Reflections on sati - awareness - as a refuge. Grounding and settling in the body. The first guided meditation of the retreat.

An Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions. A three-part series examining the role of passion, compassion, and dispassion on the Buddha's path to peace. This week, the disentangling release that comes from renunciation of paths that promise a happiness but don't deliver. What we can learn from compassionate engagement or the refined happiness of an unhindered heart-mind. And how they open the heart and mind to support us to let go of narrow (fiery, lustful) passions for a grander freedom (of meaningful purpose).

This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on December 28 , 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on December 28 , 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

This dhamma talk, meditation and Q&A was offered on Decemberr 28,, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from the archives).