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Talks by Matthew Brensilver

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Date Title
2026-10-22 Dharmette: The Strangeness
2026-10-08 Dharmette: The dharma and romantic love
2026-10-01 Dharmette: Dharma is a relational path
2026-09-10 Short Talk: Bearing Witness to Harm, Moral Responsibility & Hatred
2026-09-04 Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (5 of 5) Feeling, Loss, Letting Go & Love - Crowdsourced Questions
2026-09-03 Dharmette: Dharma in Our Interpersonal Life (4 of 5) Love, Grief and Dharma
2026-09-03 Dharmette: Transcendence and Service
2026-08-20 Dharmette: A few reflections on pedagogy
2026-08-13 Dharmette: Flexibility
2026-07-23 Note on Teaching and Vulnerability; Dharmette: Working with emotional pain
2026-07-16 Dharmette: Rumination and Intrusive Thought
2026-07-09 The Idea of the Bodhisattva
2026-06-11 Short Talk: We don't do freedom
2026-05-14 Tranquility
2026-04-29 Dharmette: Insight & Love
2026-04-16 Dharmette: Very brief overview of Shinzen Young’s approach
2026-04-09 Dharmette: Ajahn Chah's Advice to Woman on Deathbed
2026-03-26 Working with Self-Hatred
2026-03-20 A Meaningful Dharma Life
2026-03-13 Dharmette: Meditation is so many things
2026-03-06 Dharmette: Understanding, Forgiveness & Unconsciousness
2026-02-26 Dharmette: Question on Social Anxiety
2026-01-15 Brief reflections on tranquility and dukkha
2026-01-07 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
2025-12-11 Dharmette: Very Condensed Overview of the Path
2025-11-20 Dharmette: Rivers are just rivers
2025-11-13 The What and How of Investigation
2025-11-06 Dharmette: Empathic Resonance
2025-10-30 Dharmette: attention, awareness, mindfulness
2025-10-16 Dharmette: PR Campaign for Non-Hatred
2025-10-02 Dharmette: 'Protect Empathy at All Costs and Live Groovy Lives'
2025-09-25 Dharma Practice and the Cultivation of Power
2025-09-11 Dharmette: Opportunities and Complexities of Speaking about Awakening
2025-08-28 Dharmette: Uprooting vs Allowing
2025-08-22 Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (5of5); The Parami of Energy
2025-08-21 Dharmette: NIsargadatta, Nothing, Everything, Wisdom, Love
2025-08-21 Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (4of5); The Parami of Metta
2025-08-20 Dharmette: Wholesome Qualities of Mind (3of5); Parami of Wisdom
2025-08-19 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
2025-08-14 Dharmette: Fear, Love and Political Chaos
2025-07-31 Dharmette: Curiosity and Goodness
2025-07-24 Dharmette: Death at the Center of Life
2025-07-17 Dharmette: Unquenchability and Questions of Meaning
2025-07-10 Dharmette: Unconscious Acting-Out
2025-06-12 Dharmette: Moral Vandalism, Anger and Love
2025-05-29 Dharmette: When Inspiritation to Practice is Lost
2025-05-22 Dharmette: Sila Reflections
2025-05-08 Dharmette: 'A thing that masquerades as freedom of attention is on the rampage'
2025-05-01 Somebody, Nobody, Self-Love, Anatta
2025-04-24 Dharmette: Pleasant and Unpleasant Dissolution
2025-04-10 Dharmette: Power and Safety
2025-04-04 Dharmette: Courage and Fear
2025-04-03 Dharmette: Self-Esteem Preoccupation as Symptom
2025-04-03 Dharmette: Surrender
2025-04-02 Dharmette: Expansiveness of Awe
2025-04-01 Dharmette: Grief as a Facet of Dharma
