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The method I use most in teaching is anapanasati or mindfulness with breathing. Breath awareness supports us while we investigate the entire mind-body process. It helps calm the mind and gives us a graceful entry into a state of choiceless awareness--a place without agendas, where we are not for or against whatever turns up in the moment.

In this state we relax into ourselves. We allow the mind to empty itself of its own content and take us into a realm of silence.

Choiceless awareness, with the transition into and out of silence, has fascinated me for a long time. What are the barriers to our minds becoming silent? How do we remain in silence long enough to receive its countless benefits? Can we learn to bring thought-free wakefulness into each aspect of our ordinary, daily living?

As lay people we need a practice that helps us learn how to live whole-heartedly, to do justice to the many challenges of lay life, and at the same time grow in the dharma. This includes moving gracefully back and forth between our daily life and intensive retreat practice.

Presently, I am deeply interested in using Buddha's Charter of Freedom of Inquiry, the Kalama Sutta, as a framework for my teaching. In this teaching, the Buddha invites us to question and doubt. It invites us to use personal experience to test and verify the truth of the teachings. This in turn encourages us to acknowledge life's greatest teacher: Life itself.

The challenge for us all is to question ourselves. Do we know how to live? If the answer, in any way, is no, then bring in the dharma and let's see how the teachings help us live in a wise and kind way.

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1989-02-25 The Dog Runs After The Bone: Beginnning Samadhi Practice I 48:06	Download Listen
BEGINNING SAMADHI PRACTICE I - learning to become undivided

1989-02-27 The Dog Runs After The Bone: Beginnning Samadhi Practice II 36:48	Download Listen
BEGINNING SAMADHI PRACTICE II - beginning to really see the futility of a mind that runs after its own bones

1989-03-26 Guiding The Heart #2 52:42

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1990-02-13 Infinite Respect 45:56

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1989-03-01 The Dog Runs After The Bone: Beginnning Samadhi Practice III 53:45	Download Listen
BEGINNING SAMADHI PRACTICE III - staying with the simple practice of Samadhi brings the profound outcome of a calm and steady mind

1989-03-04 Blending Practice With Life 1:32:35	Download Listen
moving from an awareness within the meditation practice to an awareness in daily life

1989-03-29 Coming To Terms With The Nature Of The Body 1:23:00	Download Listen
appreciating the body as another dimension of our struggle with attachment and its consequences

1989-04-19 Dana: The Flowering Of Generosity 1:33:55

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1989-04-26 Conscious Breathing I: Reflections On Anapanasati I 1:34:16	Download Listen
through the practice of conscious breathing, the mind becomes stilled and in stillness becomes nourished with joy

1989-05-24 Conscious Breathing II: Reflections On Anapanasati II 1:33:42	Download Listen
using the Buddha's 16 contemplations on breathing as a rich source of inspiration and practical approaches for our practice

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