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Audio: Wayne Coger 2006

The following talks by Wayne Coger are available on both CD and audio tape.

April 2006 Retreat

Day 5

The separateness, almost aggression in the statement, "I know you."
Often the bulk of our internal complaints about someone is untrue!
Or not complete, therefore not true.
It's fun to listen to all sides, to not have to be the one in the know. (29 mins)

June 2006 Retreat

Day 6

"Where to begin meditative work?"
A beginning that doesn't stop beginning, but refreshes itself.
The secret of unhappiness.
Walking in nature, taking everything in, whatever comes up.
Uncultivated patience - no need to be patient when we're fully here (30 mins)

July 2006 Retreat at Southern Dharma Center

Day 1

Can thoughts be allowed to quiet on their own? We think we're in charge.
Listening to a waterfall of thought without becoming someone in it.
One listening, no need to discriminate and compare.
Breath awareness. Fine if we pay the breath notice, but it needn't be a practice.
Learning in which nothing need be retained

Day 2

Being quiet with thought noise - spaciousness comes when the "I" is not involved.
No intention in "sinking," awaring - it's letting down the guard.
Silence is dying to effort, to the feeling I have to do something, be someone.
A dying and being born into all that's here, in all simplicity.
Is meditation selfish? Seeking a cocoon of peace, maybe.
But meditation which opens to everything, so we can respond appropriately?

September 2006 Retreat

Day 5

Interest itself calls forth quietness, slowing down.
To take everything in with the entirety of one's being.
Interest - the freedom to be, to feel, to touch, and to look at what gets in the way.
Can everything be allowed to fall away? (29 mins)

December 2006 Retreat

Day 1	The First Step is the Last Step Perhaps the "first step" that is the last step is accepting there's no choice but to look now - no printed directions, no way but to rouse this looking energy. I remember when Toni told me fear was the running away. I'd thought there was fear, and then running away. Let thought rise and settle like the leaves - no need to disturb anything. That something is disturbed, not right: isn't that itself a thought? Nor do we need a gloss, "everything's alright"; we need not comment at all. We can simply be, without ornament. (33 mins)
Day 2	Observing Thoughts: The Feeling of Having Done Something Wrong Does it take an effort to bring about this being-here? It's almost too absurd to say. Do I make the heart beat...? A cloudy purple sky at sunrise; after sitting, white clouds, blue sky. Was there an agent of change in this? Uncovering the contributing motives in a feeling of having done wrong - such as the fear of losing love, earning disgust: in the uncovering was no sense of having done wrong; no sense it was me. Just a human brain producing worries. Is observation about clearing out thoughts, selecting among them - or seeing: "is this so?" (33 mins)
Day 3	Effort Does the sense of effort begin with dissatisfaction, something out there I need, something wrong in need of correction? Our little old dog just putting one foot in front of another to keep up with his too-fast people - then something catches his interest, and a change comes, almost in the fur it seems - and suddenly he's not old; he sparkles with life, to find out what this scent is. Is non-opposition already the melting of resistance? Effort, resistance - it's not the words. What's here is both more and less than the words . (38 mins)
Day 4	Speech and Silence Questioner: We say "the seeing is the ending," but when some miscommunication lingers in the mind which it's possible to sort out, I don't think seeing will wash that away. Blurting something out and then having to defend it - why? Are we what we say? The illusion is that there's a chooser who will speak or stay silent. But when energy gathers in awaring, are there moments of choicelessness, of unmitigated response? Then words can form themselves. (33 mins)