Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5)

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Talk titled: "Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5)", given during the event "Vajra Music". Held on 2020-03-05.

Topics covered: soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice, soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations, guided practice or instructions on voice / movement

Teacher's note on suitability: the five talks in this series were recorded by rob at his home. being preliminary practices for soulmaking dharma, the exercises offered in these talks can be worked with before a student engages the full scope of the soulmaking teachings. however, some of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended and contextualised once a student already has some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of a soulmaking dharma.
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62456
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/e91ba123a218a78d88a271eddc1c389c/f741de2a/2020_0305PreliminariesRegardingVoiceMovementandGesture-Part5.pdf

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5) - (Vajra Music)

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$Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) Talk titled: Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love, given during the event Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light. Held on 2019-05-31. Topics covered: soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, soulmaking: purpose of teachings on aspects of the imaginal, soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, refinements of terms, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation, twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities, soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine, definitions: refraction, soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice, soulmaking: participation, metaphysics, aging/sickness/death, prayer, soulmaking, duty in, images: love in and from images, hartmann, nicolai Teachers note on suitability: the talks in this series were recorded by rob at his home. as well as addressing and inquiring into common dharma themes such as emptiness, ethics, awakening, and tradition, they attempt to clarify or explore further various aspects and implications of some of the soulmaking dharma teachings and practices, including their bearing on some of those common dharma themes. please note: although not all of it, much of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended when there is already some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of soulmaking dharma, in addition to a good working familiarity with insight meditation. To donate to Robs foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Robs Dharma Seed bio (https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Robs founding of it. Original audio: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58770/ Transcript link: https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/283e2cf8f41deaa5c302f43c81ac2e13/4854beb9/2019_0531Dimensionality-HumilityDutyandLove.pdf$

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