Questions on working with the feelings that accompany an open heart, being true to both your heart and mind, working with emotions.

Questions on working with emotions as they arise, resistance to practice, nightmares, and fear of dying.

A brief history of the different traditions, questions on whether one tradition is better than another and what are the benefits to doing a three-year retreat.

Questions on meditation variations and intention, which form of meditation is recommended, using sounds or music during meditation, and interacting with people as a type of practice.

An introduction to mantra practice from A Trackless Path 12, working with thoughts when chanting, how to approach mantra practice, sounds and mantra practice.

A discussion of energy transformation practices, questions on the four immeasurables, experiencing regret. and loss of energy during meditation.

A discussion on spiritual organizations, questions on attachement to leadership, sangha and social life, and whether mediation practice is a path to teaching.

Is Vajrayana an appropriate path if you have with limited access to your root guru or if you’re unlikely to attend a three-year retreat? After a new practitioner has worked with the breath to gain experience and develop stability, should they then meditate on impermanence or the four immeasurables? How do you incorporate what what you learn from teachers in other Buddhist traditions?

Questions on how to practice with pain (from Sutra Session 24), how to practice when ill, how to understand what your body is saying, different sensations that arise during meditation.

A discussion on dedication prayers from Then And Now 24, questions on dedicating virtue, the purpose of dedication, chanting to accumulate merit.