PDFs you can read or download:
A Vote for Kindness: given the unmistakable finiteness of our existence, only kindness makes any sense. (Chapter 5 of Meditator's Field Guide)
Awareness is Magic: explores the seemingly magic power of awareness itself and "high altitude" (advanced) meditation.
Bahiya Sutta (Udana 10.1): a colorful and enthusiastic yogi gets pithy meditations instructions from the Buddha about selflessness.
Beginning the Journey: beginning meditation instructions.
Book Of Nothing: excerpts from the elegant writings of the 3rd Zen Patriarch.
The Demon’s Blessing 1 & 2: an exploration of hindrances.
The Demon’s Blessing Handout that accompanies "The Demon’s Blessing."
Dependent Origination Flier: notes on the backbone of the Buddha’s teachings.
Fluidity of Awareness: A chart of seven approaches to this topic.
Forgiveness: explores forgiveness meditation. This is part of the text of the "Supporting Practices" chapter of Buddha's Map.
Kindness and Wisdom: barebones summary of Buddha’s Map.
The Inner Landscape: a series of five reflections on what we find when we look inside.
1. Experience: The khandas are five clusters of experience: raw sensation, feeling tone, perception, concepts and stories, and awareness itself.
2. Vedana: The "vedana meter" it a mental tool that allows us to see feeling tone (vedana) as a subtle but powerful trigger for drive states.
3. Dissolving Suffering: We don’t escape suffering by pushing it away or rising above it but by relaxing and expanding into spacious equanimity where discomfort is no longer uncomfortable.
4. Endearing: The key to understanding suffering in Dependent Origination is understanding piya, or "endearing," which turns experience into suffering.
5. Dependent Origination: Continues the exploration of Dependent Origination in greater detail, including how to work with it in meditation and daily life.
Little Mind, Big Mind: a talk delivered in 2005.
Meditation Blues by Stephen Levine: how the heart can break the mind open.
Precept and Mindful Engagement: using the precepts non-judgmentally as a tool for cultivating awareness.
Precepts: specific issues surrounding specific precepts. This passage is take from Meditator’s Field Guide.
Refuges, Precepts, and Aspirations: the specific language I use each day. You can use this or write your own to find the words the resonates most deeply with you.
Study Guide: a list of some books, web pages, videos, and other resource that I have produced and selected for meditation retreat, classes, seminars, and self-directed study. (Also see this on-line version).
Thought Country: a Colorado Division of Wildlife pamphlet called "What to Do if You Meet a Bear." In this version, Kim Boykin substitutes "thought" for the word "bear" to get meditation tips.
Three Essential Practices: the Buddha's core meditation instructions commonly called "The Four Noble Truths" can be seen as meditation instructions. (Chapter 1 of Meditator's Field Guide)
Turning Toward: commentary on the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Samytta Nikaya 56.11 in which the Buddha introduces the Four Ennobling Truths as meditation instructions.