All Episodes

Gratitude (12-31-89)

Non-Harming (01-04-89)

Guided Metta (01-02-89)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (03-24-25)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Vedana - The Feeling Tone of Experience (03-24-25)

Enlightenment: Our Deepest Inheritance (03-23-25)

Guided Metta (03-22-25)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Peace Is in Every Step (03-22-25)

Guided Compassion Meditation (01-11-25)

Guided Meditation (01-11-25)

Retreat Opening: The Sacredness of Life (01-11-25)

Morning Instruction: Mind States - The Third Foundation of Mindfulness (04-11-23)

Morning Instruction: Vedana - The Second Foundation of Mindfulness (04-10-23)

Morning Instruction: Planting the Seeds of Wholesome Intentions (04-09-23)

Morning Instruction: Mindfulness (04-08-23)

Retreat Opening: Trusting Our Capacity to Grow and Hold Reality (04-07-23)

Guided Metta Meditation (03-13-23)

Guided Metta Meditation (03-12-23)

Karma (03-12-23)

The Four Noble Truths (02-19-23)

Guided Metta Meditation (02-18-23)

Morning Instruction: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (02-18-23)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (01-28-23)

Renunciation (01-28-23)

Guided Meditation (01-28-23)

Guided Metta Meditation (01-28-23)

Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (01-28-23)

Beginning Mindfulness & Meditation Instructions (01-28-23)

The Refuges (01-28-23)

Patience (01-27-23)

Guided Meditation (01-27-23)

Equanimity (12-31-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (12-31-22)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-30-22)

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (12-30-22)

Mindfulness as the Leader (12-29-22)

How to Take Refuge in the Beautiful Qualities (09-25-22)

Interdependence (07-27-22)

Guided Meditation: Connecting to the Experience (07-20-22)

Guided Meditation: Relaxing into How It Is (07-13-22)

Faith in Our Capacity to Awaken the Beautiful Qualities (07-06-22)

Guided Meditation (06-26-22)

The Refuges: Turning Towards with Kindness (06-26-22)

Beginning Anew: Arinna on the 20th Anniversary of SFLGBT Sangha (06-18-22)

Guided Meditation (06-18-22)

Doubt & Faith (06-04-22)

Guided Metta & Gratitude Towards Our Bodies (06-04-22)

Daylong Retreat Opening: Disentangling from Doubt (06-04-22)

Gratitude (06-01-22)

Taking Leadership in Our Lives: Standing Near to Our Suffering and Awakening on Our Path of Healing and Liberation (05-04-22)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (04-30-22)

Our Life Journey to Heal What We’ve Been Given to Carry (04-30-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (04-30-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (04-30-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (04-29-22)

Taking Refuge in Our Interconnection (04-29-22)

Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (04-29-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (04-09-22)

Forgiveness & Love: Antidotes to the Three Poisons (04-09-22)

Guided Meditation & Morning Instruction: Allowing the Diversity of Our Experiences (04-09-22)

Day of Mindfulness Opening: Taking Refuge (04-09-22)

The Second Precept: Not Taking What Is Not Freely Offered (03-13-22)

Guided Meditation (03-13-22)

Patience: An Invitation Toward Healing (03-02-22)

Learning to Love Ourselves: Bearing Witness to Where We Are (02-13-22)

Mindful Movement & Guided Meditation (02-13-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: A Standing Invitation to Lovingkindness (01-30-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (01-29-22)

Cultivating Clear Perception, Resilience, and Joy (01-29-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Becoming Present for the Liberation of Ourselves and the World (01-29-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Karma (11-14-21)

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-13-21)

Opening to the Free Flow of Life (11-13-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: In the Seeing, There Is Only the Seen (11-13-21)

Guided Equanimity Meditation (11-12-21)

Liberatory Speech (11-12-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Bare Attention & General Comprehension (11-12-21)

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-11-21)

Antidote to Ownership: Contemplation of Death (11-11-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Three Characteristics (11-11-21)

Guided Metta (11-10-21)

Cultivating Joy (11-10-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Concentration as Gathering in a Basket (11-10-21)

Guided Appreciation Meditation (11-09-21)

Guided Meditation (11-09-21)

Dependent Origination (11-08-21)

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (11-07-21)

Guided Meditation (11-07-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness (11-06-21)

The Spring of Love (11-05-21)

Guided Meditation (11-04-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Placing Ourselves Near (11-03-21)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Orienting Toward an Ongoing Practice of Appreciation (11-12-22)

The Practice of Gratitude (11-11-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Wholesome and Abandoning the Unwholesome (11-10-22)

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-09-22)

I Am Taking a Stand for Love and Liberation (11-09-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (11-08-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Self-Determination (11-06-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (11-05-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Inquiring Into Our Heart-Mind with Love (11-04-22)

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-03-22)

The Path of the Bodhisattva (11-03-22)

Guided Meditation (11-02-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Impermanence - Who Is the Knower of Our Experience? (11-02-22)

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (11-01-22)

Impermanence, Bliss Supreme (11-01-22)

