Dhamma Talks
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...
Guided Mindful Intention Meditation
This guided mindfulness of breathing meditation suggests a variety of tactics for cultivating mindful awareness of intention, the mind conditioning factor that coordinates every moment of self-organization in preparation for action. Meditators are invited to notice...
Right Speech During Trying Times October 21, 2020
This talk reviews the Wholesome Cetasika of Sammavaca, translated as Right Speech, which is also an important element of the Noble Eightfold Path. The classical understanding of Right Speech is reviewed, which is coordinated with previously posted reviews of Hiri,...
Guided Mindfulness of Thinking Meditation
This meditation focuses on learning how to use mindfulness of breathing practice to perceive internal narratives--the "selfing story"--as transient, impersonal fabrications that are natural processes such as hearing, etc., and not constituting an autonomous, enduring...
The Six Beautiful Pairs of Cetasikas October 14, 2020
This talk reviews the benefits of coordinating the previously reviewed Universal Wholesome Cetasikas, resulting in the manifestation of the Six Beautiful Pairs: tranquility of mind and mental factors, lightness of mind and mental factors, pliancy of mind and mental...
Guided Alerting The Mind Meditation
This training meditation is intended to suggest ways to cultivate awareness of what are called the "Six Beautiful Pairs" of cetasikas, categories of mind that promote self-states that are free from dukkha, distress and confusion. These qualities are manifested...
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. ...
