Matthew Brensilver's Dharma Talks
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD, serves on the Guiding Teachers Committee and Board of Directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was previously Program Director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Each summer, he lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center on the intersections between mindfulness, science and mental health. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. He is the co-author of two books about meditation during adolescence.
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2020-03-09
Addressing Coronavirus with a Dharma View- Monday Night Dharma Talk
2021-05-21
Anatta and its Blessings
2016-05-09
Anxiety and Tranquility
2019-08-15
Attention, Wisdom, Grief and Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-28
Bringing Dharma Into Interpersonal and Communal Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-19
Clinging and the Path of Letting Go
2018-01-15
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-03-08
Compulsive Thinking, Concentration & Equanimity
2018-01-13
Day 1: Afternoon Practice Session (part 1) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Afternoon Practice Session (part 2) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-23
Day 1: Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-23
Day 1: Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Morning Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-10-19
Day 2 Morning Guided Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-14
Day 2: Afternoon Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-14
Day 2: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-14
Day 2: Morning Practice Session
2017-05-25
Day 3 Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-26
Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-27
Day 5: Instructions and Sitting
2019-10-23
Day 6 Morning Guided Instructions: Pervasiveness of Feeling (Retreat at Spirit …
2018-11-21
Day 6: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-12-17
Death and the Poignancy of Life
2014-08-18
Dharma and Anxiety
2012-12-29
Dharma and the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence
2018-06-14
Dharma Debate: Samvega versus Softening and Receiving (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-05-12
Dialectics of Practice - Opening and Protection (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-10-01
Dialogue on aspects of freedom.
2014-10-27
Dukkha Either Hardens or Softens the Heart
2019-06-05
Equanimity and Samadhi
2018-06-16
Ethical Implications of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-01-26
Feedback In The Context of Dharma Practice
2016-01-01
Going Home
2016-04-18
Grief, Love and Groundlessness
2022-03-06
Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth
2014-08-18
Guided Meditation
2019-03-08
guided meditation
2021-05-19
Guided Meditation
2021-05-22
Guided Meditation - changing conditions
2022-05-18
Guided Meditation - Grief and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-05-17
Guided Meditation on Body and Affect (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-21
Guided Meditation: Body and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-02
Guided Meditation: Body Settling, Pleasure of the Breath
2018-06-14
Guided Meditation: Clinging and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-03-05
Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk
2020-10-06
Guided Meditation: Feelings and their elaborations
2019-06-04
Guided Meditation: How the world impacts the emotional body
2014-06-23
Guided Meditation: Mara's Trump Card
2020-10-03
Guided Meditation: Settling into the Body
2018-06-16
Guided Meditation: Turbulence and Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-03-03
Guided Metta practice
2020-10-08
Guided Reflection & Meditation: Grief & Compassion
2016-12-30
Intensity, Clinging and Anatta in the teen years (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-24
Intentions for Practice and the Jewel of Curiosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-08-17
Learning from Retreats
2022-03-07
Love and its relation with wisdom.
2022-05-19
Love as the Default Position of the Mind
2022-03-04
Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present
2018-06-12
Metta Reflections: Opening to Life Requires Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-08-19
Mindfulness in Close Relationships
2014-10-20
Miranda July & The Dharma
2018-12-10
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-03-25
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2017-10-23
Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2022-08-03
Morning sit with instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-11-03
Mortality and the Poignancy of Life
2022-05-16
No escape other than into the heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-12
Opening Night: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-04-06
Psychotherapy and Dharma
2015-12-31
Q&A
2021-05-20
Reflections and Guided Heart Practice
2018-06-13
Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-23
Self-Love and Selflessness - Part 1
2015-03-02
Self-Love and Selflessness - Part 2
2018-11-24
Sila as Our Practice in the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-22
Sila, Samadhi, Panna (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-23
Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-09-08
Some Fruits of the Practice
2016-11-25
Spirit Rock-Attention, Love and Service
2016-11-20
Spirit Rock-Metta in the Post Obama Era
2016-11-22
Spirit Rock-Samadhi in the Context of Letting Go
2019-02-28
Technology as an Existential Threat to Mindfulness - Matthew Brensilver and Ran…
2015-12-30
The Intensity of Being a Teenager
2019-06-22
The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-10-05
The Parami of Truthfulness
2019-06-18
The Story of Jumping Mouse (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-12-31
Things Nobody told Me When I was a Teen
2015-06-29
Thinking
2021-09-30
Tranquilizing side of the 7 Factors: Agitation and temporal density.
2020-10-08
Tuere Sala and Matthew Brensilver in dialogue about wisdom
2014-10-30
Unpacking Some of the Fruits of Practice
2018-11-23
Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-23
Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-05-14
Vulnerability, Porousness, Equanimity & Love (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-01
Where You At, Where You Going
2014-06-23
Working with Anger
2020-05-17
Your Face: The Gaze, Self-view, Intimacy and Letting Go (Online Retreat at Spir…
