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Developing a clear understanding of the teachings and learning to fully inhabit the body have been core parts of my Dhamma practice. These areas, as well a strong emphasis on the heart, inform and shape my teaching. The few years I spent training as an Anagarika in the Thai Forest monasteries broadened my understanding of the Buddha's teachings and instilled a profound respect for the Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni Sangha. All along the way, I've been particularly interested in how other modalities like Nonviolent Communication and Somatics can support our growth in awakening.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation on using an anchor to settle the heart-mind.
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help us connect with our capacities for clarity, bravery and openheartedness. This is what Tara explores with Oren Jay Sofer, in his book entitled: Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love (2023.)Oren teaches mindfulness, meditation and non violent communication, and his prior book is bestselling Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication (2018.) Learn more about Oren Jay Sofer and order books at: https://www.orenjaysofer.comPlease Note: At timestamp 57:41, Oren mistakenly attributes an article to George Lakey. The author of this article is Robert Reich.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions for loving kindness, practice, and a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is Metta? How do we experience it? How do we strengthen it?
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed an uplifting transition to 2024. I'm delighted to invite you to join me in welcoming author and Dharma teacher Oren Jay Sofer for an evening of online practice and exploration based on his new book, Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. What does the contemplative path have to offer our aching hearts in a rapidly changing world beset with challenge? What can our practice offer beyond personal benefits?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The differences between Samatha and Vipassana (calm abiding and insight) practice, with some attention to compassion as a flavor of right attitude.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation plus Q&A on working with anchors and developing calm abiding.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the path of practice as cultivating skillful qualities and freeing the heart / mind from suffering.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the power of metta to transform our hearts and our world.
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Nature flows through a cycle of rhythms, but modern life disconnects us from the natural rhythms of our world. When activity (physical or mental) is not balanced with rest, we burn out. Join Oren for an evening of meditation as we learn about what supports and hinders our ability to rest, and how rest can be the hidden key to unlocking your meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Overview of Metta practice with instructions for working with the benefactor
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation beginning with a reflection on gratitude, opening to joy, and then cultivating Mudita - joy in the happiness of others.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the path of awakening, the Brahma Viharas, and advice for retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of how the path cultivates clarity of mind, through mindfulness and knowing the obscurations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Building on Samatha practice, we begin to include physical sensations and sound in our practice. This meditation also offers pointers on working with unpleasant sensations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As the path unfolds, mindfulness and concentration lead naturally to the development of wisdom. Wisdom understands the difference between what is skillful and unskillful, perceives things as they are and knows suffering and its end.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Morning instructions of Day 1 offering an overview of how and why to use an anchor to support settling and collecting
(Insight Meditation Retreats) Morning instructions and guided meditation on finding your own way with the art of meditation practice, putting things down, and picking them up.
(Insight Meditation Retreats) Morning instructions and guided meditation on how to hold and relate to the primary object/anchor.
(Insight Meditation Retreats) (Day 1) Compassion is the open heart's response to suffering and a profound resource for meeting life. By attending to our experience closely we can develop compassion for ourselves and the world with the care and strength of an old friend.
(Insight Meditation Retreats) As we walk the Buddha's path, difficulties and challenges are part of the journey. It takes support and a heart of joy to meet the hard places. This talk explores some of the common challenges and three key supports on the path to Awakening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Closing session for the month of April online teachings at the Forest Refuge, with Caroline Jones.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Open Q&A session, includes such topics as: handling restless thoughts; working with persistent worry; relating wisely to creative thoughts; opening the pain and suffering in the world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Without a full heart the practice becomes rote, dry, and uninspired. Without the sacred, we lose our way in the world and misplace our heart's faith in things like money, success, and pleasure. The path invites us to tap into a deeper aspect of the heart/mind and live with a quality of reverence.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A short reflection with instructions on samatha and vipassana practice (calming and insight), followed by a guided meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Open Q&A covering topics such as: calming the body after an angry outburst and repairing the relational connection; meditating on the 'sound of silence'; using multiple anchors; working with the mind jumping from one thing to another.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The quality of resolve—strong determination, committment—is guided by wisdom and supported by patience to transform the heart and carry the mind to release.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Resolve or determination is a steady firmness that is both flexible and strong. This meditation explores how to bring this quality into our meditation.
