How to skilfully work with the five hindrances

Boredom is one of the mental states most difficult to understand yet a familiar companion in our lives. Boredom has much o teach us about the sources of wakefulness and is a doorway to understanding calm and equanimity.

This talk explores in detail the tools and approaches we can develop to work skillfully with fear in our lives, both those fears that are obvious and those that are more hidden. There is a genuine possibility of liberation from the power that fear seems to have to constrict us

Cultivating renunciation and letting go, kindness and compassion and insight into the empty nature of things.

In the path of liberating our hearts we learn to be intimate with all things. This talk focuses upon the power of aversion to create alienation and division and the power of mindfulness to uproot ill will.

Opening to the connecting and liberating power of generosity

The 3rd Nobel Truth the Buddha describes as the heartwood of the path. This talk focuses on the insights and renunciations that liberate the heart.