Episode 23: What Burning Man Can Teach Us About Love, Peace, Generosity and Joy.

Exploring Awareness

What Burning Man can teach us about Love, Peace, Generosity and Joy.

Put aside what you think you know about Burning Man and in this episode learn how this event is a model for a life that puts the core essences of exploring awareness into practice. In the exploring awareness podcast, we always return to the core human essences of peace, joy, love and generosity- accessed through meditation practices.

These core essences also underlie the 10 principles of the annual Burning Man event in Nevada. Although the event itself is lasts only one week, the underlying principles create a city and culture that can be put into practice anywhere and anytime. When connecting to these inner essences, an expression of your truest self-starts to emerge.

In this episode, you will hear about how gifting, self-expression, inclusion, participation, immediacy -among others-informs the construction of a city- its form, it's art and its culture.

But it only lasts a week – and then it’s gone- without a trace. Impermanence and non- attachment are built in.

On Saturday night of the festival, the effigy of a person goes up in flames and in a sense you’ve burned the ego.

On Sunday night, in the utter silence from the 70,000 participants, the Temple burns – and in a sense the institutions that have bound you are gone.

Whatever you thought was important, your preconceived ideas, your attachments, your expectations, your losses - are gone.

What’s left is you, and you’re still there ...to live your own life.

You go forward with what’s real, and then the music starts back up and you dance!

It’s a metaphor for our own personal work in exploring awareness.

Included in this episode is a guided meditation that connects the 10 principles of Burning man to the core of our being.