Living From the Heart Zach Beach

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this talk, Zach explores the unification of dualities, and how to live on multiple planes of awareness at the same time. We can simultaneously recognize we are both everything and nothing, both perfect and growing, both living and dying. Spirituality means releasing all rigid attachments to beliefs, thoughts, and opinions, and not clinging to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this talk, Zach explores all the many different meanings of the Sanskrit word “Dharma.” Like many Sanskrit concepts, there are many different translations of this word, including duty, purpose, path, teachings, method, law, Tao, and Cosmic law. While seemingly separate ideas, there is an underlying unity behind them all. Intro Poem is part of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this talk, Zach explores seeing our spirituality as one of cultivating positive emotion and social connection. Although we say we want love, and spending a lot of time looking for “the one,” we often aren’t ready for it. Because love asks a lot of us, it requires us to look at our own stuff […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this talk, Zach explores what it means to shift our darshan, or worldview, to see through the heart. While the mind is logical and narrow, the heart is paradoxical and open. By seeing through the heart, we can live and experience the world in a completely new way. Intro poem, “What Are We?” is  […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this talk, Zach explores the idea that understanding is the bedrock of love. The deeper the understanding, the deeper the love. We must understand ourselves if we are to love ourselves. Intimacy is “into-me-see,” it’s seeing deeply into another person and honoring, accepting, and validating who they are. Intro Poem part of the Pebbles […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this talk, Zach dives deep into a famous line from the Dhamma Pada, “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.” 2,000 years later, humanity still hasn’t learned this law of the Universe. In a world with conflict, violence, and war, love is the […]