Audio Talks:
Please click on the sites below to access several hundred of my Dharma talks.
And more are listed below.
Please click on the sites below to access several hundred of my Dharma talks.
And more are listed below.
Dedicated Practitioners' Group
You are welcome to join these teachings in real time on certain Tuesdays (see "Online Teachings" page)
The most recent talks are listed first.
Series: The Graduated Discourse
1 - Generosity
2 - Virtue 1
3 - Virtue 2 and Gods
4 - Dangers of Sense Pleasure
5 - Blessing of Renunciation
6 - First Noble Truth
7 - Second Noble Truth
8 - Third Noble Truth
9 - Fourth Noble Truth 1
10 - Fourth Noble Truth 2
Exploring Awareness
Papanca (Mental Proliferation)
Truthfulness or "Trueness"
Nutriment, Part 2
Nutriment, Part 1
Exploring Fear, Part 2
Exploring Fear, Part 1
What Do We Really Know? The Surprises of Retreat
The Three Characteristics, Misperceptions, and Perceptions
Disenchantment and Dispassion
Making Our Own Refuge (Includes an initial meditation)
The Wisdom of Change, the Path of Faith
Video Talks (YouTube):
The Spectrum of Desire (Apr 2023)
Practicing in Accordance with the Dharma (Apr 2023)
Series: The Art of Letting Go (Feb 2023)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
Knowing that the Buddhist path is about letting go, a natural question is, "How can I let go of X?" (Fill in your choice -- anger, compulsive thinking, self-criticism...). This series delves into a list of seven methods that lead to letting go. Our job is to do the practices, and the letting go will occur.
#1: Meditation: Noting ; Talk: Letting Go by Seeing
#2: Meditation: Ease as the Reference ; Talk: Letting Go by Restraining
#3: Meditation: Being with Thinking ; Talk: Letting Go by Using and by Avoiding
#4: Meditation: Sitting with Things as They Are ; Talk: Letting Go by Enduring and by Removing
#5: Meditation: Strengthening Awareness ; Talk: Letting Go by Developing
Gathering the Mind: The Practice of Samādhi (Feb 2023)
30 min guided samatha meditation; 30 min talk + Q&A
Series: Meeting Life Well -- Five Dharma Resources (Nov 2022)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
This series describes five key qualities with which we can meet life circumstances well, both on and off the cushion. It's a list that appears in many suttas (at least 10), but is not taught often.
#1: Meditation: Trust in Meeting Experience ; Talk: Confidence
#2: Meditation: Honesty with Experience ; Talk: Virtue
#3: Meditation: Listening ; Talk: Listening and Learning
#4: Meditation: Giving Attention & Letting Go ; Talk: Generosity and Letting Go
#5: Meditation: Arising and Passing ; Talk: Discernment
Series: Desire and Letting Go (Aug 2022)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
This series views the path to Awakening as a process of refining our desires and learning to let go more and more deeply. It introduces the Buddhist understanding of "renunciation" (nekkhamma), which differs from the Western view.
#1: Meditation: From Craving to Aspiration ; Talk: The Diversity of Desire
#2: Meditation: Wanting and Not Wanting ; Talk: Sensual Desire and Pleasure
#3: Meditation: Simplicity ; Talk: Nekkhamma -- A Fresh Look at Renunciation
#4: Meditation: Samādhi and Happiness ; Talk: The Happiness of Letting Go
#5: Meditation: Open Awareness and Letting Go ; Talk: The Movement Toward Freedom
Series: Mindfulness as Protection (Mar 2022)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
This series brings in many images and similes that the Buddha used to describe mindfulness (sati). They all circle around the idea that mindfulness is a powerful protection for both ourselves and others.
#1: Meditation: Protection for Oneself ; Talk: Guarding the Sense Doors
#2: Meditation: Investigation of Wandering ; Talk: The Danger of Not Being Mindful
#3: Meditation: Impermanence ; Talk: Mindfulness at the Time of Death, and as a Refuge
#4: Meditation: The Body Supports the Mind ; Talk: The Strength of Mindfulness
#5: Meditation: Balancing Through Mindfulness ; Talk: Protection of Oneself and Others
Series: The Dharma of Uncommon Lists (Dec 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
This series is a "countdown" through some of the less-well-known lists in the Buddha's teachings -- from 5 items down to 1. You'll see that they are every bit as profound as the more common teachings.
#1: Meditation: Knowing with the Body ; Talk: Five Ways of Ascertaining Truth
#2: Med: Simple Refuge ; Talk: Four Qualities to Emulate and Grow
#3: Med: Reflecting on Generosity ; Talk: Three Kinds of Wisdom [truncated]
#4: Med: Open Mind, Flowing River ; Talk: Two Fools
#5: Med: Sensing the Citta ; Talk: The Primacy of the Mind
Series: The Depth of the Body (Aug 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 15 min Dharma talk)
#1: Meditation: Touching into the Body ; Talk: Mindfulness of the Body as a Friend
#2: Med: The Energy of the Body ; Talk: Four Bodily Knots
#3: Med: Resting in Well-Being ; Talk: The Body as a Support for Concentration
#4: Med: The Four Elements ; Talk: The Body as a Vehicle of Insight
The Five Faculties and Life (Aug 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 30 min Dharma talk)
Independence in the Dhamma (July 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 30 min Dharma talk)
Beginning Well (Apr 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 30 min Dharma talk)
Thinking in the Service of Awakening (Feb 2021)
(30 min guided meditation; 30 min Dharma talk)
The Dharma Life (Nov 2020)
(30 min guided meditation; 30 min Dharma talk)
The Four Bases of Dharma Power (July 2020)
The Past Has Been Left Behind; The Future Has Not Been Reached (Apr 2020)
Dharma Intelligence (Feb 2020)