2025-03-31 Dharmette: Humor in the Dharma
2025-03-27 Dharmette: Question about Etiquette Approaching Teachers
2025-03-13 Dharmette: Fear at the Gateway of Stillness
2025-03-06 Dharmette: Moral outrage and love
2025-02-20 Dharmette: On not understanding dharma talks
2025-02-13 Dharmette: The mirage of self evaporates as the fires cool
2025-02-06 Dharmette: Remembering Ann Buck
2025-01-23 Dharmette: To Care and Not to Care Simultaneously
2025-01-16 Dharmette: Unsustainable Trajectories & Love
2025-01-09 Dharmette: Truth & Lies in the US in 2025
2025-01-02 Dharmette: more of our personality in freedom than in our suffering
2024-12-19 Dharmette: It's Complicated and It's Simple
2024-12-13 Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (5 of 5) Equanimity
2024-12-12 Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (4 of 5) Sympathetic Joy
2024-12-12 Dharmette: Dereification of Self-Model
2024-12-11 Dharmette; The Divine Abodes (3 of 5): Compassion
2024-12-10 Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (2 of 5) Metta
2024-12-09 Dharmette: The Divine Abodes (1 of 5) Orienting to Love
2024-12-05 Dharmette: Believing that Special People Exist
2024-11-28 Dharmette: Fear and Love and Dana
2024-11-21 Dharmette: Aperture of Attention in Meditation and Life
2024-11-14 Dharmette: Sensitivity to Suffering vs. Fear of Suffering
2024-11-07 Dharmette: Post-Election Reflections
2024-10-31 Dharmette: Giving Love the Last Word
2024-10-24 Dharmette: Personality Disorder at the Individual and National Level
2024-10-10 Dharmette: Crowdsourced Themes - Death, Grief, Anxiety, Love
2024-10-03 Dharmette: What is the Function of a Dharma Talk?
2024-09-19 Dharmette: Between Gravity and Grace
2024-09-13 Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (4 of 5): Honoring the Neurosis/Pain of the Other
2024-09-13 Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (5 of 5): A Training in Loving Well
2024-09-12 Dharmette: Reflections on Sexuality
2024-09-11 Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (3 of 5): Assertion and Surrender
2024-09-10 Dharmette: Interpersonal Dharma (2 of 5): Not-Knowing and the Wildness of Loving Another Person
2024-09-09 Dharmette: Interpersonal Life (1 of 5): Introduction
2024-09-05 Dharmette: Reflection vs. Rumination
2024-08-22 Dharmette: Meaning and Purpose
2024-08-15 Dharmette: Measurement and the Immeasurable
2024-08-01 Dharmette: Craving>Suffering, Suffering>Craving
2024-07-25 Dharmette: The Wholesome Disorientation of Feedback
2024-07-18 Dharmette: Between Everything Means Everything and Nothing Means Anything
2024-07-04 Dharmette: Non-clinging
2024-06-27 Dharmette: Crying
2024-06-13 Dharmette: Love and Time
2024-06-06 Dharmette: Functions of dharma pleasure
2024-05-30 Dharmette: Reflections on words from Ajahn Sucitto
2024-05-23 Dharmette: Cruising Altitude and Upheaval
2024-05-20 Overconfidence As A Defilement
2024-05-09 Dharmette: Coming Home and Leaving Home
2024-05-02 Dharmette: Fear and Language
2024-04-25 Dharmette: Reflections on a RJ Davidson Quote
2024-04-18 Dharmette: The Clinging Before Clinging
2024-04-11 Dharmette: Becoming Unintimidated by Suffering
2024-04-04 Dharmette: New Questions
2024-03-15 Dharmette: Faith in Letting Go (5 of 5)
