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What I most love in my teaching practice is seeing students become dedicated to their own liberation. As their spiritual practice matures, people light up from within when they begin to understand that personal freedom is possible. This commitment to freedom on the part of the student inspires me to find ways to express my deepest understanding and enthusiasm for liberation.

The mindfulness teachings of the Buddha are among the more direct, practical meditation techiques that we can cultivate. My focus is on sharing these practices in an accessable, down-to-earth way. How can we disengage from our habits of responding to the world through veils of confusion, greed, and hatred?

Mindfulness practice helps us recognize when we are responding to the world from the mental and emotional habits that obscure our true home, our radiant nature, which manifests as compassion and love. The Buddha's teachings show us that we are not isolated individuals who need to live defensive lives. Rather, we can learn to trust and live from our full potential as compassionate members of a connected planet.

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2012-04-25 Working with Wise Thought and Intention 61:45	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-19 Generosity: A Foundational Practice for Awakening 60:57	Download Listen
Similar to previous talks, although some new examples
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-14 Compassion and Mindfulness 60:14	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-04 Awareness and Wisdom 56:16	Download Listen
Wisdom arises naturally when there is a steady momentum of "pure" awareness. That is, when the mind is not colored by views based in greed, aversion or bewilderment. Learning to recognize and trust this natural process is a keystone of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2011-11-24 Anatta: Investigating the Misperception of Self 57:59	Download Listen
As has been said, the self is a ghost that appears to exist only because it is not investigated. In this talk we explore some of the ways that we perceive experience inaccurately and create a view of lasting self. We also mention the advice of Achaan Buddhadasa to generate a contentment with emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-11-17 Understanding Dukkha 58:01	Download Listen
The understanding of Dukkha - the first noble truth, as well as one of the three characteristics of phenomena - opens our hearts and minds into the peace of wisdom and the beauty of compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-11-10 The perception of impermanence. 55:58	Download Listen
The buddha said that the perception of impermanence, when cultivated, leads one to liberation. This talk explores some of the ways that we do not recognize this characteristic of existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-26 Dharma Talk 49:56	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2011-10-21 Stories Of Some Buddhist Nuns: Then and Now 60:18	Download Listen
A brief telling of a few of the first Buddhist nuns, parried with stories of some contemporary Buddhist nuns.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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