Dhamma Talks
Seven Awakening Factors, December 9, 2020
This talk reviews the Seven Awakening Factors: Mindfulness, Investigation of Mental Phenomena, Energy/Effort, Joy/Enthusiastic Interest, Tranquility, Concentration/Stability of Attention and Equipoise/Balance of Factors. Each factor is briefly reviewed, describing...
Guided Seven Awakening Factors Meditation
This guided meditation provides a contemplative review of the seven awakening factors with suggestions on how to recognize each of the seven and how they complement each other in operation, developing the capacity for Awakening. This meditation is intended to...
How To Change Your Mind December 2, 2020
This talk reviews the key Buddhist concept of paticca sammuppada, typically translated as dependent origination. During the talk, Peter explains an alternative understanding he developed, contingent provisional emergence, using terms that are hopefully more useful...
Guided Changing Your Mind Meditation
This guided meditation is intended to cultivate mindfulness of feelings in order to make manifest the potential of the key Buddhist concept of paticca sammuppada, translated as dependent origination. This concept describes how a person's karma is organized in ways...
Contmplating Gratitude November 25, 2020
Each year, when the Orlando Insight Meditation Group meets on Thanksgiving Eve, the topic for review and discussion is gratitude. After a brief review of how Buddhism regards the issue of gratitude, the psychologically beneficial cultivation of a daily gratitude...
Guided Contemplating Gratitude Meditation
This guided meditation focuses on the benefits of a contemplative review of aspects of Buddhist principles and practices, reflecting gratitude for the teachings, and how these practices cultivate a mind open to appreciating daily life experiences.
Cultivating The Wisdom Cetasika November 18, 2020
This talk reviews the final item on the list of the 52 cetasikas, the categories of factors that condition the process of self-organization in the mind, focusing on Panna (pahn-yah), the Wisdom cetasika. Wisdom is the manifestation of the holistic coordination and...
Guided Cultivating Wisdom Meditation
This training meditation provides support for realizing the potential of the Wisdom Cetasika--direct understanding of the experience of impermanence, non-self and dukkha. During the practice, you are encouraged to persistently focus on the changing nature of breath...
Enjoying the Happiness of Others November 11, 2020
This talk reviews mudita, typically translated as sympathetic joy, and represents the ability to emotionally resonate with the happiness of other beings. Sympathetic joy is a manifestation of lovingkindness and is similar to compassion, as both are ways that the mind...
Guided Enjoying the Happiness of Others Meditation
This meditation combines mindfulness of breathing meditation with focused attention on the area around the heart for contemplating the joyful feelings that can be realized in witnessing the happiness of others. Breath awareness stabilizes attention and sets aside the...
