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I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.

It is fun for me to take the most difficult concepts and put them into accessible language, to unwrap the mystery. So I try to find ways to explore the breadth of concepts like "emptiness" -- to see how the entire path can be explained in terms of this synonym for nibbana. One of my aims is to bring the goal of freedom into the here and now. This way practitioners get a taste of freedom, so they know what they are heading toward on their journey to liberation.

The tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness can be picked up by anyone. They are easy to understand and they bring immediate benefit to our lives. The essence of vipassana is ideally suited to western society, especially to the resonance between our psychological turn of mind and our quest for spiritual understanding.

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2016-02-02 Day 3 Morning Instructional Sit 43:48	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long

2016-02-01 Delighting in the Wholesome 58:46	Download Listen
Our practice is aimed at developing in three ways: brightening the mind, finding deep inner peace, and understanding the nature of things. The talk explores the role of wholesome qualities in this development: giving, conduct, lovingkindness, concentration, and right view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long

2015-10-23 Joy and Happiness 58:51	Download Listen
The importance of developing wholesome uplifting states of mind through sympathetic joy, concentration, insight and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-16 Impulses Come From Ignorance 56:48	Download Listen
Ignorance is the first link in the chain of dependent origination. The talk explores how formations are conditioned by ignorance to create three levels of obscuration, and how the path of sila, samadhi, and pañña works through them to touch enlightenment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-08 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:20	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-02 The Five Aggregates Are Not Self 61:56	Download Listen
When we understand our experience in terms of the five aggregates, we see without the unnecessary overlay of self. This way of understanding is liberating.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-25 Working With Fear 61:13	Download Listen
Finding greater freedom in seeing the impermanent nature of fear. Softening the associated sensations, mood, and thoughts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-23 Morning Instructions - Intentions 2:48	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-23 Morning Instructions - Intention or Cetanā in Pali 44:12	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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