Meditation: breath, midline, strengthening the wholesome
(Recorded on 5.22.18 at Insight Meditation Satsang, Berkeley, CA)

Talk: Meditation as self-care, for the individual as stress-relief, but then also as the laboratory for coming into right relationship with the aspect of systemic forces (the Great Demons) we find in our own hearts. The difference between bias (internal conditioned preference in the heart), discrimination (harmful relational action based in bias), and ideology (the “-ism”: the systemic structure that everyone exists within and therefore carries and expresses through conditioned bias), with race as the example again. How mindfulness of bias is key to dismantling racism as a system.
(Recorded on 5.22.18 at Insight Meditation Satsang, Berkeley, CA)

Talk: Bringing mindfulness of bias and discrimination into our practice as central to a path of purification. I discuss mindfulness of bias as working with the second foundation of mindfulness, vedanā (Affect, Feeling Tone), combined with seeing the content of biased thoughts and feelings as expressions of the 3 Poisons: Greed, Hatred, and Delusion. The 3 Poisons as viruses, thus impersonal.
(Recorded on 6.12.18 at Insight Meditation Satsang, Berkeley, CA)