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Recent Dharma Talks and Meditation Offerings
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Listen to talks from our Teachers:
~ Michele McDonald ~
~ Steven Smith ~
~ Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey ~
Talks from our June 2020 Online Course: “Seeing Security Everywhere”
And watch lots more on our YouTube Channel
Dharma Talks from the 2019 Hollyhock Retreat
Metta~Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

~ Michele McDonald
Prize Any Tenderness: Metta is Love Infused with Wisdom
~ Michele McDonald
Brahma Vihara Overview and Impact on my Recent Stroke
~ Steven Smith
~ Michele McDonald
Compassion. Friendliness, Serenity, and Brokenness
~ Steven Smith
Right Effort, Resistance, Trust and Gratitude
~ Michele McDonald
Mudita. Cultivating Joy and Connecting with the Goodness Inside
~ Steven Smith
Vipassana with a Brahma Vihara Flavor: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joyful Interest
~ Michele McDonald
~ Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
The Fulfillment of Remembrance: Unconditional Acceptance
~ Michele McDonald
Faith: Waking up from Spiritual Slumber
~ Steven Smith
Impartiality and Deep Contentment
~ Michele McDonald
The Parallel Paths of Transformation and Transcendence
~ Steven Smith
2013 Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts – Two talks by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Getting Beneath The Flood Of Fabrication explores our practice as an attempt to ground the awareness of reality, instead of getting lost in the realm of fantasy that we tend to think of, as our lives. Being a Companion to the Margins of Our Minds explores how and why to bring kindness and interest to our relationship with the parts of ourselves that are the hardest for us to connect with.
2013-06/01 Getting Beneath The Flood Of Fabrication
2013-05/28 Being a Companion to the Margins of Our Minds
2013 and 2012 Recorded Talks:
Vallecitos 2013: Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation – Six Talks by Steven Smith and Michele McDonald:
These talks were part of a retreat at Vallecitos Mountain Ranch in New Mexico with as theme: Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation. They explore the brahmaviharas or sublime attitudes of loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
Steven Smith: Metta and Compassion
Michele McDonald: May-I-Be-Safe-From-Inner-Harm
Steven Smith: Joy-In-and-Of-Itself
Michele-McDonald: Kindness-and-Trust-Melt-Resistance-The-Strength-of-Soft-Readiness
Michele McDonald: What-We-Feed-Within-Ourselves-Grows
2012 Kyaswa Monastery, Burma – Three talks by Michele McDonald:
These three talks by Michele McDonald explore the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
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2011 and 2010 Recorded Talks:

Steven Smith (SS) and Michele McDonald (MM)
2007 Classical teachings ~ The Noble Eightfold Path
In 2007, Sayadaw U Lakkhana gave these timeless talks at Kyaswa Monastery in the Sagaing Hills of Burma (translated by Jake Davis):
2003 and 2004 Recorded Talks:
The eight talks were given by Steven Smith at Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts in 2003 and 2004 during two three-month retreats.