(Various) Every generation feels like the world is ending or changing dramatically. When the world comes crashing down, how do we stay grounded and not lose our inner compass? This talk, given online via the Boston Meditation Center, explores three practical aspects of the Buddhist path for handling uncertainty with resilience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Open Q&A covering topics such as: anchor vs. choiceless awareness; loss of concentration and self-judgment; patience vs. avoidance.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Patience is said to lead the way to enlightenment. Why? Dhamma practice goes against the grain of ordinary life and against the acquiring tendencies of the mind. This talk explores the value of patience and how to we turn the mind towards the spacious flexibility of patience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A short reflection and Guided meditation on patience in life and contemplative practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring our relationship with the body as a resource for practice and a doorway to liberation. Link to poem read at the end: https://www.orenjaysofer.com/blog/trust
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this guided meditation we explore how to find a conducive "tone" or inner orientation for meditation—one of warmth, friendliness, and interest, like being with a good friend. Begins with a short reflection.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The opening talk for the month of April explores themes of how our practice can be a resource during the pandemic, as well as key suggestions for orienting to practice while living or working at home.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short guided meditation on connecting with and being interested in an anchor.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How does silent retreat practice apply to our daily life? This talk explores how the Brahma Viharas and equanimity specifically can serve as essential support for meeting the challenges of our times.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Overview and introduction to compassion, with a guided meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of Metta practice and a guided meditation on lovingkindness for a benefactor and oneself.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores different aspects of mindfulness and qualities that support it as well as offers encouragement on the first day of the retreat.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) How can our spiritual practice be a source of healing and guidance in troubled times? The Buddhist path and its meditation practice offers a range of resources that can help us face challenges, personally and collectively.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) How can our spiritual practice be a source of healing and guidance in troubled times? The Buddhist path and its meditation practice offers a range of resources that can help us face challenges, personally and collectively.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the Brahma Viharas and equanimity as supports in life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) On the eve commemorating the Buddha's life and awakening, we explore how to meet the hinderances skillfully.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The entire path can be understood as a cultivation of the ability to let go. In this talk, we explore this core quality of renunciation in Buddhist practice: What it is and what it isn't, what we let go of and how, what supports the maturing of renunciation. We include some specific suggestions for ways to practice renunciation in lay life as well.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) For the practice to be effective we must integrate the proper understanding, known as "Right View." This talk explores right view in three ways: as a foundation for the practice through understanding our everyday life, as a view of all events as a natural unfolding of causes and conditions, and as the liberating understanding of the Four Noble Truths.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Faith (Saddha) is an essential quality on the path to awakening. This talk explores how we can understand this factor, cultivate it, and make use of it in our practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a process of cultivating healthy, skillful qualities in the mind. This talk explores two essential factors for the practice: balanced energy, and wise effort through the lens of the “Four Great Efforts.” How we practice is often more important than what technique we use. What qualities are you bringing to bear on your experience as you practice?
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We communicate with ourselves and others all day long. By adopting a few principles we can use this activity to allow ourselves to grow.
(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Oren Jay Sofer presents the second talk in a speaker series on The Engaged Buddhist. Here he speaks on our practice off the cushion, pointing out that we spend the vast majority of our days communicating in one way or another. He describes three practices to improve our relationships with others: leading with presence, cultivating the intention to understand the other, and training our focus.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) (Part 2) This Monday Night Dharma Talk explores the role of energy on the path as well as in our daily lives. In what ways do we waste energy? How do we cultivate and sustain energy? And how we can learn how to steward energy more wisely?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) (Part 1) This Monday Night Dharma Talk explores five foundations for spiritual practice: safety, groundedness, friendship, kindness and interest. Without these factors in place, it's difficult to engage in meditation.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. In these polarized times, how can we speak and listen in a way that is aligned with our values? How can we hear others with divergent views?
Oren will be offering teachings from his new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. In these polarized times, how can we speak and listen in a way that is aligned with our values? How can we hear others with divergent views?
