HEART-PAGE
The longer we cling to the notion that there’s a separate self who awakens, the more arduous our path will be. We realize freedom together.
HEART-PAGE
The longer we cling to the notion that there’s a separate self who awakens, the more arduous our path will be. We realize freedom together.
The Heart of
Who We Are
We all long to be happy. Not happy as in glee but deep contentment. We all long to feel at ease, to know that we’re okay, that life is okay, to be at peace. And we’re deeply habituated to look for this happiness outside us, to grasp and scramble for an experience that, at best, ends up being fleeting, then something we long for again. We forget that this experience we long for is already seated in the heart of who we are—and that it’s always here.
Have you ever touched this peace, this contentment, this deep knowing of who you truly are and then struggled because you recognized the degree to which the world around you didn’t reflect this experience of our true nature?
About
Caverly
All being is shared being.
To know this is peace.
To live this is love.
Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder. She is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. Caverly is also the founder of Presence Collective, a community of cross-cultural contemplatives committed to personal and collective transformation. She is the author of A Kids Book About Mindfulness.
Caverly blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001 and leads meditation retreats, workshops and online classes internationally.
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Realizing Freedom Together
A Practice Collective - Registration is Open!
You are invited to dive deeply into the practices offered in Caverly’s book, The Heart of Who We Are.
Feeling isolated in your practice or life at large? Seeking the support of beloved community? Longing to be part of a collective that isn’t merely comprised of many individuals practicing together but also applies tools that were designed for personal transformation, collectively?
You can learn more about the Practice Collective HERE. We hope you can join us!
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This nine-session practice collective will explore these themes:
Session 1: Building Community through Collective CARE
Session 2: Cultivating the Gift of Loving Attention
Session 3: Recognizing and Disidentifying with the Conditioned Mind
Session 4: Releasing Negative Self-talk and Accessing Unconditional Love
Session 5: Unpacking Our Survival Strategies
Session 6: Seeing through Duality
Session 7: Knowing the Heart of Who We Are
Session 8: Resting in Being and Returning to Embodiment
Session 9: Celebrating Community and Moving into Our Lives
Our time together will include guided meditation, dharma discussion, dyad and small group work, and reflection. Between sessions there will be (optional) recommended reading and practices from Caverly’s book, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together.
What will I take away?
Practice tools that support you in realizing your inherent freedom.
A lived, working and embodied understanding of relational dharma.
The nourishment of being in beloved community
Recordings of live sessions.
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When Caverly Morgan reentered society after eight years as a Zen monk, she was confronted with a question many of us are asking these days: When faced with the enormity of the collective problems before us, how can one individual’s spiritual practice make a tangible difference in our world?
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In The Heart of Who We Are, Morgan explores how meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative technologies designed for the realization of personal freedom can—and must be—applied collectively. Offering a wealth of teachings and reflections, solo and group exercises, and personal stories that inspire us to put our values into action, this timely guide invites us to connect with the deepest truth of who we are, and then use this understanding to transform our own lives and the world we share.
The heart of truth can be found in all things, in all circumstances, in all times. This book is about acting in the world on behalf of this truth. It’s about reconciling our personal desire for truth and freedom with our desire to relieve suffering in the world. Our suffering is not separate from the suffering of the world. Our liberation is not separate from the liberation of the world. Our liberation is the act of being. Our liberation is love itself.
Community Voices
Community Voices
CollectiveVoices
Foreword by Michelle Cassandra Johnson
An excerpt from the foreword:
The Heart of Who We Are acknowledges that our collective liberation is not just about the moment we are experiencing right now but all of the moments that have passed and the moments yet to come. If you choose to respond to the spiritual crisis and imperative of this time, The Heart of Who We Are is an essential tool you will need to do so. Each teaching, lesson, question, story, pause, poem, and prayer invites the reader to begin where they are. As they are. This is one of the many gifts Caverly embodies. She knows she cannot force learning, love, or transformation.
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She understands the power of raising one’s consciousness in such a way that cracks open one’s heart, allowing one to respond to the call to transform for the good of us all. Allow your heart to crack open in the most soulful way as you journey through this stunning offering from Caverly’s heart to yours. Allow yourself to come back to the heart of who you are. May we all come back to the profound and unchangeable truth that we are divine beings with a divined purpose rooted in love at this time and in this place.
We are honored to have received endorsements from all these outstanding community leaders.
Click the image to read what they have to say!
— Rev. angel Kyodo williams,
Rōshi Co-author, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation
– Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi,
author of Jizo Bodhisattva: Modern Healing & Traditional Buddhist Practice
―Lama Rod Owens,
author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
– Sharon Salzberg,
author of Loving kindness and Real Change
– Rupert Spira
author of You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being
– Rick Hanson, Ph.D.,
author of Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
– Rev. Grace Sangjin Song,
Won Buddhist Dharma teacher at Won Institute of Graduate Studies
– Kristin Neff, PhD,
author of Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim their Power and Thrive
– Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
New York Times bestselling author IntraConnected: MWe (Me plus We) as the integration of self, identity and belonging. Executive Director Mindsight Institute
─Justin Michael Williams,
author, Stay Woke
– Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John,
author of Detox your Heart - Meditations for Emotional Trauma
─ Tenzen David Zimmerman,
Abbot of Beginner’s Mind Temple, San Francisco Zen Center
– Zenju Earthlyn Manuel,
author of The Shamanic Bones of Zen and The Way of Tenderness
– Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.,
Founder, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
– Rashid Hughes
Restorative Justice Specialist, Restorative DC Co-Founder, Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community Certified Mindfulness & Yoga Teacher
– Jac O' Keeffe,
teacher, author of How to be a Spiritual Rebel and Born to be Free
– John J. Prendergast, Ph.D.,
author of The Deep Heart and In Touch. Retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology, CIIS.
– Dr. Christopher Willard, PsyD,
author, father and mindfulness speaker
―La Sarmiento,
guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington’s BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ sanghas
– Justin F. Miles
MA LCPC-S LGAD-S, Miles Institute of Integral Living
Mark Coleman,
author of From Suffering to Peace
– JoAnna Hardy,
coauthor of Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents
—Jenée Johnson,
Program Innovation Leader Mindfulness, Trauma and Racial Healing Trauma Informed Systems Initiative Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion/Mental Health Act Founder of The Right Within Experience
– Deborah Eden Tull,
author of Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown
