Dhamma Talks
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...
Working With The Aversion Mind Conditioners September 2, 2020
This talk continues a reviewing of the 52 cetasikas, conditioning factors of the mind; the focus of this talk is on four of the occasional or particular cetasikas, which only appear when circumstances permit. They are: aversion/ill-will, envy/jealousy,...
Guided Working With Aversion Meditation
During this meditation you will be provided with suggestions for using the neutrality of breath awareness to notice the physical characteristics of aversion and relate to the unpleasantness with calmness and equanimity, disregarding whatever the mind creates to reject...
The Unwholesomeness Of Desire August 26, 2020
This is another in a series of reviews of the cetasikas, categories within which are found those factors that condition the mind. The topic for this talk focuses on three of the Unwholesome Particular Cetasikas: Desire, Wrong View and Conceit. Each of the cetasikas...
Guided Understanding Desire Meditation
This training meditation cultivates clear awareness of the characteristics of desire: An initial pleasant feeling that, when not investigated wisely, quickly becomes craving and clinging--dukkha. During the recording there are intervals for cultivating mindfulness of...
The Universal Unwholesome Cetasikas August 19, 2020
Of the 52 Cetasikas, categories of mind conditioning factors, there are 14 that create the experience of distress and confusion that we call dukkha. This talk reviews the first four of these categories: Delusion/Ignorance, Shamelessness (The absence of shame or...
