All Episodes

ISmile364 - Getting There From Here

ISmile363 - Thanksgiving, Giving Thanks & Suffering Lite

ISmile362 - Friendship, Fearlessness, and Focus

ISmile361 - It's About About Recognition Not Creation

ISmile360 - Tangled Silk

ISmile359 – Loss

ISmile358 – Body As Vehicle

ISmile357 – Opened By Life

ISmile356 – Love And Big Love

ISmile355 – Difficult Gifts That Rock

ISmile354 – The 8 Fold Path and Trump

ISmile353 – Lighting Up Darkness

ISmile352 – Without the Slightest Error

ISmile 351 – When Hopelessness Rules

ISmile350 – Stopping the Chase

ISmile343 – Checking ID

ISmile 342 – The Qualities of Awakening

iSmile 341 – No Such Thing As A Mistake

ISmile 340 – Like Your Own Eyes

ISmile339 – Dealing With Conflict

ISmile338 – If It’s Generous It’s Love

ISmile337 – David’s First Talk

ISmile336 – The Fourth Turning of the Wheel of Dharma

ISmile335 – Living Dangerously

ISmile334 – Engaging Life As Its Witness

ISmile333 – The Practice of Forgiveness

ISmile332 – Dealing With War

ISmile331 – Healing Ourselves, Healing the World

ISmile330 – Love’s Fire

ISmile329 – At Peace With Death

ISmile328 – Fear On The Path

ISmile327 – Karma’s a Bitch

ISmile326 – How To Let Go

ISmile325 – Video: Comparing Christian and Buddhist Versions of Love

ISmile324 – When Practice Deepens

ISmile323 – The Enormity of What You Really Are

ISmile322 – Conscious Choice

ISmile321 – It All Starts With Forgiveness

ISmile320 – Living Without Insulation

ISmile319 – Rubber Bands and Shortcuts

ISmile318 – Thanksgiving and Emptiness

ISmile317 – Stepping Beyond Heart and Mind

ISmile316 – Meditating Through Life’s Mess

ISmile315 – The One Precept: Do No Harm

ISmile314 – Poetry, Laughter, Love and Levels of Consciousness

Encore: ISmile100 – Working With Pain

ISmile313 – Losing Spirituality’s Training Wheels

ISmile312 – Vanity and Other Wars With Reality

ISmile311 – When Seeking Ends

ISmile310 – The Heart of Trust

ISmile309 – Staring Through the Eyes of God

ISmile308 – When We Can’t Go Back

ISmile307 – Moving From Fear To Love

ISmile306 – The Way Off Samsara’s Wheel

Encore: ISmile93 – Love

ISmile305 – Extraordinary Ordinariness

ISmile304 – Untangling Karmic Knots

ISmile303 – From the Personal to the Impersonal

ISmile302 – Living Without Distortion

Encore Post: ISmile117 – Seduction

ISmile301 – Surfing Pain’s Waves

ISmile300 – Our Invitation Home

ISmile299 – Integrating Big Self with Small Self

ISmile298 – The Steps to Freedom

ISmile297 – The Shadow and the Light

ISmile296 – Awakening to Deeper Love

ISmile295 – Reclaiming the Body

ISmile294 – A Path of Non-Avoidance

ISmile293 – Traps, Snares and Qualities That Bind

Retreat Video – Living From Abundance

ISmile292 – Dancing with Challenges

ISmile291 – The Sin of Beauty

ISmile290 – From Our Misery to the Mystery

Encore: ISmile105 – The Three Levels of Practice

ISmile289 – Out of Pain, Wholeness

Encore: ISmile165 – The Egos Skin

ISmile288 – The Ego As Delusion

ISmile287 – Getting Out of Love’s Way

Encore: ISmile69 – The Three Stages of Practice: Recognition, Resistance, & Renunciation

Encore Podcast – ISmile61 – At the Core of Everything is the Ninth Sense

Encore: ISmile85 – The New Relationship Between Time and Mind

ISmile286 – Radical Honesty and the Great Matter

ISmile285 – In the Middle of Pain

ISmile284 – The Fierce Urgency of Now

ISmile283 – Buddhism’s Eight Winds Fanning the Fire of Resolve

ISmile282 – The Eightfold Path

ISmile281 – Vid: The Open Heart

ISmile280 – Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind

ISmile279 – Vid: How to Block Your Progress on the Spiritual Path

ISmile278 – Integrating Body, Mind and Practice

ISmile277 – When The Bottom Falls Out From Underneath Us

ISmile276 – The Body, The Breath and Space

ISmile275 – These Awakenings Starts With Forgiveness

ISmile274 – Why Am I Here?

