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6/11/19 (Guided mindfulness, with David Gardiner)5/28/19 (Guided mindfulness, with David Gardiner)“White Tara Meditation” (with David Gardiner) Here is a short version in writing of the meditation with an image of White Tara)6/30/20 (Meditation on Opening, with David Gardiner)12-7-20 Tonglen practice, with David Gardiner8-3-21 Another Tonglen meditation (David Gardiner)8-10-21 A variation on Tonglen (David Gardiner)1-11-22 Meditation: What is “holding onto” like?11-22-22 Meditation: Universal compassion and Om Mani Padme Hum (David Gardiner)
Dharma Talks
3/31/20Talk (David Gardiner):“Samsara and Nirvana”4/14/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Stages of the Path”4/7/20Talk (David Gardiner):“Our Precious Human Life” 3-1-21Vajradhara visualization practice (see visual image here. Mantras introduced are: Omshunyata jnana vajra svabhava atmako ham (I have a self whose nature is a diamond of the direct insight into emptiness), and Om svabhava shuddha sarva dharma svabhava shuddho ham (My very nature is pure, and the nature of all phenomena is pure)4/21/20 Talk (David Gardiner):“Developing Bodhimind”4/28/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Four Immeasurables”5/5/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Tonglen“5/12/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Emptiness”5/19/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Two Truths”5/26/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Three principles of the path”6/2/20 Talk (David Gardiner: “Structuring a personal meditation practice”6/9/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Shushing, sharpening, shaping: Ways to meditate”6/16/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Three trainings of Ethics, Concentration and Insight: Preserving, Deepening, Clearing”6/23/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “How can we bring the three trainings that support preserving, deepening and clearing (from last week’s talk) more powerfully into each moment?”6/30/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Anything human is mentionable, and anything mentionable is manageable” 7/7/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Why Wisdom and Compassion make a good pair”12-1-20 Talk, (David Gardiner): “Practicing with mantras: Om Mani Padme Hum and Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha”7/14/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “What are the Five Aggregates, and why do they matter?”7/21/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Four keys for examining our sense of self”7/28/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Buddhist understandings of self”8/4/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Eight Verses of Mind Training: Taking Adversity into the Path” (See Eight Verses text here)8/15/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “A Zen koan” (See Koan text here)8/18/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Principles of Zen Buddhism” Talk: Zen and Zen Texts9/8/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “How and why we practice” (See the text discussed here)9/15/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Why practice at all? Do we need it? What kinds?”9/22/20 Talk (David Gardiner)9/29/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Cracking through our resistance to finding inner peace”10/6/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Playing catch-and-release with meditation objects” 10/13/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “A middle way for relating to our thinking“10/20/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “See clearly, feel broadly, act courageously: Cornel West” (Here is an image referred to in the talk, and here is the Cornel West interview)Talk 5-25-21 (David Gardiner): “Exploring the dynamics of breath”10/27/20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Replace lousy mind with loving mind”11-17-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Compassion as a way to peace”12-7-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Benefits of Tonglen practice”12-8-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Three Clusters of Buddhist Meditation: Attentive, Constructive, Deconstructive”12-15-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “The Power of Joyful Effort”12-22-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Gratification, Danger and Escape”12-29-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “How to remain in the present moment without becoming frozen”1-4-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Guan-Yin visualization, with Om Mani Padme Hum”1-5-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “The power of generating bodhimind, the altruistic aspiration to awaken”1-12-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “Building resilience through mindful self-compassion”Talk 4-20-21 (David Gardiner): “Buddha-mind, No-mind: What’s going on?