Spiritual Growth and Love through a Buddhist Lens: A Conversation with Zach Beach

Welcome back to another enlightening episode of the Mindful You podcast. I’m your host, Alan Carroll, and today we have the honor of speaking with Zach Beach, a seasoned traveler on the mindfulness path. Zach holds a master’s degree from the California Institute of Integral Studies and has immersed himself in various advanced meditation and yoga practices throughout Asia. His journey centers around the profound exploration of love and the projection of loving energy.

In this episode, Zach shares deep insights into love, projection, and the critical differences between judgment and discernment in our interactions. We delve into the teachings of Carl Jung, the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence and non-attachment, and how our perceptions shape our reality. Zach eloquently discusses how inner peace and self-love reflect outwardly, emphasizing the importance of compassion as a starting point for personal and collective healing.

Join us as we navigate the intricate tapestry of mindfulness, spiritual practice, and the quest for a joyful reality. Prepare to be inspired by Zach’s wisdom and enlightened perspective.

Sit back, relax, and let’s embark on this journey together.

This episode is a deep dive into:

🌟 Understanding Projection: Zach elucidates how our own hidden qualities often get projected onto others, affecting our perceptions and interactions. Insightfully tying this concept to Carl Jung's idea of the shadow, it’s a reminder to look within and address our inner world to improve our outer interactions.

🌟 Defining Love and Space: Borrowing from Mortar Earhart, love is about giving people the space to be who they are, without imposing our expectations. This concept encourages active listening and acceptance, which are crucial for genuine relationships.

🌟 Discernment vs. Judgment: Zach takes us on a journey through Buddhist thought, highlighting the difference between discernment and judgment. He emphasizes the importance of meeting reality as it is, without the biases of attachment or aversion—a balanced middle path that leads to a more compassionate and understanding outlook on life.

This episode was packed with gems of wisdom that can transform how we view and interact with the world around us. I highly recommend tuning in for a deep dive into mindfulness and compassion.

About the Guest:

Zach Beach is a best-selling author and poet, internationally renowned yoga teacher, love coach, founder of The Heart Center love school, and host of the Learn to Love Podcast, everything they do is dedicated to helping people lead happier, more loving, and more fulfilling lives.

He walks this path of love by traveling the world and leading classes, workshops, retreats, and teacher training. Their teachings are summarized in the book The Seven Lessons of Love: Heart Wisdom for Troubling Times. He also wrote two poetry collections: 108 Savasana Poems and Drinking Roses on Sunday.

Connect with Zach Beach:

Website - https://www.zachbeach.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zachbeachlove

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@zachbeachlove

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zachbeachlove/

About Alan:

Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

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