ISmile273 – Attending to Sangha

ISmile272 – Vid: The Gift of Negativity

ISmile271 – The Great Spiritual Questions

ISmile270 – Thoughts on Sanghapalooza

ISmile268 – Vid: Truly Living Large

ISmile267 – Ox-herding and Such

ISmile266 – Vid: Being Ordinary

ISmile265 – What’s Prior to ‘I’?

ISmile264 – The Four Kinds of Students

ISmile263 – The Three Faces of Spirit

ISmile262 – Engagement

ISmile261 – Generosity

ISmile260 – All-knowing

ISmile259 – Stillness

ISmile258 – Surrender

ISmile257 – Accountability

ISmile256 – Presence

ISmile255 – The Way Out of Discomfort

ISmile254 – Working Well With Difficulty and Difficult People

ISmile253 – Awakening’s SNORP Protocol

ISmile252 – The PASSAGE

ISmile251 – The Open Container of Sangha

ISmile250 – The Three Jewels

ISmile249 – The Problem With Leaderless Sanghas

ISmile247 – Uncovering the Deep Commitment

ISmile246 – Doubt: Wonder with an Attitude

ISmile244 – When Realization Matters More Than Self-esteem

ISmile243 – Relization, Hooray!

ISmile242 – A Way, Not a Belief

ISmile241 – Doesn’t Religion Suck?

BuddhistGeeks Interview: The Mountain of Spirit

ISmile240 – Being Generous

ISmile239 – Not Me, Not Mine

ISmile238 – Simple But Not Easy

ISmile237 – On Greed and Karma

ISmile236 – Turning Spiritual Lead Into Gold

ISmile235 – How to Meet Total Fulfillment

ISmile234 – On Death and Dying

ISmile233 – Merging Intention With Surrender

ISmile232 – The Roots of Anger

ISmile231 – What’s Blocking Your Vow?

