2017-06-14 Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In. 55:31 Download Listen This talk offers reflection on honoring tradition and settling into meditation from one perspective on emptiness. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-14 Brief and simple guided meditation for arriving into retreat. 41:43 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:32 Download Listen This talk explores some ways to navigate the feeling of unworthiness that can arise in our lives and in our practice. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:06 Download Listen Compassion Practice Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 7:01 Download Listen Becoming unfamiliar with our experience. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:54 Download Listen This talk offers a perspective on the Four Noble Truths that interweaves with our meditation practice. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:13 Download Listen Forgiveness Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 16:45 Download Listen Opening to the Pleasant and Noting Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-23 Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 50:55 Download Listen This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-03-27 Mind Bubbles 28:30 Download Listen This talk offers reflections on how to burst the mind bubbles that confine ourselves and others. Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2017-03-13 A Beginning Taste of Emptiness 26:25 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2016-11-09 Morning Reflection: Navigating Uncertainty and Fear 9:56 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-08 Navigating Uncertainty and Fear 47:48 Download Listen This talk offers reflections on the dynamics of uncertainty and fear in our lives and on retreat and how to navigate them. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-07 Morning Reflection - Crossing the Flood 10:14 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-02 Morning Reflection - Restraining the Senses and Cultivating the Senses 9:51 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-01 Implicit Bias & Suchness 53:30 Download Listen Brief Description of talk: This talk offers reflections on how the practice of sense restraint on retreat can help us unlearn the oppressive biases that we have received from society. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-31 Morning Reflection - Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence 11:01 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-26 Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation on Being Mindful of Thinking 17:12 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-25 Questions and Responses at the Forest Refuge 52:55 Download Listen This talk consists of responses to written questions at the Forest Refuge Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-24 Morning Reflection - Yun Men's Everyday is a Good Day 8:28 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-18 Wise Effort 49:03 Download Listen This talk offers reflections about the art of bringing balance into your meditation practice Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-17 Morning Reflection - The Technique of Labeling 10:16 Download Listen This brief morning reflection offers a brief introduction to utilizing the technique of labeling in one's meditation practice. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-12 Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation - Beginning to Nurture Samadhi 13:02 Download Listen This brief morning reflection offers a brief guided meditation for allowing the mind and body to settle. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-11 Samadhi and the Five Jhana Factors 48:25 Download Listen This talk introduces the quality of Samadhi and briefly describes the five jhana factors. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-05 Morning reflection: abandoning the unwholesome 15:42 Download Listen This morning reflection explores the practice that leads to abandoning the unwholesome. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-04 Bodhicitta 47:56 Download Listen This talk explores the aspiration to practice for the benefit of all beings while on retreat. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-03 Morning reflection: cultivating the wholesome 14:10 Download Listen Reflections on seen the spiritual path through the framework of cultivation. Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-29 Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives 48:11 Download Listen This talk explores how to bring our spiritual practice out beyond the retreat container. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-05-26 Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 51:52 Download Listen This talk explores practicing with vedana (feeling tone) which consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experince. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-04-08 Easing into the Boundless 62:58 Download Listen This talk offers a way of exploring awareness itself. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2016-04-06 Ways of Seeing Experience: Practicing with Dukkha and Anatta 61:37 Download Listen This talk explores the process of clearly seeing the arising of reactivity in a way that leads to our freedom. It also offers reflections on opening up to the selfless aspect of our experience. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2016-04-04 The Art of Samadhi 43:59 Download Listen This talk explores the art of cultivating samadhi by offering an initial understanding of it. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2015-12-01 Wise Speech 50:55 Download Listen This talk offers reflections about wise speech in the context at the end of a retreat and the context of our lives in general. