2017-02-26 Put it down, it's unreliable! That's better. 49:34 Download Listen Exploration of dukkha (strain, stress, suffering, unreliability) on day two of the retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-02-26 Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions 18:05 Download Listen Guided meditation on morning of day two. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-01-26 Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:34 Download Listen Reflections on taking meditation practice and spiritual path into the world of non-retreat life. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-25 Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:18 Download Listen Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral tonal quality of experience and our habitual reactions. Guided meditation and Q&A. Feeling tone. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-24 Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:30 Download Listen Description of thinking, from the perspective of a sense door where we can observe mind objects. Guided meditation and Q&A Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-24 Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:20 Download Listen Description of thinking, from the perspective of a sense door where we can observe mind objects. Guided meditation and Q&A Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-02 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation 1:52:05 Download Listen Monday Night Meditation Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-12-20 Metta: unstoppable friendliness 35:35 Download Listen Explanation and guided meditation of metta-. Goodwill, lovingkindness, benevolence Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-19 Morning instructions– day one 51:06 Download Listen Sitting and walking instructions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-09-04 Awareness of thoughts and emotions 59:22 Download Listen Guided meditation and dharma talk on awareness of mind and heart Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2016-09-03 Discovering six sense doors and the body 61:40 Download Listen Mindfulness of pain, experience and body Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2016-07-03 Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:40 Download Listen Sharing experiences with the precepts in daily life. Anushka Fernandopulle, JoAnna Harper, Bonnie Duran and Vance Pryor (trainee) Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:05 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 45:30 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-06-14 Day 4: Afternoon Instructions 51:26 Download Listen Cultivating Seeds of the Mind Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-13 Day 3: Morning Instructions 57:42 Download Listen Buddhas early life and awakening. Awareness of thoughts and emotions. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-04-14 Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3 44:56 Download Listen Inspiration from Inky (the octopus). Let go of the past, future and present. Six sense doors. Relativity of sight. Resting in not knowing. Robots and dark matter. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat

2016-04-05 The Truth of the Way Things Are 37:59 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2016-03-22 Bright Guardians of the World 45:07 Download Listen Hiri and Otappa are aspects of conscience that support our awakening. Reflections on the path, advice at the end of long retreat. The ethical fabric of the universe. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-15 Developing Perception that Frees 48:40 Download Listen 3 Characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha). 5 aggregates, perception as impermanent, unsubstantial and unreliable. Seeing through illusions of time and space. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-08 Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat 54:37 Download Listen Fourth foundation of mindfulness, six sense spheres, Bahiya sutta, advice on long retreats. Eat what's on your plate! Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-01 Diving Into Long Retreat 52:03 Download Listen Reflections on coming to a long retreat: continuity, humility, arrival, investigations, renunciation (CHAIR!). Awareness of the body in all the in between times. Rohitassa. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-01-28 Waking Up in Every World 51:26 Download Listen Continuing practice after retreat, taking a wide angle view to step out of self absorption and into freedom, contributing to collective liberation. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Waking up in Every World

2015-09-06 Path Of Upward Mobility 46:10 Download Listen Possibility of transforming the mind, relationship of conduct and speech in the world to our freedom Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2015-09-05 Metta Practice Day 29:26 Download Listen Description of kindness/friendliness as a state of heart/heart and guided practice Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2015-07-22 Distortions of Perception, Mind & View 51:17 Download Listen Vipallasa Sutta: Understanding perception and the ways in which we have errors in understanding of the three characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha) and asubha that keep us spinning in delusion. Doggies and empty boats. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-07-18 The Skate Park of Your Mind 46:16 Download Listen What is dharma practice, dealing with challenges to meditation, meeting life with friendliness. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-06-16 Envisioning Your Practice 39:16 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2015-05-08 Renunciation & Why We Go on Retreat 44:28 Download Listen True North Insight :  Balanced Sensitivity, Embodied Wisdom

2015-03-10 Three Instructions for Life 50:30 Download Listen The path in brief, a tour of other realms, practicing to support the erosion of racism and Islamohobia in our society Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-07 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Body 66:28 Download Listen 1st day of 5 day retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-15 Heart Practices - Cultivating Wholesome Qualities of Heart and Mind 26:59 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-02-15 Morning Instructions 62:47 Download Listen Taking refuge, remembering compassion, seeing impermanence, not self, unsatisfactoriness, (3 characteristics - anicca, anatta, dukkha) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-02-14 Compassionate awareness, Balanced Awareness 45:37 Download Listen Reflecting on care and balance in our retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-01-18 Dharma For MLK Day 44:06 Download Listen Holding our practice in a larger context of social change movements and the ongoing work for racial justice and civil rights in our society. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Clear Mind, Open Heart: Insight Meditation Weekend

2014-12-11 Thursday Morning Guided 52:16 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds 45:52 Download Listen Dharma as nature, why we practice, seeing what is unseen; opening to dukkha and the truth; retreat and social/political activism. Title is from Mexican saying from liberation movement. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-10-26 Mindfulness and Sports 56:05 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-09-30 Keep Calmly Knowing Change 38:42 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-09-06 Meditation Instructions- Day 4 - Thoughts and Preception 63:57 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-03 Morning Instructions 57:14 Download Listen Posture, meditation instrutions for sitting and walking Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-08-31 Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice 41:03 Download Listen Cultivating the heart - metta in different directions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat 48:24 Download Listen Orientation to the mind and sense doors Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-07-15 Equanimity 48:10 Download Listen Afternoon Brahma Vihara practice Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-12 Summer Camp of Metta 51:08 Download Listen The place of metta in Buddhist practice. Understanding wise effort. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-11 Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor 42:43 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-01 Training the Mind 37:41 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-06-17 The Dharma of Sports 37:24 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-03-02 Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering 14:17 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-02 Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness 20:10 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center