Advanced GZL Course 2018 – Recordings Archive




































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Week 1 – August 30, 2018
(unfortunately, this recording didn’t capture all the participants – only me. I’ll work on this for future broadcasts)
This began with Greg offering a welcome to the course community.
Talk topic: “The Green Light”
- Basic Goodness
- The Green Light and challenges
- The Green Light and Self-Trust
- The Green Light and Genuine Pleasure
- Going Beyond Hesitation (Doubt)
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Week 2 – September 6, 2018
To begin, we had a rich time sharing with each other our intentions for going deeper into this material.
Talk topics: “The Red Light”
- The Mechanisms of Shutting Down (through the Three Lights)
- The Creation of Duality
- Mindfulness Approach to Red Light
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Week 3 – September 13, 2018
Talk Topics: Susan Chapman’s keynote address on the Five Buddha Families and The Five Keys.
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Week 4 – September 19, 2018
Talk Topics: “The Yellow Light”
- Liminal States (“between this and that”)
- The Raw Energy of Anxiety
- The Roots of Self-Attack
- Chaos is Good News
- All Mindfulness practices give us opportunity to work directly with Yellow
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Week 5 – September 27, 2018
- Mindfulness
- Awareness
- The Union of Mindfulness and Awareness
- Three Layers of Insight
- Outer, Inner, Secret
- Exercise
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Week 6 – October 4, 2018
Awareness of Awake Body
- What Do We Know That’s Not From the Body?
- “Psychosomatic body”
- Going Beyond Hesitation with the Body
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Week 7, October 11, 2018
Awareness of Tender Heart
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- Light vs. Heavy Thoughts
- Concept vs. Living Emotion
- like Psychosomatic Body
- The Green/Yellow/Red Lights of Emotion
- Meditation on Tender Heart
- Listening with the Heart: Greg’s story
- Small Group Exercise
- Speaking/Listening from the Heart
Week 8 – October 18, 2018
Awareness of Open Mind
- Space of the mind
- observing our mental contents
- guided meditation on mental contents (5min)
- FIRSTLY: relax…
- What Are Concepts?
- “mudra” – Finger pointing to the moon
- gross thoughts/subtle thoughts
- “breath” “nose” and “mouth” are concepts
- all language is based on concepts
- Holding an Open Mind
- Discovering we’re wrong
- Partner exercise – “When I found out I was wrong…”
Week 9 – Oct 25, 2018
- “positive” “negative” “neutral – solid gold experiences
- More than overcoming preferences
- actually enjoying
- “Pure Gold” of Basic Goodness
- opera of experience (Pagliacci video)
- “Totality”
- 360 circle exercise
- Offering/Hosting/Sharing
- Total Hospitality (enjoying everyone/everything), inside and outside
- guided meditation on total gratitude
- Total Hospitality (enjoying everyone/everything), inside and outside
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Week 10 – November 1, 2018
- Dualistic concepts of worth
- last week: saw the gold of all experience
- yellow light wound — being afraid I’m unworthy/worthless
- The See Saw Pattern
- video: ex-neo-nazi who is trans
- The Four Stages of Contempt
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Week 11 – November 8, 2018
- Four Elements Meditation
- Cross cultural classroom
- Leadership and Guidance – “Lids and Flowers” (like in Five Keys)
- Daryl Davis video (black man who is friends with KKKlansmen)
- Discuss – “Do we really think all people have basic goodness?”
- Empty flattery vs. highlighting genuine qualities
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Week 13 – Nov 22 2018
(Week 12 was cancelled due to illness)
Lights in a Conversation diagram & discussion
NOTE: The diagram can be seen here.
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Week 14 – Nov 29, 2018
- Going for the Gold – an unconditional approach which includes painful (and neutral) experience
- The Interruptions to the Four Stages of Contempt
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Four Interruptions as four meditations/exercises
- feeling our senses as gold and jewels
- recognizing everyone as a ‘monarch’
- seeing our flaws as richness
- dialogue with ‘honored guest’
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Week 15 – December 6 2018
- Truth as Medicine/Kindness – “Gentle Speech”
- Speaking in a way that can be heard.
- Exaggerating
- Suppressing
- Speaking in a way that can be heard.
