Infinite Love Radio, May 16, 2008
Stephan Bodian - Spiritual Teacher
Michelle's guest is Stephan Bodian. Stephan has practiced and taught nondual approaches to truth for more than 35 years. After a series of deepening realizations, he received Dharma transmission (authorization to teach) from his Zen teacher, Adyashanti. His life is now devoted to igniting and fostering the flame of truth in others through his counseling, mentoring, teaching, and writing.
In addition to regular satsangs and intensives, Stephan offers silent retreats and an eight-month School for Awakening that begins again in June 2008. A licensed psychotherapist as well as a spiritual teacher, he has evolved a vibrant, intimate approach to counseling and mentoring that blends psychological insight and spiritual realization. His new book, Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening, was published this year by McGraw-Hill. (To order, click on the book cover to the left.)
Stephan began practicing Zen in 1970 after studying Asian language and culture at Columbia and Stanford. Ordained a Zen priest in 1974, he trained with several Zen masters, including Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) and Taizan Maezumi Roshi, and directed the training program at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He also practiced Dzogchen-Mahamudra with several Tibetan teachers and spent 10 years studying Advaita Vedanta with Jean Klein.
Stephan is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine Yoga Journal and a contributing editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and he has written extensively on spiritual themes. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines, including Fitness, Alternative Medicine, Cooking Light, Tricycle, and, of course, Yoga Journal.
He's the author of the popular guidebook Meditation for Dummies, which has sold over 125,000 copies and is now in its second edition with instructional CD. The book is available in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and French editions. His other books include Living Yoga (with Georg Feuerstein); Timeless Visions, Healing Voices; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jonathan Landaw). Stephan also contributed the chapter "Deconstructing the Self: The Uses of Inquiry in Nondual Psychotherapy" for the anthology The Sacred Mirror (Paragon, 2003).
Infinite Love Radio
Welcome to Infinite Love Radio where the reality of Oneness Is in the present moment as we connect one to another and another and to another until we are all One.
We are all One as we attune ourselves in the moment with the knowing that we are all sparks of the Divine in form as me as you as all.
In this Radio program you shall experience the Oneness with a realization that we are all here to experience and go forth multiplying our learning's in our lives.
As we live in the moment of truth whatever that truth is for you we learn that it just Is. Without any judgments of the words spoken, we realize that inside all of us is the truth of our being, our True selves yearning to be Loved as we open ourselves to be vulnerable and authentic.
I invite all the listeners to listen with the inner knowing that we are all One as we unite here on the air. We are called to be aware of our own perceptions and interpretations of what IS.
Each individual is learning and moving on with what is. Let us allow ourselves to be okay with what is said and take in whatever has shown up in our lives as the presence of the Divine and the light of the Universe showing itself and revealing itself as me, you and all.
It is my hope that you sit with what you have read so far and open up your sweet hearts to the calling of your Soul as you have United with Infinite Love Right Here Right Now, you are all that Is for we are all One.