Oren will be offering teachings from his new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to use mindfulness to meet and investigate pain. Exploration of different techniques for pain and when to use them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Visualization can be a supportive indirect practice. Why its helpful with pain and how to practice with it.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Resistance to pain is natural. When pain is chronic, resistance makes the pain worse. The many forms and levels of resistance, and how to work with it.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Experiencing basic needs of satisfaction, meaning and connection for resiliency when living with chronic pain. Guided indirect practice for balancing nervous system with breath and hand movement.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Compassion as a way to meet pain and transform suffering into agency and freedom. How compassion works, what it is and is not, and how to develop self-compassion with chronic pain
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When working with pain, balance is key. Choosing where to place your attention when experiencing chronic pain helps establish equanimity. How to work with indirect practices and skillful distractions. Guided indirect practices and group reflections.
(Springboard Meditation Sangha (St. Francis Renewal Center)) When we slow down and look at our own mind things aren't always so pretty. We often find self-judgment, criticism, harshness. One way to understand this path is that we are learning to be a good friend to ourselves, and to others.
(Springboard Meditation Sangha (St. Francis Renewal Center)) What inspires us to take up spiritual practice? This talk explores the process of hearing the call to something deeper in life.
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) As a Zen teacher of mine used to say,"Life... very serious joke." Things can get real heavy sometimes - in life, and in contemplative practice. This talk explores the importance of finding some levity and enjoyment in our formal spiritual practice through the lens of play. Enjoy!
(White Heron Sangha) (14 of 15) Closing talk: Equanimity with our choices and actions in life, and suggestions for developing equanimity in the day to day flow of our lives.
(White Heron Sangha) (12 of 15) Guided Meditation on the development of equanimity in relationships - as a Brahma Vihara.
(White Heron Sangha) (11 of 15) Reflections on Equanimity as a Brahma Vihara and its development in relationships.
(White Heron Sangha) (10 of 15) Opening session of day 2 with full Q&A on Dhamma practice and equanimity.
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Oren Jay Sofer offered the talk this week at our IMCB Monastery. Oren is a a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, a Nonviolent Communication Trainer, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma. He is the founder of Next Step Dharma, and the author of the book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
(White Heron Sangha) (9 of 15) Guided meditation exploring various methods to establish and develop equanimity with unpleasant sensations. Includes summary of day at end.
(White Heron Sangha) (7 of 15) Reflections on the development of equanimity at the 6 sense doors that feel pleasure, pain, and neutral contacts.
(White Heron Sangha) (6 of 15) Brief reflections on equanimity with pleasure and pain followed by guided meditation.
(White Heron Sangha) (5 of 15). Q&A Session from morning - questions on equanimity and Dhamma practice.
(White Heron Sangha) (4 of 15) A brief guided meditation reflecting on the changes of our lives, the ups and downs, and how after all is said and done we come back to being present, here in a simple way.
(White Heron Sangha) (3 of 15) An exploration of equanimity arising from wisdom that recognizes the changing, impermanent nature of the eight worldly winds, the conditions of our lives.
(White Heron Sangha) (2 of 15) A short guided meditation focused on developing inner resources. Includes brief instructions at end for walking meditation focused on developing ease.
(White Heron Sangha) (1 of 15) Opening talk and overview of equanimity as an essential mental factor on the Buddhist path to awakening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections from Oren on taking the practice home (excerpt of closing session).
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The development of the path depends on the relationships and friendships in our life. This talk explores "spiritual friendship" - its many meanings and benefits
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Closing Session (part 4): Short reflections on taking the practice home and deepening insights (with comments from Bart van Melik).
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Closing Session - part 1. In this short teaching and guided meditation, we explore how to use the meditation instructions in the Simile of the Saw (Kakchupama Sutta, MN. 21) as preparation and cultivation for difficult conversations.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Brief reflections on right speech and the ethical guidelines offered by the Buddha.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) A loving-kindness meditation rooted in bodily awareness.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Opening Reflections on Speech and Relational Dharma(with Bart van Melik), Refuges and Precepts
(Sacred Stream Center) A brief introduction to the practice of making requests in Nonviolent Communication.
(Sacred Stream Center) A guided meditation with a brief overview of mindfulness practice.
(Sacred Stream Center) Teaching, practice and discussion on emotions: where do they come from? How can we express them constructively? Using the form of making observations, stating feelings and needs.
