This talk offers some details on beginning a practice and discusses some stages as your practice matures.

This talk explores the question of why we would train the mind through meditation practice.

When we are hooked by repeating thoughts or unwholesome mind-states, there are 3 questions that can help with unhooking from them: What's here? What else is here? What's here to support me?

With "right effort" it is useful to understand what we are efforting towards and how much effort is appropriate - - for you, at any particular moment.

What if we really believe in the possibility of the third noble truth? Here are some of the words that might resonate and guide you in experiencing a taste of this freedom: Quietude; Like The Fire Unbound; Peace; An Unentangled Mind; The Richness of Not Wanting; The End of Craving; Stillness; Release; Safe harbor; True Refuge