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I find teaching to be a very deep and powerful "no self" practice. When I connect with others during Dharma talks--in the intimacy of small groups, and while holding meditation practice interviews--I am continually reminded to know, and be, in a place of clarity, spaciousness and immediate presence. Being able to offer students such a place of connection is my greatest pleasure and inspiration, as well as the most appreciated challenge in my teaching practice.

For me, the real fruit of the teaching is seeing the beauty of a gradual, and sometimes sudden, unfolding of a heartmind into its true self; seeing the variety of ways a person's essential, creative energy of being flows into the world.

On one end of the teaching, I am excited and inspired by students who are deeply committed to long-term, intensive practice. On the other end (and of course they're connected), I find that working closely with people at the grass roots level--in a co-creative process of developing and sustaining Dharma practice, study and community opportunitiies on a day-to-day basis--is equally exciting and inspiring.

From the immediacy of presence flows a wisdom that naturally connects us to the way of things. This amazing gift of mindfulness provides us with a spaciousness where we can make appropriate, healthy and creative life choices. Rather than being caught up in our old, conditioned habits, mindfulness provides us with the gift of engagement at its best. This is the Gift of the Dharma that we offer to all beings.

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2015-10-22 Morning Reflection: One Unfortunate Attachment - Perfection 50:59	Download Listen
Do you live your life from a conditioned idealized concept of perfection and endlessly strive to attain this…or from the other side of the coin of habitual self-judgment? Offering another view of perfection in this brief reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-17 Morning Reflection: Metta 5:56	Download Listen
A brief exploration arising out of the Buddha's instructions: "It is in this way that we must train ourselves, by liberation of the self through love. We will develop love. We will practice it. We will make it both a way and a basis, take our stand upon it, store it up and thoroughly set it going." Samutta Nikaya
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-16 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:44	Download Listen
This talk explores a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience and some effective way to work with them through the powerful tools in our practice of concentration, mindfulness, metta and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-15 Morning Reflection: Investigation 41:39	Download Listen
Getting really interested in what it is to be this body, this mind and heart as it unfolds in the light of mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-10 Morning Reflection On Bowing - Excerpts from "Arctic Dreams" by Barry Lopez 5:37	Download Listen
Why do we bow? What or who are we bowing to? Author and naturalist Barry Lopez writes about these questions in a very essential way - directly from his own experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-09 The Four Great Elements - the Four Great essentials 58:43	Download Listen
How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04	Download Listen
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-02 An Urgency For Practice 59:58	Download Listen
What are the "seeds" that bring you to spiritual practice? Samvega is the urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken. It's the movement of the heart towards finding a solution to our human predicament.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-05-08 Closing Dhamma Talk 54:52	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-05-07 Morning Reflection 2:12	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

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