September 26, 2018 | 60 min.

Looking at Oppression through the Lens of the Four Noble Truths

Erin Selover

Fundamentally, what the Buddha was pointing to is that it is hard being human! I’m not in control. Anything can happen in any moment. And that’s a lot to sit with. So what we’re doing in this path is opening more and more and more to this raw vulnerability. To uncertainty. To the truth of change. Thinking about the first noble truth from this point of view makes the second noble truth, the truth of resistance, completely understandable. Really, who wants to feel that raw vulnerability—to feel that they’re not in control? And then you feel that, and realize “Oh, I’m okay. I’ll be okay.”

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September 26, 2018 | 60 min.

Looking at Oppression through the Lens of the Four Noble Truths

Erin Selover

Fundamentally, what the Buddha was pointing to is that it is hard being human! I’m not in control. Anything can happen in any moment. And that’s a lot to sit with. So what we’re doing in this path is opening more and more and more to this raw vulnerability. To uncertainty. To the truth of change. Thinking about the first noble truth from this point of view makes the second noble truth, the truth of resistance, completely understandable. Really, who wants to feel that raw vulnerability—to feel that they’re not in control? And then you feel that, and realize “Oh, I’m okay. I’ll be okay.”

March 18, 2018

Prajnāpāramitā: The Wisdom of Emptiness

Erin Selover

Prajnaparamita is a Buddhist Goddess of wisdom. She sees through the perpetual cycles of reactive habits of mind without having to be separate from them. So often our tendency is to make reactivity the problem, and peace and ease our goal. But life doesn’t work like this. Reactivity and ease go hand-in-hand; they actually inform each other. Like a stone being polished, the rough stone and the polisher have to come into contact for the stone to become smooth.

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March 18, 2018

Prajnāpāramitā: The Wisdom of Emptiness

Erin Selover

Prajnaparamita is a Buddhist Goddess of wisdom. She sees through the perpetual cycles of reactive habits of mind without having to be separate from them. So often our tendency is to make reactivity the problem, and peace and ease our goal. But life doesn’t work like this. Reactivity and ease go hand-in-hand; they actually inform each other. Like a stone being polished, the rough stone and the polisher have to come into contact for the stone to become smooth.

December 30, 2016 | 30 min.

Forgiveness: on a teen retreat

Erin Selover

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December 30, 2016 | 30 min.

Forgiveness: on a teen retreat

Erin Selover

November 23, 2016 | 40 min.

Sacred Rage: The Descent and Emergence of Wisdom

Erin Selover

As human beings we are meant to go through transitions throughout our phases of life in order to become fully human, to become a true elder who has wisdom to pass down the generations. With each transition in our life, we go through a descent where we let go of an old identity so that the energies and the motivation for the new can emerge. One of the reasons we go on retreat and keep a daily practice is because we’re training in descent. We go into liminal space, between worlds, where we separate from what we know as we are birthed into a new phase of life.

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November 23, 2016 | 40 min.

Sacred Rage: The Descent and Emergence of Wisdom

Erin Selover

As human beings we are meant to go through transitions throughout our phases of life in order to become fully human, to become a true elder who has wisdom to pass down the generations. With each transition in our life, we go through a descent where we let go of an old identity so that the energies and the motivation for the new can emerge. One of the reasons we go on retreat and keep a daily practice is because we’re training in descent. We go into liminal space, between worlds, where we separate from what we know as we are birthed into a new phase of life.