2015
March 31 talk “The History of Forest Monks” at Harvard Divinity School
With Bob Stewart, natural history field trips to the Marble Mountains, the Malheur and Easter Oregon
2014
March 31 interview on KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley CA “Cover to Cover” with Denny Smithson archived here at kpfa.org.
April 11-13 with Bob Stewart, natural history field trips to The Pinnacles: “Birds, Butterflies and Wild Flowers of Arroyo Seco and the Pinnacles National Monument”
July 7 Dharma Talk: “Forest Meditation,” Spirit Rock Meditation Center Click here for the talk Dharma Seed.
Sept. 11th Bellingham KBAI The Joe Show with Joe Teehan
October 5 talk, “Meditation in the Wild” at Stone Creek Zen Center
An interview with comments on the website of The Secular Buddhist Association
Podcast of an interview on Everyday Connection
With Bob Stewart, natural history field trips to the Marble Mountains, the Malheur and Easter Oregon, Arroyo Seco, The Pinnacles, Kern River
2013
With Bob Stewart, natural history field trips including to Arroyo Seco, The Pinnacles, Kern River, Southern Oregon, including the Malhuer
February 25th, Monday night Dharma Talk: “Noise, Quiet and Silence” at Spirit Rock Meditation Center (recording available on request)
2012
April-July with Bob Stewart, natural history field trips in California and Oregon
2011
March 7th, Monday night Dharma Talk: “Beyond the Gate: the Challenges and Benefits of Retreats” at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
(recording available on request)
March 24th to May 16th, with Bob Stewart, natural history field trips in California and Oregon
2010
December 5th, Dharma Talk: “Silence” at Laguna Sangha
June 13th, Dharma Talk: “What if? The Law of Karma” at Laguna Sangha
May 20th to 24th assisting Bob Stewart on a natural history field trip from Arcata, California eastward across the Sierras
May 2nd, Dharma Talk: “Reflections on Stephen Batchelor’s ‘Confession of a Buddhist Atheist'” at Laguna Sangha
April 16th to 18th with Bob Stewart, the natural history of Arroyo Seco and The Pinnacles, California
2009
December 13th Dharma Talk: “Senility and Practice: How they Inform Each Other” at Laguna Sangha
July 5th, Dharma Talk: “Silence” at Laguna Sangha
June 2nd, 16th and 30th, Three talks on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the History of Zionism at Muckrakers’ Cafe, Berkeley
May 3rd, Dharma Talk: “Zen and Pyschotherapy: Self and Not Self” at Laguna Sangha, Sebastopol
March 19th, Talk: “Mortality and Nature: The Human Challenge” at Sonoma Community Center
With an emphasis on natural history as accessible science we look at disease, old age and death in nature and how humans transformed these as we built civilizations. The talk draws on evolution, animal studies and epidemiology and address the question of whether “old age” is natural or a human invention.
February 12th, Talk celebrating Darwin’s 200th birthday by looking at “The Downsides of Evolution” at Science Buzz Cafe, Coffee Catz, Sebastopol
January 31st, Dharma Talk: “The Parahã, No-self and Emptiness”
The Parahã are indigenous Amazonians who abjure abstraction have little use of perfect tense and no word for worry.
2008
December 7th, Dharma Talk:”Fear and the Financial Meltdown” at Laguna Sangha, Sebastopol
October 17th, University of San Francisco & Friends of Loyola Institute Lecture Series:
“Bringing Spirituality and Psychology Together” and
“Buddha and Darwin: Evolution’s Downsides and Meditation’s Response”
June 22nd, Dharma Talk: “Meditation and Happiness?” at Laguna Sangha, Sebastopol
June 4th, Talk: “Mimetic versus Narrative Thought” at Integrative-Transformative Practice Network
May 8th, Talk: “Mortality and Nature: the Human Challenge” at East Bay Science Cafe
March 9th, Dharma Talk: “On the Neglected Brahma Viharas” at Laguna Sangha
February 1st, Talk at Copperfield’s Books, Sebastopol, CA
January 27th, Dharma Talk: “Breath and the Heart Sutra” at Laguna Sangha
January 17th, Talk: “Mortality and Nature: the Human Challenge.”Science Buzz Café, Coffee Catz, Sebastopol
A look at disease, old age and death in nature and how humans transformed these as we built civilizations. The talk draws on evolution, animal studies, and epidemiology and address the question of whether “old age” is natural or a human invention.
2007
August Vancouver, B.C.
August 28th, Banyan Books
September 4, “The Liberal Outpost” interview with Joe Teehan, KGMI 790 AM radio, Bellingham, Washington
September 5, Village Books, Bellingham, Washington
September 8, Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, Washington
September 10, Orca Books, Olympia, Washington
September 11th, Laughing Horse Books, Portland, Oregon
September 13 on the “Northwest Passage” show with Dan Hecht, KLCC 89.7 FM, Eugene, Oregon
September 13, University of Oregon Bookstore
September 14, Bloomsbury Books, Ashland, Oregon
September 17, the program “Sound Focus” with Dave Beck on KUOW FM 94.9, Seattle
September 24, “Cover to Cover” Interview with Denny Smithson KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, California
September 26th Gateways Books & Gifts, Santa Cruz, California
September 30, Book Passage Bookstore, Corte Madera, California
October 6th, ‘Interviews and Interactions’ with Linda Strasburg -Radio Host on KTKK , Salt Lake City, Utah
October 6th, East West Bookstore, Mountain View, California
October 8th, Books Inc. in the Marina, San Francisco, California
October 9th, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, California
October 17th, Interview by Maureen Caudill
“The Music of Your Mind: Living the Extraordinary,” Podcast