be inspired.
May 12, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
We are birthed by an Infinite Knowing. It cannot be grasped by the ego mind, the cognitive structuring of thought or the analysis of emotion. It simply Is. And you are That. We exist for a reason. Don't try to understand it. You already Know.
May 19, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
In the ultimate sense, you are all alone. Parents and teachers can prepare you for this awareness but in the end you walk this path alone. Great grief and sadness will arise. But then you will realize that there is no "you" vanishes. You are Everything and Nothing. You are all there is.
May 26, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There is an old saying, "If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans." You can also tell God your hopes and expectations. This was one of those weeks for me. If stories about my personal life bore you, skip this talk.
June 2, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
"Trust the Force, Luke."
June 16, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Tests are embedded into the framework of life, both material and spiritual. Failure to learn requires repeating the class. Graduation is passing to a higher level. It is all a journey upward but it takes work. There are always teachers, inner and outer. Just learn to ask for help.
June 23, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
I am a catastrophizer. As a dramatist, I see catastrophe looming all around me, environmentally, politically, physiologically. In the end, we are all impermanent, we all age and die. But there is a Witness to all this. It is inside you. It offers comfort and guidance. Find it. It will help.
June 30, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There are moments of collective shared reality that wake people up to the underlying experience of oneness. We are entering that space. Embrace the other as the Self.
July 7, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Man's search for meaning is truly a search for God. It will not be found through the mind. You have to find a way to touch It.
July 14, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There are three essential directives for dealing with life as it is unfolding before us. You will need to listen to this talk to find out what they are.
July 21, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Love is all you need.
July 28, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Hope is an uprising energy. It will bring you to yourself. Even losing hope is worth the taste. It is a tase of the Infinite. Enjoy.
August 4, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
There is nothing static about your spiritual practice. It's an endless flow. You don't enter the flow or leave it. You are always in it. Only your mind disengages. Only your emotions get lost. Ask deeply for help to remember, to know, where you already are, where you have always been.
August 11, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Radiance.
August 18, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Every Moment Counts. Believe. Hope Survives. The Door To The Mind Is Open. Tag lines on posters for movies I wrote. A life in tag lines. What would yours be?
August 25, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Turbulent times ahead. I would say buckle up, but the better suggestion is "surrender to what is."
September 1, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Radiance is one of the great gifts of being human. Basking in radiance is another. Learn how to radiate. Learn how to bask. Neither are hard.
September 8, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
We are living through a dramatic transformational time. There are challenges ahead. But the only transformation that truly matters is within.
September 15, 2024 Red Hook, NY (watch, listen)
Chop wood, carry water, radiate joy. Done.