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I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.

I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.

The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.

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2009-09-03 Wise Attitudes In Practice 60:07	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day

2009-08-10 Intersecting Realities 58:10	Download Listen
We are each the star of our own movie. Practice invites us to honor every member of the cast of characters in our life, remembering that they have their own reality. And through it all we can wake up from the dream.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-07-21 What's Not Wrong...Mudita, Uplifting States and Looking for the Good. 65:10	Download Listen
How mudita (sympathetic joy) and uplifting states are supports for wise effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2009-06-05 Faith and Confidence 43:01	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Practice in Difficult Times

2009-02-20 Faith In The Dharma 60:39	Download Listen
Faith is one of the Five Spiritual faculties. This talk explores the elements of faith, sources of our faith and the ingredients we bring to deepen our trust and faith in the Dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-02-16 Practice As A Path Of Happiness 64:28	Download Listen
One aspect of Wise Effort is maintaining and increasing wholesome states that have arisen. This is supported by being present for the wholesome state without clinging. How to integrate wholesome states such as sincere intention, gratitude, being compassionate with suffering, and others into our practice is explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-02-10 A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness 59:40	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-02-04 The Grace Of Suffering 60:00	Download Listen
Suffering is often what brings people to the Dharma as well as opening us up to resources inside we didn't know were there. Looking at hindrances and difficulties in this way allows us to relate to them wisely and realize the gifts that they bring and the ways they help us grow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-01-12 Learning To Open To Experience 62:07	Download Listen
A central attitude of dharma practice is learning to open to experience instead of the typical contraction of grasping at pleasant or aversion towards unpleasant. Qualitites of opening include forgiveness, patience, sense of humor, presence and loving kindness are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-12-07 Devotional Practice 1:53:34	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : CDL DPP Reunion Retreat

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