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So much of my inspiration and joy comes from bearing witness to the unfolding of the dharma in myself and others. My teaching is most engaging when I'm involved in an on-going relationship with students and having the opportunity, and honor, to see what's happening in their lives. We may begin our practice on our cushions; and yet, as we learn to bring practice to all corners of our lives, we get a glimmer of the true possibility of liberation.
Simplicity has been most helpful to me, so I stick with basic instructions and try to distill my words to the bare minimum in a simple, clear and precise way.
My interest focuses on how to liberate the mind. I like to explore and find different ways that are most useful to people. I'm aware that various aspects of the practice, and the teaching, resonate with different people at different times. What is that person's experience right now and what will be most helpful to them? Often the answer comes to me by looking at what has happened to me in practice, and using that experience to help someone discover their own intuitive wisdom.
In my teaching, lovingkindness supports the developmental unfolding of wisdom. It doesn't do us much good to practice in ways that perpetuate self-judgment. When we come from a place of caring and lovingkindness, we allow for the possibility of transformation in our lives. Lovingkindness and wisdom allow us to move from a life of reaction to a life of inner resonance with the world around us. They take us out of a place of reaction and into one of responsiveness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the power that comes from a mind that is relaxed, open and stable combine with a healthy inquiry.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Turning the mind towards Dharma as a way of arousing spiritual urgency and cutting though complacency.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Looking at what supports and nourishes a healthy engagement with life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The gentle forbearance that keeps us in relationship with life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bring the practice to a place of simplicity
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding our temperament can help to personalize habituated tendencies.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Generosity is a way of working with nonclinging and brings joy to the heart and mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Becoming familar with the movement of our hearts to be free from suffering.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Fear drives us in unhealthy ways when it is not recognized. When we become aware of fear it becomes a support to our meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at how we relate to our experience when we hit edges of acceptability.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of this natural function and how we can use it as a support for our meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Working at how the qualities of Wisdom and Compassion enrich our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Patience can be difficult to learn and yet brings a grace to the weary heart.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Finding peace within the turbulence of life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Part 3 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of what we cling to when there is a sense of self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Part 2 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of that which by it's nature is unsatisfactory.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Part 1 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploring change as a fact of life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the quality of equanimity and the unshakable balance that it brings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discovering nature as both a support to meditation and a teacher.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the effort that it takes to meet this moment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Find the joy in renunciation as we relinquish the grasping mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at different aspects of truth and truthfulness that can be guideposts in our lives
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Settling back we find even impatience turns to patience
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how to use awareness of the mind and its activities as a support to waking up
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Even with the best of intentions, we can find our motivation for practice wavering. Looking at a few ways to help cut through the complacency.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Looking to the natural quality of mindfulness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Getting to know that which binds the heart - greed, hatred and delusion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Moving out of the comfort zone and exploring challenges
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at the comparing mind and the conceit of "I am"
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what the Buddha was pointing to in the teachings of the 4 noble truths and how we can investigate them in our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at 4 contemplations that help to inspire and realign ourselves with that which is of value.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Turning our relationship with thoughts from the menace of meditation to a support for sustained awareness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The journey of awakening is a shared journey. This talk shares some stories of our fellow traveler's going back to the Buddha sitting at the foot of the bodhi tree to present day teachers. Linking their lives with ours to help us find the fortitude and support we need to stay on the path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Finding a balance of mind that can include all aspects of life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Breaking down the barriers of separation to live a life recognizing the interconnection of all beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding the tenacity to stay on the path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the process of releasing the heart from held tension, anger, and resentment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Seeing things in their nature for the benefit of all living beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the different levels of renunciation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discovering the the quality of heart mind that helps to sustain us in times of challenge.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the energy that is directed towards liberation and guided by right view and intention.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Virtue or ethical and moral conduct is the way that we include everything we do as a part of our spiritual practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk begins with an introduction to the 10 requisites for enlightenment. These are the wholesome qualities of mind that support awakening in a context that includes the welfare and happiness of all beings. Generosity or an open heartedness forms the basis for this journey.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Preparing the ground for wisdom to flourish.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Path allows us to bring the totality of life to our spiritual journey. This talk explores ethical conduct as a foundation
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Fear often drives our lives in unhealthy ways. This talk explores having a conscious and wise relationship to it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores what we can look to for refuge amidst as life in a sea of change.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Continuing the exploration with calm, concentration and equimity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the allies of the mind, cultivating mindfulness, investigation, energy, and rapture.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The 10 paramis or requisites for enlightenment that bring a meaningful application of our practice to how we live our lives. This talk explores some of the ways these qualities get strengthened.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores finding the balance between tranquility and alertness and what supports each.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores some of the ways we get entangled with thought and how to have a wise relationship with this natural function of mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation need not be limited to a practice that one can only do a on the cushion. When we bring the passion for truth to the center of our lives, it opens up every moment to be a moment of knowing truth.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This meditation is an experiential exploration of this mind /body experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the five aggregates or components of body mind and experience, can help us to see what it is we are clinging to.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings of impermanence continually surround us. As we open our eyes to this great truth, it becomes the means of whithering away the tendency to grasp and cling.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What we can look to in our experience to strengthen wisdom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how the identification or grasping at different aspects of experience as belonging to us causes suffering. It offers simple ways of looking into what it is that we call self as a means of breaking the veil of delusion