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-25 The Mystery Of It All 50:29 Download Listen This talk explores the dimension of mystery of our spiritual journey Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-17 The Birth Of The Self 56:03 Download Listen This talk shares reflections on seeing the arising of the narrow sense of self in our meditation practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-10 Introduction To Dependent Origination 52:40 Download Listen This talk introduces the teaching of dependent origination as a foundation for our medittation Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-09 Introduction and Guided Compassion Practice 46:29 Download Listen This talk introduces the practice of compassion and offers a guided meditation Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-02 The Seed Of Faith 54:17 Download Listen This talk explores the importance of faith on the spiritual path and how to nurture it. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-29 Morning Instructions For Working With Thinking In Meditation 45:25 Download Listen This brief talk gives instructions about how to relate to thinking in our meditation practice Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-27 Savoring The wholesome 52:22 Download Listen This talk explores the art of opening to the beautiful and the wholesome in our lives and in our practice Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-02-25 Brahma Vihara Day 25 44:38 Download Listen Upekkha-Particular Groups of Beings Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-20 Views Part 3: A View of Right Now 55:47 Download Listen This talk offers an alternative view to seeing this practice as a linear path. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-15 Views - The Teaching of Not-Self 52:37 Download Listen This talk explores the Buddha's Teachings on Not-self as a practice. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-14 Brahma Viharas Day 14 42:09 Download Listen Compassion-Self and Benefactor Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-11 Brahma Viharas #11 44:53 Download Listen Metta - All Beings Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-10 Freedom From Views: Part 1 53:58 Download Listen This talk explores the skill of being free of views and at the same time knowing how to utilize them. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-05 Brahma Vihara Practice Day #5: Metta 44:23 Download Listen Benefactor, self & friend Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-04 Navigating Difficulty: the Five Hindrances 43:05 Download Listen This talk offers reflections on navigating the five hindrances. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-01-12 Beginning Again 23:16 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2014-12-04 Bringing the Practice into our Daily Life 60:45 Download Listen This talk offers reflections on how to skillfully transition from long retreat into daily life. It explores keeping our relationship to the Dharma alive in the many facets of our life. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-25 Being Somebody And Being Nobody 53:03 Download Listen This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-19 Impermanence: Entrusting Yourself To The Waves 54:07 Download Listen This talk explores opening to impermanence in our meditation practice and the importance of doing so. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-12 Moving Beyond A Sense Of Lack 57:02 Download Listen This talk explores how a sense of unworthiness can infiltrate our practice and how to move beyond it. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-11 Guided Compassion Practice 59:56 Download Listen This talk gives a basic introduction to the practice of compassion and then includes a guided meditation Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-04 The blessing Of Bodhicatta 54:07 Download Listen This talk explores how having an intention in our practice for the benefit of all beings expands our path and puts us in contact with wisdom. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-31 Mindfulness Of Vedana 44:44 Download Listen Being aware of the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral flavors of our experience, is a gateway to liberation Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-28 Living An Ethical Life 57:38 Download Listen This talk explores the interplay of ethical conduct nourishing our meditation practice and our meditation practice nourishing our ethical conduct. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2014-09-01 Dharma and Climate Change 27:16 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2014-07-21 Meditation & Emotions 30:57 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2014-02-14 Guided Metta Instructions 56:56 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-12 Natural Compassion 53:29 Download Listen Our meditation practice leads to a natural compassion that can transform the world. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-06 The Liberating Power of Loving-kindness 50:56 Download Listen Loving-kindness offers qualities of heart that transform our life and our spiritual practice. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2013-10-14 The Life of Simplicity 28:10 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2013-07-29 Awakening & Mystery 26:43 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2013-07-01 The Great Way is not Difficult 26:34 Download Listen Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2012-09-29 Bodhicitta 47:41 Download Listen This talk offers some reflections on bringing an altruistic intention into our meditation practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-22 Insight Into Impermanence 46:01 Download Listen This talk explores the nature of the insight into impermanence and how to support this insight within our meditation practice. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-15 Faith 53:17 Download Listen This talk explores the nature of faith and examines the doubts that can arise for us on our spiritual path Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-06-15 Integrating the Practice 48:24 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-06-11 The Hard Stuff 47:51 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-06-10 Love Dissolves Selfing 47:44 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-06-08 Family and Lineage on the Spiritual Path 56:40 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-06-06 Working with Our Sense of Lack 49:36 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-06-04 The Why, What and How of Retreat 43:07 Download Listen Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center