2024-03-14 Dharmette: Faith in Ourselves (4 of 5)
2024-03-13 Dharmette: Faith in Love (3 of 5)
2024-03-12 Dharmette: Emerging From Doubt
2024-03-11 Faith in Our Dharma Path (1 of 5)
2023-12-15 Dharmette: Compassion & Equanimity
2023-12-14 Dharmette: Passivity & Action
2023-12-13 Dharmette: Disenchantment & Engagement
2023-12-12 Dharmette: Effort & Effortlessness
2023-12-11 Dharmette: Confidence & Humility
2023-04-28 Mortality - Anicca is redeemed by Love (5/5)
2023-04-27 Dharmette: Mortality - Fear, Helplessness & Self (4/5)
2023-04-26 Dharmette: Mortality and the Clarification of What Matters (3/5)
2023-04-25 Dharmette: Mortality - Futurelessness & Samadhi (2/5)
2023-04-24 Dharmette: Reflections on Mortality (1/5)
2023-03-09 Dharmette: Acclimatizing to Anicca
2023-03-05 Reflections on Ajahn Sucitto Talk
2023-02-17 Dharmette: Dharma Practice & Beginning Again
2023-02-16 Dharmette: Dharma & Grief
2023-02-15 Dharmette: Humor and Playfulness in the Dharma
2023-02-14 Dharmette: Surrender in the Dharma
2023-02-13 Dharmette: Awe in the Dharma
2023-01-27 Dharmette: Five Spiritual Faculties - Wisdom (5 of 5)
2023-01-26 Dharmette: Five Spiritual Faculties: Samadhi (4 of 5)
2023-01-25 Dharmette: Five Spiritual Faculties - Mindfulness (3 of 5)
2023-01-24 Dharmette: Five Spiritual Faculties - Energy (2 of 5)
2023-01-23 Dharmette: Five Spiritual Faculties - Faith (1 of 5)
2022-09-30 Dharmette: The Pleasure of Spiritual Friendship
2022-09-29 Dharmette: Turning Down the Dial
2022-09-28 Dharmette: The Pleasure of Purification
2022-09-27 Dharmette: Sourcing our Motivation from Love Rather than Fear
2022-09-26 Dharma Pleasure - The Pleasure of Having a Path
2022-09-25 Seven Factors of Awakening
2022-08-19 Dharmette: Dharma as Existential Therapy
2022-08-18 Dharmette: Dharma as Exposure Therapy for Samsara
2022-08-17 Dharmette: Dharma as Cognitive Therapy
2022-08-16 Dharmette: Dharma as an Attention Therapy
2022-08-15 Dharmette: The Mechanisms of Action of the Dharma
2022-07-03 Dharma and Concern for the World
2022-05-13 Reflections on Equanimity
2022-05-12 Sympathetic Joy
2022-05-11 Reflections on Compassion
2022-05-10 Reflections on Lovingkindness
2022-05-09 Orienting to the Divine Abodes
2022-04-15 Samvega and Love of the World
2022-04-14 Meaning And Nonconceptualization
2022-04-13 Grief and Love
2022-04-12 Renunciation and Enjoying Pleasure
2022-04-11 Helplessness and Power
2022-04-10 Reflections on Thich Nhat Hanh's Teachings
2022-04-02 Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health & Science Part 1 of 2
2022-04-02 Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health & Science Part 2 of 2
2021-12-05 Mindfulness, Thinking, Mindlessness, Rumination
2021-11-19 Affect and the Interpersonal Realm (5 of 5)
2021-11-18 Strength and the Surrender to Goodness (4 of 5)
2021-11-17 The Pain of the Other Spins Our Mind (3 of 5)
2021-11-16 Not-knowing is the Most Intimate (2 of 5)
2021-11-15 Interpersonal Life as Dharma Practice (1 of 5)
2021-08-13 Equanimity (5 of 5):
2021-08-12 Equanimity (4 of 5): Skillfully Meeting Feelings Associated with Self
2021-08-11 Equanimity (3 of 5): Transmuting Dukkha
2021-08-10 Equanimity (2 of 5): Safety and Compulsive Hypothesis-Testing
2021-08-09 Equanimity (1 of 5): Introduction
2019-07-14 Loving the Self to Death