At the moment of his awakening, Kondañña saw that whatever arises also passes away. This talk explores impermanence at three scales: the vast span of geologic and cosmic time, the arc of our own aging and mortality, and the moment-to-moment flicker of experience. Drawing on the suttas, poetry, and stories from practice, we look at how assuming permanence shapes our lives, and how seeing through it can open into awe, gratitude, and the freedom of letting go.

Short teaching and guided meditation on arriving, settling, steadying at the beginning of a retreat.

The talk describes the five Jhana factors supporting both momentary and fixed concentration. It explores their function in steadying the mind and how to balance them.

Teachings and practice on the third tetrad of Anapana sati.

This talk follows the breath into the mind itself: experiencing it, gladdening it, gathering it, and liberating it. Along the way we look at how samādhi and insight work together, and at the small, ordinary tastes of freedom that show a mind can feel light and unburdened. Drawing on long retreat stories, poems, and Pali, it asks what becomes possible once there is, for a moment, nothing to want.

Includes a 30m meditation and dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted).