Moon Pointing

Talks by Matthew Brensilver

Date Title
2026-04-16 Guided Meditation: Awareness is reverential about all phenomena; Dharmette: Very brief overview of Shinzen Young’s approach
2026-04-09 Lightly Guided Meditation; Dharmette: Ajahn Chah's Advice to Woman on Deathbed
2026-03-26 Guided Meditation: Dedicating our practice; Working with Self-Hatred
2026-03-20 Guided Meditation: safe to relax; A Meaningful Dharma Life
2026-03-13 Guided Meditation: Refuge; Guided Meditation: Refuge; Dharmette: Meditation is so many things
2026-03-06 Guided Meditation: non-referentiality; Dharmette: Understanding, Forgiveness & Unconsciousness
2026-02-26 Dharmette: Question on Social Anxiety
2026-01-07 Guided Meditation: entering the dharma realm; Anatta as a cause and effect of freedom
2025-12-28 Spiritual vs Psychological Health
2025-12-18 TS Eliot and the Mystical Dimension of Buddhism; Lightly Guided Meditation
2025-12-11 Guided Meditation: Sound and Silence; Dharmette: Very Condensed Overview of the Path
2025-11-20 Guided Meditation: Ease Makes Letting Go Safer; Dharmette: Rivers are just rivers
2025-11-13 The What and How of Investigation; Guided Meditation: Activity and Receptivity
2025-11-06 Guided Meditation: Bright, Steady, Open; Dharmette: Empathic Resonance
2025-10-30 Guided Meditation: Relax and release; Dharmette: attention, awareness, mindfulness
2025-10-16 Guided Meditation: Relaxing all clinging; Dharmette: PR Campaign for Non-Hatred
2025-10-02 Dharmette: 'Protect Empathy at All Costs and Live Groovy Lives'; Guided Meditation: How distant is freedom?
2025-09-25 Dharma Practice and the Cultivation of Power
2025-09-11 Guided Meditation: moving towards compassion; Dharmette: Opportunities and Complexities of Speaking about Awakening
2025-08-28 Guided Meditation: don't wait to let go; Dharmette: Uprooting vs Allowing
2025-08-22 Guided Meditation: Abiding in Care; Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (5of5); The Parami of Energy
2025-08-21 Dharmette: NIsargadatta, Nothing, Everything, Wisdom, Love; Guided Meditation: Emphasizing Tranquility
2025-08-21 Guided Meditation: Renunciation and Dana; Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (4of5); The Parami of Metta
2025-08-20 Guided Meditation: Everything is Passing; Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (3of5); Parami of Wisdom
2025-08-19 Guided Meditation Presence is not a Transaction; Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (2of5); The Parami of Patience
2025-08-18 Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (1 of 5): The Parami of Truthfulness; Guided Meditation: Clinging is complicated, letting go simplifies
2025-08-14 Lightly Guided Meditation; Dharmette: Fear, Love and Political Chaos
2025-07-31 Guided Meditation: If you're looking, you're lost; Dharmette: Curiosity and Goodness
2025-07-24 Guided Meditation: Letting go of limitation; Dharmette: Death at the Center of Life
2025-07-17 Guided Meditation: Grounding and Compassion; Dharmette: Unquenchability and Questions of Meaning
2025-07-10 Guided Meditation: Forgive all phenomena; Dharmette: Unconscious Acting-Out
2025-06-12 Guided Meditation: Following Interest; Dharmette: Moral Vandalism, Anger and Love
2025-05-29 Dharmette: When Inspiritation to Practice is Lost
2025-05-22 Guided Meditation: Fresh Moment; Dharmette: Sila Reflections
2025-05-08 Guided Meditation: Non-referentiality; Dharmette: 'A thing that masquerades as freedom of attention is on the rampage'