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Week 16 – December 13, 2018
Susan Chapman’s class on the Four Stages of Heartless Mind
& the Four Kinds of Compassionate Action
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Week 17 – December 20, 2018
- Meditation on Truth
- Red Light – identifying added projections
- Present Moment Truth is Changing Every Moment
- Suppressing the Truth – Hesitating With Our Insights
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Week 19 – Jan 3, 2019 (week 18 was a holiday)
- The Antidotes to The Four Stages of Heartlessness
- Susan presented model (diagram)
- Awake Body as antidote for Complaint/Silencing
- awkward posture
- Tender Heart as antidote for Divisiveness
- generalizations/derogatory slang
- Open Mind as antidote for Blaming
- extending/embracing
- An Awake Attitude Towards “Peace & Reconciliation” (antidote to Retaliation)
- have human societies healed?
- Breakout – how does it feel when someone forgives us?
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Week 20 – Jan 10, 2019
- The Living “Mirage” of Relationship
- Beauty meditation
- flowers blooming time-lapse with Caetano Veloso’s “Curucucucucu Paloma”
- Relationship and Discernment
- Becoming a “Connoisseur” of Connection
- Joy/connection can’t happen continuously (impermanence)
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Week 21 – January 17, 2019
- opening meditation
- Mandala of the Yellow Lights
- unloveable – not just romance
- exploring red light pattens is not about sin/confession
- The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
- Emotional hunger
- Disconnect
- Freezing an Object of Joy
- Manipulation/Dependent Strategies
- dialogue exercise
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Week 22, January 24, 2019
- All relationship with others starts with relationship with ourselves
- Feeling connection vs. manufacturing connection
- Boundaries vs. Barriers in terms of intimacy
- The Paradox of Closeness
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Week 23 – January 31, 2019
- Interruptions to The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
- Emotional hunger – “I want more”
- Intimate Conversation with Senses (Awake Body)
- Disconnect/“They have it, I don’t”
- Witnessing the loneliness of conditional connection (Tender Heart)
- Freezing an Object of Joy – objectification
- Investigating Sources of Happiness (Open Mind)
- Manipulation – must secure resources
- Falling in Love with Reality
- Emotional hunger – “I want more”
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Week 24 – February 7, 2019
Green Light – The Four Seasons of Relationship
- meditation – Four Seasons of breath
- Four Seasons
- Winter (solitude)
- Spring (joy)
- Summer (intimacy)
- Fall (pain)
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Week 25 – Feb 14, 2019 (with Martin Ramstedt)
Guest Lecture: “Engaging the three lights in alien cultural contexts”
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Week 26, Feb 21, 2019
- The Four Mindless Heart Misunderstandings
- Partner Exercise – is there a seasonal Red Light that comes up in your experience. Share what it feels like from the inside.
- The Four Seasons of Mindless Heart (diagram)
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Week 27 – February 28, 2019
- The Four Yellow Light Disappointments
- Love Includes Loss
- Joy and Impermanence
- The Limits of Intimacy/Sharing
- Boundaries Prevent Harm
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Week 28 – March 7, 2019
- Green Zone Practical Tips – Environment
- Responsiveness (vs. Controlling/”Ruthless”)
- Surfing the Wave of Coincidence in Nowness
- Responses to Emotions can be direct
- Matt Smith – “Everything changes everything.” (in the present moment)
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Week 29 – March 14, 2019
- Interview with Klara and Piotr about the longstanding Green Zone in Szczecin, Poland
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Week 30 – March 21, 2019
- true intention of Yellow/Green Light voices
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- fatigue
- heroic fixation
- strategizing
- domination
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Week 31 – March 28, 2019
- special presentation by Esther Hasselman on Group Dynamics and Systems Centered Training.
- Greg on when issues arise in Green Zones
- announcement of Teacher Training/next GZL course
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Week 32 – April 4, 2019
- Interruptions to The Four Stages of Ruthlessness
- game show format
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Week 33 – April 11, 2019
- Marianne’s presentation – Thich Nhat Hanh sangha with sharing
- Green Zone Structures
- The Four Stages of Exclusion
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Week 34 – April 18, 2019
- Pragmatic Issues with Facilitation
- Ethics for Green Zone Leaders
- Interruptions to Four Stages of Exclusion
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Week 35 – April 25, 2019
- Overview of course
- Comments Going Forward
- Closing Offerings
Chris Bacon’s closing song (adapted from “May Your Life Be as a Song” by Jim Scott):