Refuges & Precepts: Putting Aside Our Worldly Concerns (10-31-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration (10-30-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (10-29-22)

Holding What the Earth Has Given Us to Heal (10-29-22)

Guided Meditation (10-28-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Third Foundation - Mindfulness of Mind-States (10-28-22)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (10-27-22)

Mindfulness & Lovingkindness: The Banks That Hold Our Grief (10-27-22)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Embodying Our Deepest Vision to Be Free (10-26-22)

Guided Metta Meditation (10-25-22)

Mindfulness as 'Confronting' and as 'Standing By' (10-25-22)

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-27-20)

This Too Can Be Cared for (12-27-20)

Guided Metta (11-06-20)

Morning Sit (11-05-20)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Lifting up Our Relationship to the Experience (11-05-20)

The Truth of the Teachings (11-04-20)

Retreat Opening (11-03-20)

Guided Meditation (11-03-20)

Morning Instruction & Closing Guided Meditation: Calling in Kindness (10-13-20)

Morning Instruction & Sit: Opening to Life (10-12-20)

Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 2 of 2): Dependent Origination (10-12-20)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Three Invitations to Liberation (10-11-20)

Cultivating Joy (10-10-20)

Morning Instruction & Sit: What is Mindfulness? (10-10-20)

Morning Instruction & Sit: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (10-09-20)

Refuges & Precepts, Silent Meditation (10-08-20)

The Four Remembrances (10-08-20)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Finding a Home Wherever We Are (10-7-20)

Self Forgiveness Metta (10-6-20)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Gathering Our Energies (10-6-20)

Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 1 of 2): Understanding Ourselves as Part of Nature (10-5-20)

Metta (10-4-20)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (10-04-20)

Morning Sit (10-3-20)

Truth Seeking (10-3-20)

Mel Pak Coats: Guided Sit with Metta (10-03-20)

Morning Instruction (10-2-20)

Mel Coats: Metta (10-02-20)

Leslie Booker: Refuges & Precepts (10-1-20)

Opening up the Field Within Ourselves (08-08-20)

Calling Ourselves Home (05-16-20)

The 7 Factors of Enlightenment (04-29-19)

Ordinanry Nirvana & the 4 Noble Truths (04-28-19)

Lovingkindness (04-27-19)

Equanimity (10-15-18)

Bodhisattva Community Working for Past & Future (10-14-18)

Leslie Booker: Faith (10-13-18)

Exploring the Skillful Liberating Energies (10-12-18)

Overview of the Path to Liberation (10-11-18)

Gratitude (10-10-18)

Morning Sit Instructions (10-8-18)

Impermanence & Vulnerability (10-08-18)

The Power of Intention, Motivation (10-07-18)

Cultivating Our Beautiful Minds (10-06-18)

Mindfulness Opens the World (10-04-18)

Building Strength Through Mindfulness in Difficult Times (07-22-18)

Remembering Our Beautiful Qualities in Difficult Times (07-19-18)

Supporting the Continuity of Mindfulness, w/ Guided Meditation (02-20-18)

Sunday Evening Dharma Talk and Metta (02-18-18)

Saturday Evening Dharma Talk (02-17-18)

Guided Self Compassion Meditation (02-17-18)

Refuges & Precepts (02-16-18)

Gratitude (12-09-17)

Our Ancestral Legacy and Love (12-06-17)

Morning Instruction (10-29-17)

Respecting the Defended Heart (10-28-17)

Dependent Origination (04-17-17)

Morning Instruction: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral Feeling Tone (04-17-17)

Renunciation (04-16-17)

Morning Instruction: Mindfulness, General Comprehension, Bare Attention (04-16-17)

Awakening Our Hearts: Exploring White Privilege to Build Authentic Relationships Across Difference with Arinna Weisman, JD Doyle and Baruch Golden (03-11-17)

Forgiveness Dharma Talk and Meditation (06-11-16)

Sila: Ethical Living (04-27-16)

Stuckness Diversity and Opening our Fields of Kindness (04-24-16)

Beautiful Subject of Equanimity (02-16-16)

Guided Meditation: Balancing 2 Ways of Meditating (02-15-16)

Cultivating the Wholesome and Abandoning the Unwholesome (02-15-16)

Focus on Right View and Right Intention (02-14-16)

Guided Meditation: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral (02-14-16)

Metta Sutta Dharma Talk (02-13-16)

Evening Joy Guided Meditation (02-13-16)

Morning Meditation and Instructions (10-15-15)

Guided Metta (10-15-15)

What is true and what is not? (10-14-15)

Magnificent Consent (part 1 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

Magnificent Consent (part 3 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

Magnificent Consent (part 2 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

Revealing the Expressions of Ignorance as White Privilege (10-03-15)

Community Conversation on Privilege (08-23-15)

Workshop: Awakening our Hearts - Exploring Authentic Relationships Across Difference (08-22-15)

Bringing Wisdom and the Beautiful Qualities into Our Daily Life and Community, with Jean Ester and John Martin (08-04-15)

