Episodes

  • Step Three: Turning It Over

    Step Three: Turning It Over
    Dec 17 2024
    From an eight-week Buddhism & the Twelve Steps class at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, March, 2011. This class addresses the “God question.” It draws from my 2010 book, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery. This book has since been retitled Higher Power: Buddhism & the Twelve Steps.
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    46 mins
  • Step Two

    Step Two
    Dec 16 2024
    From a Buddhism and the Twelve Steps class series in 2011 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
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    38 mins
  • Step One and My Story

    Step One and My Story
    Dec 16 2024
    In this talk from 2011, I tell some of my drunkalogue, then start to talk about powerlessness and Step 1. Topics include, karma, triggers, craving, the Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness, and the Middle Way. Connecting Buddhism and the Twelve Steps.
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    35 mins
  • Structure versus Flow

    Structure versus Flow
    Dec 14 2024
    Reflecting on the benefits of meditation systems and recovery systems, versus more organic, intuitive ways of working.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Mindfulness of Breathing

    Mindfulness of Breathing
    Dec 14 2024
    Reflection on mindful breathing with a focus on the duality of the personal experience versus the impersonal Dharma.
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    1 hr
  • Simile of the Saw

    Simile of the Saw
    Dec 14 2024
    After some reflections on working with pain after surgery, I talk about a passage in the Simile of the Saw sutta that challenges us to let go of anger.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Refuge

    Refuge
    Dec 14 2024
    On election day, I discuss spiritual values that transcend politics.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Quality of Mind

    Quality of Mind
    Nov 23 2024

    Intro talks about using the breath in working with pain recovering from surgery. Main talk addresses “citta,” mind or mind states from Anapanasati Sutta. This goes into different ways of defining the mind.
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    1 hr and 9 mins