The Eightfold Path, Part 6: How to Do without Overdoing

The Eightfold Path, Part 6: How to Do without Overdoing

This talk explores Right Effort as one of the most misunderstood elements of the Eightfold Path—revealing how much of our suffering comes not from a lack of effort, but from pushing, striving, and forcing ourselves in ways that create inner violence. Drawing on classical Buddhist teachings and everyday experience, the talk reframes effort as a form of care rather than willpower, inviting a wiser relationship to energy, discipline, and motivation in meditation and daily life.

You'll learn how to recognize when effort has tipped into strain, how to stop feeding unhelpful mental patterns, and how to cultivate wholesome qualities without burnout or self-judgment. The talk offers practical guidance for sustaining practice with steadiness and ease, helping you apply energy in ways that support clarity, compassion, and long-term resilience—on and off the cushion.

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Retreat Talk #1: Coming Home to the Body, with Lynn Teo

Retreat Talk #1: Coming Home to the Body, with Lynn Teo

This is the first talk of a weeklong retreat in 2026.   Lynn Teo starts by exploring various ways to resource the nervous system to support the capacity to be present to the moment's direct experience...

28 Mars 59min

Beyond the Witness:  From Watching to Being [archive talk]

Beyond the Witness: From Watching to Being [archive talk]

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How to Awaken the Witness: From Identification to Observation [archive talk]

How to Awaken the Witness: From Identification to Observation [archive talk]

This talk explores the liberating factor of self-observation.   You'll learn about how you can cultivate the optimal environment to develop the witness, the near-enemy of the practice and what it mean...

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The Illusion of Self:  How Mindfulness Reveals True Freedom [archive talk]

The Illusion of Self: How Mindfulness Reveals True Freedom [archive talk]

This talk explores how the most simple mindfulness practices point to liberation.   You'll learn about the destination of cultivating present-moment awareness, understanding the nature of impermanence...

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The Eightfold Path, Part 5:  How to Make a Living without Selling Your Soul

The Eightfold Path, Part 5: How to Make a Living without Selling Your Soul

This talk explores Right Livelihood as a living inquiry rather than a rigid moral rule, asking how we can earn a living without gradually betraying our values, vitality, or sense of dignity. Grounded ...

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Listening as Spiritual Practice Why Unguarded Attention Is the Greatest Gift

Listening as Spiritual Practice Why Unguarded Attention Is the Greatest Gift

This talk explores listening as a radical act of compassion at moments of loss, when words often rush in to ease our own discomfort rather than meet another's pain. We examine how common responses to ...

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How to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 2:  Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]

How to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 2: Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]

More on how to keep you keel in the water when navigating uncertainty.   You'll learn some practical strategies for finding 'refuge,' a place of presence, particularly accessing Wisdom - clear seeing,...

5 Feb 1h 49min

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