Talk: The Power of Kindness
56 minutes | This talk explores how kindness, metta, friendliness can have a profound impact on ourselves and our environment. When we...
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- Mar 22
Wise View - Part 1 - Overview
48 minutes | The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the Buddha's prescription for releasing from dukkha - suffering, stress, unsatifactoriness. The...
- Sep 7, 2023
Talk and Meditation: Self-Kindness Part 3 - Where does Self-Kindness Come From?
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...
- Sep 7, 2023
Talk and Meditation: Self-Kindness Part 2 - The Art of Self-Forgiveness
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...
- Sep 7, 2023
Talk: Self-Kindness Part 1 - Three Entries into Self-Kindness
54 minutes | The cultivation of self-kindness is at the heart of all psychological and spiritual growth. As we become kinder to...
- Jul 18, 2023
Talk: Cultivating Embodiment - Part 3
45 minutes | In this talk we explore how to cultivate essential qualities such as kindness, tranquility, discipline or clarity. These...
- Jul 18, 2023
Talk and Meditation: Cultivating Embodiment - Part 2
55 minutes | This talk explores ways of cultivating an experience of embodiment. The talk ends with a Mountain Meditation, words of Jon...
- Jul 18, 2023
Talk: Cultivating Embodiment - Part 1
48 minutes | Embodiment is a profoundly deepened form of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha discusses how important it is to cultivate...
- Apr 1, 2023
Talk: Identity and Fabrication
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...
- Apr 1, 2023
Talk: Allowing
60 minutes | This talk relates to the inquiry process RAIN, (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture/Non-Identification). In service of...
- Mar 4, 2023
Talk: Working with Sadness and Grief
14 minutes | Sadness and grief are often difficult emotions to work with. They are natural and embedded in our beings to help us cope...
- Mar 4, 2023
Talk: Working with Anger
7 minutes | Anger is a powerful emotion. When used skillfully, it can produce valuable effects. When used unskillfully it can be...
- Dec 22, 2022
Talk: Exploring Joy
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....
- Dec 11, 2022
Talk: Musings on Emptiness
14 minutes | The experience and contemplation of emptiness can have a profound effect on our sense of who we are. This talk explores some...
- Nov 12, 2022
Talk: Three Gears - Thoughts, Feelings, Behavior
17 minutes | Our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are intimately linked. In this talk we explore ways to bring greater ease in our...
- Sep 11, 2022
Talk/Meditation: Accessing Inner Guidance
59 minutes | Each of us carries within us a knowing that goes beyond what our rational minds can know. This inner guidance can be...
- Sep 11, 2022
Talk/Meditation: The Wisdom Factor - Self-Inquiry - RAIN
57 minutes | As we progress along a spiritual path, or grow as human beings, we encounter stuckness and pain. When we turn our attention...
- Sep 11, 2022
Talk: Tranquility and the Seven Factors of Awakening
59 minutes | The cultivation of tranquility can be a profound experience in and of itself. It is also one of the factors of awakening...
- Aug 3, 2022
Talk: The Three Selves
29 minutes | Many meditation practices serve as a mediation between three different aspects of ourselves: our Conditioned Self, our...
- Jun 1, 2022
Talk: Exploring the 3rd and 4th Noble Truths
58 minutes | Third talk in a series of three. This talk takes a glimpse at the 3rd Noble Truth of the cessation of dukkha and explores...
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