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Talks & Guided Meditations
Talks & Guided Meditations
Talks & Guided Meditations
Arranging the Furniture of the Mind
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupNov 15th, 2021Contextual Links:Dukkha as a Path to Happiness
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterNov 3rd, 2021Contextual Links:The Great & Beautiful Secret of Meditation
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupNov 1st, 2021Contextual Links:Intimacy With Everything; The Necessity of Suffering
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterOct 27th, 2021Contextual Links:Distractions Are Not The Problem
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 25th, 2021Contextual Links:You Are Not Your Thoughts
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 18th, 2021Contextual Links:The Ethical & Emotional Intelligence of Mindfulness
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 11th, 2021Contextual Links:It Matters That You Notice
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterSep 29th, 2021Contextual Links:How To Show Up In An Upside Down World
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupSep 27th, 2021Contextual Links:Recommitting Ourselves to Practice
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupSep 6th, 2021Contextual Links:Everyday Meditation for Everyday Life: Come Back & Begin Again
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterAug 18th, 2021Contextual Links:Four Causes of Suffering & What To Do About It
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupAug 16th, 2021Contextual Links:Happiness is Contentment With it All
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJul 19th, 2021Contextual Links:Waking Up to This Moment Through the Eyes of Mary Oliver
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJul 14th, 2021Contextual Links:Listening, Resting & Trusting This Moment
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJul 12th, 2021Contextual Links:The Tonic of Care & Laughter
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 14th, 2021Contextual Links:Offer Yourself a Little Happiness
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 7th, 2021Contextual Links:Befriending Discomfort Everywhere: Self, Each Other & Beyond
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJun 2nd, 2021Contextual Links:Discomfort Doesn't Have to be Fixed
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 31st, 2021Contextual Links:Reclaiming Our Strength Through the 5 Spiritual Faculties
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterMay 26th, 2021Contextual Links:Turn Off the Autopilot - Be Here Now
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 24th, 2021Contextual Links:Five Ways to Strengthen Your Practice
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 17th, 2021Contextual Links:Opening to Gratitude
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 10th, 2021Contextual Links:Ground, Path & Fruit; Discovering Our Inner Nobility
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterApr 28th, 2021Contextual Links:Sit and Know You're Sitting
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 19th, 2021Contextual Links:Living In the Midst of It All
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 12th, 2021Contextual Links:Tilling the Ground, Taking the Path, Tasting the Fruit
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 5th, 2021Contextual Links:Radiating Kindness is Enough
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 29th, 2021Contextual Links:Cultivating an Appropriate Response to Violence, Yet Again
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterMar 24th, 2021Contextual Links:Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 22nd, 2021Contextual Links:The Most Important Thing Right Now
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 15th, 2021Contextual Links:The Privilege of Comfort
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 1st, 2021Contextual Links:Choosing the Path and Taking It; A Manifesto for Practice (with special guest Sylvia Boorstein)
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterFeb 24th, 2021Contextual Links:Five Simple Rules for Happiness from Mrs. Jones
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupFeb 22nd, 2021Contextual Links:Renunciation & Kindness; a Symbiotic Relationship
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterFeb 10th, 2021Contextual Links:Befriending Those Pesky Obstacles
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupFeb 8th, 2021A look at what gets in the way of seeing clearly and a lovely poem from Lynn Ungar, The Way It Is
Contextual Links:Balance in the Wind
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupFeb 1st, 2021Contextual Links:Our Essential Ease & Peace
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJan 27th, 2021Contextual Links:Discovering Our Innate Ease & Peace
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJan 25th, 2021Contextual Links:When My Vulnerability Meets Yours
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJan 18th, 2021Contextual Links:Taming the Flames; Trauma, Resiliency & Loving Life Anyway
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJan 13th, 2021Contextual Links:Let the Dharma Come to Life
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJan 11th, 2021Contextual Links:This One Precious Life
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJan 4th, 2021Contextual Links:Honoring Endings, Welcoming Beginnings
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterDec 30th, 2020Contextual Links:From Reactivity to Skillful Response
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupDec 28th, 2020Contextual Links:A Meditation For the Winter Solstice
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupDec 21st, 2020Contextual Links:To Press Our Hands to Each Other's Hearts
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterDec 16th, 2020Contextual Links:The Calm Inside the Chaos
