Most of us struggle with falling into two general ways of being: overstimulated and productive or disengaged and tuned out. Lay Buddhist Adam Kane offers another option; a state that occurs in a third space called “relaxed alertness”. How do we begin to build the capacity for this?

In our third episode of Holy Echoes, Adam Kane revisits a session at the 2016 Festival of Faiths featuring travel writer and prolific author Pico Iyer as he discusses the concept of Stillness and how to stay close to what is most important in our busy and overcrowded lives. Pico challenges us still today to consider how we gather our inner resources, as every major religion from Buddhism to Christianity invites us to do.

This is more than a fascinating conversation. It is a practical look at how we can train our mind to reclaim transitional moments in our everyday life, finding stillness within movement as well as without. It is in this tangible approach to finding Stillness that we unleash the incredible capacities we have within us to live in that profound third space -- a calm state of focus.

Adam will be exploring themes of compassion, inclusion and belonging in a two hour meditation workshop called "Pathways to Belonging" on Wednesday, November 12 at the Festival of Faiths! More information and tickets are available at festivaloffaiths.org.

Pico Iyer
Born in Oxford, England and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard, Iyer has been based in Western Japan for 28 years and spends much of the rest of his time in a Benedictine hermitage in California. He is a prolific essayist and is known for his travel writing and has written 15 books but his 2008 book on the XIVth Dalai Lama, The Open Road, drawn from more than 30 years of talks and travels with the Tibetan leader, was a national best-seller. The same is true of his most recent book, The Art of Stillness, the second TED Original ever to be published.

Adam Kane
Adam Kane has his undergraduate degree in neuroscience and a masters degree in Buddhist Philosophy. His journey has taken him to a forest monastery, years studying Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal, and now he is interpreting, translating, writing and developing curriculum for his root lamas and various other lamas and khenpos since 2013. He is based in Crestone, Colorado, and enjoys walking in the mountains in his spare time.

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