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I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.

It is fun for me to take the most difficult concepts and put them into accessible language, to unwrap the mystery. So I try to find ways to explore the breadth of concepts like "emptiness" -- to see how the entire path can be explained in terms of this synonym for nibbana. One of my aims is to bring the goal of freedom into the here and now. This way practitioners get a taste of freedom, so they know what they are heading toward on their journey to liberation.

The tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness can be picked up by anyone. They are easy to understand and they bring immediate benefit to our lives. The essence of vipassana is ideally suited to western society, especially to the resonance between our psychological turn of mind and our quest for spiritual understanding.

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2017-05-04 Emptiness is Everything 65:46	Download Listen
with Guy Armstrong, James Baraz
James introduces Guy Armstrong's dharma talk at IMCB.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-01 Emptiness: A Practical Introduction for Meditators (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 62:55	Download Listen
Emptiness, one of the most important concepts in Buddhism, refers to fundamental understandings of our human condition, deep spiritual insight, and the radical experience of liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-02-24 Brahma Vihara Instructions 45:54	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-22 Karma and the End of Karma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:23	Download Listen
Describes the Buddha's basic teaching on Karma as action with volition. By choosing carefully which volitions to follow, we can guide our practice to great levels of happiness. Also describes the results of action, the relation to the concept of not-self, and explores what leads to the end of karma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-03 First and Second Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:44	Download Listen
The First Noble Truth, that there is suffering in life, has a call to action: this truth is to be fully understood. The Second Noble Truth, that the cause of suffering is craving, also has a call to action: craving is to be abandoned. Abandoning craving moves us to the Third Noble Truth, the end of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long Retreat

2016-10-17 Transcendent dependent origination 61:46	Download Listen
This talk describes the 12 causal links in a sequence leading from suffering to liberation, including faith, rapture, happiness, concentration, and dispassion. It is a description in positive terms, of the Ark of the Buddha's path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-09 The five aggregates are empty. 61:06	Download Listen
Our experience, as described by the five aggregates, is empty in two ways. There is no self at the center of them, and every aggregate– Form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness–is insubstantial.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-02 The power of lovingkindness 61:55	Download Listen
The practice of metta-brings five powerful benefits. It makes the heart more responsive, purifies the mind, leads to concentration, connects us to all sentient life, and brings happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-25 The five aggregates are not self 62:33	Download Listen
The Buddha used the description of human experience in terms of the five aggregates–form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness– To develop the understanding that there is no ongoing essence or self within them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-23 Morning instructions: choiceless attention 46:32	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

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