Guided Metta (08-03-15)

Doubt (11-05-14)

Relating to Personal & World Suffering: Awareness, the 5 Spiritual Faculties & Healing (05-04-14)

Intro to Dharma and New Jim Crow (05-04-14)

Wisdom and Karma (04-30-14)

Lien Shutt: Bhrama Vihara Meditation (01-28-14)

Lien Shutt: Right Intention (01-28-14)

Forgiveness Meditation (01-28-14)

Lien Shutt: Metta Practice (01-27-14)

Suffering, Resilience, Change (01-27-14)

Lien Shutt: Morning Instruction (01-27-14)

Lien Shutt: Love and Intimacy (01-26-14)

Morning Instruction: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (01-26-14)

Basics-Overview Towards Highest Peace (01-25-14)

Morning Instruction (01-25-14)

Morning Instruction (12-14-13)

The Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (12-13-13)

Metta Guided Meditation (12-11-13)

Bonnie Duran & Arinna Weisman: Patience (11-17-13)

Happiness, Pleasure, Attachment, Relinquishment (10-10-13)

Our Beautiful Qualities, Delusion, & Shame (10-09-13)

The Four Attachments (01-08-13)

Morning Instructions (10-13-12)

Morning Instructions (10-11-12)

Metta for Self (10-09-12)

Letting Go, Coming Home (09-01-12)

Equanimity (08-02-12)

Shahara Godfrey & Arinna Weisman: Joy in Self, Community & the World (06-02-12)

The Greatest Love (10-04-11)

The Practice of Right Effort (08-18-11)

Guided Lovingkindness (03-05-11)

Working with Shame (03-05-11)

Working with Shame, part 2 (03-05-11)

Introduction & Refuges (03-05-11)

Group Sharing (03-05-11)

Loving as the Pathway to Healing (03-05-11)

Asking for and Receiving Help (03-05-11)

A Personal Journey of Suffering and Finding Compassion (12-15-10)

Working with Anxiety (10-30-10)

Faith (08-05-10)

Opening to Unpredictability (06-03-10)

Treasuring our Longing for Happiness by Uncovering its Obstacles (05-21-10)

Cultivating Joy (05-19-10)

Guided Joy Meditation (05-19-10)

Working with Judgment (05-17-10)

Cultivating Lovingkindness Toward the Body (03-09-10)

Guided Meditation: Cultivating Lovingkindness Toward the Body (03-09-10)

Willing to Become Vulnerable; Willing to Become Part of the Family of Life (12-17-09)

Cultivating Beautiful Qualities, Beautiful Practice (11-10-09)

Patience (11-05-09)

Awakening the Heart of Love Through the Precepts (07-18-09)

Dancing, Sassy And Present (10-20-08)

The Gift Of Presence And Lovingkindness On Our Paths Of Awakening (10-18-08)

Lovingkindness (11-06-05)

Faith (11-05-05)

Co-Dependency And Delusion (04-22-05)

The Four Contemplations (04-20-05)

Standing For Kindness, Confronting Harmfulness (04-09-04)

Giving (11-23-03)

Patience (11-22-03)

Truthfulness (11-18-03)

Morality (11-11-03)

Friendship (11-05-03)

Patience (02-09-03)

Inspiration For Practice (08-11-02)

Cultivating Joy (07-21-01)

Gateway To Freedom: First Foundation Of Mindfulness (06-10-01)

The Fierce First Step (04-15-01)

Freedom Possible In Every Moment (11-20-00)

Greed, Hatred & Delusion As Our Personality Types (08-07-00)

Loving Our Imperfections (07-15-00)

Karma: Trusting This Path Through Difficulties (04-15-00)

The Hindrances (04-13-00)

Encountering Profound Obstacles on the Path (08-15-99)

Dependent Origination (07-12-99)

Death as Inspiration for Practice (04-15-99)

Joy (04-11-99)

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching (04-09-99)

Not Clinging (11-01-98)

Right Effort (01-01-98)

Faith in Our Unconditional Happiness (01-01-98)

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (01-01-98)

Forgiveness (09-28-97)

Our Cycle of Harming & Its Healing (07-19-97)

Opening Our Hearts to Ourselves/Others (07-01-97)

Intimacy: The Practice of Relationship (06-09-96)

Understanding The Truth About Ourselves (06-02-96)

Choosing Happiness (06-02-96)

Introduction & Refuges (06-02-96)

Our Personal Mythologies (05-08-96)

Building Sangha: Bridges Across Divisions (04-01-96)

Holding On & Letting Go (04-01-96)

Holding Our Pain (09-25-93)

Understanding Karma as Empowerment (01-05-93)

Entrusting Ourselves (01-01-93)

Rodney, Arinna & Others: Opening Talk & Guided Meditation (12-28-92)

Path of Entrusting Ourselves to the Path of Freedom (06-01-92)

Rodney & Arinna: Morning Instruction and Guidance (05-23-92)

Ending Personal Pain (05-23-92)

Rodney & Arinna: Course Opening with Guided Meditation (05-22-92)