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupDec 14th, 2020Contextual Links:Being With What Is, I Respond to What Is
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupNov 30th, 2020Contextual Links:Creating a Culture of Gratitude, a Culture of Reciprocity
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterNov 25th, 2020Contextual Links:Your Innate Nobility & Wise Livelihood
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterNov 18th, 2020Contextual Links:Strong Back, Soft Front, Free Heart
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupNov 16th, 2020Contextual Links:Hindrances & Obstacles; Caring for Ourselves During the Election
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupNov 2nd, 2020Contextual Links:Finding Ground in Turbulent Times; Befriending Our Lives
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterOct 21st, 2020Contextual Links:The Well-Trained Disciplined Mind
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 19th, 2020Contextual Links:Begin at the Beginning & Begin Again and Again and Again
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterOct 14th, 2020Contextual Links:By Not Holding to Fixed Views
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 13th, 2020Contextual Links:Being Right, Being Wrong
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupOct 5th, 2020Contextual Links:Strength, Steadiness & Courage; The Practices of Renuncation & Faith, Part 2
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterSep 23rd, 2020Contextual Links:Strength, Steadiness & Courage; The Practices of Renuncation & Faith, Part 1
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterSep 9th, 2020Contextual Links:Dissolve Contention, Forgive Everyone, Wake Up
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupSep 7th, 2020Contextual Links:A Sliver of Faith
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupAug 31st, 2020Contextual Links:Barking Dogs & Mooing Cows
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupAug 17th, 2020Contextual Links:To Be Fully Present
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupAug 10th, 2020Contextual Links:The Way It Is
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupAug 3rd, 2020Contextual Links:Integrity, Decency & Honesty; A Lifelong Practice
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJul 27th, 2020Contextual Links:Letting Go Into Simplicity, Freedom & Perspective
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJul 20th, 2020Contextual Links:Unleash Your Power: Generosity, Kindness & Clarity
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJul 6th, 2020Contextual Links:Three Instructions For Our Lives
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 22nd, 2020Contextual Links:From Vulnerability to Compassion
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 15th, 2020Contextual Links:Start Close In; Trust Your Heart
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 8th, 2020Contextual Links:We Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupJun 1st, 2020Contextual Links:Where Spirit Meets the Bone
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 25th, 2020Contextual Links:Finding Patience in the Eye of the Storm
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 18th, 2020Contextual Links:Even Now, There is Still Joy
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 11th, 2020Contextual Links:Replenishing the Well; Stay Close to Meaning
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMay 4th, 2020Contextual Links:Tending the Mind; As We Think, So We Become
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 27th, 2020Contextual Links:Four Compass Questions for Difficult Times
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 20th, 2020Contextual Links:A Continuous Invitation to Let Go
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupApr 13th, 2020Contextual Links:Guided Meditation for Stroke Recovery
Apr 11th, 2020Contextual Links:Body Scan Meditation
Apr 2nd, 2020Contextual Links:Basic Breath Meditation
Apr 2nd, 2020Contextual Links:Cultivating Awareness & Compassion, Meditation
Apr 2nd, 2020Contextual Links:What We Know to Be True
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 9th, 2020Contextual Links:Begin at the Beginning
Presented at: Monday Afternoon Drop-In Meditation GroupMar 2nd, 2020Contextual Links:Taking Refuge in the Buddha as an Expression of Love
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterNov 13th, 2019Contextual Links:The Joy of Realization...or Tacos & Lemonade
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterAug 21st, 2019Contextual Links:Tending to What We Love; Joy as an Act of Resistance
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterAug 7th, 2019Contextual Links:Refuges, Precepts, Renunciation & Spiritual Urgency
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterOct 31st, 2018Contextual Links:Is Suffering Optional?
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterAug 22nd, 2018Contextual Links:Cultivating Happiness; Choice & Chance
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJun 13th, 2018Contextual Links:Falling in Love with the Earth
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterNov 8th, 2017Contextual Links:Wise Effort as a Radical Act of Hospitality
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJun 21st, 2017Contextual Links:What's in the laundry bag, anyway?
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterMay 17th, 2017Contextual Links:I Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterAug 24th, 2016Contextual Links:The Parami of Patience - A Primary Practice
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterMar 2nd, 2016Contextual Links:Expanding the Bottom Line of the Heart
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterJan 27th, 2016Contextual Links:Why We are Here; a Tribute Class to Sylvia Boorstein & Donald Rothberg
Presented at: At Spirit Rock Meditation CenterSep 9th, 2015Contextual Links:
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