October 28, 2025 Exploring three qualities the Buddha recommends for our meditation and spiritual practice.
Continuing to explore trauma, addiction, and mindfulness meditation.
Exploring trauma in addiction and meditation. Discriminating between ordinary suffering and severe trauma. This moves on to discussing depression, feeling, and naming uncomfortable states, making them more real.
9/23/2025 Exploring how naming experiences, feelings, and objects reifies them.
9/16/2025 Connecting Buddhist mindfulness practices with understanding not-self.
Tips for mindful meditation to reduce stress and manage emotions.
Discussing styles of meditation, then talking about how to hold past regrets.
Talking about how Ajahn Pasanno responds to questions about high states and enlightenment. Keeping it simple and down to earth.
Reflecting on separating mindfulness from the larger Dharma. The importance of an integrated practice, including morality, wisdom, and mind training. Viewing the practice as a long term training rather than a fix.
April 29, 2025. Reading from my own work in progress, “Let It Go,”, referencing Judson Brewer’s “Craving Mind”, and Christina Grof’s” Thirst for Wholeness.”
Right Concentration and the five factors of absorption.
Exploring the challenges of learning meditation.
Two teachings on effort: the Four Great Efforts and the simile of tuning the lute.
The moments that remind us that our memories and view of the world are a construction. At times we discover an alternative version of events.
Exploring the life and journey of the Buddha as a series of choices to let go.
In the midst of a self-retreat, I talk about my practice.