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The Wake Up Call for Lawyers — 264 episodes
Avoiding Misfortune
Happiness in the Midst of Hate
What Else Can We Do But Sit Down?
Is Mindfulness for Everyone?
Discovering Our Work
The ABC Rule – Always be Changing
The Consequences of…Everything
Right Now It’s Like This
The Mischievous Mind
The Thousands of Ways We Fool Ourselves
Bringing Faith to Our 250th Birthday Party
Freedom Means Being Honest With Ourselves
We Are All Such Beloved Fools
Acting Accordingly, and Other Good Ideas
Overlooking the Faults of Others
Don’t Let Your Heart Run Scared
Taking Joy in a Knock on the Nose
Mindfulness on the Ground
Creating Happiness
Truth and the Heart: Seeing is Healing
Worthiness
How Attention Creates Stability
Knowing our Fate, How Can We Quarrel?
The Problem with Blame
The Power of Our State of Mind
The Poetry of Mindfulness
The Big Topic of Intention
Choosing a Point of View
Lawyering & Wise Livelihood
Un-clouding the Mind
Practicing Respect for Everyone
As If There’s Enough
Random Acts of Non-Harming
How to Talk About…Everything
Make of Yourself a Light
The Possibilities of Concentration
How to Practice, Part II: Courage & Grace
Gratitude, 2025
Why Practice?
How to Practice
Mindfulness, Love, Courage, and Grace
The Path, Step Two: Wise Mindfulness
Joyful Effort – The First Step
The Path We’re Choosing
How to Let Go When the Ride is Bumpy
The Cause of Suffering Right Now
The Benefits of Suffering, Distress, and Other Difficult Moments
Back to Basics: Setting the Wheel in Motion
What if Every Day Was the Most Ordinary Day of Your Life?
The Wake Up Call @499
The Relief of Not Being in Charge
Positive Regard for Undeserving People
Playing With Untangling the Mind
Relaxing the Mind
Ethical Choice : One Thing to Feel Good About
Ethics in Uncommonly Difficult Times
Conjuring Love Out of Adversity
Letting Generosity Set the Tone for What Follows
Could These Be Three Elements of Peace?
Making Peace with Dread (The Personal Kind)
Sending Some Love to Earth
Accessing Our Love, and Other Challenges
Wisdom and Not-Wisdom in Action, Plus Sweet News
Commitment Versus Attachment
Signaling Safety with Mindful Communication
An Appropriate Response?
Making Peace Out of Chaos
The Radical Act of Abandoning Hate
Love and Breathe, For Everyone’s Sake
Patience is the Stronger Position
Love and Intention, Even Now
Faith in An Appropriate Response
Resting Up for What’s Next
Right Now, Don’t be Bothered by Anything
The Bigger the Space, the Easier it is to Care
Beginning With Beginner’s Mind
Choosing a Theme for 2025
Can We Talk About Faith?
Letting Nature Bring Peace
Appreciating Slothfulness
Sitting Above the Fray
Is it gratitude, or something else?
Seeing Clearly in Difficult Times
Just Breathe
Welcoming This Scary Moment: Happy Halloween. Happy Almost Election.
How to Feel Right Now
Impermanence, Multiple Truths, and Door-Knocking
Turning Forgiveness Around
Apology and Forgiveness
Wise Concentration
Wise Mindfulness, A Tall Order
Wise Effort - Goldilocks Was Right
Wise Lawyering: Practicing Peace
Behaving With Wisdom
Winning & Influencing Mindfully
The Problem With Good Intentions
The Path to Waking Up
Letting Go When the Stakes are High
The Reason Things Are Hard
Why Being Human is The Only Way
The Insecurity Of Everything
Why Change is All the Things
Suffering As the Most Ordinary Thing
The End of Suffering
Not This Not That
Finding Someone To Insult You
Four Ways To Be Still In Difficult Moments
Learning to Stop Strategizing
Groundlessness/Feet On The Ground
Meditation That Unlocks Wisdom
Making Enthusiasm Cool Again
Patience With Ourselves
Ethics, Ferocity, and Harmony
Knowing How To Give
Letting The Raft Disintegrate
Laziness and the Lawyer
Getting Beyond Reproach
Can We Ever Truly Forgive?
Working With Our Enemies
Ending Up With The Goodies
The Practice of Thinking of Others
Happiness Without a Hangover
Breathing For The World
Getting To Know My Demons
Choosing To Befriend Everyone
Choosing To Be A Warrior
Bowing Out of 2023 and Into 2024
Moving Forward By Sitting Still
The Cure for Hot and Cold
The Three Marks of Existing as a Lawyer
Balancing on Shaky Ground
The Truth About Uncompromising Truth
Learning To Tolerate Being Terrified
The Liminal Space of Not Knowing
The Impossible Task Of Being Human
The Thoughts That Bother Me
When Our Best Falls Short
The Potential in Scary Moments
Can We Turn Resilience Into Love?
Back to the Basics of Mindfulness
Letting Go Into Fall
You Don't Always Want What You Want...
