Lama Mark Webber was invited by Dr. Ellen Goldberg, to give a talk to her Buddhist studies class (Religious Studies 223) at Queen's University. In this 2.5 hour talk, Lama Mark speaks of:

- a spontaneous experience of naked awareness and how this encounter lead him to find the Dharma and wonderful teachers

- the importance in his life of working with excellent mentors, in all fields of study

- learning what is and what is not wholesome mental intent-dawning of wisdom

- causality and karma

- profound intent and activity of relative and ultimate compassion (Bodhicitta)

- gaining a deep purpose in life

- why we are not actively pursuing the qualities of saintliness

- liberation is not found through finding and grasping after more and more experiences: discover the essence of all experience

- craving and attachment-how abandoning that which is craved, may be good, but is not a sustained freedom

- harnessing mindfulness, investigation and Bodhicitta to liberate and find natural wakefulness and compassion

- the systematic ways in which mind is really settled of thoughts and concepts-outer, inner, secret and suchness levels.