So I am firmly suggesting that Vikalpa is kind of the thing in the way. It is the thing we need to deconstruct. Vikalpa is like: a wall being continua...

Insight meditation is really a critical process. A process of negation – one is trying to actively undermine something; to tear down a solid wall; to ...

In shamatha meditation, nothing is being added, and nothing is really being taken away. It’s just a point where stillness and stability may be discove...

In this episode we begin our investigation of the mind by asking 'how do we know what the mind is?' And I invite you to examine those often unexamined...

When we have an actual technique to work with, such as tonglen, this will only work in the context of intention and repetition. There is no magical pa...

Once we steer our thinking away from the notion that love is something innately ‘there’; or that it is something we ‘get’ from other people, or that i...

The great ethical traditions –  the virtues traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, the Shramana traditions of ancient India and the Confucian stream o...

In this episode I make a very strong claim about the relationship between causation and our ordinary lives - it is this: that success and failure, hap...

If you can’t see what kinds of constraints you face, then there is no hope for gaining freedom from them. So, we must find a way to gain that sight – ...

In this episode we turn from 'how do we know?' kinds of questions to one of the most fundamental questions that we can frame: what is reality? And the...