Mindfulness invites us to meet each moment as it is. By noticing the stillness beneath thought, seeing the self as fluid, and loosening clinging to pleasant or unpleasant, we discover awareness that is calm, compassionate, and free—revealing our natural wholeness..
Remembering Worthiness
This talk and guided meditation explores shame as a learned, body-held survival adaptation rather than identity. By meeting shame directly in sensation without believing its story, it softens. As self-judgment loosens, inherent worthiness, compassion, and dignity naturally re-emerge as our true nature.
Letting the Body Speak to What the Heart Couldn't
This talk and guided meditation explores how the body holds overwhelming loss when the heart cannot. It reframes numbness and freeze as protection, then offers a slow, compassionate practice of listening to sensations, allowing safety, warmth, and presence to gently begin thawing long-held pain.
Meeting Anger Without Fear
This talk and guided meditation explores anger as buried life force after overwhelming loss, not something to fear or express outwardly. Through grounding and gentle awareness of bodily sensation, anger is met without story or judgment, allowing frozen energy to move safely, restore agency, and reconnect with vitality.
The Diminishing Self and the Truth Beneath It
This talk and guided meditation explores the fear of losing one’s sense of self as identity, memory, or roles change. Drawing on Buddhist insight, it reframes diminishment as impermanence, not loss. As rigid self-structures soften, a deeper truth is revealed: open awareness, warmth, and compassion that are never threatened by change.
Resting the Heart
This talk and meditation guides the listener from resistance into soft acceptance, inviting a gentle inner yes to what is already here. As craving falls away, the body unwinds, wisdom arises, and the moment becomes a place of quiet freedom.
A Mind In Love With Itself
This talk and meditation is a teaching on befriending the mind and body. Through steady attention and kindness, we stop fighting our pain and learn to meet it with truth and care. Freedom begins when we stop turning against ourselves and the mind learns to love itself.
Remembering the Heart's Natural State
This talk and guided loving-kindness (Metta) meditation helps you gently dissolve fear and self-protection, revealing the heart’s innate warmth and peace. Through simple phrases and visualization, we retrain the body-mind to rest in love, extend it outward, and remember our shared wish for freedom and happiness.
Peace Beyond Preference
This talk and meditation guide you to rest in equanimity—peace that transcends preference. By observing sensations and emotions without grasping or resisting, we dissolve the reflex to control. In still awareness, peace is revealed as our natural, unbroken state.
Seeing the Chain
This talk and meditation explore dependent origination—the unfolding of contact, feeling, craving, intention, and action. Through mindful observation, we learn to see each link as it forms, breaking the cycle of reaction. Awareness transforms suffering into wisdom and freedom.
The Freedom of Forgiveness
This talk and meditation invite the heart into forgiveness as a natural unfolding, not an effort. Through recognition, gratitude, and understanding, we soften resistance and release old wounds. Forgiveness becomes freedom—the letting be of what once bound the heart.
The Unmoving Center of All Things
This talk and meditation guide you to rest in the silent stillness beneath life’s movement. Through awareness of breath, body, and thought, you rediscover the unmoving center that remains untouched by change. In that stillness, love arises—not as grasping, but as pure allowing.
Reality My Perfect Teacher
This talk and meditation explore reality as the ultimate teacher. When we stop resisting what is, we end the war within. Through presence, acceptance, and love, we rediscover peace not by changing life, but by letting it be. Freedom unfolds in trusting reality itself.
Transformation Through the Body
This talk and meditation invite us to awaken through the living body—not by transcending it, but by entering it fully. Through awareness of breath, sensation, and emotion, we learn to rest with what arises instead of pushing or pulling. The body becomes both teacher and temple, revealing freedom through its impermanence.
Trust and Allowing
This talk and guided meditation explore the practice of trust and allowing—meeting each moment with awareness and love instead of resistance. By letting sensations, thoughts, and emotions arise and pass naturally, we soften grasping, release control, and discover deep peace within.
Returning
This 10-minute talk supports the transition from expanded states back into ordinary awareness. Through breath, grounding, and reflection, it reminds you that identity is fluid, habits can shift, and transformation continues in each moment. An invitation to carry spaciousness and compassion into daily life.
