Relational Nature and Concentration
Throughout our lives we have calmed and been calmed by others: by mother and friend, by therapist, priest or teacher. Throughout our lives, we have been guided by others to stay on track: to follow conversations, play games, complete tasks. We calm each other in love....
Five Tenets of a Whole Life Path
Here's Gregory's November 19, 2017 Teaching with Worldwide Insight Gregory offers a teaching with the Worldwide Insight Community. He begins with a meditation and then offers a talk about the Five Tenets of a Whole Life Path. Many long for a way to “integrate” their...
Teachings on the Aggregates
Gregory offered a series of Dhamma talks on the Five Aggregates earlier this year, leading off with a guided meditation on the first aggregate which some practitioners found to be especially beneficial. He has since been asked to expand on that Dhamma talk and to...
Teachings on Relational Dependent Origination
Last summer, Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to Metta Programs‘ Guiding Sangha, staff, and core volunteers on dependent origination (paticca samuppāda) understood in a relational context. The series can be found on the Dependent...
Sutta Reflections: A Trail to the Heart of Not-Self
Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to the Metta community, Grandpa Greg’s Sutta Chats. The talks were attended by people who offer ID or support the practice through engagement on a Metta Programs team. Each teaching includes reflection on...
Sutta Reflections: The Joy of Reading Suttas – Surfing the Similes
Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to the Metta community, Grandpa Greg’s Sutta Chats. The talks were attended by people who offer ID or support the practice through engagement on a Metta Programs team. Each teaching includes reflection on...
Sutta Reflection: the Greater Discourse in Gosinga
Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to the Metta community, Grandpa Greg’s Sutta Chats. The talks were attended by people who offer ID or support the practice through engagement on a Metta Programs team. Each teaching includes reflection on...
Sutta Reflection: Girimananda Sutta
Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to the Metta community, Grandpa Greg’s Sutta Chats. The talks were attended by people who offer ID or support the practice through engagement on a Metta Programs team. Each teaching includes reflection on...
Teachings on Relational Dependent Origination: Part 1 of 4
Over the summer, Gregory offered a series of Insight Dialogue-based teachings to Metta Programs' guiding sangha, staff, and core volunteers on dependent origination (paticca samuppāda) understood in a relational context. We're offering them in series with the first of...
Understanding the Liberating Potential of Insight Dialogue: the Three Bases of Insight Dialogue
Earlier this month, Greg offered a talk to Insight Dialogue teachers and facilitators laying out three bases of Insight Dialogue (qualities of meditation, relationship, and wisdom) as a way of understanding the transformational results he's seen in his years of...