Dhamma Talks
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...
Mindful Compassion In Trying Times November 4, 2020
This talk reviews the Wholesome Mind Conditioning function of karuna (kah-roo-nah), compassion, which is a manifestation of Right Intention from the Noble Eightfold Path. Peter reviews the universal human capacity for empathy, "hard-wired" into our nervous system,...
Guided Mindful Compassion Meditation
This meditation focuses on combining mindfulness meditation with compassion meditation, suggesting that the effective experiencing and expressing of compassion requires using Right Mindfulness and Right Effort to create the subjective clarity and serenity that...
Right Livelihood In Trying Times October 28, 2020
This talk reviews the Wholesome Cetasikas "Right Action" and "Right Livelihood" in their classical rendering and then conjoins them into "Right Lifestyle" to reflect ways to be resilient to current stresses in these trying times. Contemporary lifestyles are deeply...
