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Deepening (2024)
Presence (2023)
Introduction: Emerging Clear Awareness (Chap 1)
Roots of Consciousness: Primordial Affective Emotions (Chap 2)
Spectrum of Awareness (Chap 4)
Awareness is Magic (Chap 6)
Summary: Emerging Consciousness and Twilight Awareness (Chap 15)
Resting in the Waves (2020)
Introduction: Welcoming Fluidity
Fluidity of Awareness (Chap 4)
Befriending the Mind (2019)
Introduction - Don't Stand In a Hammock
Vulnerability
Kindness and a Patience Heart
Nondual Experience
Meditator's Field Guide (2017)
Field Guide Description and TOC
How to Use This Field Guide
Slippery Fish
Three Essential Practices
A Vote for Kindness: No Unchanging Self
Selflessness Grows Out of Self Care
Awareness Meters
The Trap of Getting Free
Hindrances Like the Back Door
Recognizing 2 Species of Intentions
Hindrances Want to Retire
Gifts and Vulnerabilities: Angulimala
Attunement not Attainment
Engaging Precepts Mindfully
The Evolving Self
6 Rs and 5 Ss
Kindness and Wisdom Practice (2015)
Beginning the Journey (2014)
Buddha's Map (2013)
Buddha's Map Description
Annotated Table of Contents
A Sweet, Kind Aliveness (Intro)
From Stubbornness to Ease (Chap 1)
Beginnings (Chp 2)
Thriving in Difficult Times (Chp 5)
Joy: The First Jhana (Chp 10)
God(s) and Consciousness (2011)
Circling Home (2010)
Talks / Articles
Topics Index
TOC
Talks / Articles TOC:
Little Mind, Big Mind
Befriending the Mind-Heart
172 Cognitive Biases
Cultivating Grace collection:
Acceptance
Kindness
Confession and Forgiveness
Ease and Irrational Joy
The Demon's Blessing series:
1. Hindrances Overview
2. Specific Hindrances
Forgiveness collection:
Forgiving Ourselves
Forgiving Others
Forgiving Is Possible
Forgiving and Reconciliation
Forgiving, Patience and Confession
Forgiveness and Luminosity
God(s) and Consciousness series:
Introduction
The Widening Circle
Spiritual Literacy
Stages of Consciousness
Is God Real?
Summary table, diagram, and reflective questions
Inner Landscape series:
Experience
Vedana Meter
Dissolving Suffering
Endearing
Dependent Origination
Karma, Guilt, and Freedom
Nuisances
On Retreat
Questions and Answers
Consciousness: What is It Anyway?
Fuzzy-Don't-Know Mind
Individual and Universal Metta
Meaning of Life
Is Mett Less Peaceful
Naturally Deluded
Nested Dolls and Depth Meditation
Object of Meditation
Smiling
Three Refuges
Selflessness series:
Shadows in the Mirror
Dissolving
Guidance
Channeling
Beyond Reason
Taking Refuge
Turning Toward: Four Ennobling Truths
Vignettes:
Befriending the Demon
Booism
The Guest House
Jackie's Way-Cool Glasses
Josie and the Turkey
Lake
Recipe for a Human
Three Winged Bird
Two Snakes and a Butterfly
What is Meditation series:
Wisdom
Inner Glow
The Mind Needs a Job
Beginning the Journey
Wise Acceptance and the 7 Rs
Audios
Topics Index
TOC
Audio TOC:
Podcasts
via Apple
via Buzzsprout
via Insight Timer
via Ilona Ciunaite
Fall Retreat 2014
Day 1: Meditation Instructions
Day 2: Morning Q and A
Day 2: Hindrances
Day 3: Turning Toward: 4 Ennobling Truths
Day 4: Awareness Jhanas
Day 5: Dependent Origination
Day 6: It Ain't Personal
Day 7: Confession and Forgiveness
Day 8: Precepts and the 7 Rs
Sermon Oct 2014: Thriving in Difficult Times
Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group
Sept 2014: Awareness Jhanas
Jan 2017: Being Nobody
Jan 2018: Three Essential Practices
Dec 2020: Deep Listening
Feb 2022: Wellsprings of Consciousness
Jan 2023: High Altitude Meditation
Mar 2024: Finding Contentment in Chaos
Sacramento Insight Meditation
May 2014: Splinters in the Mind
Oct 2014: Dependent Origination
Jan 2015: Befriending the Demon
May 2015: Dhamma Gifts
May 2015: Mindfulness in the World
July 2015: Infinite Self
Summer Retreat 2015
Day 1: Introduction
Day 2: Hindrances
Day 3: Gifts and Vulnerabilities
Day 4: Dependent Origination
Day 5: Art of Meditation
Day 6: Jhānas
Day 7: Selflessness
Day 8: Infinite Self
Resting in the Waves
Intro: Welcoming Fluidity
Chap 1a: Fluidity of Self
Chap 1b: Fluidity of Self (cont.)
