Zoom Awakening Meditation

Larry Meditation

I offer a guided relaxation and simple instructions for the first few minutes, then we sit in silence together. I use an easy and effective practice called The Direct Path to Peace, Joy and Love. There is no ritual practice, just a deep understanding and experience of our true nature of peace, joy and love. Here’s are a couple of …

Awakening Meditation online at zoom.us

Larry Meditation

Free Awakening Meditation is available online at zoom.us. Download the free zoom app and input the Meeting ID 435 837 3694 to join the meditation session or use the link below at the scheduled date and time. 30 minute awakening meditation weekdays @ 8:30am and noon (No noon sessions on Wednesdays) Eastern Time (New York) Saturday Happy Hour from 4pm–5pm: …

Foundational Practices for Joyful Living

Larry First Steps

What is Joyful Living and how does one live in peace, joy and love? Joyful living is living as the peaceful, joyful, loving presence that we are when we abide as our true nature. In my experience, most children come by this naturally if their basic needs are met.  Most of us adults have to consciously commit to growing into …

Does Awakening Heal You?

Larry Integrating Awakening

Does awakening to our True Nature heal our hearts and set us free? My experience is that awakening opens the possibility for healing, wholeness and fulfillment. It hold the potential. It necessitates the application of awakening’s love to wash over one’s heart and cleanse our wounds over time. Here’s the path I’ve followed to allow for awakening to truly heal me: …

We’re here to find our way home.

Larry Integrating Awakening

Let’s jump right in with a big question: “Why are we here?” Simply put, we are here to find our way home. We start in our heads, identifying with our thoughts, beliefs and points of view. Thought identity can only result in resistance and seeking. Resistance and seeking is suffering. Suffering is the opposite of peace, fulfillment or happiness. Eventually, suffering …

The Direct Path is a Simple Choice at Every Moment

Larry Integrating Awakening

The Direct Path as presented in books, video and retreat weeks by Rupert Spira, results in fulfillment and happiness. How? By guiding us through direct experience to an experience of ourselves as pure awareness. In its nature awareness is fulfilled and happy for it needs nothing. So, by knowing ourselves as awareness we integrate this experience of fulfillment and happiness. The …

What if there is no “me”, no separate self?

Larry Deeper Dive

The Direct Path of Vedanta philosophy is based on one’s experience. All truth is based on experiential knowledge. It takes courage to ask, “What do we know for certain?” “What is our actual experience?”  When we looking beyond what we have always assumed, there is the possibility of freeing ourselves from the assumptions that constrict and restrain our unbounded spirit. Let’s …

What if there is no “me”, no separate self?

Larry Integrating Awakening

The Direct Path of Advaita Vedantic philosophy is based on one’s experience. All truth is based on experiential knowledge. It takes courage to ask, “What do we know for certain?” “What is our actual experience?”  When we looking beyond what we have always assumed, there is the possibility of freeing ourselves from the assumptions that constrict and restrain our unbounded spirit. …

Growth= Discomfort: Me & My Comfort Zone

Larry Integrating Awakening

“There is no greater battle in life than the battle between the parts of you that want to be healed and the parts of you that are comfortable and content remaining broken.”  Iyanla Vanzant. I lived in a protected comfort zone most of my adult life. I didn’t trust myself to show up in what I perceived were challenging situations. I had …