(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is Awareness. This talk explores its presence, dimensions, function and capacity and how recognizing and abiding in awareness allows freedom and non-reactivity.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Immersion in nature, with a contemplative awareness, can support insight into the ephemerality of the sense of self. Dissolving of the habit / contraction of self can emerge effortlessly and in doing so reveal its intrinsic empty nature.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of reality.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the many dimensions of the heart that effortlessly arise with intimate connection with the natural world, including the four Brahma Viharas.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindful immersion in nature reveals timeless truths of causality and the emptiness of self.