(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Various) A talk on unworldly pleasant vedana — the kind of ease and contentment that doesn't depend on anything going right. We trace how letting go registers in the body as pleasure before the mind has words for it, and learn to stay with it, let it spread, and receive it rather than manufacture it.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.

(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi answers questions about how to integrate the intellectual and emotional aspects of the heart-mind.

(Tisarana Buddhist Monastery) Ajahn Viradhammo reflects on the use of the "Who is thinking" Koan/question. Used during meditation. When one's whole psychological makeup is all about thinking/problem solving only, then doubt will come up. As thinking begets doubt. The depth of spiritual life is about "silence". And one cannot arrive there through thinking. Then one tries to get rid of thinking, and we fall into the trap, of aversion. One has to be able to see thought as an object, in awareness.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Cittaviveka)

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on August 15, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”

00:33 - GUIDED MEDITATION

15:56 - DHAMMA TALK

48:50 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES