Meditation: Exploring Identity
32 minutes | In this meditation we explore different ways to experience "Who we are". We tend to experience ourselves as separate egoic...
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- Dec 11, 2020
Meditation: Cultivating the First Jhana
28 minutes | The jhanas are deep concentrated states that are pleasant to engage in. They are like flow states for meditation. The first...
- 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 25, 2020
Meditation: Gratitude
28 minutes | This meditation focuses the last ten minutes on the felt sense of gratitude and on the sense of interconnectedness. Photo by...
- 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 19, 2020
Meditation: Central Core
24 minutes | Based on a meditation by Judith Blackstone. The central core is an experience that runs a couple of inches in front of the...
- 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...
- Nov 6, 2020
Meditation: Compassion with Equanimity
26minutes | This embodied compassion practice cultivates an intimacy with our own suffering or stress and then the suffering or stress of...
- 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 18, 2020
Meditation: Wisdom and Inquiry
33 minutes | We use wise view to aid us in inquiry into our subconscious experience. When we look at challenging aspects of our lives, we...
- Oct 9, 2020
Meditation: Lovingkindness
32 minutes | We practice embodied lovingkindness toward someone who is easy to care for, toward ourselves, toward our activities, toward...
- 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...
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