Living As If Already True
This guided meditation invites you to rest in awareness, sensing the body as radiant energy within a vast cosmic field. By welcoming each sensation and letting go of striving, you experience yourself as already whole, already complete—living as if what you long for is already true in this moment.
Inner Purpose
This talk and guided meditation explore the shift from chasing outer success to honoring inner purpose. True fulfillment isn’t at the finish line but in presence itself. When being aligns with doing, each breath, step, and action become practice—success revealed in this very moment.
The Source of Our Ease
This meditation explores how the mind labels each moment as pleasant or unpleasant, leading to grasping or resistance. By observing these habits with awareness and kindness, we loosen their hold. Freedom comes not from changing experience, but from meeting it openly, without clinging or aversion.
The Self & Beyond
This meditation explores the self as a shifting, dependent process rather than a fixed identity. By noticing how clinging solidifies the self and how letting go softens it, we can hold our stories lightly. Awareness reveals freedom, lightness, and less suffering in each moment.
Finding the Still Point and Realizing the Witness
This meditation invites you to rest in awareness without striving for change. By noticing movement in body, mind, and world, you uncover the still point within—calm, loving, spacious. Here, compassion and joy emerge naturally, reminding you that wholeness has always been present.
Crossing the Flood
Crossing the Flood begins with the Buddha’s image of a river too strong to fight and too deep to cling. From there, I invite listeners into a talk and guided meditation on equanimity—meeting each moment without forcing or resisting. It’s about discovering freedom in how we relate to life’s joys and sorrows, here and now.
Equanimity
This talk weaves my time in combat with the Buddha’s teaching on equanimity—the “eight worldly winds” of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain. I share how I was once blown around by them, and how practice reveals a steadiness beyond it all. The guided meditation leads us into that same ground: open, steady, unshaken.
Awareness and Non-Reaction
This meditation teaches awareness and non-reaction to unwanted experiences, emphasizing that suffering comes from our reaction, not the event. Cultivating equanimity by observing sensations, thoughts, and emotions without liking or disliking fosters inner peace and lasting contentment, breaking cycles of unhappiness.
Observing the Thinker
This meditation guides you to become the observer of your thoughts, detaching from the "voice in your head." By simply watching without reaction, you cultivate equanimity and inner peace, realizing that suffering stems from identifying with thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. This practice fosters true freedom and lasting contentment.
Unconditional Love
This meditation cultivates unconditional welcoming of all experiences. By embracing sensations, sounds, and thoughts without judgment or desire to change them, you foster inner peace and contentment. It trains the mind to release resistance, leading to lasting well-being.
Being Gratitude and Compassion
This meditation cultivates gratitude for all we receive and compassion for all beings, including ourselves and difficult people. Through awareness and heartfelt offerings ("May you be free..."), it fosters connection, inner peace, and a sense of belonging, transforming suffering into tenderness.
Meeting the Inner Critic
This meditation addresses the "inner critic," often rooted in moral injury. Through gentle awareness, reframing self-judgmental questions, and offering compassionate phrases to oneself and others ("May I be safe, kind, trusting"), it cultivates self-acceptance and inner peace, dissolving the critic's power.
Metta Practice
This meditation guides a practice of unconditional, boundless loving-kindness (metta). It encourages wishing well to oneself and then to an "easy" person/being, using phrases, visualization, or body sensations. The aim is to cultivate genuine care and friendliness, making it a playful, gentle, and deeply personal journey.
Perfect, Perfect
Inspired by Zen wisdom, this meditation invites profound acceptance of every moment exactly as it is, declaring it "perfect." By releasing the urge to change or judge, we transform our relationship to experience, fostering lasting contentment and inner freedom.
The Life Beneath Your Situation
This meditation highlights the "life beneath your life situation", revealing that true freedom exists in the present moment. By asking "What problem do I have right now?" and recognizing "what is," we dissolve mind-made problems, fostering inner ease and presence amidst life's experiences.
The Three Characteristics
This meditation explores Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness/stress from resistance), and Anatta (not-self) to alleviate suffering. By observing experiences as changing, allowing what is, and releasing ownership, we cultivate inner peace and freedom, shifting our relationship with the present moment.