In this 45-minute talk, Craig explores one of the most confusing and fascinating elements of the spiritual life: the relationship between the meditative experience of emptiness and the exhilarating energy and creativity of the evolutionary impulse.
Below the video player is an MP3 version of the talk, if you’d prefer to engage the content in that way.
Want to download the mp3 version? Click here.
QUESTION: I’m confident in my ability to let go of my mind and my thoughts during meditation, but the idea of doing this in the midst of daily life scares me. In theory, I really like the idea of living in the unknown, but I have a job and a social life that require...
Question: Recently, I came to a point on the spiritual path where I had a real reckoning with my soul. I realized that at this point, I needed to choose whether or not I wanted to “go all the way” and really align my life with my highest spiritual calling. It was a...
Question: At the heart of your teaching, and of many other spiritual teachings, is a kind of demand to let go of our ego’s wants and needs. I get this at a cognitive level. And when I sit down to meditate, I find it fairly easy to simply let go of everything. But when...
Craig Hamilton is a spiritual trailblazer whose innovative approach to transformation is bringing enlightenment down to earth and unlocking the codes to our highest human potential.
Subscribe to Craig’s weekly Awakened Life Newsletter to receive his latest inspirational teachings and guided meditations.
We all know it’s important to have goals. They keep us focused and push us to grow beyond our limitations. But when it comes to meditation, while we might be doing the practice with a goal in mind, fixating on a specific outcome or state that we’re trying to get to...
As we approach the beginning of a New Year, many of us are starting to think about resolutions. We’re setting intentions for where we want to go in the coming year, thinking about things we want to change about our lives or our behavior, or setting new goals for...
At some point or another, nearly all meditators struggle with the challenge of an overactive mind. Most of us are aware that meditation requires us to find a way to disengage from our thoughts. But what happens when a flow of creative, insightful ideas suddenly...
Awareness, or consciousness, is perhaps the most profound and significant aspect of human existence. In every moment of our waking life, we are aware. We are conscious. Yet, because of our habitual focus on the “content” of awareness — the thoughts, feelings and...
Question: When I’m awake to what you call “the evolutionary impulse,”I find that I care deeply for many things: the environment, the awakening of humanity, social justice, animal rights, and so on. I take responsibility to live lightly on the planet. I donate time...
Many spiritual practices advocate focusing your attention on the body in order to liberate your awareness from the mind. While these approaches are valuable, they probably won’t open you to the deeper dimensions of meditation practice: becoming aware of consciousness...
Meditation invites us to completely let go of the “need to know” and rest in the unknown. But is this stance of “unknowing” as passive as it sounds? In this audio, Craig explores the sense of patient expectancy that we can bring to meditation as we are attentive to...
0 Comments