- Big Picture
- Path of Tiger
Before we fly, or teleport, we learn to walk. Tiger is the first way through the inner world — for the days when everything is too much and one paw down is all there is. Let's learn to walk.
- When You're Overwhelmed - Part 1: Walking The Path of Tiger
Here's the lived account behind Tiger — flattened in bed, waiting for the next episode to auto-play. Come all the way into it, and feel how one paw down, and then a swim in a lake, shifts everything for a while.
- Tiger: Energy of Contentedness
Touch down into the power and resilience flowing through you, however faint it feels today. This practice has carried me through so many difficult times — let it carry you one step.
- Path of Snow Lion
Once the steps come a little easier and you start to notice the sunlight and the birds, the question changes — from how do I survive to how do I bring joy back. That's Snow Lion. Let's leap.
- When You're Overwhelmed - Part 2: Dancing the Path of Snow Lion
Once Tiger has you on your feet, Snow Lion asks you to dance. Here's the fuller telling — discipline invited like sun and rain, and five steps through the fog of overwhelm to joy.
- Snow Lion: Joy and Cheerfulness
Discipline invited like sun and rain on a field — come feel it in your body. Below whatever stories are running, there's an innate cheerfulness, a delight to be alive. Let's find your Snow Lion.
- Path of Garuda
You've already felt something like it in the ocean: turn toward the big wave and dive right into it — and you may begin to feel a little fearless. Garuda flies straight at what you've been avoiding — not to destroy it, to meet it. Let's fly.
- The Garuda: Fearlessness
Garuda has no chains and no cage. Come practice the flight — not pretending there's no fear, but choosing to go beyond it, beyond all your reasons to stay smaller, farther into space.
- Coming Out and Coming Alive: From Terror to Joy on Grafton Street
Coming out is one of Garuda's outrageous acts. Here it is in my own life: years under 'WHAT IF THEY FIND OUT', a terrified tram ride to the Castro, and then, within three weeks, telling everyone. Come skip down Grafton Street with me, arms full of flowers.
- Tonight I am man
Coming out on Grafton Street loosened the noose of 'WHAT IF THEY FIND OUT.' More than twenty years on, that same fear roared up in a steam room, as strong as ever — and this time I could thank it and let it pass through me. Come see what it's like when shame no longer has a home in you.
- Path of Dragon
That night I knew myself a full-grown dragon — fear flowing through me, not living in me. Let's take it up a notch and see what Dragon is: the warrior who doesn't fight darkness, but radiates light, and the darkness recedes.
- Dragon
Dragon isn't something you figure out — it's the wisdom you are. Come feel it writhing in your body and moving with the seasons — summer lightning, winter sleep, spring rebirth — with nothing to hide and nothing to prove.
- Five Stages of Awakening
Dragon isn't a final destination — the path continues endlessly. Step back and see the whole map: drowning, treading water, swimming, flying, radiating, with Tiger, Snow Lion, Garuda and Dragon meeting you along the way. You can be flying in one part of your life and drowning in another — find where you are, and the practice that meets you there.
Play Meditation
Snow Lion: Joy and Cheerfulness
The Snow Lion leaps from mountaintop to mountaintop. Finding and cultivating the joy and cheerfulness inside us, and shifting our view of discipline to one of inviting it into our lives to help us thrive.
Transcript
[0:20] Taking our seat. In the midst of this beautiful, joyful, challenging world. Arranging our body, this human body. Glanting in our spine, tucking our chin, allowing the breath to flow easily.
[1:36] Allowing the mind to come into harmony. Synchrony. With the rhythm of the body. Breathing body.
[2:39] Extending our sense perceptions in this space around us. And within us. Coming into close contact with the space we're in.
[4:15] Below whatever stories and fears may be going on in your mind, that within us there is an innate cheerfulness.
[4:55] Cleaning up. Maybe mowing the lawn. And he's sitting with a book in the garden. Watching the leaves on the trees. He could be in vacuuming the carpet. Sweeping. Maybe in making breakfast. Just a cheerfulness. Delight to be alive. Good morning.
[6:39] Feeling within us for this sense. This upliftedness.
[7:08] Disciplines of practice, of cleaning.
[7:33] Not the discipline, the military view, where it's weaponized, but inviting, practice into our lives. Like inviting the sun and rain to feed and help a plant grow strong and thrive.
[8:34] Discipline into our lives to help us thrive.
[9:04] Represented as Snow Lion. Snow Lion is... A lion with fur that is all white. With a shaggy, turquoise mane. And it leaps... In the high mountains. Leaping from mountain top to mountain top. With joy... And cheerfulness. Wind rushing through its mane. From bird passing... To pause. tro relaxing...
[11:52] Feeling and cultivating this Snow Lion quality inside us. This cheerfulness. This joy in discipline. A joy of cleaning up, practicing, helping others. This simple, cheerful, joyful quality. Our Snow Lion.
[16:06] Moved....
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