Julie Nelson speaks about bliss states, why we need to come out of them, and why perfect wisdom can't do the job. (March 28, 2023)

Julie Nelson talks about not using our practice to try to bypass our trauma and grief. (March 24, 2023)

Fran Ludwig advises that we can work with jealousy by choosing the opposite, sympathetic joy. (March 22, 2023)

Fran Ludwig speaks about the ways we bind ourselves up and prevent our own liberation. (March 9, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks about becoming intimate with our failures. (March 17, 2023)

Fran Ludwig speaks about the costs of wallowing in our pain. (March 15, 2023)

This is a short talk (with no discussion) in which Julie Nelson comments on how traveling in Alaska woke her up to things taken for granted.(March 8, 2023)

Julie Nelson comments on how traveling in Alaska woke her up to things taken for granted. (February 28, 2023)

Karen McCormack leads a discussion of the question "What inspires your practice?" (with an introduction to this format by Jill Gaulding). (February 18, 2023)

Fran Ludwig gives encouragement to set an intention and commit to practice. (February 22, 2023)

Fran Ludwig questions whether we can ever really know someone else's experience. (February 15, 2023)

Fran Ludwig speaks about how we respond to the vicissitudes of life. (February 8, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks about the five skandhas: form, sensation, perception, mental reaction, and consiousness. (February 4, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks about the Virya Paramita. The quotes are from Diane Rizzetto's book Deep Hope. (February 3, 2023)

Fran Ludwig talks about meeting difficult emotions. (January 21, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks about practicing with a heavy heart and with worry. The quote is from the work of Rainer Maria Rilke. (January 27, 2023)

Fran Ludwig asks, "Can we accept ourselves and each other as nonjudgmentally as we do a tree?" (January 25, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks briefly about the five skandas (or aggregates) in Buddhist psychology. (January 20, 2023)

Fran Ludwig speaks about establishing the supports we require to cultivate a life of compassion. (January 18, 2023)

Fran Ludwig speaks about how we close gap between what we think our life is, and what it actually is. (December 8, 2022)

Julie Nelson speaks about the story of "Chiyono's No Water, No Moon." (January 13, 2023)

Fran Ludwig asks, "How can we transform difficult habit patterns?" (January 10, 2023)

Julie Nelson speaks about taking the phrase "Are you afraid of this happiness?" as a koan through the day. (January 6, 2023)

Fran Ludwig reflects on the instruction to "observe...even if it costs you everything." (January 4, 2023)

Fran Ludwig asks, "Are we the looker looking for the looker?" (December 21, 2022)