Talk: Cultivating the Spiritual Heart
19 Minutes | Starting with the Metta Sutta, and moving through spiritual poetry, we explore the relationship between personal and...
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- Dec 16, 2020
Talk: Who Are We, Really? Musings on Identity
29 minutes | In this talk we explore different ways to experience "Who we are". We tend to experience ourselves as separate egoic selves,...
- Nov 25, 2020
Talk: Gratitude
One of my teachers told me repeatedly that to become Awakened required three foundations: 1) Relaxed body; 2) Empty mind; and 3) Grateful...
- Nov 19, 2020
Talk: The Ten Perfections - Resolve
23 minutes | This talk looks at some of the factors that go into cultivating resolve. Resolve is needed when we are intentionally moving...
- Nov 6, 2020
Talk: The Ten Perfections - Equanimity
Equanimity is a powerful heart practice, combining lovingkindness, compassion, and joy with wisdom and clear seeing. This post, offered...
- Oct 18, 2020
Talk: The Ten Perfections - Wisdom
26 minutes | Wisdom is a powerful tool for creating freedom. There are three levels of wisdom, each deeper than the last. We discuss some...
- Oct 1, 2020
Talk: The Ten Perfections—Virtue
19 minutes | The cultivation of Virtue or Ethics is a core teaching of the Buddha, central to the 8-fold path. In this talk we explore...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Emptiness of Concept
24 minutes | We tend to live in a world of concepts. These concepts are just thoughts, not reality. When we can start to see through the...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Emptiness of Satisfactoriness
25 minutes | According to the Buddha, the source of stress is the tendency to grasp for worldly phenomena to make us happy,...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: The Five Remembrances
21 minutes | The Buddha invited his students to meditate on Five Remembrances related to impermanence and identity. This is a profound...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Navigating Change
16 minutes | The only constant is change. And yet, we live expecting much of our worldly experience will stay the same. In this talk we...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: The Ten Perfections—Generosity
24 minutes | Generosity was the first teaching of the Buddha to laypeople. The cultivation of appropriate generosity goes far toward...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Wise Action
30 minutes | Mindfulness of ethical behavior is a core part of the Buddhist teachings. The Buddha invites people to train in cultivating...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: The Nature of Insight
56 minutes | When we engage in inquiry practice, we do it with the aspiration that insights will arise. These insights bring with them a...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Mindfulness of Story
47 minutes | Much of our suffering arises because we get caught in the story of our lives. Yet story seems to be intimately connected to...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Mindful Relationships
44 minutes | One of the most important aspect of mindfulness practice is cultivating deeper, kinder and more intimate relationships,...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Body-Assisted Intention
57 minutes | The Buddha invites us to cultivate the intentions of renunciation (letting go of clinging) and lovingkindness. We can use...
- Sep 29, 2020
Talk: Three Entries into Self-Kindness
23 minutes | Self-kindness is the foundation of growth and well-being. Yet self-kindness is challenging for so many of us. In this talk...
- Sep 28, 2020
Talk: About RAIN
14 minutes | RAIN is a powerful form of meditative self-inquiry. The RAIN meditation typically uses emotional challenges as a starting...
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