This three-part talk is a conversation between our direct experience, the Buddha’s comments on experience, and science.

This three-part talk is a conversation between our direct experience, the Buddha’s comments on experience, and science.

We will never fully overcome hindrances until we can view them as genuine friends rather than foes to be vanquished.

Four Noble Truths provide the basis for four ennobling questions.

This talk discusses how to recognize and work with the links of Dependent Origination.

Awareness jhānas are the Buddha’s map that leads from ordinary awareness to freedom from a self. .

This talk explores 8 specific techniques for working with persistent hindrances.

Becoming aware of subtle intentions helps lighten the mind and bring contentment and clarity.

We can try to hold the “good” and push away the “bad” or we can cutivate qualities that foster happiness.

When we are aware of the present moment and the context of that moment at the same time, there are no hindrances.

There is no freedom for yourself; there is only freedom from a self.

"There is no hearer, just hearing; no seer just seeing": pure awareness explains how we can awaken.

If the self is infinite, nothing essential separates us.

Buddism is a way of turning toward and relaxing into life.

The Buddha's core teaching maps the causal links that give rise to any experience.

The Buddha described the awareness jhānas as a map of how the mind-heart unfolds from ordinary awareness to full awakening and the end of suffering.

The Buddha shows us that within our greatest vulnerabilies lie our greatest gifts.

One of the Buddha's primary meditation practices integrates both loving-kindness (mettā) and insight (vipassanā).

The 7Rs, along with the 6 precepts, give us active tools for everyday life.

To go deeply into compassion we must go deeply into forgiveness and its companion, confession..

Because suffering is not personal, we can consider ways to take ourselves more lightly.

The Buddha drew a map of natural laws (called "dependent origination") that helps us understand how life works.

In the earliest texts, the Buddha describes stages of deepening awareness (jhanas) that lead to powerful well-being.

A range of questions related to deepening meditation practice.