Matthew Brensilver's Dharma Talks
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver, PhD, served as a Buddhist chaplain at USC for four years and teaches about the intersection of mindfulness and mental health at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and with Mindful Schools. Matthew was trained by Noah Levine and teaches at Against the Stream. He is currently in the Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training program and regularly offers retreats at Spirit Rock and the Insight Retreat Center. He spent years doing research on addiction treatment at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and continues to be interested in the unfolding dialogue between dharma and science.
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2016-05-09
Anxiety and Tranquility
2017-05-28
Bringing Dharma Into Interpersonal and Communal Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-19
Clinging and the Path of Letting Go
2019-03-08
Compulsive Thinking, Concentration & Equanimity
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)
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
2018-11-21
Day 6: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-08-18
Dharma and Anxiety
2012-12-29
Dharma and the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence
2014-10-27
Dukkha Either Hardens or Softens the Heart
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
2014-08-18
Guided Meditation
2019-03-08
guided meditation
2018-06-14
Guided Meditation: Clinging and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-23
Guided Meditation: Mara's Trump Card
2018-06-16
Guided Meditation: Turbulence and Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
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
2017-10-23
Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2014-11-03
Mortality and the Poignancy of Life
2015-04-06
Psychotherapy and Dharma
2015-12-31
Q&A
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 R...
2015-12-30
The Intensity of Being a Teenager
2014-12-31
Things Nobody told Me When I was a Teen
2015-06-29
Thinking
2014-10-30
Unpacking Some of the Fruits of Practice
2014-06-23
Working with Anger
