This talk explores why, after 52 years of practice, I still meditate. You’ll learn about the science behind meditation, what all great traditions say about the practice, the power of empirical evidence and the potency of the intention to live in authentic cooperation with reality.

We’re back! We had so much fun last time we are doing another.  

Here’s the second installment of practice questions with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust. 

Jonathan interviews his wife, Tara Brach, regarding common practice questions and weighs in on a few himself.

This talk explores how to increase your capacity for joy and wholesome states.

You’ll learn about the nature of Joy, what gets in the way of the experience and how to cultivate more and more positive and fulfilling qualities of presence.

This talk explores the near-enemy of love:  Attachment. You’ll learn about the nature of attachment and attachment styles in relationship as well as keys to healing what holds you back from loving fully.

This talk explores how to free yourself from feeling like an imposter. You’ll learn the power of self-awareness, the importance of investigating inner states and how to break out of the box of the doubting mind.  You’ll also explore ways you can reframe your experience and turn attention to sincerity, service and the possibility of a life of authenticity and overflow.

Soon after retiring, Tracy Budd, who had a strong meditation practice, embarked on an exploration of meditating for four hours a day following the Elephant Path and the teachings of Culadasa. In this interview we explore what happened over the course the year, the breakthroughs, the breakdowns, the insights and what he learned about doing intensive practice at home. You’ll find this interview inspiring, particularly if you have ever had fantasies of putting everything aside and doing the kids of practices reserved for monks and renunciates.

We continue our exploration on moving from Fear to clear-seeing. You’ll explore a few protocols that have helped me enormously in shifting from feeling caught to feeling empowered again.   Fear can serve as an early-warning detection system and when explored mindfully, can point the way toward more skillful means.

I reference The Sedona Method, the work of Tim Ferris  and the work of Byron Katie.

This talk explores how to move from Fear to Clear-Seeing and new possibilities.

You’ll learn how unresolved fear restricts the possibilities in your life and how you can turn toward fear through cognitive processes as well as somatic inquiry.

When you shift from “How do I get rid of this?” to “What can I learn from this?” you may start to feel new possibilities.

This talk explores how you can transform your relationship with your inner critic.

You’ll learn the origins of negativity bias, how that critical voice forms in your early development and how the miracle of self-awareness can lead to a life guided by wise discrimination.

This is an 'encore' session from the Monday night class at the Unitarian Universtalist Church in Arlgington, VA