Long Talks · Index

👁️ Insight Series ▸ ¶

⁘ Insight Series: Preparing a wholesome ground of awareness. Development of purity and clarity. Essential ethics and conscious integration.

Overview of Purification — Body, Speech and Mind (I001) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ insight-series ⁘ created 2024-08-09 ⁘ updated 2025-06-23 ⁘ words 3986 ⁘ 37:36 min
• Purification of the body, speech and mind are necessary for progress and the attainment of wholesome states of being. Impurities, sustained with habitual conditioning and lack of introspection, hinder our progress, distort our experiences, and generate misery in our lives. Read more...

Integrated Ethics — Wisdom in Interaction (I002) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ insight-series ⁘ created 2024-08-12 ⁘ updated 2025-10-17 ⁘ words 4017 ⁘ 37:53 min
• Principles of interaction that lead to harmonic and fulfilling coexistence are a core aspect of the path of practice toward self-purification. A clear ethical foundation, rooted in reflection and wisdom, is the guide and guardian of our life in the world that we, through contemplation and experience, establish for ourselves. Read more...

🧘🏻 Practice Series ▸ ¶

⁘ Practice Series: Diverse methods of practice and cultivation. Hands-on meditation and contemplation guides. Walk-throughs and relevant insights.

Before and After Meditation (P001) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-01 ⁘ updated 2025-07-02 ⁘ words 2887 ⁘ 26:43 min
• Overview of supporting practices before and after a session of meditation. Including: Dedicating place and time. Seat and scene of practice. Basic purification. Meditation postures. Initial breathing. Invocation and declaration of intent. Practice of meditation proper. Post-meditation phase of reflection. Dedication and affirmation. Read more...

Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-07 ⁘ updated 2025-11-14 ⁘ words 3722 ⁘ 34:05 min
• We explore a range of methods and strategies for dealing with distracting thoughts and external disturbances during our practice of meditation. From non-reactivity to breathwork, to modulating mental spaces, objects of attention and modes of practice; into evaluation, deconstruction and termination when distractions still persist. Read more...

Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-11 ⁘ updated 2025-11-18 ⁘ words 3949 ⁘ 38:21 min
• Self-knowledge is an essential fruit of our meditative practice. Through the practice of meditation, our sensitivity to observing physical and mental phenomena will increase. In today's training, we look at methodical techniques of introspective meditation, scanning through the various layers of the body and the mind, to deepen our self-awareness and meditative access. Read more...

What's Going On Meditation — Clear Integral Awareness (P008) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2025-05-15 ⁘ updated 2025-06-29 ⁘ words 1423 ⁘ 12:00 min
• What's going on? Like — actually? If you want to know what's actually going on. You need to get into "What's Going On?" meditation. Snap out of the tunnel — reach into the lucid planes of metacognition. Doesn't cost you anything — no need to go anywhere. Clear some space in your awareness, pay attention to what's going on. Read more...

🪞 Reflection Series ▸ ¶

⁘ Reflection Series: Spectrum of musings on emergent topics. Mindful midstream of the mirror mind. Buffet of serious and hilarious reviews.

Haunted Hearts — Fear and Its Dark Children (R001) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-series ⁘ created 2024-09-21 ⁘ updated 2024-09-21 ⁘ words 3385 ⁘ 32:28 min
• Fear is a primary and primal state of mind, a fruit of evolution for our survival. Yet fear will run amok when ungrounded in actuality. For those looking for a peaceful mental baseline, the taunting work of evaluating and coming to terms with fear and its children is not optional. Read more...

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-series ⁘ created 2024-12-04 ⁘ updated 2025-07-05 ⁘ words 2911 ⁘ 25:02 min
• Pushes and pulls of our existence. We need to deal with them, we need to navigate wisely. That wisdom begins with recognition, clear understanding, and introspection. We separate need and want. We comprehend and contextualize desire. We understand its ephemerality, the waves of its coming and going, the hallucinatory nature of the "objects" we pursue. Read more...

Reaching a Blank Slate — What Why and How (R006) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-series ⁘ created 2025-03-13 ⁘ updated 2025-06-28 ⁘ words 1185 ⁘ 10:01 min
• There was a request for a blank slate. No specs as to what sort of blankness. Well then. We have a bunch of options. Confess your sins. Resign from your obsessions. Enter the pauses in your breath. Or reflect on and reconcile the manifold fields of your conflicted awareness. There will be progressive settling and a radiant blankness, a canvas over which we can regenerate the essences of our life. Read more...

Emotions in the Spectrum of Living Experience (R007) ▸

• ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-series ⁘ created 2025-03-14 ⁘ updated 2025-07-08 ⁘ words 1430 ⁘ 12:38 min
• Dealing with emotions and mental states, positive and negative, is an integral aspect of the complete living experience of an incarnate consciousness. We are composite creatures, and each of our aspects of being calls for our awareness. Welcome it all. Deal with it and evolve. Read more...