2025-05-01 Guided Medtiation: Checking Hindrances, Checking Defilements; Somebody, Nobody, Self-Love, Anatta
2025-04-24 Guided Meditation: Softening the Self; Dharmette: Pleasant and Unpleasant Dissolution
2025-04-10 Dharmette: Power and Safety; Guided Meditation: The Pull of Time
2025-04-04 Guided Meditation: Relax and Let go; Dharmette: Courage and Fear
2025-04-03 Dharmette: Self-Esteem Preoccupation as Symptom; Guided Meditation: Much Becomes Incidental
2025-04-03 Guided Meditation: Relaxing the tension called 'me'; Dharmette: Surrender
2025-04-02 Guided Meditation: Stillness and the Dissolution of the Predictive Mind; Dharmette: Expansiveness of Awe
2025-04-01 Guided Meditation: Reverence & Renunciation; Dharmette: Grief as a Facet of Dharma
2025-03-31 Dharmette: Humor in the Dharma; Guided Meditation: All Phenomena are Friendly
2025-03-27 Guided Meditation: Arriving and Opening; Dharmette: Question about Etiquette Approaching Teachers
2025-03-13 Guided Meditation: Peace is Close; Dharmette: Fear at the Gateway of Stillness
2025-03-06 Guided Meditation: Sangha & Self; Dharmette: Moral outrage and love
2025-02-20 Guided Meditation: Abiding in Goodness; Dharmette: On not understanding dharma talks
2025-02-13 Dharmette: The mirage of self evaporates as the fires cool
2025-02-06 Guided Meditation: Freeing Experience; Dharmette: Remembering Ann Buck
2025-01-23 Guided Meditation: Resting in Goodness; Dharmette: To Care and Not to Care Simultaneously
2025-01-16 Guided Meditation: Grounding and Opening; Dharmette: Unsustainable Trajectories & Love
2025-01-09 Guided Meditation: Putting Down the World; Dharmette: Truth & Lies in the US in 2025
2025-01-02 Guided Meditation: Breathing into Compassion; Dharmette: more of our personality in freedom than in our suffering
2024-12-19 Guided meditation; Dharmette: It's Complicated and It's Simple
2024-12-13 Guided Meditation: Mostly Quiet Sit; Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (5 of 5) Equanimity
2024-12-12 Guided Meditation: Self-acceptance; Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (4 of 5) Sympathetic Joy
2024-12-12 Guided meditation: Affect and the Lure of Thought; Dharmette: Dereification of Self-Model
2024-12-11 Guided Meditation: Attention and Love; Dharmette; The Divine Abodes (3 of 5): Compassion
2024-12-10 Guided Meditation: What can you stop doing?; Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (2 of 5) Metta
2024-12-09 Guided Meditation: Putting Down the Project of Your Life; Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (1 of 5) Orienting to Love
2024-12-05 Dharmette: Believing that Special People Exist; Guided Meditation: It's all come to this
2024-11-28 Guided Meditation: Letting the Dharma Soak into You; Dharmette: Fear and Love and Dana
2024-11-21 Guided Meditation: Vitality and Release, In Breath, Out Breath; Dharmette: Aperture of Attention in Meditation and Life
2024-11-14 Guided Meditation: Vulnerability & Courage; Dharmette: Sensitivity to Suffering vs. Fear of Suffering
2024-11-07 Guided Meditation: Soothing, Space, Love; Dharmette: Post-Election Reflections
2024-10-31 Guided Meditation: Thinking as coping; Dharmette: Giving Love the Last Word
2024-10-24 Guided Meditation: Stabilizing; Compassion; Dharmette: Personality Disorder at the Individual and National Level
2024-10-10 Guided Meditation: Relax into Alertness; Dharmette: Crowdsourced Themes - Death, Grief, Anxiety, Love
2024-10-03 Guided Meditation: Gentleness & Equanimity; Dharmette: What is the Function of a Dharma Talk?
