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AudioDharma: Matthew Brensilver's most recent dharma talks — 100 episodes
Dharmette: The Strangeness
Guided Meditation: Letting the voltage course through
Dharmette: The dharma and romantic love
Guided Meditation: Uncertainty and information hunger
Dharmette: Dharma is a relational path
Guided Meditation: all phenomena become equally salient
Short Talk: Bearing Witness to Harm, Moral Responsibility & Hatred
Guided Meditation: Developing Learning Readiness
Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (5 of 5) Feeling, Loss, Letting Go & Love - Crowdsourced Questions
Guided Meditation: Relaxing into Kindness
Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (4 of 5) Love, Grief and Dharma
Guided Meditation: Breathing and Thinking
Dharmette: Transcendence and Service
Guided Meditation: If you know where are you are, you're not here
Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (3 of 5) The Intolerance of Suffering is not Compassion
Guided Meditation: Breathing with your life
Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (2 of 5) Not Knowing and Intimacy
Guided Meditation: Falling Awake
Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (1 of 5) Seeing Ourselves in the Mirror of the Other
Guided Meditation: Relaxation as the path
Short Talk: Trouble with Samadhi
Guided Medtiation: Sound, Silence, Thinking
Dharma Talk: Reflections on Love and Kindness
An assignment - crafting a lovingkindness practice for yourself
Q & A on metta
The four species of love as you move around the world
Guided reflections on kindness
A few words on walking - a continuous yes
Guided Meditation: All the facts are friendly
The lure of aversion and the call of love
Dharmette: A few reflections on pedagogy
Guided Meditation: Attention is the spear tip of karma
Dharmette: Flexibility
Guided Meditation: Too busy knowing to know who you are
Evening Reflection: The goodness that does not care who you think you are
Guided meditation Anicca and Feelings
3 Characteristics: Impermanence & Uncertainty (Anicca)
Guided Meditation: Arriving in the Breath
Dharmette: Working with emotional pain
Note on Teaching and Vulnerability
Guided Meditation: We don't choose to let go
Dharmette: Rumination and Intrusive Thought
Guided Meditation: here, now
The Idea of the Bodhisattva
Guided Meditation: Awareness isn't a technique
Short Talk: We don't do freedom
Guided Meditation: Goodness and Equanimity
Releasing Judging, Comparing, Fixing: Guided Meditation: Non-Fixing
Releasing Judging, Comparing, Fixing: Dialogue Between Dana and Matthew
Releasing Judging, Comparing, Fixing: Urge to Fix
Releasing Judging, Comparing, Fixing: Landing Here
Releasing Judging, Comparing, Fixing: Imperfection and Judging
Lightly Guided Meditation
Short Talk: Latent Self-View
Tranquility
Guided Meditation: Attention in the body
Dharmette: Insight & Love
Guided Meditation: Difficult for the Self to Understand what it can't do
Dharmette: Very brief overview of Shinzen Young’s approach
Guided Meditation: Awareness is reverential about all phenomena
Dharmette: Ajahn Chah's Advice to Woman on Deathbed
Lightly Guided Meditation
Working with Self-Hatred
Guided Meditation: Dedicating our practice
A Meaningful Dharma Life
Guided Meditation: safe to relax
Dharmette: Meditation is so many things
Guided Meditation: Refuge
Guided Meditation: Refuge
Dharmette: Understanding, Forgiveness & Unconsciousness
Guided Meditation: non-referentiality
Self, Self-Love, Selflessness
Dharmette: Question on Social Anxiety
Dharmette: How We Incarnate in Different Contexts
Guided Meditation: The Safety of Letting Go
Dharmette: Tranquility, View, Truth
Guided Meditation: Resting in Goodness
Dharmette: Orienting to Goodness
Guided Meditation: Sitting as if already dead
Love, Grief and Inconsolability
Guided Metta meditation
Functions of heart practice: cultivation, concentration, purification
Orienting and ruling out the alternatives to love
Anatta as a cause and effect of freedom
Guided Meditation: entering the dharma realm
Spiritual vs Psychological Health
TS Eliot and the Mystical Dimension of Buddhism
Lightly Guided Meditation
Dharmette: Very Condensed Overview of the Path
Guided Meditation: Sound and Silence
Spiritual Friendship (Berkeley Satellite Daylong)
Dharmette: Rivers are just rivers
Guided Meditation: Ease Makes Letting Go Safer
The What and How of Investigation
Guided Meditation: Activity and Receptivity
Dharmette: Empathic Resonance
Guided Meditation: Bright, Steady, Open
Dharmette: attention, awareness, mindfulness
Guided Meditation: Relax and release
Dharmette: PR Campaign for Non-Hatred