Michael Ciborski Dharma Talks

Talk 1: Welcome and Orientation

In every moment of your waking life, our mental attention is somewhere. 

Where?

Talk 2:  Four Establishments of Mindfulness

I see you there, and I am so happy!

By bringing awareness to my body, feelings and mind I create space to be in connection and relationship with the world.  

Talk 3: Cooling the Flames

You have inside you mountains, you have within you ancient trees with deep roots that  are touched when you breathe in and out. 

We're including in the experience our mindfulness, our clarity, our intention to not just follow the anguish, but to offer the clear, strong, loving embrace of the practice. This is trusting in the Dharma.

1:01:20 Refuge Chant

Five Mindfulness Trainings

For thousands of years people have gone before us, working these in their own lives, in their own context and relationships. I can lean on that. It has been tested. 

Each of the five MT's has a very clear expression of the four Noble Truths. There is this suffering, these are it's causes, and here are ways  that we can approach this to relieve that suffering. 

Selective Seed Watering

When you nourish seeds they grow, and there is never a moment in your daily life when they are not being watered. 

Looking carefully, we cultivate understanding of the seeds we have within us in order to transform our experience. This is supported by continuous, daily practice of mindfulness. 

Shining a Light on Suffering 

There is a place with no separation between us and the suffering, between us and the happiness, between us and each other... and yet we are not swirled around in the turmoil of it. There is light, there is clarity, there is presence.