The following podcast was recorded during a one day workshop titled “Integrating the Shadow: Hiding and Seeking on the Spiritual Path” held on October 30, 2011 at the New York Open Center. This workshop ran from 10AM to 5:30PM and the podcast episodes will be published over the next few weeks in 1-hour (approximate) installments. →

This is the full, extended version (42:12 mm:ss) of Abdi’s talk and meditation held at the Broome Street / Sri Ganesha Temple in NYC on September 19, 2011. In email or via RSS, you may use the following link to access/download the podcast directly to your computer (warning: approximately 19.4 MB): http://abdiassadi.com/podcasts/abdi_assadi_meditation_09192011_v2.mp3 Or, you may →

The following is an audio recording of a brief talk and group meditation that took place on 9.19.11 at at the Sri Ganesha Temple in NYC. In email or via RSS, you may use the following link to access/download the podcast directly to your computer (warning: approximately 4.08 MB): http://abdiassadi.com/podcasts/abdi_assadi_meditation_09192011.mp3 Or, you may access this →

Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:45PM Shadows on the Path: Learning to Unlearn A meditation, talk, and Q&A session with Abdi Assadi The function of a spiritual path is to break us free from our cultural and familial programming that keeps us stuck in our blind unconscious patterns. This is an opportunity to examine whether →

The following is an excerpt from an interview printed in 3rd Ward Magazine titled The Fame Thing conducted Jason Goodman Founder of 3rd Ward and Phil Weinrobe, Member Services Director. 3W: Human beings have a really hard time putting their minds around incremental change. AA: The system actually functions by dehumanizing people. People actually go →

This clip discusses attention to and a relationship with our emotional state as a road map to an authentic and balanced life. Over the next several weeks, we will be publishing a series of short videos that discuss various aspects of the spiritual path. These videos are segments of an extended interview conducted by Jonas →

I offer you a poem by a man who knew a thing or two about transitions and living in a time of profound anxiety: “I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met”. →

Death is a complicated topic in our culture. Most of us are terrified by the specter of the inescapable ax hovering above our heads, and sublimate our fear in any number of disguises. It is one of the reasons why we can never sit still. Slowing down brings us face to face with our own →

I took a walk today. As I do every workday, at 6:00 AM, four blocks from my apartment to my office. This is like walking in brackish water; the late-night party people are straggling home while the early birds are walking their dogs or jogging to the gym. I feel my feet on the hard →

I had a woman ask me recently how she can make a decision when she doesn’t know what the immediate future will bring. As for many of us presently, there was an inner as well as outer sense of unrest in her life. It was demanding her growth through some challenging circumstances beyond her control. →