ISmile230 – In the Audience of Experience

ISmile228 – Non-mystical Buddhism

ISmile227 – Faith No More

ISmile226 – The Buddhist Call to Prayer

ISmile225 – Spiritual Adulthood

ISmile224 – Being the Wow

ISmile223 – Underneath the Sheet

ISmile222 – The Source of Mind

ISmile221 – Beyond Pain, Part II

ISmile220 – Beyond Pain, Part I

ISmile219 – Broken Truth, Whole Truth

ISmile 218- Accepting the Invitation

ISmile 217- Uncovering What is Deeper

ISmile216 – “I”ddiction

ISmile215 – Just Being

ISmile214 – The Boundary Between Self and Peace

ISmile213 – Interview: Becoming the Wildest Thing of All

ISmile 212- What We Really Want

ISmile211 – Behind the Mask of Self-concern

ISmile 210- The Trial

ISmile209 – Living Unopposed

ISmile208 – Our Addictions

ISmile207 – I Am Offering You Nothing

ISmile206 – San Damiano Intensive: Truly Stopping

ISmile 205- Prior to Desire

ISmile204 – Integrating Enlightenment

ISmile 203- When There is Nothing Left of Selfhood

ISmile 202- The Halfway Point

ISmile201 – Practicing with Fear and Desire

ISmile 200- The Art of Not Getting Anything

Ismile 199- How Loss Gets Us Ready

ISmile 198- Being the Senses and All

ISmile 197- Just What

ISmile 196- Seeing our Negativity is Our Freedom From It

ISmile195 – Karmic Activity

ISmile194 – Lafayette ITP Group

ISmile193 – Infinite Choice

ISmile192 – The Divine Boo-Boo

ISmile191 – Getting Past States

ISmile190 – Back From Silence

ISmile189 – Perpetual Rest in the Fire of Life

ISmile188 – Recognizing the One in the Many

ISmile187 – Uncovering True Beauty in the Middle of Hell

ISmile186 – Avoidance, Obsession & Presence

ISmile185 – How the Awakened Move in the World

ISmile184 – Herding Oxes

ISmile 183- Welcoming Negativity

ISmile182 – No Thing, No One

ISmile181 – The Soft Smile

ISmile180 – Free of All Stories

ISmile179 – Bringing It All Home

ISmile178 – When Buddha is Killed

ISmile-178- Todays Bodhisattva

ISmile 177- Getting Done By Meditation

ISmile176 – The Communication of Spaciousness

ISmile175 – Undoing the Tangle of Karma

ISmile174 – Spitting Out Tea Leaves

ISmile173 – Purification

ISmile172 – Being Oceanic

ISmile171.5 – Year End Appeal

ISmile171 – ITP: 3 Levels of Awareness

ISmile170 – Dropping the Nonsense

ISmile169 – Birth and Death

ISmile168 – Practicing With All the Crap

ISmile167 – Forgiveness

ISmile166 – Essential Sangha

ISmile 165- The Egos Skin

ISmile164 – Your True Nature

ISmile163 – Bloody Noses

Ismile 162- The Beginners Mind

ISmile161 – Nothing Needed

ISmile160 – Craving

ISmile159 – The Whole Story

ISmile158 – Spiritual Maps

ISmile157 – The Conventional Life & The Ultimate Life

ISmile156 – Teaching Beyond Words

ISmile155 – Expression From Spirit

ISmile 154- When Ego Thinks Its Enlightened

ISmile139 – Intimate Living, Part II

ISmile138 – Intimate Living, Part I

ISmile137 – True Thanksgiving

ISmile136 – All You Need is Right Here

ISmile135 – Nothing is Missing

ISmile134 – Deepening Equanimity

Commuter Zen 20- Sleepy Nervous Engagement

ISmile133 – Hungry Ghosts

ISmile132 – Our Frailties, Our Blessings

ISmile131 – Our Dirty Laundry

ISmile130 – The Dharma Eye

ISmile129 – How to Die Before Death

ISmile128 – The Stream, the Return, the Non-returning, & the Great Awakening

ISmile127 – Ground, Path & Fruition

ISmile126 – Satori

ISmile125 – Infinite Heart & Mind

ISmile124 – Direct Clarity and Dogs

ISmile123 – Is Peace Possible?

ISmile122 – Taking Care of This Life

ISmile121 – Reviewing the Path

ISmile120 – Preference and Choice

CommuterZen19 – Confusing Experience With Realization

ISmile119 – The Three Marks of Existence

ISmile118 – How Does Stillness Feel?

ISmile117 – Seduction

ISmile116 – Clinging

ISmile115 – Bursting Out In Laughter

ISmile114 – Facing Our Mess

ISmile113 – How Long Should We Meditate?

ISmile112 – The Eightfold Path in Brief

ISmile111 – The Awakening Experience and Its Impediments

ISmile110 – No Self and Near Enemies

ISmile109 – Nondivision

CommuterZen18 – Right and Wrong Informed by the Infinite

ISmile108 – Nothing Guaranteed

ISmile107 – Observation Instead of Evaluation

ISmile106 – The Three Reflections of Spirit

ISmile 105- The Three Levels of Practice

CommuterZen17 – Traditional Traps

CommuterZen16 – Attachment to Faith

CommuterZen15 – Witnessing Skepticism

Ismile 104- All Things are Temporary

ISmile 103- Enlightened By all Things

ISmile 102- When Awakening Leaks

ISmile 101- Preferences Point to Attachment

ISmile 100- Working With Pain

ISmile 99- Sufferings End

ISmile 98- Slowness and Balance

ISmile 97- How the 23rd Psalm Points to the Heart of Awakening

ISmile 96- Jumping out of a Perfectly Good Airplane

ISmile 95- It Is Not about Intellect

ISmile 94- Some Basics

ISmile 93- Love

ISmile 92- Questioning

ISmile 91- Four moves that Keep us from the Absolute

ISmile90- Not Caught by Thought

ISmile89- Spiritual Earthquakes

ISmile88 – No Teacher Can Enlighten You

Commuter Zen: Passion, the Feeling of Surrender, Intoxication, and Frustration

ISmile 87- The Radiant Clarity of Emptiness

ISmile 86- Thoughts are Things

Ismile 85- The New Relationship to Time and Mind

ISmile 84- Awakening is Play

ISmile 83- The 5 Stages of Ego Grieving its own death

ISmile 82- Negativity Shows Us Home

ISmile 81- Losing Our Enemies

ISmile 80- Being Freedom 2

ISmile79 – Uncovering the Kosmic Giggle

ISmile78 – Transforming Not Translating

ISmile 77- Ego’s Etch-a-Sketch

ISmile76 – Receiving the Big Fat Kiss

ISmile75 – Why Meditate?

ISmile74 – The Full Monty of Consciousness

ISmile73 – From Eternity to Here

ISmile72 – Popping the Balloon of Ego

ISmile 71- Not mindless but no mind

ISmile70 – Awakening Begins With Forgiveness

ISmile69 – The Three Stages of Practice: Recognition, Resistance, & Renunciation

ISmile 68- The Eightfold Path of Banana Peels

ISmile67 – Just Like Me

ISmile66 – Do We Have the Strength?

ISmile65 – Real Living

ISmile64 – Making Friends With Death

ISmile63 – Getting Beyond the Veil

ISmile62 – Walking Awake

ISmile61 – At the Core of Everything: the Ninth Sense

ISmile60 – The Teachings of an Entire Lifetime