This talk explores the essential practices that develop your capacity to see clearly.   You’ll learn the fundamental importance of concentration and willful effort, how you can cultivate your capacity for non-judging awareness and the conditions that support your ability to 'accept what is and let it be.'

This talk explores how, once you know what you want, how to sustain focus on your goals.  You’re also invited to take on a practice for thirty days of ‘one observation and one restraint.'   You’ll learn the importance of knowing what is most important, how to discern the best practices to help you get there, how to sustain attention and how to course correct along the way.  

This talk explores how generosity can not only free up your heart, but can reveal your true nature.   You’ll learn how you create a false sense of a separate self and how to recognize and heal that sense of separation by cultivating altruism as a spiritual practice.

This talk explores how you can find freedom and peace in the midst of patterns of addictive actions and thoughts.   You’ll learn how transforming addiction is all about seeing clearly, recognizing pain, the 'unmet need' and learning how to open to compassion and kindness.

This short meditation helps you shift from thinking to sensing, particularly images, sounds and sensation.

This can be a helpful tool when you find your mind caught in strong mental states.

 

This talk explores how you can shift your relationship with anxiety, worry and restlessness.   You’ll learn how anxiety can be an ally, how to look for the cause of anxiety and some approaches as to how to be with it or let it go.

This talk explores some fundamental ways you can work with anger when it arises.   You’ll learn how anger arises, how to identify the cause and strategies for releasing anger and opening to new possibilities.  

  This talk explores how to bring non-judging awareness to the experience of physical pain.   You’ll learn some essential teachings of Buddhist psychology as well as strategies that draw on the power of present-moment awareness including your capacity to ‘zoom in’ on sensation as well as how to ’zoom out' to a more expanded sense of the space that surrounds and infuses unpleasant sensations.

The talk explores how to sustain attention on what’s most important in your life.   You’ll learn about the power of concentration, how and why you lose focus, how staying present to your goals sets you up for a transformational ride and some practical strategies for sustaining attention on the most important things in your life.

 

 

This talk explores how you can transform your life experience by embracing your deepest challenges.   You’ll learn the importance of remembering what is most important, the power of changing your attitude toward your challenges, the importance of testing yourself and how what you are seeking is truly already here.