Advanced GZL Course 2020 – Recordings Archive

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Surfing the Wave of Coincidence

- The Four Mindless Heart Misunderstandings - The Four Yellow Light Disappointments - The Four Mindful Heart Truths

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

The Four Seasons of Relationship (Green Light) * Meditation — Solitude to Intimacy and back to Solitude * The Mindful Heart/Heartful Mind Cycle * Core Paradoxes of the Four Seasons * Four Seasons are "Wheels within Wheels"

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

Green Zone Facilitation * Conditional vs. Unconditional Relationship * Lights as Moment by Moment * Positive Interruptions to bring us out of the Red Light * Boundaries vs. Barriers

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

• Entering the material in the Fourth Key of Mindful Relationship/Unconditional Friendliness = Padma Family • The "mirage" of relationship/the "floating world" • The delicacy of flowers and the ephemeral reality of connection • Discernment of what is "better" and what is "worse"

What is an Interruption to the Red Light (Really?) * The Interruptions to the Four Stages of Heartless Mind

Greg Heffron is the Executive Director of the Green Zone Institute, dedicated to the Mindful Communication teachings of author and Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Find more online resources and our schedule of courses at https://greenzonetalk.com

The Structure of the Course * 3rd Key = Mindful Speech = Vajra Family (cont'd from Class 12) * What if you don't feel a specific Red Light, but lack access to that energy? * The Four Stages of Heartless Mind (Red Light Pattern)

Speaking the Truth - Green Light Aspect - What is really going on? * 3rd Key = Mindful Speech = Vajra Family = Clarity, Accuracy, Big picture, Captures details * Guided Meditation: Exploring the truths of our body, heart, & mind * We-first view of truth * Real truth is gentleness, brings relief, unwinds tension - Doesn't make a pretense that we are separate. * Telling truth as form of kindness * How to speak the truth in a way people can hear?

2nd key = Mindful Listening, going for the gold = Ratna family * This is the 4th & final session of this pattern * Connected to being a good leader & mentor * Holding two different viewpoints at the same time & realizing they both have their truth * Guided Meditation: Body, Heart, Mind with the awareness of the richness & gold of all experiences * Negative & neutral are included in the gold, as well as the fun parts * Red light patterns are result of neglected yellow light * Explanation of diagram of Red Light Pattern of Contempt & it's interruptions * Starts with yellow light of "I'm afraid I'm unworthy." * Exercise: Causing small pain & soothing it @ same time * Experience entirety as pure gold - Going beyond "I want, I hate, I don't care." * Exercise: Picturing one of our flaws as a radiant angel * The interruption for the red light of belittling is total appreciation * Give the gold away * Breakout room discussions (not recorded): fellow monarchs graciously hosting each other.

2nd key = Mindful Listening = Ratna family (cont'd from Classes 8 & 9) * Guided meditation: the 4 elements *Focusing on the richness of the gold * Deep listening from profound sense of confidence * Video of Daryl Davis, a Black man who befriends members of the Ku Klux Klan - He has unshakeable stability from a sense of richness - A good role model of listening across a divide. * Finding weak spot in the red light where someone can finally feel * The wisdom of equality - example of Black people cultivating strength & stability in face of racism in the U.S. - rooted in sense of one's own decency, goodness, & sense of solid gold * Break-out groups (not recorded) explored triggers and sense of care & gold underneath * Brief mention of next month's theme = the 3rd key of encouragement. Encouragement can highlight the gold when someone is in the yellow light.

2nd key - Mindful Listening (cont'd from Class 8) * Ratna Family = Awareness of innate richness (gold) that's always there. * Red light pattern of contempt and the yellow light beneath it. * Confidence that everything's gold flips into greed, lack of confidence, feeling the need to get more & more gold, there's not enough to go around, the only way to get richness is to push someone else down. * The five yellow light fears. (I'm cutoff, I'm unworthy, I'm unloveable, I'm powerless, I'm unforgiveable.) * "I'm unworthy" is the yellow light pattern that goes with this 2nd key and with the Ratna family. * Greg role plays being in the red light with a feeling of limited richness and feeling the need to reduce others in order to try (unsuccessfully) to feel better. * Description of the 4 stages of contempt and their interruptions in which the yellow light of "I'm unworthy" becomes the red light of belittling and putting others down.

2nd key = Mindful Listening, encouragement, gratitude & appreciation = Ratna Family * Green light versions * Guided Exercise: Diving into the gold of experience of the visual field * Genuine worthiness * Basic goodness, Buddha nature, & the 3 lights * Green light is buried gold inside each individual * Listening for solid gold * What's the green light truth buried inside the red or yellow light?

1st key = Mindful Presence (the green light) = Buddha Family * Red light pattern of exclusion = the flip side of mindful presence * Two different train videos * Random-word exercise in breakout rooms * Discussion in breakout rooms of each person's degree of calmness or stillness bias * Breakout room discussions where people change the subject

Going beyond hesitation - using awareness of body to overcome hesitation to feel body's experience * Guided meditation from Mudra Space Awareness of diving into a swimming pool that's filled with the sense of touch * the green light idea of direct experience where we're no longer holding back * exploring whatever one's experience is no matter what * Still face exercise where listener covers up their face while partner keeps talking

Guided Meditation = Body, heart, mind * Stillface Video

Guided Meditation = Body, Heart, Mind * Organized green zones * Introductions

Participants briefly introduce selves * Keynote recorded lecture from Susan from 2 years prior from 18:05 - 1:12:53.

Green Zone Mandala diagram * Explanation of social and personal green zones * Explanation of Natural Communication System - Working with Body/Heart/Mind + interdependence * Taking care of yellow light

Course Introduction * Guided Meditation = Natural Communication System of Body/Heart/Mind * Course Structure * Resources - text/forum