Living From the Heart
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
39 Love Everyone
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the final talk of 2025, Zach focuses on what is most important and most essential: the path of loving everyone. Setting ou...
38 The Uselessness of the Mind
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this week’s talk, Zach encourages us to take the path to the heart by pointing out the uselessness of the mind. The ...
37 Everyday Dharma
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this week’s talk, Zach explores the dharma of our everyday lives. As soon as we become present, we know everything w...
36 The Mind-Blowing Breath – Part II
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Part II of this two-part talk, Zach explores the role of the breath in our meditation and yoga practice. The path of mantr...
35 The Mind-Blowing Breath – Part I
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Part I of this two-part talk, Zach explores the role of the breath in our meditation and yoga practice. The breath is like...
34 The Universal Evolution of Love
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this week’s talk, Zach explores seeing the evolution of the entire universe as one that goes to more and more love. ...
33 The Karmic Path to Love and Liberation – Part 2
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Part 2 of this two-part talk, Zach explores the path of Karma Yoga to love and liberation. First, we must understand the n...
32 The Karmic Path to Love and Liberation – Part 1
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Part I of this two-part talk, Zach explores the path of Karma Yoga to love and liberation. We can take inspiration from Sh...
31 Know Who You Are and Be Who You Are
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this week’s talk, Zach explores what it means to remember our true radiant nature. Great spiritual gurus tell us to ...
30 The Longing to Belong – Part II
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Part II of this two-part talk, Zach explores what it means to find belonging with the Earth, and belonging with the divine...
29 The Longing to Belong – Part I
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores one of the deepest human needs: the need for love, connection, and belonging. It’s normal t...
28 The Power of Kindness
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the power of kindness and explores different ways to cultivate our capacity to be kind. By recogn...
27 What We Think, We Become
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the power of thought, and how we can intentionally lay down positive mental patterns. Often our m...
26 The Deeper Meaning Behind Common Zen Stories – Part 2
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach continues to share some common Zen stories and interprets them on different levels. We learn from The Le...
25 The Deeper Meaning Behind Common Zen Stories – Part 1
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach shares some common Zen stories and interprets them on different levels. Our mind is made for stories, an...
24 Let the Burning Flame of Love Set Your Life on Fire – Part 2
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores part two of his exploration of tapas, fire, burning, discipline, and purification on the spiritua...
23 Let the Burning Flame of Love Set Your Life on Fire – Part 1
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the power of words on the spiritual path. We must understand that words are a vehicle to greater ...
22 What It Really Means to Clear Your Mind
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the practice of becoming nobody, and what it really means to “clear the mind.” Our me...
21 Each Moment is a Miracle
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach emphasizes that life is a gift and each moment is a miracle. Our spiritual task is to awaken to all the jo...
20 The Metaphysics of Love
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the metaphysics of love, and how the more love we give away, the more we have. Human beings long ...
19 Compassion comes from Sharing, Joining, and Commonness
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores all the ways to think about and cultivate compassion. We must look at compassion as a shared expe...
18. The I-Thou Relationship and Mystical Awakening
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the sacred I-thou relationship, based on 1923 work of Martin Buber, Ich Und Du, meaning I and Tho...
17 You Are Everything and Nothing
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the unification of dualities, and how to live on multiple planes of awareness at the same time. W...
16 The Many Meanings of Dharma
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores all the many different meanings of the Sanskrit word “Dharma.” Like many Sanskrit con...
15 You Want Love, but Are You Ready for It?
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores seeing our spirituality as one of cultivating positive emotion and social connection. Although we...
14 Seeing With the Heart
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores what it means to shift our darshan, or worldview, to see through the heart. While the mind is log...
13 Understanding Is Love’s Other Name
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores the idea that understanding is the bedrock of love. The deeper the understanding, the deeper the ...
12 Hatred Does Not Cease By Hatred
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach dives deep into a famous line from the Dhamma Pada, “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any tim...
11. The Three Stages of Connection
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explains the three stages of connection. By understanding the other planes of awareness available to us, t...
10. Embracing the Mystery
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach discusses the importance of embracing the mystery, and cultivating the beginner’s or “don̵...
The Art of Paying Attention
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this talk, Zach explains how our attention matters more than anything. By bringing our attention to the present moment and...
Seeing The World Through The Eyes of Love
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesDescription: In this talk, Zach explains how we all interpret reality through different lenses. Although our culture tells us...
The Journey of Eighteen Inches
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this talk, Zach discusses the long spiritual journey of eighteen inches: from the head to the heart. We have all been...
We are wired to connect
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this talk, Zach goes through our evolutionary history that wired us to empathize and connect with our fellow human be...
Seeing Ourselves in Everything
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this talk, Zach describes how the world is a reflection of us, just as much as we are a reflection of the world. By c...
A Strong Back and a Soft Front
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this talk, Zach talks about the importance of finding balance in all areas of our life, and what it truly means to li...
The Importance of Cultivating Connection
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this talk, Zach explores all the ways we are disconnected in the modern world, including from ourselves, nature, and each ...
Choose Love
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this talk Zach talks about the importance of choosing love, and what so often gets in the way. By setting an intentio...
Why Love?
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Time: < 1 minute“The mind makes us powerful, but the heart makes us human,” Zach says in the first Living From the Heart Ses...