Describes the skillful use of pleasure in deepening the concentration that grows from mindfulness of breathing.

There are five key benefits of Metta practice: making the heart more tender, purifying the mind, concentration, connection to all of life, and real happiness.

Explores the responses that arise with different individuals in the practice of metta. Includes working with judgment of oneself and developing forgiveness for a difficult person.

The four brahma viharas with their near and far enemies form a complete map of our emotional responses to the joys and sorrows of life. This talk focuses primarily on the qualities of compassion and mudita.

Explores the development of equanimity in sila, samadhi, and panna. Includes reflections on the role of karma in the equanimity practice.

This talk explores three aspects of the mind as described by Lama Shabkar: “The mind is like a flawless piece of crystal: intrinsically empty, naturally radiant, and ceaselessly responsive.”

Further explorations of the aspects of emptiness, awareness, and responsiveness. Sunlight in empty space as an analogy for the nature of the mind.

When no self is formed through clinging, we can rest in the Original Mind as it was described by Ajahn Chah.

The five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness are empty in two ways. There is no ongoing self in the center, which points to the emptiness of self. All the aggregates are insubstantial, which points to the emptiness of all phenomena.

Body + Consciousness

Compassion as the expression of a selfless state of mind.

It may seem that the Buddha's teaching on emptiness is incompatible with his teaching on karma, which connects the result of an action with the same being who performed it. But actually, the two teachings need each other to make sense.

The key learnings from awareness practices. How to integrate them with classical vipassana practices.