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A pervasive but often invisible source of suffering in our culture is self-aversion. We are a busy culture, and we move through our life feeling anxious and dissatisfied, but not fully conscious of how we neglect or judge our inner experience. We suffer from a lack of belonging: to our own bodies, to each other and to the earth. When we practice Buddhist meditation, we learn how to listen deeply and hold our life tenderly. The open space of compassion allows us to realize that our thoughts a ...
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Endurance

Mark Beaumont

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Welcome to the first series of the Endurance podcast with myself Mark Beaumont. I’m joined on many of the episodes by my friend and performance manager Laura Penhaul. We started recording these conversations as a research project for my new book, also called ‘Endurance’ & published by Global Cycling Network – so you can find many of these conversations written up in the ‘Wise Words’ sections of the book. The Endurance podcast is focussed on meeting the sports scientists, the support staff, t ...
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Listen Now to 62 Future Now Podcast A promising future lies in potential symbiotic relationships between our tech and nature. A example of theat lies with the use of algae in the generation of energy from solar panels. And…how might the climate change gas of methane be actually useful in making things better for us and our planet? This week, the Pl…
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Listen to Future Now #61 I couldn’t believe it when I read about a geoengineering project changing the reflectivity of clouds in our home, the SF Bay Area, in Scientific American, a mainstream science publication! Maybe there is something to all the airplane trails we see these days that will be discussed to major forums. No such luck in looking at…
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Listen to Future Now Podcast Hope you all enjoyed your eclipse experience, be it partial, full, or virtual! Our fav visuals were from the ISS, where you could see the eclipse, appearing as a dark cloud-like 115 mile diameter shadow cast onto the planet’s surface, speeding across the continent, southwest to northeast. Moving at 2400 km/h, the dark s…
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59 Future Now Show Listen Here We are still on the road this week, this time in magical Mt. Shasta, where we introduce you one of it’s residents, Mt. Shasta is rumored to house the Lemurian city of Telos within.Mary Donnelly. A New Englander trained as an RN in pediatric oncology, she learned of Mt. Shasta via an alternative healer, and feeling she…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence.It’s so helpful to …
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian, Lee C. Camp, interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. The conversation includes an unpacking of the RAIN meditation, and stor…
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Listen to 58 Future Now Wise Democracy This week we are on the road in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, visiting Jim Rough, founder of www.wisedemocracy.org and Casandra Firman, Jim’s wife and partner in updating democracy as we know it. We all know about the importance of voting, and the necessities of jury duty and national defence as citizen…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom – the awake space of Being that is beyond the confines of thoughts.“Relaxing back into the space between thoughts. Relaxin…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas: Connirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP). She developed and wrote a book on the Core Transformation Process, and more recently, the Wholeness Process. Her new book, The Wholeness Work…
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Listen to 57 Future Now - We are on a roadtrip to Seattle and doing our podcast from AirB&B’s for the next couple of shows. This week is on the road in Ashlandfrom Ashland, a cultural hotspot known for great art galleries, theaters, restaurants, and the home of the world famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We saw the opening production of MacBeth, …
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart.“Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are actually pr…
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Listen to 56 Future Now Show Some cool stories this week, including our very own Taylor Barcroft’s admission he is a Swiftie, in the Taylor Swift sense of the word. Who knew? Besides sharing his Swiftie passion he updates us on the latest in Apple Tech, waveforms of the word ‘water’ in many languages onboard Europa Clipperincluding what’s coming up…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.“Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we are relating to it. See if you can relate with the…
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Listen to 55 Future Now Lots happening in the AI universe this week, including Sun’s quite humorous report with examples of Google’s faux paus in the name of woke culture. EMO by AliBaba is scary-good at taking any source image plus audio and making the image look like they are saying/singing the audio. This can bring to life any decent picture of …
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness.These two talks explore several meditation practic…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then including the play of sound.We then let go of any doing, …
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Listen To 54 Future Now Bruce Damer Dr. Bruce Damer is a scientist and entrepreneur known for his groundbreaking work in origin of life research and virtual worlds. With expertise spanning astrobiology and computer science, he passionately explores the intersection of technology and the origins of life on Earth and beyond. Now he is focused on what…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness.These two talks explore several meditation practic…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the field of awareness and aliveness. We practice relaxing and gently arriving again when thoughts carry us …
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Listen to 53 Future Now Show Len Science Poetry What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time. This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way. So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of what’s possible i…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. We close with a short verse from poet Dorothy Hunt – …
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Executive coach and author Stephen Josephs has worked with many top business leaders, guiding them in transcending the egoic conditioning that limit their impact on other people, and on societal change.In this conversation we look at what he’s learned about inner freedom and awakening from his own tra…
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Listen to 52 Future Now Randall Lee Hopper Some great space news this week, including a new US lunar lander touching down this month; if successful, the Nova-C Lunar Lander by Intuitive Machinesfirst US craft on the moon since 1972! We also explore what are known as ‘chiral currents,’ a new approach to tech which may be as significant as electrons …
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now.“Listening to and feeling, the changing flow – right here, right in the center of n…
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Listen to Future Now 2.6.2024 We recorded this show in the aftermath of a large west coast storm, and if you listened in realtime, you would have heard the numerous tech glitches that happened, including dropping off the air multiple times. But for the podcast version you get to focus on what we found most fascinating this week, not the glitches. I…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Israeli governments’ devastating military action and long occupation in Palestine, and is dedicated to finding a path to peace. This conversation was part of an event for the Tovana mediation community in Israel. We talk about th…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness…
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Listen to 50 Future Now Show Even though the Japanese moon lander kind of crashed, it is still sort of functional..better than nothing! Robots are making their way into society, but not without some issues from the street..Obelisks-a new kind of life smaller than viruses than live within microbes.. This week we covered the “Spirit Fest,” a gatherin…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.…
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Listen to 49 Future Now 1.23.2024 Well, the next phase of deep fakes has begun, with a phoney call from the Prez during the NH primaries. And generating faces from DNA is now here as well, bringing new light into cold cases. But how accurate is it, what could go wroing? Plenty.. Meanwhile, a new bar for EV batteries has been set, with the introduct…
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