Chap 2: In the Buddha's Words
Chap 3: Fluidity of Mind
Chap 4: Fluidity of Awareness
Chap 5: Steadiness of Practice
Chap 6: Fluidity of Practice
Chap 7: Fluidity of Life
Chap 8: Fluidity of Fluidity
Epilogue: Beyond Heroics
Videos
Topics Index
TOC
Video TOC:
What is Consciousness? (Trailer) (2024)
What is Consciousness? (Full Podcast) (2024)
Doug Interview (2023)
Thriving in Difficult Times (2017)
Guided Meditation and Q and A (Feb. 2021)
Guided Meditation and Q and A (March 2021)
Retreat November 2014
Day 1: Meditation Instructions (11/1/2014)
Day 2: Morning Q and A (11/1/2014)
Day 2: Hindrances (11/2/2014)
Day 3: Turning Toward: 4 Ennobling Truths (11/3/2014)
Day 4: Awareness Jhanas (11/4/2014)
Day 5: Dependent Origination (11/5/2014)
Day 6: It Ain't Personal (11/6/2014)
Day 7: Confession and Forgiveness (11/7/2014)
Day 8: Precepts and the 7 Rs (11/8/2014)
Blog
Topics Index
TOC
Blog TOC:
Agenda-less Awareness (5/18/18)
Anger, Meditation, and the Six Rs (1/23/21)
Attitudes and Processes (4/20/23)
The Case for Equanimity (6/23/17)
Crunchy Knees and Mindfulness (12/9/13)
Do We Have a Mind? (4/17/21)
A Duck, Equanimity, and Disinterest (10/09/13)
Easing Awake (3/4/15)
Hindrance Attacks (10/5/13)
Holding Dear (1/11/18)
I Spam, Therefore I Am (11/19/13)
Ill Will and Kindness (3/26/15)
Interspecies Friends (12/30/13)
A Lively Talk with Trees (11/6/13)
Meditation Without Support (6/21/18)
Moral Compass / Ethical GPS (9/1/13)
Navigator (12/6/17)
Poke Him in the Eye (5/12/14)
Presence Isn't Freedom (8/7/17)
Relaxing Into (3/2/14)
Second-Hand Wisdom (4/18/15)
Stickiness (10/22/17)
Stones and Hindrances (9/1/15)
Talking GPS, Implants, and Consciousness (9/2/13)
Transient Global Amnesia (7/6/18)
Trusting the Mind (8/14/15)
Turning Toward (10/17/13)
Unconscious Happiness (8/4/13)
When Desire Fades (8/12/13)
When Reactivity Trumps Wisdom (2/6/17)
Who or What is Aware? (3/18/18)
Whose Running the Show (7/7/13)
Resources
Topics Index
TOC
Books and Links
Glossary
Mentoring and More
Retreat Resources
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Refuges, Precepts, Aspirations
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Naturally Deluded
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