TALKS & MEDITATIONS

18 minutes | This talk is an exploration based on the Three Refuges of Buddhism, as applied to daily life. These refuges can be a source...

56 minutes | This talk explores how kindness, metta, friendliness can have a profound impact on ourselves and our environment. When we...

48 minutes | The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the Buddha's prescription for releasing from dukkha - suffering, stress, unsatifactoriness. The...

62 minutes | As we contemplate where self-kindness comes from, or who is being kind to whom, we open up doorways for self-kindness to...

61 minute | At the heart of our capacity to be kind to ourselves is the capacity to forgive ourselves for the ways we consider ourselves...

54 minutes | The cultivation of self-kindness is at the heart of all psychological and spiritual growth. As we become kinder to...

45 minutes | In this talk we explore how to cultivate essential qualities such as kindness, tranquility, discipline or clarity. These...

55 minutes | This talk explores ways of cultivating an experience of embodiment. The talk ends with a Mountain Meditation, words of Jon...

48 minutes | Embodiment is a profoundly deepened form of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha discusses how important it is to cultivate...

61 minutes | The Buddha sees our suffering as an outcome of clinging to a sense of self. As we inquire into who we are at the most...

60 minutes | This talk relates to the inquiry process RAIN, (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture/Non-Identification). In service of...

14 minutes | Sadness and grief are often difficult emotions to work with. They are natural and embedded in our beings to help us cope...

7 minutes | Anger is a powerful emotion. When used skillfully, it can produce valuable effects. When used unskillfully it can be...

17 minutes | This talk explores the value of deliberate cultivation of joy, as well as some of the facets of how joy can be cultivated....

14 minutes | The experience and contemplation of emptiness can have a profound effect on our sense of who we are. This talk explores some...

17 minutes | Our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are intimately linked. In this talk we explore ways to bring greater ease in our...

59 minutes | Each of us carries within us a knowing that goes beyond what our rational minds can know. This inner guidance can be...

57 minutes | As we progress along a spiritual path, or grow as human beings, we encounter stuckness and pain. When we turn our attention...

59 minutes | The cultivation of tranquility can be a profound experience in and of itself. It is also one of the factors of awakening...

29 minutes | Many meditation practices serve as a mediation between three different aspects of ourselves: our Conditioned Self, our...