(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) In this talk Kim Allen develops an ecological metaphor to help us cultivate our mind and develop our practice. She outlines four approaches to our practice grounded in terms of natural ecologies:

1) Broadening our focus

2) Revising our notions of good and bad

3) Developing a coherent sense of our goal by creating a healthy ecosystem and then letting go

4) Expanding from our inner ecology and balancing with the outer ecology.