(Sacred Stream Center) A brief guided meditation on cultivating good will towards a "neutral" person or stranger.
(Sacred Stream Center) A brief guided meditation offering metta for a good friend or benefactor, as well as for oneself.
(Sacred Stream Center) An introduction to the core view of "human needs or values" in NVC.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the importance of intention in spiritual practice and in speech, with an emphasis on the Brahma Viharas
(Sacred Stream Center) A brief overview of the practice of Mindful Communication, with a focus on the first foundation of training in presence.
(Sacred Stream Center) A simple body scan, with emphasis on approaching the practice with a relaxed, curious and friendly attitude.
(Sacred Stream Center) A brief overview of the practice of loving-kindness, in particular as it relates to speech and interactive practice. Includes guidance and instructions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A brief exploration of "real dialogue" and the Buddha's teachings on Right Speech.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A short, simple meditation to arrive and settle, ending with a guided reflection on intention.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on compassion, its cultivation, strength, and potency as a source for resilience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A short guided meditation on settling and connecting with the breath.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the qualities of mudita (empathic / appreciative joy) and gratitude as sources of resilience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Visualization of expansive, radiant lovingkindness in all directions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A Dharma reflection on the aspects of practice that bring resilience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Lovingkindness practice with phrases for a mentor or benefactor
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the Brahma Viharas in the contemplative path of Buddhist practice.
(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) The series on the Seven Awakening factors concludes with Oren J. Sofer’s talk on the quality of equanimity. Sofer tells us that this quality develops slowly among the other factors and is considered one of the highest attainments in Buddhist practice. The fore-taste of evenness and balance can be considered a glimpse into the mind of an awakened being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring skillful relationships to pain, with a focus on compassion. (Segment 8 of 9. For more audio talks in this series, please contact Oren.)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An initial exploration to key concepts for the day. (Segment 3 of 9. For more audio talks in this series, please contact Oren.)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Arriving, settling, discerning an intention for the day. (Segment 2 of 9.For more audio talks in this series, please contact Oren).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Welcome and brief introduction to day. (Segment 1 of 9)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) An exploration of MN.21, The Simile of the Saw as a teaching on right relationship and wise speech.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) How do hold the teachings on letting go, non-attachment and non-self with the reality of having needs as a human being. What are needs and how do we relate to them with wisdom in a world that is beyond our control, neither suppressing and denying them nor becoming overly fixated or identified with them?
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Using attention to identify an unmet need, and to shift to recognizing what matters at the core independent of any situation, time, person, place, or thing.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Right Speech is a key factor in the cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path, shaping the heart and mind even as the heart-mind shapes our speech. Our intention is the decisive factor in determine the direction and shape of our speech, our heart and our mind.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Early morning guided meditation introducing the practice of samatha-vipassana.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) We are social creatures with the capacities for connection, empathy, and understanding. This talk introduces the practice of Right Speech as an essential part of the path to awakening.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) The teachings of Buddhism are often understood as an individual practice of psychological and spiritual liberation. How do these teachings and practices apply to transforming our relationships and our society? What is the freedom promised by the Buddhist path and how does it relate to issues of systemic oppression and collective suffering?
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) Question and answer session: equanimity and social change; wisdom with decisions; and other questions on practice in daily life.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) Closing talk: Dhamma practice is a way of life that can be cultivated and expressed in all activities. Suggestions for going home and bringing the practice into life.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) The calming factors of awakening support the mind to relate to experience with a balanced, steady awareness.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) How to arouse the energizing factors of awakening, which help bring the attention close to experience in an intimate way.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) The hindrances are part of the inner landscape on the journey to wholeness and awakening. When we recognize them with mindfulness, they don't need to be a problem.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) Instructions for using an anchor to settle the mind and gather the attention, connecting and sustaining the attention.
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) Back to basics: What is mindfulness? How does it function? And how much mindfulness do we need to practice?