“1-19-20 Talk (David Gardiner): “The nature of mind underlying thought: non-dual and empty”Talk 2/9/21 (David Gardiner): “Prayer by Tsongkhapa that models great humility, compassion, commitment and hope” (Link to copy of text here)1-26-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “Non-duality of subject/object & self/world”“The idea of ‘self’ in Buddhist thought” (David Gardiner)2-2-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “Approaches to re-setting, re-booting our default mental states”Talk 2/16/21 (David Gardiner): “On Compassion”2-23-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “Staying open for purpose and power”3-2-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “Locating a potent space in the heart”3-9-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “This precious human life of leisure and opportunity”3-16-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “Nesting our practice: How ethical conduct, concentration and insight cooperate on our path”Talk 3-23-21 (David Gardiner): “The power of positive self-image, even when imagined”
Talk 3-30-21 (David Gardiner): “Holding ourselves and our practice with dignity”
Talk 4-13-21 (David Gardiner): “Trusting the nature of our radiant mind”Talk 4-27-21 (David Gardiner): “Finding confidence in the transparency of ‘self'”Talk 5-4-21 (David Gardiner): “Envisioning all beings struggling together”Talk, Monday 5-8-21 (David Gardiner): “A generative void of possibilities” Talk 5-11-21: “The importance of making effort”Talk 5-18-21 (David Gardiner): “Deconstructing the mind-body divide”9-6-21 Talk (David Gardiner): “How does meditating on Tara benefit us?”Talk 6-1-21 (David Gardiner): “Impermanence as Opportunity”Talk 6-15-21 (David Gardiner): “Holding both joy and pain in our practice”Talk 6-22-21 (David Gardiner): “Subtle movements of mind in meditation”Talk 6-26-21 (David Gardiner): “Lenses/frames: owning our layers of interpretation”Talk 7-6-21 (David Gardiner): “Coming to see things as they are”Talk 7-13-21 (David Gardiner): “Ways we work to stay sane”Talk 7-20-21 (David Gardiner): “Summoning great compassion”Talk 7-27-21 (David Gardiner): “Taking refuge in the spaciousness of awareness”Talk 8-2-21 (David Gardiner): On Tonglen: Taking, Giving and Solidarity with all beings”Talk 8-3-21 (David Gardiner): “The powerful logic of Tonglen”8-24-21 Talk *David Gardiner): “Mindfulness as remembering” Talk 8-31-21 “Creating space in difficult situations”Talk 9-7-21 (David Gardiner): “How to keep up a positive spirit”9-28-21 (David Gardiner): “Mindfulness of our embodiment provides a refuge of safety”Talk 10-11-21 (David Gardiner): “Loving-kindness”10-19-21 (David Gardiner): “On Self-Acceptance”Talk 10-26-21 (David Gardiner): “Mindfulness of body should be practiced with loving-kindness”Talk 11-2-21: “Wisdom, opening and freedom”Talk 11-9-21: “Somatic knowing: Wisdom as bodily insight”Talk 11-16-21: “Meditation and love”Talk 11-23-21: “Memory, gratitude, joy”Talk 11-30-21: “Discovering abundance in emptiness”Talk 12-7-21: “Embracing not-knowing”Talk 12-14-21: “Not-finding mind is Way-finding mind”Talk 12-28-21: “Impermanence as an entrance to the path”Talk 1-4-22: “What is Refuge?”Talk: “On Effort”Talk 1-18-22: “Words, thoughts, mind, reality: Different but all permeated by freedom”Talk 9-20-22 “Working with the wisdom of emptiness and compassion”Talk 9/27/22: “Grounding, with the body”Talk 10/4/22: “Impermanence is Buddha-nature”Talk 10/11/22: “Self-compassion”Talk 10/18/22: “Practicing kindness to ourselves”Talk 11/1/22: “Life as story, Buddhist teachings as story”Talk 11-8-22: “Kurt Vonnegut on Joy”Talk 11/15/22: “Reflecting on impermanence can deepen both wisdom and compassion”Talk 11-22-22: “Universal compassion and the mantra Om mani padme Hum”Talk 11/29/22: “Imagination and the Path”Talk 12-27-22: “Resilience”Talk 1-10-23: “Teaching and Practice”Talk 1-31-23: “Trusting our practice”Talk 2-7-2023: “Compassion as Openness”Talk 2-21-23: “Self-Compassion as the root of the path”Talk 3-7-23: “Compatibility of Emptiness and Cause & Effect”Talk 3-14-23: “Cultivating forbearance toward difficult people, including oneself”Talk 4-11-23: “Mind and matter: Internal vs. external?”Talk 4-11-23: “The matter and mind of spaciousness”Talk 4-18-23: “On Intention”Talk 5-3-23: “On Joy”Talk 5-9-23: “Precious human life of leisure and opportunity”Talk 5-23-23: “Just avoid picking and choosing: Letting go of the attraction/repulsion impulse”Talk 5-30-23: “Loving-kindness for oneself is the basis”Talk 6-20-23: “The importance of remembering”Talk 6-27-23: “Let life frame the love we have to share”Talk 7-4-23: “The peace and purity of our mind’s nature is always with us; it takes practice to manifest it fully”Talk 7-11-23: “The path emerges from trust in our capacity for growth”3-12-24 “On taking refuge”
Khensur Rinpoche Talks
“Buddhist Approaches to Working with Pain and Suffering,” June 2016
Khensur Rinpoche, “This precious human life” (with David Gardiner), 5-7-2023, Part OneKhensur Rinpoche, “This precious human life” (with David Gardiner), 5-7-2023, Part Two
David Gardiner Public Talks
“Tibetan Mind Training: Eight Verses,” Dec. 2015, First Congregational Church, Colorado Springs
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