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is an exploration of the qualities and strength of patience. Although a noble quality it is often difficult in the learning. There is also exploration of looking and learning from impatience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk begins with reflecting on the qualities of the Buddha for inspiration. It also explores how taking refuge in both outer and inner world helps support the discovering of true refuge, wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Dukkha-the second of the three characteristics broadening our understanding of what dukkha means can help us to recognize. In turning towards rather than away from we find a gateway to understanding that leads to freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk points towards finding joy on the path of awakening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Gratitude and generosity are ways of uplifting the mind. Gratitude brings a deep appreciation for blessings of our lives. Generosity an opening of the heart that cares for others.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring bodhicitta on the relative and ultimate levels. The aspiratin to awaken for the benefit of all beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Many of us do Vipassana practice because we find it brings more clarity and understanding to our lives. This tape explores the different ways wisdom works, helping guide us to the deepest realization of the way things are.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how these qualities bring a great power and strength to the mind that supports the unfolding of wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the place of effort and how we can call it forth without stress or tension. Finding a way of tapping into energy that replenishes it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk begins a series on five spiritual faculties--the great allies on the journey of awakening. Faith is the quality that begins this journey and helps us to stay both energized and committed. It is our heart's engagement.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Greed, aversion and delusion have a way of playing into our personalities through habituated patterns. This talk explores how to have a wise relationship with these tendencies.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Judgement is a painful excruciating state of mind that creates feelings of alienation and separation. This talk explores some of the ways that we experience as well as how to work with it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) To be a human being is fraught with challenges. This talk explores some of the different ways in which we experience unsatisfactoriness to help us to learn to depersonalize our suffering.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) (PERSONAL CAT) Paying attention to volitional formations and consciousness helps us to understand the selfless nature of this body mind process. Ends with a short guided meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) (PERSONAL CAT) We name, label and categorize experience through the process of perception. These perceptions are conditioned & therefore can be distorted. Learning to let perception do it's function & not to identify with it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) (PERSONAL CAT) Paying attention to the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral aspect of experience brings us right into experience before we react through likes & dislikes. This helps us to break the cycle of becoming.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) (PERSONAL CAT ONLY)Continues the introduction to the aspects of experience that we so often cling to and moves more specifically into the material form.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This tape explores an introduction to the different ways that we solidify around our experience that creates the "I, me and mine" that is so painful. It ends with a guided meditation to aid this in being an experiential understanding.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forgiveness as a practice will often take us to the edge of what we can accept. Drawing upon qualities of lovingkindness, compassion and patience we can learn to open to our deepest pain.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mudita is the capacity to rejoice in the happiness or good fortune of others. As a practice, mudita helps us to aim the heart toward its natural capacity for generosity, friendliness and care. In doing so, we find our hearts rejoicing.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Resolve or determination is what helps us to stay committed on our journey of awakening. It is a strength of heart that is gentle but firm. It helps us to proceed without wavering regardless of what our experiences might be.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Working with the breath, we can cultivate both calm and insight. This talk explores ways we can strengthen concentration as a support to insight, through working with the breath.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Recognizing the near and far enemies of metta as they arise.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By learning the qualities of faith-trust, devotion, confidence and clarity of mind, we can begin to see faith unfolding in our own hearts. How faith helps to motivate and energize our practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta is a practice of turning the mind towards the good. As we aim the heart we begin to connect with friendliness, gentleness and acceptance. Qualities that help us to open to things as they are.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The desire for liberation can be a wholesome force in our lives when it is held with wisdom. Looking at ways we can support this motivation helps to call forth heroic or courageous energy.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) As we invite the qualities of generosity and gratitude into our lives, they help us to gladden our hearts and minds, becoming the seeds of joy in the journey of awakening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When we open to the quality of trust -- anything is possible! Strengthening trust through learning to work with hope, fear and doubt.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is mindfulness and what are the qualities that make mindfulness such a good friend to have? We discover the simplicity of mindfulness and how we can strengthen it in our practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bringing purpose and compassionate action into our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to be a human being by embracing the natural qualities of our hearts and minds.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha in his very first discourse gave practical instructions as to how one could realize the end of suffering. By understanding and reflecting through direct experience of these truths we can find deepening levels of happiness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to let go through opening up our hearts in forgiveness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the nature of fear, and the practices that cultivate courage.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion is classically described as the quivering or trembling of the heart in response to suffering. Our habituated responses may be to deny or repress our suffering. As we learn to open to suffering with a balanced mind, we discover the natural responsiveness of the heart which brings us into a relationship of care and concern for the world we live in.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The journey of awakening is the cultivation of the qualities of wisdom and compassion. These two qualities need to be strong and in balance to support their unfolding. We learn how to keep these qualities strong and in balance so they can become the wings to freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Eightfold Path is a comprehensive guide to the Dharma practice in the workplace in such areas as the difficult person, the eight worldly concerns and mental stability.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practice helps us to learn to recognize the voice of our deepest aspirations. These aspirations can become a very strong motivating force in our lives if they are given the right nutrients. This talk will help us to learn to cultivate conditions that support our heart's deepest vows.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practice helps us to learn to recognize the voice of our deepest aspirations. These aspirations can become a very strong motivating force in our lives if they are given the right nutrients. This talk will help us to learn to cultivate conditions that support our heart's deepest vows.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk discusses how clear understanding of Karma leads to forgiveness and sustains equanimity.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How we need trust and courage to open to selflessness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness and wisdom in the midst of family life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Calmness is a refuge in the midst of an uncertain and changing world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Accessing the energies that free us. The spiritual warrior is in service of awakening: the energy is manifested through our intentionality and courage to be present.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) balancing the mind so that insight and wisdom can arise