John Travis's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
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      After thirty-five years of experience around the dharma, with eight of these years in Asia, I am still deeply inspired, as a teacher, by students' progress with the practice.  I see the questioning I do with myself reflected in others.  The infinite loop of my practice and my teaching becomes a self-fulling prophecy.  As I see others letting go of old baggage, it inspires me to continue questioning myself.
                                
          
            My teachings, for I am not a scholar, come from my experience on the pillow.  In the first ten years of the practice, I worked on the pain of life, the confusion, how to gain clarity.  In the next ten, I was finding balance in non-attachment; being in life, but not wanting to enter life.  In the last ten, I've been learning how to engage with the stickiness of living and loving.  I ask, how kind are people to each other?  How can we find a place inside that is not afraid anymore?
We need to know what drives us and our minds, how to relieve the cultural anxiety all around us.  We need to stop and slow down, to start feeling.  But the dharma not just a stress reduction course; the teachings point directly toward the nature of human conditioning and our freedom.
Overall, my teachings are very much about self-acceptance, giving ourselves space to do the practice and find our own voice.  My intention is to give people permission to listen to themselves, to become friends with themselves.  Ultimately, this moment is enough, we're enough, and don't need to be anything other than we are.
           
           
        
    
     
 
    
        
            
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        2009-03-21
            7 Factors 
    
        2017-05-18
            A Long Lineage 
    
        2015-05-15
            A New Life: The Faculty of Wisdom 
    
        2012-03-24
            All Day is Still All Day: Ease, Vividness, Spaciousness 
    
        2024-06-26
            Awareness & How it Actually Functions 
    
        2009-05-26
            Basic Goodness 
    
        2009-01-02
            Big Mind Meditation 
    
        2009-05-28
            Big Mind Meditation 
    
        2009-03-26
            Bodhicitta 
    
        2013-05-06
            Bodiness: First Foundation of Mindfulness 
    
        2014-12-17
            Bodyness 
    
        1999-02-23
            Bottom Line 
    
        2015-03-13
            Brahma Vihara Day 13 Compassion 
    
        2015-03-19
            Brahma Vihara Day 19 
    
        2015-03-25
            Brahma Vihara Day 25 Equanimity 
    
        2015-03-06
            Brahma Vihara Day 6: Forgiveness 
    
        2014-03-23
            Brahma Vihara Practice 
    
        2014-03-05
            Brahma Vihara Practice Day 4 
    
        2014-03-16
            Brahma Viharas 
    
        2014-03-24
            Brahma Viharas 
    
        2001-04-29
            Buddhism and the Red Road 
    
        2011-05-16
            Caught in the Storm of the First Day 
    
        2015-03-02
            Clear Path 
    
        2001-09-27
            Collective And Individual Shadow In Contemporary Times 
    
        2001-09-27
            Collective And Individual Shadow In Contemporary Times 
    
        2012-03-12
            Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening 
    
        2018-04-30
            Day 3: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-05-03
            Day 6: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A 
    
        2010-03-06
            Dependent Co-Arising 
    
        2011-03-27
            Dharma Has Touched These Bones 
    
        2014-03-17
            Disenchantment 
    
        2012-12-21
            Dissolving Storyline 
    
        2003-03-06
            Dukkha And Compassion 
    
        2010-03-27
            Ease Trust Heart 
    
        1998-12-31
            Everything is in the heart 
    
        2011-03-11
            Exploring Faith 
    
        2009-12-22
            Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom 
    
        2014-03-10
            Faith 
    
        2000-02-22
            Faith 
    
        2014-03-03
            First Foundation - Kaya 
    
        2017-12-21
            Five Aspects of Liberation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2004-01-01
            Flowing Into Selflessness 
    
        2001-09-10
            Four Maras 
    
        2001-09-10
            Four Maras 
    
        2012-03-07
            Frog Clarity...5 Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2016-12-21
            From the Garbage Dump to the Empty Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-03-20
            From the Valley to the Mountain 
    
        2009-03-13
            Full Moon - Metta Talks 
    
        1999-01-15
            Goblin Body 
    
        2008-08-21
            Graduated Path 
    
        2001-01-01
            Ground, Scuffed Shoes 
    
        2001-01-01
            Ground, Scuffed Shoes Flower Opens 
    
        2007-08-08
            Heart 
    
        2004-12-30
            Hindrances 
    
        2013-03-29
            Humility, Vulnerability, Trust in the Dharma 
    
        2001-09-19
            In Response to September 11 
    
        2010-01-02
            Last Evening 
    
        2010-03-21
            Leaning toward Freedom 
    
        2015-12-20
            Lessons from Mt. Fuji: the World of Papancha (Mental Proliferation) 
    
