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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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2025-08-31 Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:18	Download Listen
Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ to cultivate wisdom and compassion within us. In this world with so much suffering—including the climate crisis and injustice in the world—more than ever we need to keep this in mind and see ourselves as “bodhisattvas in training“.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-08-30 Loving the Whole Package: Self-Compassion and Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:50	Download Listen
Practices to hold our suffering and to see our innate goodness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-08-29 Intrusctions: Opening to the Breath, Body and Physical Realm of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:37	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-05-22 Awareness Doesn't Care: Mindfulness, the Equal Opportunity Liberator 45:25	Download Listen
We may think some experiences are better than others to support awakening, but the Buddha said otherwise. This talk explores the liberative quality of mindfulness and the implications of this understanding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-05-15 Anguttara Nikaya 1.483 48:04	Download Listen
The Anguttara Nikaya is one of the five Nikayas (collections) that constitute the Sutta Pitaka, which is part of the Pali Tipitaka, the Theravada Buddhist canon. It is also known as the "Numerical Discourses" or "Gradual Collection". The Anguttara Nikaya is organized numerically, with suttas grouped into eleven books (nipatas) based on the number of items discussed within them. For example, the "Book of the Ones" contains suttas about a single topic, the "Book of the Twos" contains suttas about pairs of things, and so on
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Spring Insight Retreat

2024-09-13 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:42:27	Download Listen
with Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, James Baraz, Jane Baraz, Stephanie Antoine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-12 Awakening Joy: Inclining the Mind toward Well-Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:52	Download Listen
The Buddha advised us to not only cultivate wholesome states but to maintain and increase them when they arise. How can we do that without attachment? This talk explains how to cultivate and strengthen wholesome states not only in retreat but in daily life. James explains the Buddhist principles and practices he shares in his Awakening Joy course.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-12 Instructions: Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:10	Download Listen
Expanding the meditation field beyond the breath to include the whole physical realm of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-10 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:25	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-09 Spirit Rock Founders Remember the Early Days (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:45:10	Download Listen
with Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, Jack Kornfield, James Baraz, Jane Baraz, Stephanie Antoine, Sylvia Boorstein
This opening night "Founders Retreat" talk includes Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein, Howie Cohn, Jane Baraz and Jane Baraz reminiscing about the early days of Spirit Rock.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

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