2024-09-19 Guided Meditation: Tranquility; Dharmette: Between Gravity and Grace
2024-09-13 Guided Meditation: Effort as Not-Self; Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (4 of 5): Honoring the Neurosis/Pain of the Other
2024-09-13 Guided Meditation: Concentration, Clarity, Equanimity; Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (5 of 5): A Training in Loving Well
2024-09-12 Guided Meditation: Intimacy with Breathing; Dharmette: Reflections on Sexuality
2024-09-11 Guided Meditation: Breath, Pleasure, Opening; Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (3 of 5): Assertion and Surrender
2024-09-10 Guided Meditation: Not Predicting Me; Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (2 of 5): Not-Knowing and the Wildness of Loving Another Person
2024-09-09 Guided Meditation: Relaxing into the Moment; Dharmette: Interpersonal Life (1 of 5): Introduction
2024-09-05 Guided Meditation: Relaxing into Love; Dharmette: Reflection vs. Rumination
2024-08-22 Guided Meditation: Feeling and Verbal Thinking; Dharmette: Meaning and Purpose
2024-08-15 Guided Meditation: You cannot know oneself while fixing oneself; Dharmette: Measurement and the Immeasurable
2024-08-01 Guided Meditation: Pervasiveness of Craving; Dharmette: Craving>Suffering, Suffering>Craving
2024-07-25 Guided Meditation: Too Busy Knowing; Dharmette: The Wholesome Disorientation of Feedback
2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Sitting in the Bones; Dharmette: Between Everything Means Everything and Nothing Means Anything
2024-07-04 Guided Meditation: Non-tension; Dharmette: Non-clinging
2024-06-27 Guided Meditation: Relaxing and Falling Awake; Dharmette: Crying
2024-06-13 Guided Meditation: Relaxation and the Tension of Dukkha, Self, Clinging; Dharmette: Love and Time
2024-06-06 Guided Meditation: Self and Willfulness; Dharmette: Functions of dharma pleasure
2024-05-30 Guided Meditation: Tranquility; Dharmette: Reflections on words from Ajahn Sucitto
2024-05-23 Guided Meditation: Goodnight Moon; Dharmette: Cruising Altitude and Upheaval
2024-05-20 Overconfidence As A Defilement
2024-05-09 Guided Meditation: The Breath and Awareness don't depend on you; Dharmette: Coming Home and Leaving Home
2024-05-02 Guided Meditation: Awareness and Effortlessness; Dharmette: Fear and Language
2024-04-25 Guided Meditation: Language as Safety; Dharmette: Reflections on a RJ Davidson Quote
2024-04-18 Guided Meditation: Attention, Effort, Choice and Selfing; Dharmette: The Clinging Before Clinging
2024-04-11 Guided Meditation: Aperture, Vividness, Stability, Effort; Dharmette: Becoming Unintimidated by Suffering
2024-04-04 Guided Meditation: What's Already Here?; Dharmette: New Questions
2024-03-15 Guided Meditation: Faith in Silence; Dharmette: Faith in Letting Go (5 of 5)
2024-03-14 Dharmette: Faith in Ourselves (4 of 5); Guided Meditation: Lightly Guided Meditation
2024-03-13 Guided Meditation: Attention as Prayer; Dharmette: Faith in Love (3 of 5)
2024-03-12 Guided Meditation: Attention and Sustaining Openness; Dharmette: Emerging From Doubt
2024-03-11 Guided Meditation: Establishing Tranquility; Faith in Our Dharma Path (1 of 5)
2023-12-15 Dharmette: Compassion & Equanimity; Guided Meditation: Resting In Care
2023-12-14 Guided Meditation: Resting In What We Cannot Stop; Dharmette: Passivity & Action
2023-12-13 Guided Meditation: Letting the Moment Soften You; Dharmette: Disenchantment & Engagement
2023-12-12 Dharmette: Effort & Effortlessness; Guided Meditation: Renouncing the Narrative Impulse
2023-12-11 Guided Meditation: Not updating your autobiography; Dharmette: Confidence & Humility
2023-02-15 Guided Meditation: Thought as the exhaust from engine of affect; Dharmette: Humor and Playfulness in the Dharma
2022-07-03 Guided Meditation; Dharma and Concern for the World
2019-07-14 Loving the Self to Death