Dhamma Talks
Understanding The Concentration Awakening Factor July 15, 2020
This talk focuses on the sixth of the seven Awakening Factors, the Concentration Awakening Factor. Peter reviews the cultivation of several stages of concentration ascending from the momentary unification of factors in the mind to the extraordinary levels of...
Guided Meditation For Cultivating Concentration
This guided meditation is intended to support the talk entitled "Understanding The Concentration Awakening Factor", posted July 17, 2020. Even though the focus of attention is primarily on the breath, meditators are invited to also investigate the quality of...
Guided Lovingkindness Meditation
This is an introductory training for using this lovingkindness mantra as a foundation for cultivating kindness in one's heart and projecting this characteristic out to the world: May I be safe, May I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be content. May I love myself...
Guided Introduction To Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation
This 30 minute meditation provides basic training for practicing mindfulness of breathing meditation. Here are the notes that explain the practice of mindfulness of breathing meditation: MINDFULNESS OF BREATHING MEDITATION
Awakening With Tranquility July 8, 2020
This talk reviews passadhi bojjhanga (pah-sah-dee bow-jahn-gah), the Tranquility Awakening Factor. This factor is closely cooperative with the remaining two Awakening Factors, Concentration and Equanimity. Tranquility is an antidote for the hindrance of restlessness...
Guided Contemplation of Dukkha
This meditation focuses attention on the second of the three characteristics of subjective reality, Dukkha, distress and confusion. You are invited to cultivate anicca, the transitory nature of self-experience through mindfulness of breathing meditation. This...
Guided Tranquility Awakening Factor Meditation
This Meditation contemplates the Awakening Factor of passadhi, tranquility of mind and mental conditioners. During the contemplation, you are invited to investigate the "tight, disturbed" quality of attention that occurs when the mind is caught up in any of the five...
Guided Head Body Scan
This meditation trains attention to various areas of sensation ranging from the tip of the nostrils back through the nasal passages, then the passage down to the back of the roof of the mouth, sensitized to whatever might be noticed in those areas. Attention...
Guided Whole Body Sweep Meditation
This Meditation trains the mind to move investigating attention mindfully and systematically throughout the body, sensitive to subtle body vibrations similar to the experience of one's leg "going to sleep", but much milder in sensation. The goal of this training is...
Guided Awakening With Joy Meditation
This meditation focuses on the fourth of the seven Awakening Factors, Piti, often translated as joy or rapture; I prefer to use the term enthusiastic interest. Joy becomes more apparent and useful with the support of the first three factors, mindfulness,...
