Past Discourses
April 2011 Discourses
What Is Self Hatred?
These Discourses offer insight into why you allow the mind to turn on you to create self hatred. They will help you come to a place where the authentic Heart can sing its song to you. The April Discourses are offered to you in honor of your loving Spirit.
Discourse One: The Sharp Two Faces of Ego
How to overcome the thoughts of self hatred.
Discourse Two: No More Self Talk
We talk to our thoughts, thinking that we are talking to ourselves.
Discourse Three: How Our Talking Hurts Us
What we say to anyone…has ways of coming back to us.
Discourse Four: Our Sick Thoughts About The Self
We live in a self-imposed sickness that is about how we live in emotional pain.
It is recommended that you also purchase the NOBODY LIKES YOU ANYWAY Audio Book to help you with all of this.
August 2011 Discourses
Emptiness In My Hand
This month, Gregory offers his respect to a student who sought emptiness and found out just how beautiful life is…as a matter of emptiness.
Emptiness
What is emptiness and what does it mean to you? This Discourse will help you come to a place of compassion within yourself.
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The Empty Boat
The story of The empty Boat…and how to live without the need for hate and anger.
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The Effort Of A Practice
This discourse offers the essence of the effort to make a spiritual practice…real. If you can listen to this offering…a deep awakening will occur.
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Freeing The Mind
Emptiness frees the mind to be authentic. It allows the mind to burst open and bring deep insight. Gregory offers a powerful exercise within this Discourse.
December 2011 Discourses
The December Discourses offer an intriguing insight into what it means to find a unique sense of Love at this time of year that can spread throughout your entire life. In the four Discourses that are offered, you will have a sense of what it means to live the Intrinsic to Love.
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February 2011 Discourses
THE GREATEST LOVER IN THE WORLD – RUMI!
“Because of Love I have become the giver of light.” ~Rumi
Discourse 1: Rumi, The Greatest Lover
This opening Discourse explains the beauty of Rumi and why his life and poems were so deeply powerful for all the world to know.
Discourse 2: A Love Beyond Romance
What is romance? Within this offering, Gregory will offer insight from the poems of Rumi, where he combines romance with the compassion of Love. Romance is compassion.
Discourse 3: Love Without Blame
Love is not emotion. Love has nothing to do with emotion and the backlash of anger. This will be one of the most important insights of the month.
Discourse 4: Love is…LOVE!
When we Love, there is no doubt…there is only LOVE. Just Love.
February 2012 Discourses
February 2012 Discourses – Love In Karma
These discourses are significant and, yet, very simple to understand. They will move into the insights of people who come to us in many forms to offer to us a way through our Karma and advance ourselves into the state of Love. The subjects, themselves, will open you up to the Way of the Heart and the insights that will help you recognize who the people in your life…really are. Everyone is a door to Life through Karma.
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January 2011 Discourses
THE INTRINSIC OF LIFE
Within you is the very Intrinsic of Life, itself. These Discourses offer insight into the Life that is actually seeking you.
The Alpha And The Yoga
We begin with the Alpha of the Yoga that is intrinsic to the very nature of Love with you.
The Vibration of The Intrinsic
There is a certain rhythm of Life that is intrinsic to your Heart. This vibration is all about Love and offers transformation.
Within The Mind
There is the brain…and then, there is the mind. Within your mind is the Mind of the Intrinsic. Gregory will show you how to live with this rhythm.
Living Beyond The Beyond
Buddha often spoke of living beyond the mind and its effort to limit everything to a thought.
January 2012 Discourses
The offerings this month offer a reset button for your soul. I speak on gratitude and how it flows within us…and how fearful many are of it. For from the Intrinsic Gratitude that we are, flows goodness from so many directions. You will find these Discourses offer a profound experience of compassion and insight.
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July 2011 Discourses
These Discourses are an addition to the beautiful series on both CD and DVD: THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING. This month, Gregory is offering insight into some very important Zen principles. You will find these Discourses simple and easy to understand.
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June 2011 Discourses
This is the second half of a most unusual set of teachings on the beautiful truths of Jesus…found in what the world has called, The Beatitudes. Gregory equates Jesus’ elevated teachings of the Beatitudes to simplicity and teaches how deeply insightful this offering of Love is to all of us in this day and time.
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March 2011 Discourses
March 2011 Discourses
Subject: Finding The Fire In The Belly
Discourse 1: The Posture of Compassion
It is only in the posture of Compassion that we find the rare insight to move toward the very Intrinsic goodness of Love.
Discourse 2: Awareness
What is Awareness and how does it heal humankind and ourselves? What are you living your life around?
Discourse 3: The Fire In The Belly
Much of how we live devours the life we live. We drench the fire with desire and pride. This discourse is a must for living.
Discourse 4: The Harmony of The Intrinsic
What you feel within and how you live from this state…is deeply important to the Life that you live.
March 2012 Discourses
Within these CDs are the essence of why we have the Karma we do. Now, in truth, no one can tell you what your Karma is because Karma is not something that we can think through the mind. It is something that we can realize through the Heart. These March Discourses will help you find the Way of Karma within you so you can flow with it.
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May 2011 Discourses
This is a most unusual set of teachings on the beautiful truths of Jesus… found in what the world has called, The Beatitudes. Gregory equates Jesus’ elevated teachings of the Beatitudes to simplicity and how deeply insightful his offering of Love is to all of us in this day and time.
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November 2011 Discourses
The offerings this month are deeply important They offer you a reset button for your Soul. I speak of gratitude and how it flows within us…and how fearful many are of it. For in the Intrinsic Gratitude that we are…comes to us the flow of goodness from so many different directions. These Discourses offer a profound experience of compassion and insight.
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October 2011 Discourses
These Discourses will help you beyond words. Nothing is more important, in the beginning of and during our inner work, than Catharsis. Please listen to these Discourses with care and compassion. You will see how anger and let go are so deeply important to the process of spiritual awakening.
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September 2011 Discourses
The Aspire Discourses that I make each month are very special. They are NOT for everyone…because they are far more to the point and help the sincere student come to the place where they can have awareness, rather than only an intellectual understanding. These Discourses are filled with Zen stories and insights that will help you come to the place where you can be very aware of the BREATH OF THE INTRINSIC within you.
The Beatitudes 5-CD Set
These are the most powerful and unique teachings that the world has ever heard. They are the brevity of Zen teaching, which leads to an authentic spiritual practice in this world. These are not “laws” or “rules” a person is to follow. They are exact teachings of the components that make up living a more conscious life. These are masterpieces of Insight that are a must for any of us who truly seek to live in the authenticity of Love.
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