Tea with Mara

"Reflections Of The Way Life Used To Be" is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha on the topic of reflection. Looking back at our year using mindfulness and clear comprehension to see how we met …

"What The Hell Am I" is a Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on practicing with sickness. When we’re feeling unwell the Buddha reminds us that sickness is part of being human, and that our minds can s…

"The Acorn And The Oak" is a dharma talk and brief guided meditation on the topic of Interconnectedness, or Interbeing, in a very broad accessible way. I've noticed lots of examples of this lately, a…

"Unwrapping Vulnerability and Boundaries" is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha on Bodhi Day exploring how to find balance between being open-hearted and protecting our personal well-being dur…

"Pain And The Brain" is a dharma talk and brief guided meditation on various kinds of pain and how the dharma can help us work with them. We talk about meeting physical aches, emotional heartache, an…

"The Grateful Heart (The Lost Episode)" is a Dharma talk and guided meditation (30:20) offered on 11/28/24 in Virtual Reality. This talk was lost during editing and recovered today. We explore gratit…

“Survive And Thrive For The Holidays” is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha about how the holiday season can be a time of joy and connection—but also stress, conflict, and exhaustion. In this …

"Mindfulness Is A Hoe" is a dharma talk on a community question last week of how to work with worry and anxiety related to situations where we are so worried about something bad happening, that we ac…

"Trust Begins When Actions Match Words" is a dharma talk and short meditation (35:30) on Trust. We explore the nature of trust—what it means, how it is built, how it is broken, and how it can be rebu…

"There in the Balanced “Engagedness” takes a deeper look at equanimity and clears up some common misunderstandings. Often thought of as passive or detached, we explored how equanimity is actually an …

"Love The Actor, Fight The Action" wraps up a series of a few talks about where we might find ourselves these days with the world in such upheaval. Last week we spoke about pausing, and sitting in th…

"Holding Space With Grace" is a dharma talk offered at the Two Hands Sangha based on a community member question. It also dovetails nicely off of the last talk. That talk was about pausing and being …

"Times Like These" is a dharma talk and guided meditation (28:15) on giving yourself permission to sit with whatever you're feeling right now, knowing that it's perfectly ok to do that, and when you'…

"Waiting To Exhale" is a Dharma Talk offered at Two Hands Sangha on the topics of coping with the stress we create around impending outcomes, and the way we deal with that outcome when it arrives, wh…

"Harmless, Harmed, Harmful, Heedful" is a Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on this 2024 Halloween about the infamous serial killer from the Buddha's time, Angulimala. I hope this is fun, and also he…

"It Takes Two To Tango" is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha on the topic of strong fixed views, particularly when they are mired in delusion, and how to work with that. With the election loo…

"Now I Know What I Got" is a lyric from a Cinderella song...but more importantly it's a Dharma talk and guided meditation (31:49) on the topic of moving from generosity (last week's talk) into gratit…

"Sustaining Generosity" is a Dharma talk on the topic of generosity and all it's aspects, with a (rare for me) focus on the financial aspect as it has become a hot topic lately in our community (IYKY…

"Come Together, Right Now" is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha on conflict and difficulty in community and how to address it. We draw advice from the Vinaya and various sutras to help us lea…