Loch Kelly: Pointers to Open-Hearted Awareness, Part 1

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Loch Kelly is a meditation teacher, author, and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. With Sounds True, Loch has just published the book and a companion audio series Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Loch and Tami Simon speak on the discovery of “awake awareness” and how to get in touch with a state that is already present in all of us. They also talk about the difference between effortful and effortless mindfulness practice, as well as methods of “unhooking” from the relentless flow of thought. Finally, Tami and Loch discuss stabilizing one’s mindfulness practice and living from awake awareness in every moment. (64 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
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0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Locke Kelly.
0:44.4	Locke is a meditation teacher, psychotherapist, author,
0:47.8	and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute.
0:51.6	A graduate of Columbia University, Locke was awarded a fellowship to study forms of
0:57.7	non-dual meditation in Sri Lanka and Nepal from 1981 to 1982.
1:04.1	Locke also spent 10 years establishing homeless shelters,
1:09.0	community lunch programs, and working
1:11.4	in a community mental health clinic in Brooklyn.
1:15.0	He also serves as coordinator of counseling at Union Theological Seminary and has worked extensively
1:22.2	with families of 9-11 victims.
1:25.0	Locke has been teaching seminars and practicing awareness psychotherapy in New York City for 25 years. He has also collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale,
1:37.0	the University of Pennsylvania, and NYU to study awareness training's effects on enhancing compassion and well-being.
1:46.0	With sounds true, Lott Kelly has just released a new book and a companion audio series entitled Shift into Freedom,
1:56.8	The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness.
2:01.5	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Locke and I spoke about unhooking from thought and how to distinguish thinking from awareness.
2:12.0	We also talked about the difference between deliberate
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