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Mindfulness and Trauma
Exploring trauma in addiction and meditation. Discriminating between ordinary suffering and severe trauma. This moves on to discussing depression, feeling, and naming uncomfortable states, making them more real.
Intimacy
October 7, 2025 Exploring the underlying desire that triggers addiction.
Feeling and Perception
9/23/2025 Exploring how naming experiences, feelings, and objects reifies them.
Mindfulness and Not-Self
9/16/2025 Connecting Buddhist mindfulness practices with understanding not-self.
Working with Energy in the Body
Tips for mindful meditation to reduce stress and manage emotions.
Form and Formlessness
Discussing styles of meditation, then talking about how to hold past regrets.
Long Enduring Mind
Talking about how Ajahn Pasanno responds to questions about high states and enlightenment. Keeping it simple and down to earth.
Forty Years Sober
Reflecting on the stages and lessons of forty years of sobriety.
What Is Mindfulness?
Reflecting on separating mindfulness from the larger Dharma. The importance of an integrated practice, including morality, wisdom, and mind training. Viewing the practice as a long term training rather than a fix.
Craving, Addiction, and Letting Go
April 29, 2025. Reading from my own work in progress, “Let It Go,”, referencing Judson Brewer’s “Craving Mind”, and Christina Grof’s” Thirst for Wholeness.”