Questions on alcohol, pornography, and shame.

Questions on whether one tradition is better than another and what are the benefits to doing a three-year retreat.

Five skandhas, twelve sense fields, eighteen elements, twelve links, four truths, time.

Stopping distraction; primary characteristics, genesis and faults of fragmentation of attention and solitude

Recorded shortly after a tsunami in Asia.

Questions on the mind of the body and patterned tendency, keeping practice alive, and where do released reactive patterns go.

Using the breath as a basis on which to move into the union of knowing and experience.

Exchanges with students on working with what arises in practice.

Joy - Meditation instruction on Joy, participants’ experience with that meditation including joy, passion, excitement, and fun; what is meant by the line “May I experience the world celebrating my efforts”

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Compassion - Meditation instruction for compassion, participants’ experience with that meditation including heartbreak and movement of energy; being present in the suffering of others.