TALKS & MEDITATIONS

58 minutes | Third talk in a series of three. This talk takes a glimpse at the 3rd Noble Truth of the cessation of dukkha and explores...

55 minutes | Second talk in a series of three. The 2nd Noble Truth relates to the cause of dukkha, namely clinging or grasping. This...

59 minutes | First talk in a series of three. The Four Noble Truths are the Buddha's prescription for the lessening and ultimate release...

26minutes | This embodied compassion practice cultivates an intimacy with our own suffering or stress and then the suffering or stress of...

26 minutes | Wisdom is a powerful tool for creating freedom. There are three levels of wisdom, each deeper than the last. We discuss some...

33 minutes | We use wise view to aid us in inquiry into our subconscious experience. When we look at challenging aspects of our lives, we...

24 minutes | We tend to live in a world of concepts. These concepts are just thoughts, not reality. When we can start to see through the...

25 minutes | According to the Buddha, the source of stress is the tendency to grasp for worldly phenomena to make us happy,...

24 minutes | Generosity was the first teaching of the Buddha to laypeople. The cultivation of appropriate generosity goes far toward...

30 minutes | Mindfulness of ethical behavior is a core part of the Buddhist teachings. The Buddha invites people to train in cultivating...

47 minutes | Much of our suffering arises because we get caught in the story of our lives. Yet story seems to be intimately connected to...

57 minutes | The Buddha invites us to cultivate the intentions of renunciation (letting go of clinging) and lovingkindness. We can use...