After a short introduction, you’ll be guided through a reflection on spacious awareness (open focus meditation) and a reflection on the immeasurable qualities of the heart.  From the IMCW Spring Retreat.  

This talk explores how you can naturally integrate the paradox of the ‘doing’ and ’surrender’ practices in meditation.   You’ll learn how concentration practice dramatically cultivates not only your capacity to observe all that changes without judgement, but also how you can intimately investigate challenges that arise and ultimately, how to surrender into effortless awareness.

 

This talk explores ways you can slow down in the middle of your fully engaged and wild life.   You’ll learn some tricks and tips for tuning into your body, how to use relationships as an opportunity to slow down and suggested strategies on how to work with time and energy.

This talk explores forgiveness as a spiritual practice.   You’ll learn about the consequences of an unhealed heart, the ‘science’ of forgiveness and how you can cultivate the ‘immeasurable’ qualities of an awakened heart.

 

This talk explores the art of navigating the changes in yourlife. You’ll learn about how change happens no matter what youropinion of it may be, what can happen when you shift your attitudeand what can happen when you actively embrace the transitions inyour life.

 

This talk explores how accepting sickness, old age and death

can dramatically transform your life.

 

You’ll learn about how cooperating with the Three

Characteristics of Reality  can allow you to embrace and live

your life to the fullest.   You’ll also learn a few 

mildly offensive jokes.

This talk explores what can happen as you develop concentration.

 

You’ll learn how each element of the path is interconnected, about the balance of concentration and mindfulness,  more on the states of absorption (the jhanas) and where the path actually leads.

 Talk explores skillful means for being aware.

 

You’ll learn the core instructions that guide you how to be aware of four essential areas:  the body, feeling tone, mind-states and in your moment-to-moment experience, what is true.

 

This talk explores how to manage your energy as you pursue your aspirations.

 

You’ll learn about four guidelines:  How to prevent unwholesome states before they arise, how to let go of unwholesome states when they have arisen, how to cultivate wholesome states that have not yet arisen and how to maintain wholesome states that are already here.

 

 

This talk explores the importance of finding a form of livelihood that truly resonates for you.

 

You’ll learn how Johnny Paycheck’s classic country song “Take This Job and Shove It” ties into Buddhist psychology, a model for changing your relationship to work and what can happen when you substitute the word ‘work’ with the word ‘service.’