(Mount Eden Retreat Center) The challenges, gifts and value of retreat, as well as suggestions for how to approach the practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Combination of the core guidelines for Wise Speech offered by Buddhist Tradition, as well as the contemporary discipline of Nonviolent Communication. Part 2 of 2 (afternoon)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Combination of the core guidelines for Wise Speech offered by Buddhist Tradition, as well as the contemporary discipline of Nonviolent Communication. Part 1 of 2 (morning)
(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) Reflections on what it means to walk the path of Dharma in America in 2017, examining the key practice of taking refuge as a support for meeting the challenges of our times.
(Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group) Spiritual practice can be a serious affair, yet having a sense of playful interest and joy is essential. This talk explores the parallels between formal meditation practice and play.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Closing talk: Developing wisdom to find equanimity with the outcome/results of our decisions; includes guided equanimity practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Equanimity arises from understanding the nature of this world, and provides the balanced perspective needed to inform and sustain long service.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Handling the currents of the mind with kindness and mindfulness.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Many are drawn to Buddhism and spirituality with a keen interest in meditation. Yet before offering any meditation instructions, the Buddha guided his disciples in a progression of practice known as The Gradual Training. This training provides a step-by-step approach to living a life of meaning and inner happiness, and culminates in the highest fruit of contemplative practice – Awakening. During this day of integrated practice, we explored these essential aspects of the Buddhist path as a ground for happiness and the foundation of meditation.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Many are drawn to Buddhism and spirituality with a keen interest in meditation. Yet before offering any meditation instructions, the Buddha guided his disciples in a progression of practice known as The Gradual Training. This training provides a step-by-step approach to living a life of meaning and inner happiness, and culminates in the highest fruit of contemplative practice – Awakening. During this day of integrated practice, we explored these essential aspects of the Buddhist path as a ground for happiness and the foundation of meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We are deeply connected to one another and all of life. When we are willing to meet pain and suffering with awareness, to feel what is present in our hearts, the door to compassion and awakening can open.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion is the ability to meet pain with caring tenderness. Formal practices strengthen and heals the heart. (Includes question and answers)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our hearts and minds can be shaped and trained to meet experience with kindness. Metta offers strength as a resource and a doorway to happiness and connection.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating the ground, using phrases for metta practice.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) An exploration of the teachings on Right View, and how we can use them to examine the assumptions and ideas we have in our relationships and speech.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Importance of compassion and tools to investigate pain. Q&A on pain at night; balance for workplace; acceptance
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Balance tools continued. Guided meditation for balance and relaxation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Q&A on practicing as caregiver; pain at young age; difficulty relaxing; seeking guidance; posture
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation for relaxation. Importance of balance when practicing with pain and tools for cultivating balance in midst of pain.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to develop wisdom with pain to shift relation into a transformative experience rather than oppressive. Guided meditation for practicing with wisdom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Q&A on isolation, practicing with opiods, and the middle path of being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sharing reflections on intentions and explorations into what pain is. Overview of the four basic ways of practicing with pain.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Grounding meditation for practicing with pain and intention setting for the day. Introduction into topic of meditation in pain and illness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk is an exploration of how our inner dialog can hinder or support the practice, based on the tone and intention behind our words. How do we transform the voice of the critic into a wise good friend?
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk explores how practicing Right Speech can serve as a foundation for the entire eight-fold path, and a doorway to liberating insight. Particular emphasis is given to exploring the relationship between thoughts, speech, and the heart.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Introduction to practicing with Right Speech and overview of its relevance in spiritual practice. Talk ends with reflections on the triple gem (three refuges) and five precepts.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How equanimity purifies and balances the Brahma Vihara, how the view and practice of equanimity gives us the space to feel and the balance to act
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Basic mindfulness and walking meditation instructions, with questions and answers
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Living in Peace with unmet needs - Meditation & Discussion
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers an exploration of the practice of devotion in lay Buddhism: inner and outer devotion, its place in the teachings, and its role in practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the role of the body in Dhamma practice and working with difficult states.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the innate supports for practice function and are developed on the path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A practical exploration of how the cultivation of the heart supports the practice of wise speech and the transformation of afflictive mind states.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we bridge the seeing gap between silent mediation and our lives relationships? Reflections and tools for broadening our sense of awakening.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we understand the role of community, the refuge of sangha and our life's relationships in the context of the Buddha's teachings?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the cultivation of the heart and empathy in the context of wise speech practice.