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I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.

I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.

The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.

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2013-04-04 The Power of Habit - Part 1 52:48	Download Listen
Talk based on Charles Duhigg's book on why we do what we do and how to strengthen or change our habits.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-28 Facing in the Right Direction 47:46	Download Listen
Social change happens slowly in our society but usually moves in the direction of greater inclusion and acceptance of progressive ideas. Includes Mark Morford's column "Your Evolution is Totally Gay."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-21 Community Sharing: Questions and Answers 56:27	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-14 The Five Reflections 50:07	Download Listen
The Five Reflections from the Upajjatthana Sutra are: 1 - I am subject to old age, 2 - I am subject to illness, 3- I am subject to death, 4 - I must be parted and separated from everyone and everything dear and agreeable to me, 5 - I am the owner of my karma and the heir of my karma.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-02 Contentment 57:07	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-25 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita for All Beings 57:05	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-24 The Comparing Mind 60:03	Download Listen
The tendency to compare and judge ourselves with others or regarding our ideas of good practice runs very deep. How to work with these patterns and see through them to realize our true nature is explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-22 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 1 44:22	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-22 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 2 13:50	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-18 Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2 60:29	Download Listen
Suffering itself can lead to genuine well-being and happiness when we know how to transform it. Other wholesome states: how to have metta for self and letting go into simply being are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

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