This talk explores the importance of hospitality and welcome in our practice and in creating communities of care and respect.

What Is It We Are Taking Refuge From? How does refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha actually give us the protection we are seeking

This talk explores the conditions that support the arising of samadhi, concentration or gatheredness of mind.

If the truth of the way things are is what we want to awaken to, then the path to that consists of connection to the truth of what is, in any given moment.

This talk offers some helpful perspectives and approaches to working with these mind states.

An exploration of the awakening factors including how they support each other, their relationship to the hinderances and how to practice with each factor

This talk offers some ways of reflecting on impermanence and also touches on the importance of perceiving it directly.

How does renunciation naturally arise? It is a conditioned phenomena like everything else and will naturally arise when the conditions are supportive. What are those conditions and how to bring them about - is the theme of this talk.