Dhamma Talks
What Is Mindfulness?
Sati, the Pali word we translate as mindfulness, functions as a composite--present moment awareness combined with investigation and Right Effort. This interactive process is reviewed during this talk. Additionally, there is an interesting quote included in the talk...
Lezlie Laws’ Retreat Review
It is customary for our Sangha to provide the opportunity for those members who recently completed a residential retreat to talk about their experience. It fosters the integration of the meditative experience through "thinking out loud" and responding to questions...
Reviewing Right Effort
This talk is part of a series reviewing the Four Noble Truths. Right Effort is an important element of the Noble Eightfold Path and can be understood as a process of channeling the energy of attention away from unwholesome self-states towards wholesome self-states. ...
Guided Channeling Right Effort Meditation
This guided meditation offers a different approach to cultivating Right Effort by suggesting that, while meditating, we can view the flow of experience as metabolic energy derived from food and oxygen, that feeds the brain's activities. Rather than trying to "stop"...
Reviewing Right Livelihood
This talk reviews the third attribute of the Virtue aggregate in the Noble Eightfold Path, Right Livelihood. in addition to traditional renderings of this topic, contemporary considerations of "Right Lifestyle" are described, including the importance of physical and...
Reviewing Right Action
Right Action is a category of the Virtue Aggregate within the Noble Eightfold Path. This talk reviews the various traditional aspects of virtue--harmlessness, not stealing and not in ways that are sexually harmful--including commentaries that focus on contemporary...
Reviewing Right Speech In These Trying Times
This talk continues a review of the Four Noble Truths with a focus on the first of the Virtue Aggregates contained within the Fourth Noble Truth, Right Speech. In addition to the traditional rendering of Right Speech, Peter adds his insights as a psychotherapist...
Reviewing the Cultivation of Wisdom
This talk continues a series of reviews of the Four Noble Truths and specifically addresses the first two elements of the Fourth Noble Truth, known as the Noble Eightfold Path--Right Understanding and Right Intention. Each of these elements are reviewed, emphasizing...
Guided Cultivating Wisdom Contemplation
This guided meditation reviews the characteristics and development of the Wisdom Aggregate of the Noble Eightfold Path, which includes Right Understanding and Right Intention. It is intended to complement the recorded Dharma talk entitled "Reviewing the Cultivation...
Reviewing the Third Noble Truth
This talk continues a review of the Four Noble Truths, with a focus on how the mind is liberated from dukkha through dissolving the potency of craving and clinging, the topic of the Second Noble Truth. Various views relevant to the Third Noble Truth are described,...
