We can easily get lost in our self-judgements, believing them to be true. This talk explains how to work with judgements and see through them to wake up to who we really are.

Balance and samatha (calm) and vipassana (insight). The hindrances and beyond.

"Turn your mind to the deathless" Relationship of change to changeless. Putting down the burden.

Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening.

Realizing in the second week of the three-month retreat - how challenging our practice can be at times. Reflecting on and consciously refreshing our aspiration can be very supportive.

Honoring the defenses that have kept us alive and offering our love to those spaces that can't open yet. The capacity to offer love can come from contemplating our generosity, the ways we are ethical and the beautiful qualities of awakened beings.

Here and now, how the deepening levels of Mindfulness and Loving Awareness can free the heart and mind.

Understanding which feelings condition defilements and which feelings lead to a deeper happiness and awakening.

Sakkayaditthi (identity view) and five aggregates. Understanding how our experience as humans gets created. Exploring the illusion of continuity of self.

Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught.