All Episodes

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Practice: Compassion and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: What Does it Take to Land Here? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Wise Intention

Matthew Brensilver: Living Alongside Questions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Allowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Relax a Little Further (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Reflections on Time in Dharma: Surrendering to Time, Healing Time, Not-Making Time (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Internal and External Sound and Silence

Matthew Brensilver: The Circuitous Journey to Presence through Past and Future

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Forgiving Body, Mind and World

Matthew Brensilver: Active and Receptive Dimensions of Practice

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Urgency of Feeling

Matthew Brensilver: Attention Models the Object, Mindfulness Models the Attention

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Relaxing and Letting Feeling be Feeling

Matthew Brensilver: Reflections on Freedom

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: dropping secret agendas (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Fear, Thinking, Safety and Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta Meditation - Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Know Thyself, Release Thyself, Merging

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Arousal and Valence Signifying Nothing

Matthew Brensilver: Dukkha as Ambivalence in Relational Life

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Surrendering the Territory of Me

Matthew Brensilver: Dharma Supports Relationships, Relationships Help Us Get Freer

Matthew Brensilver: Landing in the Breath

Matthew Brensilver: Brief Post-Election Reflections

Matthew Brensilver: Attention and Anicca, Awareness and Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: In the Presence of Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Craving, Compulsion, Non-Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Plasticity, Call off the search, Unification and Love

Matthew Brensilver: Emptiness of Self

Matthew Brensilver: Balancing Equanimity and Compassion

Matthew Brensilver: Grace, Gravity, Surrender and Silence

Matthew Brensilver: Relaxing the Body and Mind

Matthew Brensilver: Metta for Self

Matthew Brensilver: Not-self

Matthew Brensilver: Healing the Self

Matthew Brensilver: Throughlines of Self and Not-Self

Matthew Brensilver: Deep Embodiment

Matthew Brensilver: Love and Space

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Landing in the Breath and Soundscape

Matthew Brensilver: Mindfulness, Mindlessness, Rumination and the Species of Unconsciousness

Brian Lesage, Cara Lai, Matthew Brensilver: Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Feeling

Matthew Brensilver: Language is the hammer and every problem, a nail (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Convergence of Insight and Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Duality, Merging, Not-Self and Differentiation in the Interpersonal World (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Reflections and Guided Meditation on Mudita

Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: all phenomena as false alarms

Matthew Brensilver: Knowing and Not-Knowing

Matthew Brensilver: Metta Practice

Matthew Brensilver, Randy Fernando: Navigating A.I. from a Buddhist Perspective

Matthew Brensilver: The anchor is everywhere

Matthew Brensilver: Surrender & Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Cycling through All Four Divine Abodes

Matthew Brensilver: The Three Characteristics and Love

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Trajectory of your life and trajectory of freedom

Matthew Brensilver: Moved by goodness: Reflections and Guided Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Morning sit with instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Love as the Default Position of the Mind

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation - Grief and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation on Body and Affect (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: No escape other than into the heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Love and its relation with wisdom.

Matthew Brensilver: Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth

Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk

Matthew Brensilver: Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta practice

Matthew Brensilver: Tranquilizing side of the 7 Factors: Agitation and temporal density.

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation - changing conditions

Matthew Brensilver: Anatta and its Blessings

Matthew Brensilver: Reflections and Guided Heart Practice

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation

Matthew Brensilver, Tuere Sala: Tuere Sala and Matthew Brensilver in dialogue about wisdom

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Reflection & Meditation: Grief & Compassion

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Feelings and their elaborations

Matthew Brensilver: The Parami of Truthfulness

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Settling into the Body

Matthew Brensilver: Your Face: The Gaze, Self-view, Intimacy and Letting Go (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Vulnerability, Porousness, Equanimity & Love (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Dialectics of Practice - Opening and Protection (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Addressing Coronavirus with a Dharma View- Monday Night Dharma Talk

Matthew Brensilver: Death and the Poignancy of Life

Matthew Brensilver: Day 6 Morning Guided Instructions: Pervasiveness of Feeling (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 2 Morning Guided Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Attention, Wisdom, Grief and Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage, Matthew Brensilver: The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Body and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: The Story of Jumping Mouse (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Equanimity and Samadhi

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: How the world impacts the emotional body

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Body Settling, Pleasure of the Breath

Matthew Brensilver: Monday Night Dharma Talk

Matthew Brensilver: Compulsive Thinking, Concentration & Equanimity

Matthew Brensilver: guided meditation

Matthew Brensilver: Technology as an Existential Threat to Mindfulness - Matthew Brensilver and Randy Fernando

Matthew Brensilver: Monday Night Dharma Talk

Matthew Brensilver: Sila as Our Practice in the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 6: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Sīla, Samādhi, Pañña

Matthew Brensilver: Ethical Implications of Mindfulness

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Turbulence and Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage, Matthew Brensilver: Dharma Debate: Samvega versus Softening and Receiving (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Clinging and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Metta Reflections: Opening to Life Requires Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Bringing Dharma Into Interpersonal and Communal Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 5: Instructions and Sitting

Matthew Brensilver: Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 3 Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Intentions for Practice and the Jewel of Curiosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 1: Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 1: Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Intensity, Clinging and Anatta in the teen years (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Matthew Brensilver: Spirit Rock-Attention, Love and Service

Matthew Brensilver: Spirit Rock-Samadhi in the Context of Letting Go

Matthew Brensilver: Spirit Rock-Metta in the Post Obama Era

JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro: Where You At, Where You Going

Matthew Brensilver: Anxiety and Tranquility

Matthew Brensilver: Grief, Love and Groundlessness

Matthew Brensilver: Going Home

Matthew Brensilver: Q&A

Matthew Brensilver: The Intensity of Being a Teenager

Matthew Brensilver: Learning from Retreats

Matthew Brensilver: Thinking

Matthew Brensilver: Psychotherapy and Dharma

Matthew Brensilver: Self-Love and Selflessness - Part 2

Matthew Brensilver: Self-Love and Selflessness - Part 1

Matthew Brensilver: Feedback In The Context of Dharma Practice

Matthew Brensilver: Things Nobody told Me When I was a Teen

Matthew Brensilver: Mortality and the Poignancy of Life