2020-05-31 Sit with Instructions 50:20 Download Listen Guided meditation with instructions, given on the final day of an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-30 Dharma talk: Our World is on Fire 50:45 Download Listen Dharma talk on the Fire Sermon discourse, given during online self-retreat during COVID-19 pandemic Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Sit with Instructions 51:02 Download Listen Guided meditation with instructions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Dharma talk 52:25 Download Listen Dharma talk given on the second day of online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Metta Chanting and Sit 39:48 Download Listen Evening metta chanting instructions for online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by chanting and sit Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Sit with Instructions 53:47 Download Listen Introduction to the first day of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by guided meditation instructions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2019-09-12 Day 2 Dharma Talk: Paddling to the Far Shore (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:53 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness & Heartfulness for Insight & Liberation

2019-09-11 Day 1 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Building our relationship with physical pain (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:27 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness & Heartfulness for Insight & Liberation

2019-08-17 Long Metta Chant 8:13 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-06-08 Long Metta chant 9:12 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2019-06-08 Guided Metta in all Directions 1:17:31 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2019-06-07 The Musicality of the Mind 62:10 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2019-05-30 The House of the Coral, The House Of The Sea: Namarupa and the Nature Of Self 56:03 Download Listen How does watching the dynamic interplay of name and form lead to liberating insight? Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2019-05-28 Becoming and Decomposition: Attuning to Stress, Discovery, and Relief 59:58 Download Listen In which we explore the conventional and liberated strategies for serenity. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2019-05-26 The Snakes and the Summit 58:42 Download Listen In which we explore the energetics of our engagement with the obstacles to our practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2019-05-15 Decompose: The Suffering of Self and the Relief of Non-Becoming 47:08 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-05-02 Honoring the Compost 65:19 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2018-09-19 The Courage of the Path 60:37 Download Listen True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-09-17 'Round and 'Round and ‘Round we Go... 58:50 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2018-09-15 It's Not About How Free We Are— It's About How Free We Want to Be 61:39 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2018-06-09 Protecting Our Love In The Battles Of Life And Practice 62:53 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2018-06-01 Four Brahma Viharas In All Directions (instructions) 39:17 Download Listen Moving through love, compassion, appreciation, and equanimity for beings in all directions. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-31 "Malama Ko Aloha" - Protect Your Love 57:34 Download Listen A look at how we protect the heart and mind as we explore the wilder terrains. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-29 100% Free 58:46 Download Listen The promise of freedom and the perils of the journey. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-28 Metta With The Body (Instructions) 43:55 Download Listen A guided meditation of practicing loving-kindness within the body. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-27 Guns, Termites, and Bears - Oh My! 60:49 Download Listen Exploring the role of conditions on the journey to the unconditioned peace. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-27 Morning Instructions - Day Three 14:49 Download Listen Vipassana Instructions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-08-30 Practice Like You're Sitting on the Stoop 59:14 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2017-08-28 Learning to Swim Where 6 Rivers Meet 67:43 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2017-08-26 Where the River of Freedom Meets the Ocean of Security 62:55 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2017-08-20 The Dynamics of Control and Understanding in our Minds and in Society 47:11 Download Listen University of British Colombia

2017-06-10 Understanding freedom as related wisdom. 63:22 Download Listen A shared talk with Jesse and Michelle McDonald Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2017-06-07 In Such hard Times 62:35 Download Listen An exploration of the challenges and possibilities we encounter as modern lay yogis trying to make progress and have impact outside of intensive retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-06 Six Sense Door Equanimity Practice 45:44 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-03 Metta, Karuna, and Mudita in all directions 42:28 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 The Present Moment: Come for the peace, stay for the war. 59:37 Download Listen How to fulfill our practice when it feels like a war. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-30 Meditation Mathematics 61:17 Download Listen The incalculable nature, of the path of practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-08-31 The Momentum of Merit 58:04 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2016-08-29 The Road to Nowhere 55:33 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2016-08-27 Happiness Beyond Pleasure, Peace Beyond Being 63:16 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2016-06-08 A mind like a windmill 61:16 Download Listen Closing talk of the 2016 retreat - encouraging yogis to maintain a vigorous commitment to practice at home Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-06-03 Freedom through the subtle 54:49 Download Listen Sometimes we relate to our liberation practice as a giant psychological struggle, the Buddha's path allows for success even amid the faint and subtle Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-06-03 Freedom Through the Subtle v2 54:48 Download Listen Sometimes we relate to our liberation practice as a giant psychological struggle, the Buddha's path allows for success even amid the faint and subtle Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-31 Two big problems 60:35 Download Listen A talk exploring our relationship to body and mind in the path of insight Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-31 Morning instructions 14:31 Download Listen Morning Vipassana instructions - introducing awareness of mental phenomena Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-30 Directional Metta instructions 45:07 Download Listen Guided loving kindness meditation instructions developing a field of care around us in all directions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-08-29 Untangling Through the Tangle - The hindrances as our doorway to liberation 59:45 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding

