Dhamma Talks
Cultivating Equanimity October 7, 2020
This talk reviews the Universal Wholesome Cetasika of Upekkha (ooh-peh-kah),Equanimity, which provides balanced functioning in the mind that is free from dukkha, distress and confusion. The review emphasizes the balance of energy--avoiding too much excitement or too...
Guided Cultivating Equanimity Meditation
This guided meditation focuses on cultivating a quality of attention that balances emotional energy and cognitive labeling. In the untrained mind, there can be either too much excitement or too much sedation, or too much identification or too much skepticism;...
Reviewing Non-Attachment and Non-Aversion September 30, 2020
This talk reviews alobha (non-attachment) and adosa (non-aversion), two of the Universal Wholesome Cetasikas, categories of mind conditioning functions that participate in the shaping of each moment of self-experience that is free from dukkha--distress and confusion. ...
Guided Non-Attachment and Non-Aversion Meditation
This training meditation focuses on two of the Universal Wholesome Cetasikas, alobha (non-attachment) and adosa (non-aversion). The meditation suggests how to use mindful investigation of the breath sensations to develop enough sensitivity of insight to observe the...
Reviewing The Virtue Mind Conditioners September 23, 2020
This talk reviews the two Universal Wholesome Cetasikas that are always present in every moment of consciousness unaffected by dukkha/distress and confusion, hiri (moral shame) and ottappa (fear of consequences). Hiri functions as conscience and is associated with...
Guided Cultivating Virtue Meditation
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness of breathing meditation to cultivate the mind conditioning functions called hiri/moral shame, and ottappa/respect for karma. These concepts and the practices for cultivating them are more thoroughly reviewed in the...
The Mindfulness and Confidence Cetasikas, September 16, 2020
The two reviews during this talk, focused on sati and saddha (mindfulness and confidence), represent the first two of the "Universal Wholesome Cetasikas", within the full listing of 52 cetasikas found in the Buddhist commentaries. During the talk the fundamental...
Guided Cultivating Mindfulness With Confidence Meditation
This meditation focuses on the first two of the listed "Universal Wholesome Cetasikas", Confidence and Mindfulness, in the complete list of 52 cetasikas found in Buddhist commentaries. The emphasis during this training exercise is on diligent and persistently mindful...
Overcoming Dullness And Doubt September 9, 2020
This talk reviews the last of the Unwholesome Cetasikas, those mind conditioners that are associated with dukkha, distress and confusion. The three reviewed here are sloth, torpor and doubt. Sloth and Torpor, among the five hindrances, conditions the mind towards...
Guided Brightening The Mind Meditation
This guided meditation focuses on cultivating alertness in the mind to counter the hindrance of sloth/torpor, a persistent state of dullness and disengaged attention in the mind. During the meditation, various suggestions are provided to foster persistent curiosity...
