Dhamma Talks

Guided Equanimity Contemplation

This guided meditation focuses on cultivating upekkha (ooh-peh-kah), equanimity regarding one's subjective experience.  This quality of consciousness is frequently identified in Buddhist teachings: one of the Seven Awakening Factors, one of the Four Diving Abidings,...

Guided Non-Self Contemplation

This guided meditation focuses on identifying the subjective characteristics of anatta (ah-nah-tah), the absence of an enduring, autonomous self.  Anatta is the third of the Three Characteristics: Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta.  During the meditation attention is first...

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...

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...