2015-06-06 Metta In All Direstions 46:06 Download Listen Guided Metta Meditation for beings in all directions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2015-06-03 Generosity, Ethics and Practice In The World 58:57 Download Listen An offering to the yogis at the end of a two week retreat - to help guide their spiritual lives back home. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-06-03 Brief mindfulness of everything instructions 45:28 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-30 Metta Chant 3:08 Download Listen Metta Chanting Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-29 Conditions, conditions - exploring thirst, conceit and views 59:00 Download Listen A discussion of the mental conditions necessary to support the observation of conditioned phenomena throughout our experience and the role of the the "three prolongations" of existence in that process. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-29 Mindfulness Of Mind 59:02 Download Listen How to include the mind/heart in the stream of awareness Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-26 Citta-itis: The Heart's Response to Ever-Changing World 59:23 Download Listen Seeing and appreciating the heart's defense mechanisms and learning to help them unbind Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-20 Dharma Talk 1:17:18 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-05-13 Anicca, Dukkha, Anata 58:59 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2015-05-11 Seeing Security Everywhere 56:57 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2015-05-09 One Acre of Mindfulness 56:49 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2015-05-03 Metta through Joy and Sorrow 54:11 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2015-04-30 Metta WalkingIinstructions 20:41 Download Listen Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2014-10-06 The River of Identity 58:34 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding

2014-10-04 The Training of the Heart and Mind 60:34 Download Listen True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding

2014-06-04 Lions At The Temple Gates: Protecting The Integrity Of Our Practice 57:49 Download Listen A discussion of appropriate conditions that support our practice and retreat in the world. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-30 Sila, Samadhi, Panna 55:26 Download Listen A discussion of the path of the insights it it nurtured through ethics, concentration and wisdom Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-27 The Rivers and Oceans Of the Mind 57:53 Download Listen A discussion of various aspects of the practice through metaphors. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-27 Vipassana Instructions 7:50 Download Listen Guided meditation instructions encouraging a balance of energy and relaxation as well as investigation and kindness. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-08 Metta/Lovingkindness Discussion and Guided Practice 22:04 Download Listen Introduction to loving kindness practice and guided instructions. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2013-06-05 Beware the Mindfulness Industrial Complex 61:00 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-04 Guided Equanimity Practice Instructions 45:20 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-01 Getting Beneath The Flood Of Fabrication 56:23 Download Listen A discussion of our practice as an attempt to ground the awareness of reality -instead of getting lost in the realm of fantasy that we tend to think of, as our lives. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-28 Being a Companion to the Margins of Our Minds 60:20 Download Listen A discussion of how and why to bring kindness and interest to our relationship with the parts of ourselves that are the hardest for us to connect with. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-25 Walking Meditation Instructions 12:17 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2012-07-30 Training For Our Own Unbinding 60:32 Download Listen A discussion of the path of practice and the training necessary to liberate the heart and mind. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2012-06-07 Investigation, Disenchantment and Non-Identification 64:20 Download Listen How the process of simple observation of phenomena leads to a cleaner and clearer understanding of reality ultimately the unconditioned reality of Nibbana. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-05 Vipassana Instructions 11:39 Download Listen Instructions from the 4th day of a ten day retreat. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Effort, Skill And Grace 56:16 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  IMS Audio Files

2012-05-29 The Urgency To Love 58:21 Download Listen How do we love a world so prone to disappointment? Investigating the purifying relationship between love and disappointment. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Guided Six Sense Door Metta Meditation 15:33 Download Listen A form of loving kindness integrated with our traditional mindfulness practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2011-10-09 Training for Our Own Unbinding 58:41 Download Listen True North Insight :  11MM Doing What Had to be Done

2011-07-31 The Path Of Insight 55:16 Download Listen An overview of how mindfulness leads to insight and frees us from the trappings of ignorance. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2011-06-11 Rooting Our Faith In The Deepest Truth 55:42 Download Listen How do we understand the undependability of things and also "see security everywhere" as the Buddha said? Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-06-07 Dreaming About Reality 60:40 Download Listen An exploration of our ability to stay connected to our direct experience rather than get caught in the world of fantasy created by the mind. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-05-31 Strengthening The Bond Of Metta 53:19 Download Listen Guidance on developing a taste for metta, being able to find the thread to metta in many situations, and building a continuity of connection to loving kindness through the course of our lives. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2010-08-02 Karaniya Metta Sutta Chant 5:07 Download Listen Chanting of the metta sutta Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2010-06-12 Going Forth and Going Home 60:55 Download Listen Protecting our practice as householders in the world. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-06-08 Let Loose The Line 62:25 Download Listen Can we get interested in the craving, aversion and identification rather than deny, repress or avoid them? Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat