Audio Talks

Code and Titel

Summary

Length

Date

Place

006 Be A Light Unto Yourself

Walk your own path. Take the opportunity to catch the wind of freedom. Find authentic empowerment.

44 mins

01.2005

India

007 Big Doubts, Big Awakening

Coping with painful doubts. Examine what is worth doubting. Does our perceptions matter or the past? Looking into time.

51 mins

02.2005

India

008 Buddha’s Discoursee On Projections

True nature goes deeper than self and its story. Views, desires and conceit fuel projections. The value of taking risks and making mistakes.

66 mins

10.2005

Germany

009 Commentary On The Third Jhana

Developing meditation to find profound inner peace and equanimity. Four types of people in meditation. Difference between peace and liberation.

42 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

010 Commentary On Bahiya Discourse

In the seeing, hearing and sensed is the seeing, hearing and sensed. The self builds up significance of experiences and thus confines itself. Mind builds upon reality.

46 mins

11.2005

Australia

011 Commentary On Kalama Discourse

The Buddha questions ideologies based upon past, present, future and authorities, and offers a different priority.

43 mins

03.2005

UK

012 Encounter With Life

True ethics is to question duality. Doing obscures being. Explore silence and stillness and signicicance of consciousness and energy.

49 mins

11.2005

Australia

013 Interview With Sexton On Handling Cancer

One person’s experience of four years of working with his cancer, including diagnosis, pain, operations and perceptions of experience.

64 mins

11.2005

Australia

014 Facing Existence And Non-Existence

All problems are about dealing with existence or non-existence. We conceive this duality is the real world. Practice is let wanting go cool to see true nature.

40 mins

02.2005

India

015 From Mindfulness To Emptiness

We look at something, magnify it and then burst into tears. Mindfulness only reveals. Seeing through feelings, intentions and actions to show Emptiness.

56 mins

02.2005

India

016 Giving And Receiving

Pressure on us to become an owner of things. Dharma explores a different way of life through love, time and energy to support others.

58 mins

01.2005

India

017 Love And Control

What must come around will come around. Control comes from lack of intimacy. The way we treat others is the way we are treated.

43 mins

11.2005

Germany

018 Love And Eros In The Dharma 

The beauty of sexuality in dharma practice. Enery and Eros is a natural chemistry, and not a problem in itself. Views of purity can generate moralizing attitudes.

58 mins

10.2005

Israel

019 Five Aggregates

DFP

25 mins

03.2005

DFP

020 Love As A Vehicle For Liberation

Foolishness of love brings pain. Authentic is free from the field of pain and expresses liberation. The call of love has power to it.

66 mins

05.2005

Germany

021 Love Is Outside The Law

The Law is an agreement of exchange - such as goods for money. Love is a state of total attention. Love is given freely.

57 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

022 Love Not Loving Kindness

Conventional loving kindness (metta) is defined by a pleasant feeling for oneself and others. Love is the true meaning of metta and goes deeper than pleasant feelings.

51 mins

10.2005

USA

023 Love, Sex, And Dharma 

Moralising is a substitute for exploration and understanding of sexuality. We need to look into sexuality whether single or in a relationship.

38 mins

11.2005

Germany

024 Meditation Instructions

Comprehensive and detailed Insight Meditation (Vipassana) instructions on mindfulness of breathing, body, feelings and states of mind.

46 mins

01.2005

India

025 The Application Of Non-Violence

Violence arises through projections onto others. Us and them is a brutal fiction of the mind. Perceptions of Middle East conflict. Given at Tel Aviv University.

34 mins

04.2005

Israel

026 Powerless-ness Of Now

We can give power to the now. We also see that the now is often powerless to hold our attention. Why?

51 mins

09.2005

USA

027 Radical Teachings Of The Buddha

We fill our life up with different identities. Who and I behind the identity?

53 mins

02.2005

India

028 Reflections On Inner Love

We contact inner love through that which deeply touches us. We lose contact with love through desire and wanting that corrupts love.

31 mins

11.2005

Germany

029 Relative And Ultimate Inquiry

Concepts of progress, development and evolution are interpretations of reality requiring belief in time. Ultimate inquiry explores outside the field of time.

35 mins

03.2005

UK

030 Resting In The Non-Dual

We get caught up in self rejections and self obsession., success and failure. There is deception in every duality.

42 mins

02.2005

India

031 See Mind In Mind

Exploration of 3rd of the Four Applications of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). Buddha points to eight dualities of states of mind.

49 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

032 Seeing And Knowing

What is it essentially that I need to see (experience, make contact with) and know (understand)? We can’t regard belief as truth.

42 mins

01.2005

India

033 Sexuality: Past And Present

We obsess around body to promote the self. Love and inter-connectedness matters more than religious codes.

47 mins

11.2005

Germany

034 Teachings On Facilitation

Pointers and details on skilful communication including facilitating and leading groups.

70 mins

04.2005

Israel

035 The Actual, And The Potential

Every situation, free from projections, reveals its bare actuality but what is its potential.

43 mins

05.2005

Germany

036 The Constructed And The Unconstructed

All our experiences are constructed out of circumstances. It is critical to see what we make of events. Teachings point to the Unconstructed.

44 mins

05.2005

Germany

037 The Intimacy Of Emptiness

Desire to avoid issues is always only temporary. Wisdom is to see the emptiness of avoide and realise an intimacy with emptiness of self.

45 mins

05.2005

Germany

038 The Power To Say ''No''

The act of resolution to say “NO” lies at the heart of inner empowerment.

50 mins

04.2005

Israel

039 Search For The Sacred

Career and profit matter little. The search for the Sacred requires total dedication.

41 mins

02.2005

India

040 Truly, Nowhere To Go

The Path is only a metaphor. A deep inquiry dissolves all metaphors to reveal the timeless.

52 mins

05.2005

Germany

041 Different Depths Of Meditation

One kind of depth gives the experience of genuine happiness and the second kind reveals suffering.

42 mins

02.2005

India

042 What Are We Doing?

A reflection after the Tsunami of December 26, 2004 in south Asia.

40 mins

01.2005

India

043 What Is Knowledge?

Most knowledge is merely information. True knowledge is transformation.

53 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

044 What Is Opinion? What Is Truth?

Opinion is found in books, tradition and authorities. Truth is through realisations emerging from experiences.

51 mins

10.2005

Germany

045 Who Do We Think We Are?

In the blink of an eyelid our life can change. Assumption of continuity is a false way of living.

48 mins

11.2005

Germany

046 Just Who Do We Think We Are?

A core question is “Who am I?” What is a skilful approach to this eternal question?

47 mins

04.2005

Israel

047 Questions From Shlomzion

On love and life …

43 mins

04.2005

Israel

048 Written Questions

Written questions during a retreat on many issues including ethics, love and liberation.

56 mins

01.2005

India

049 Kalama Sutta

DFP

42 mins

03.2005

UK

050 The Power Of Attention

50 mins

04.2005

Israe

051 Dharma And Advaita

41 mins

05.2005

Germany

052 Experience Of Transformation

51 mins

05.2005

Germany

053 The Powerless-ness Of Now

47 mins

05.2005

Germany

054 Calm And Insight

45 mins

05.2005

Switzer-
land

055 Practice Of Calm And Insight

45 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

056 Science Of The Mind

54 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

057 From Pleasure To Happiness

42 mins

10.2005

Switzer-
land

058 Love As A Force For Liberation

82 mins

10.2005

Israel

059 This Issue Of Control

39 mins

11.2005

Germany

060 Love And Intimacy

34 mins

11.2005

Germany

061 Is There Power In The Now?

42 mins

11.2005

Australia