The Consequences of What We Feel
Connecting With Our Experience
The Courage to Explore Pain & Suffering
What I Thought I Knew About Mindfulness
Ordinary Moments, Bumpy Times
Writing My Father’s Obituary
The Joy of Being the Change: Three Baskets of Mindfulness
Scheming, Persuading, and Other Considerations of Mindful Lawyering
Practicing with Poisons
Come for the Practice, Stay for the Love
How to Not Take More Than We Need
Ethics, Shame, Dread, and Forgiveness
The Good News About Shame and Dread
Equanimity Rulel
The Blessing of Equanimity
The Task of Concentration
Awakening to Tranquility in the Here and Now
The Joy of Waking Up
The Energy to Awaken Our Best & Brightest Legal Mind
Investigating the Legal Mind, Not Just the Matter
Becoming More Mindful of Our Own Beautiful Minds
Wanting, Wanting, Not Wanting, Not Caring: Mindful of Our Relationship to Experience
Remembering to Remember to be Mindful
The Treasures Within
Getting In Close
The Wisdom of Sorrow
Wisdom Inquiries: The Invisible Chain that Links Lawyers, Clients, Opponents, and All
Wisdom Inquiries - Can Lawyers Do No Harm
Bringing a New Kind of Wisdom Into 2023
Attention + Intention in 2023
Sacred Spaces in the Law
Settling In & Waking Up, Together
Is Meditation Required?
Priming the Pump of Gratitude
Vow to be Courageous
The Joy of Waking Up at 5am to Meditate
Patience Means Giving the Victory to Others
Passionate Advocacy With Patience, Not Anger
Patience in an Impatient World
Turning the Destiny of a Nation
How Shall I Live, and Other Questions We Can Only Answer in Our Imaginations
Ethics Are Impossible Where There's No Justice
Ethics for the Greater Good
Ethics and Character
The "Real" Rules of Ethics
The Perfection of Ethics for a Life in the Law
Courage, Political Action, and Interconnection as Generosity
The Biggest Ask of All: the Generosity of Just Being Nice
The Gifts of Recognition, Admiration, and Laughter
Generosity : Creating a Safer, Braver, World
Generosity of Practice: Maybe We’re All Teachers
What We Have to Give
The Optimism of Generosity
Generosity for Ourselves Right Now
The Impossibility of Perfection
Re - Imagining the Law
The Fine Art of Letting Go
The Compatibility of Kindness
Lighting Up the World, One Lawyer at a Time
Finding Peace in Each Breath
Enduring an Attack
Taming the Runaway Mind
How Much Mindfulness is Enough?
G.R.O.U.N.D. Practice and Being a Leader of Peace
Whacking Someone On the Head, in a Mindful Way
Are We Starting to Get It?
Cutting Off the Head of the Snake
The Perils of "Being" a Lawyer
Preventing Corruption, and Other Advantages of Mindfulness
Dancing With Fear, and Other Paradoxes
The next Buddha will be our community
A little less grief and fear...
Can Victory Lead to Hate?
Finding Refuge in 2022
Setting the Moon Free, and Other Impossible Intentions for 2022
Finding the Beloved in Ourselves
All Hands on Deck!
Alternatives to Violence
Crowding Out the "Evil" in the Mind
Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E3: First Person Gratitude
Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E2: 5 Habits of Highly Grateful Lawyers
Gratitude Mini-Series S1/E1: Grateful for the Hard Stuff
Shining a Mindful Light on Brokenness
Mindfulness & Creating Safety in the Profession
Softening Barriers to Respectfulness
Conquering Ourselves
New York State of Mind
One (Patient) Moment to Create Peace
Don't Put Yourself on Trial
Sanctuary is Where We Are
Mindfulness & Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Smoke and the Fire
To Tame or To Blame - That's Today's Question
Let's Talk About Our Friends (In a Nice Way)
Last Week the Fool, This Week the Sage
Your Last Pants Have No Pockets
Mastering the World, and other mindful ideas
Mindfulness in the Probate Court
Taming the Restless (Legal) Mind
The Vigilance to be Free
To Grieve or Rejoice: That's the Question
Where Quarrels End
One Thing Leads to Another: Anger to Anger, Peace to Love
Stepping Back for a Clearer View
Clarity and Balance: Dropping the Objections and Getting to Work
Noticing Your Innate Peace of Mind
Don't Fight With Your Practice (aka Making Peace With Your Practice)
Opening (to) the World
Resting in the Present Moment
Finding Common G.R.O.U.N.D.
G.R.O.U.N.D. in the Here & Now
Equanimity as Things Unfold
Equanimity at the End, My Mother's Last Teaching
Equanimity in the Time of COVID
Forgiveness that Can Lead to Liberation
Wishing Our Enemies Well
Letting Joy Win
Taking Joy in Someone Else's Success
The Joy of Letting Someone Else Lead
Unity
What Do Wisdom and Compassion Look Like Right Now?
Why Practice Mindfulness?