Josh & Terry Summers

An Ancient City | Dharma Talk with Josh

The teachings of the Buddha, known as the Dharma, are like a map that shows the spiritual seeker how to walk the path of awakening. Josh reflects on this map […]

On self-Fragility | Dharma Talk with Josh

In this talk, Josh continues to explore some themes related to the development of self-fragility and how meditation nourishes a strong core Self. Listen to episode 175 here or in […]

Rooted For Wind | Dharma Talk with Josh

The conscientious young monk
Meditating three years alone
Can no longer be moved
By the four worldly winds.
– from fictional Zen story told by Ajahn Brahm

An Empty Cup | Dharma Talk with Josh

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup? – Zen Master Nan-in

Race, Jazz and Healing | Greg Thomas

When we shift from being subject to a racial worldview to looking at it as an object; when we are able to see how it works and work to not racialize ourselves or others… now we’re getting to where we can start to actually get off that karmic cycle. – Greg Thomas

Compassionate Inquiry | Dharma Talk with Josh

The Buddha spoke of sati (mindfulness) and sampajanna (clear comprehension) as the twin aspects of awareness that nurture wisdom and compassion. Mindfulness and clear comprehension suggest the relationship between deep listening and deep understanding. – Josh Summers

Compassionate Alignment | Dharma Talk with Josh

Real compassion includes wisdom and so it makes judgments of care and concern: it says some things are good, and some things are bad, and I will choose to act only on those things that are informed by wisdom and care. – Ken Wilber

Compassionate Receptivity | Dharma Talk with Josh

The three intentions of compassionate RAIN (receptivity, alignment, inquiry, and negotiation): May I create the conditions for this energy or part of me to feel safe, to feel heard, and to feel integrated. – Josh Summers

Listening Like Water | Dharma Talk with Josh

Trauma – any experience that cannot be integrated at the time of its occurrence – causes parts of oneself to freeze, like blocks of ice. These frozen parts evolve to keep us safe, but in their frozen state they alienate us from flowing with life. – Josh Summers

St. Anthony’s Valentine | Dharma Talk with Josh

“More than anything, there is a value placed on listening as closely as possible to the mysterious silence that supports existence, which is both the actual silence of the desert landscape and the silence of the self in contemplation. They listened to this silence with hopes of transforming their identities and reimagining community.” – Douglas Christie

A Functional Approach to Harmonizing Qi with Yin Yoga | Talk with Josh

“As a teacher, you won’t be able to address the specific needs of each individual. However, what you can offer is a creative way of working with posture, breath, intention and attention so that student and customize – within their own experience – a way to nudge their particular pattern, whatever it might be, towards homeostasis.” – Josh Summers

What is Qi? | Talk with Josh (republished)

“Qi produces the human body just as water becomes ice. As water freezes into ice, so Qi coagulates to form the human body. When ice melts, it becomes water. When a person dies, they become spirit again. It is called spirit, just as melted ice changes its name to water.” – Wang Chong (Taoist philosopher, AD 27-97)

My Take on Yin Yoga and Chinese Medicine | Talk with Josh

Yin Yoga collaborates with the organs of Chinese Medicine to support holistic health. It’s not just a matter of stimulating the channels; it’s a matter of optimizing organ health through the integration of posture, breath and psycho-spiritual practice. – Josh Summers

The Language of Jazz | Aaron Goldberg

“Everything I play is a reaction to everything that I just played and to what everybody else is playing at that moment. Great jazz is played when multiple people play together with that kind of necessity and mindset.” – Aaron Goldberg

Corks and Stones | Guided Meditation with Josh

Mindfulness functions like a stone that doesn’t stop the flow of the river, rather it comes to a deeper and calmer relationship to the flowing content of the river of experience. – Josh Summers

The Yoga of Grief | Donna Brooks

“One of the paradoxes about life is that when we’re really open to life, the tremendous suffering and the tremendous joy can coexist.” – Donna Brooks

Digging Deep | Dharma Talk

When you dig the well deep enough, you realize we’re all drinking from the same source. – Abdullah Ibrahim