John Travis's Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
John Travis
After thirty-five years of experience around the dharma, with eight of these years in Asia, I am still deeply inspired, as a teacher, by students' progress with the practice. I see the questioning I do with myself reflected in others. The infinite loop of my practice and my teaching becomes a self-fulling prophecy. As I see others letting go of old baggage, it inspires me to continue questioning myself.
My teachings, for I am not a scholar, come from my experience on the pillow. In the first ten years of the practice, I worked on the pain of life, the confusion, how to gain clarity. In the next ten, I was finding balance in non-attachment; being in life, but not wanting to enter life. In the last ten, I've been learning how to engage with the stickiness of living and loving. I ask, how kind are people to each other? How can we find a place inside that is not afraid anymore?
We need to know what drives us and our minds, how to relieve the cultural anxiety all around us. We need to stop and slow down, to start feeling. But the dharma not just a stress reduction course; the teachings point directly toward the nature of human conditioning and our freedom.
Overall, my teachings are very much about self-acceptance, giving ourselves space to do the practice and find our own voice. My intention is to give people permission to listen to themselves, to become friends with themselves. Ultimately, this moment is enough, we're enough, and don't need to be anything other than we are.
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Select from John Travis's
94
talks
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2009-03-21
7 Factors
2015-05-15
A New Life: The Faculty of Wisdom
2012-03-24
All Day is Still All Day: Ease, Vividness, Spaciousness
2024-06-26
Awareness & How it Actually Functions
2009-05-26
Basic Goodness
2009-01-02
Big Mind Meditation
2009-05-28
Big Mind Meditation
2009-03-26
Bodhicitta
2013-05-06
Bodiness: First Foundation of Mindfulness
2014-12-17
Bodyness
2015-03-13
Brahma Vihara Day 13 Compassion
2015-03-19
Brahma Vihara Day 19
2015-03-25
Brahma Vihara Day 25 Equanimity
2015-03-06
Brahma Vihara Day 6: Forgiveness
2014-03-23
Brahma Vihara Practice
2014-03-05
Brahma Vihara Practice Day 4
2014-03-16
Brahma Viharas
2014-03-24
Brahma Viharas
2001-04-29
Buddhism and the Red Road
2011-05-16
Caught in the Storm of the First Day
2015-03-02
Clear Path
2001-09-27
Collective And Individual Shadow In Contemporary Times
2012-03-12
Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening
2018-04-30
Day 3: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-03
Day 6: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A
2010-03-06
Dependent Co-Arising
2011-03-27
Dharma Has Touched These Bones
2014-03-17
Disenchantment
2012-12-21
Dissolving Storyline
2003-03-06
Dukkha And Compassion
2010-03-27
Ease Trust Heart
2011-03-11
Exploring Faith
2009-12-22
Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom
2014-03-10
Faith
2014-03-03
First Foundation - Kaya
2017-12-21
Five Aspects of Liberation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-01-01
Flowing Into Selflessness
2001-09-10
Four Maras
2012-03-07
Frog Clarity...5 Spiritual Faculties
2016-12-21
From the Garbage Dump to the Empty Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-03-20
From the Valley to the Mountain
2009-03-13
Full Moon - Metta Talks
2001-01-01
Ground, Scuffed Shoes Flower Opens
2013-03-29
Humility, Vulnerability, Trust in the Dharma
2010-01-02
Last Evening
2010-03-21
Leaning toward Freedom
2015-12-20
Lessons from Mt. Fuji: the World of Papancha (Mental Proliferation)
2008-12-29
Lost In Flight - Heart, Faith
2005-03-08
Luminous Mind/Boundless Heart
2015-03-10
Marks of Existence
2015-05-12
Mind-Full-ness
2002-11-27
Mindfulness And Metta
2004-12-29
Moon Behind Clouds
2015-03-11
Morning Instructions Day 11
2015-03-03
Morning Instructions Day 3
2015-03-07
Morning Instructions Day 7
2015-03-26
Moving Like the Sweet Stream
2019-12-18
Moving through Darkness into the Light (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-11-20
Opening/Balancing/Exploring
2009-03-07
Patience/Endurance
2009-08-21
Pilgrimage
2008-11-27
Pilgrimage Of Awakening
2009-12-29
Pilgrimage To The Unfabricated
2009-08-17
Plop!
2009-01-02
Ready Or Not
2005-04-01
River Rushing, Buddha Floating
2020-04-14
Shining Clarity on the Environment of Mind (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-12-22
Sitting In Amazement
2013-12-20
Sitting in the Center
2005-08-08
Sitting In The Center Of The Circle
2013-05-10
Sitting on the Edge
2012-02-29
Sitting on the Edge of the World
2003-12-28
Staying Here
2015-03-16
Staying in Your Seat
2004-04-02
Surrender To The River
2018-05-02
Swan Song (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-03-21
Sweetness of Equanimity
2014-12-20
Taking the Center Seat
2004-11-25
Thanksgiving
2018-04-29
The Body, Fear and Transforming Difficulties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-03-13
The Eyes of Wisdom and the Heart of a Child
2012-03-17
The Great Rain
2013-12-31
The Long and Winding Road to Joy and Inspiration
2005-03-24
The Medicine Pouch
2011-12-22
The Outside Perfect: Ease, Luminosity, Spaciousness
2013-03-23
The Scent of Freedom
2013-03-16
The Small Crack
2013-03-09
The Tattered Self
2011-05-20
The Teeter-Totter of Awakening
2008-03-11
The Three Characteristics And Their Subtle Expressions
2003-09-23
Trembling In The Armor
2012-05-16
Vulnerability and The Good Heart
2010-12-22
Water-Rainy Season
2009-11-27
Wheel of Freedom
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Select one of John Travis's 34 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2007-12-19
Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
2008-03-01
Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2008-11-23
Thanksgiving
2008-12-26
New Years Retreat
2009-03-02
Insight Meditation March Month Long
2009-05-22
Dharma of Recovery
2009-08-14
Vajrapani
2009-11-22
Thanksgiving
2009-12-20
Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
2009-12-26
New Years
2010-03-01
March 2010 Month Long
2010-12-19
Solstice Retreat
2011-03-06
March Monthlong Retereat
2011-05-15
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-12-19
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2012-03-01
Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long
2012-05-13
May Insight Retreat
2012-12-18
Insight Meditation at the Solstice
2013-03-04
March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-05-04
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-12-17
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2013-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2014-03-01
March Month Long Retreat
2014-12-16
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2015-02-28
March Insight 1 Month Retreat
2015-05-10
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-12-17
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2016-12-18
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2017-12-18
Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2018-04-27
Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation
2019-12-16
Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat
2020-04-11
Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online