Drawing from their new book "This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership", devon and nico share practical insights on bringing mindfulness and compassion into the beautiful complexity of intimate relationships. A guided meditation is followed by a teaching.
A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of The Easiest Ease
out of dukkha (not being free), by opening any contraction (physical, energetic, emotional, even perceptual contraction).
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on April 18, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - 22:50 Guided Meditation
22:50 - 45:00 DHAMMA TALK
45:00 - 1:30:00 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with quotes from Sand Talk, a book by Tyson Yunkaporta | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
From a simple moment of contact, the mind can create a lot of mental proliferation (papañca), leading to stress and conflict. This talk shows how to interrupt that process through clear, present-moment awareness, drawing on the Honey Ball sutta (MN18), and the Buddha's teachings to the wanderer Bahiya (Ud 1.10).
Flowing through the movements of the retreat so far and continuing through the offering of last night’s dharma talk, we open awareness to be with reality; to know reality.
