When the Canoe Starts to Tip

Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening off course – just when the canoe starts to tip – we notice and immediately rebalance, regaining awareness and sustaining it…

Guardian Parents: Mindfulness, Wisdom, Compassion

Parenting ourselves with mindfulness, wisdom and compassion. A talk given during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013. 

First Insights: Ways of Working with Hindrances

Brief summary of right effort. A talk given during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013. 

Brightening Agents: 7 Enlightenment Factors

Brightening agents to cleanse the mind of hindrances. A talk given during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013. 

One Inalienable Right

We can free our hearts from suffering. A talk given during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013. 

Boundless Metta in Difficult Times: A Guided Meditation

We can develop boundless quality of Metta in difficult conditions. A guided meditation during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013.

The Buddha’s Positioning System – BPS: Truth Coordinates for Daily Life Practice

The Buddha gives us coordinates to guide us in our practice, to get our bearings in this world so that we can realize what we are carrying and where we are going. We have the gift of mindfulness, the gift of wisdom or the…