        2008-12-29
            Lost In Flight - Heart, Faith 
    
        2005-03-08
            Luminous Mind/Boundless Heart 
    
        2015-03-10
            Marks of Existence 
    
        2015-05-12
            Mind-Full-ness 
    
        2000-02-27
            Mind/Heart Scrub 
    
        2002-11-27
            Mindfulness And Metta 
    
        2004-12-29
            Moon Behind Clouds 
    
        2015-03-11
            Morning Instructions Day 11 
    
        2015-03-03
            Morning Instructions Day 3 
    
        2015-03-07
            Morning Instructions Day 7 
    
        2015-03-26
            Moving Like the Sweet Stream 
    
        2019-12-18
            Moving through Darkness into the Light (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2007-11-20
            Opening/Balancing/Exploring 
    
        2009-03-07
            Patience/Endurance 
    
        2009-08-21
            Pilgrimage 
    
        2008-11-27
            Pilgrimage Of Awakening 
    
        2009-12-29
            Pilgrimage To The Unfabricated 
    
        2009-08-17
            Plop! 
    
        2009-01-02
            Ready Or Not 
    
        2005-04-01
            River Rushing, Buddha Floating 
    
        2020-04-14
            Shining Clarity on the Environment of Mind (Online Retreat at  Spirit Rock) 
    
        2007-12-22
            Sitting In Amazement 
    
        2013-12-20
            Sitting in the Center 
    
        2005-08-08
            Sitting In The Center Of The Circle 
    
        2013-05-10
            Sitting on the Edge 
    
        2012-02-29
            Sitting on the Edge of the World 
    
        2007-08-06
            Sitting On Your Cushion 
    
        2003-12-28
            Staying Here 
    
        2015-03-16
            Staying in Your Seat 
    
        2004-04-02
            Surrender To The River 
    
        2018-05-02
            Swan Song (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2011-03-21
            Sweetness of Equanimity 
    
        1999-03-03
            Swinging from the Vine to Nibbana 
    
        2014-12-20
            Taking the Center Seat 
    
        2004-11-25
            Thanksgiving 
    
        2018-04-29
            The Body, Fear and Transforming Difficulties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2010-03-13
            The Eyes of Wisdom and the Heart of a Child 
    
        2012-03-17
            The Great Rain 
    
        2013-12-31
            The Long and Winding Road to Joy and Inspiration 
    
        2005-03-24
            The Medicine Pouch 
    
        2011-12-22
            The Outside Perfect: Ease, Luminosity, Spaciousness 
    
        1999-02-17
            The River of Fear 
    
        2013-03-23
            The Scent of Freedom 
    
        2013-03-16
            The Small Crack 
    
        1998-12-29
            The Spirit, Body and Mind 
    
        2013-03-09
            The Tattered Self 
    
        2011-05-20
            The Teeter-Totter of Awakening 
    
        2008-03-11
            The Three Characteristics And Their Subtle Expressions 
    
        2000-02-18
            The Wheel of Life 
    
        2000-12-27
            The Whole Journey 
    
        2003-09-23
            Trembling In The Armor 
    
        2012-05-16
            Vulnerability and The Good Heart 
    
        2010-12-22
            Water-Rainy Season 
    
        2008-08-14
            What About 
    
        2009-11-27
            Wheel of Freedom 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        1900-01-01
            Monday and Wednesday Talks 
    
        2007-08-03
            Vajrapani Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2007-11-18
            Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2007-12-19
            Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light 
    
        2008-03-01
            Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat  
    
        2008-11-23
            Thanksgiving 
    
        2008-12-26
            New Years Retreat 
    
        2009-03-02
            Insight Meditation March Month Long 
    
        2009-05-22
            Dharma of Recovery 
    
        2009-08-14
            Vajrapani 
    
        2009-11-22
            Thanksgiving 
    
        2009-12-20
            Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light 
    
        2009-12-26
            New Years 
    
        2010-03-01
            March 2010 Month Long 
    
        2010-12-19
            Solstice Retreat 
    
        2011-03-06
            March Monthlong Retereat 
    
        2011-05-15
            May Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2011-12-19
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2012-03-01
            Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long 
    
        2012-05-13
            May Insight Retreat 
    
        2012-12-18
            Insight Meditation at the Solstice 
    
        2013-03-04
            March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat 
    
        2013-05-04
            May Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2013-12-17
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2013-12-27
            New Year's Retreat 
    
        2014-03-01
            March Month Long Retreat 
    
        2014-12-16
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2015-02-28
            March Insight 1 Month Retreat 
    
        2015-05-10
            May Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-12-17
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2016-12-18
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2017-05-15
            Living Awareness Through Embodiment and Heart 
    
        2017-12-18
            Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat 
    
        2018-04-27
            Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation 
    
        2019-12-16
            Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat 
    
        2020-04-11
            Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online