Make Your Whole Life the Garden

Make Your Whole Life the Garden

April 30, 2026 · 46 min

About this episode

The episode discusses how to express aliveness through various life activities, emphasizing the importance of participation in five key unfoldings of a realizational life.

This talk is about how aliveness wants to unfold through our life process. It opens with the question of what it means to find an activity that expresses one's aliveness (for example gardening), and how to widen it so it can inform all of life's activities. The talk names five unfoldings of a "realizational life": aliveness, order, expression, form, and Way. Each requires the practitioner's awake participation; none can be skipped or forced. The talk also names three ways aliveness can be dis...

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