Lisa Dale Miller Podcasts

Join clinician and author Lisa Dale Miller at the leading edge of integrative mental health! We deliver thoughtful dialogues with innovative clinicians, researchers and contemplatives that unite health science research and profound wisdom traditions, inform about somatic psychotherapies and Buddhist psychology, and we do it all with big dose of intelligence, clarity, curiosity and openheartedness.

A dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on February 27, 2011. This talk focuses on experiencing "the deathless" or "nibanna" in daily life.

The second of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on November 4 & 11, 2012. Continued discussion and teaching about the relevance of enlightenment for Western Practitioners, focusing on the Buddha's teaching of Dependent Origination.

Lisa Dale Miller gives a brief overview of her motivation to write "Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine mental health through awakened presence" and its contents. This is the first in a series of podcasts related to the clinical application of Buddhist psychology. Visit the website: www.awakened presence.com Visit the blog: http://effortlessmindfulness.wordpress.com/

A dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on September 18, 2011 celebrating the International Day of Peace. The talk reflects on how to cultivate outer peace, inner peace, and ultimate peace.

The first of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on November 4 & 11, 2012. A lively discussion and teaching about the relevance of enlightenment for Western Practitioners. This first talk took place 5 days after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey, so the first 10 minutes of the talk focuses on that tragedy.

The second of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP at the Marin Sangha on November 10 and 17, 2013. This talk covers the phenomenology of identitylessness and the gateway to its direct experience: awareness.

This is the second of two dharma talks given at Marin Sangha in June 2014. In this talk Lisa Dale Miller continues her refutation of a Universal Dharma with a description of Lojong Mind Training and its insistence upon the dreamlike nature of self, mind and world.

This is the first of two dharma talks given at Marin Sangha in June 2014. In this talk, Lisa Dale Miller refutes the controversial claim by Jon Kabat-Zinn and others, that mindfulness-based interventions (MBSR and the like) deliver a "universal dharma"; an accurate depiction of traditional Buddhist meditation practices and implicitly imparts the profound ethical and philosophical aspects of the actual Buddhadharma.

The first of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP at the Marin Sangha on November 10 and 17, 2013. This first talk covers the difference between self and identity, early Buddhist ideas about “becoming” and “taking birth”, and modern perspectives on person identity.

A dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on February 15, 2009 on how to find the freedom in times of uncertainty through the practice of mindful compassion as a means to experience the known and unknown of each moment. visit my web site www.lisadalemiller.com/mbpsych.htm visit my blog mindfulpsyche.blogspot.com

Lisa Dale Miller, MA, LMFT, LPCC, SEP is a private practice psychotherapist in Los Gatos, CA, specializing in mindfulness psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing therapy for depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction and chronic pain. She is also an outpatient provider for the VA San Jose. Lisa is the author of a highly regarded textbook on Buddhist psychology for mental health professionals, Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine mental health through awakened presence. Training clinicians in the pract ...

The first of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on June 3 and 10, 2012 bridging the gap between personal love and the Buddha's profound teachings on boundless love. In these two talks we traversed the wild and diverse world of love— its ever-present approach and avoidance, needing and wanting, holding and letting go, gain and loss, opening and collapsing— eventually arriving at the point in which these dualistic qualities ultimately dissolve into love's true ...

Listen to a dharma talk I gave at Insight Meditation South Bay on February 21, 2017. The talk focused on how to apply the Buddhist teachings on wisdom, compassion and ethical conduct to engage with difficult people or those with whom we disagree.

This is an update of this very popular Lovingkindness practice recorded in 2007. Lovingkindness Meditation #1 is a 21-minute guided metta practice for generating lovingkindness toward a benefactor (someone easy to love) and then toward oneself.

The second of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on June 3 and 10, 2012 bridging the gap between personal love and the Buddha's profound teachings on boundless love. In these two talks we traversed the wild and diverse world of love— its ever-present approach and avoidance, needing and wanting, holding and letting go, gain and loss, opening and collapsing— eventually arriving at the point in which these dualistic qualities ultimately dissolve into love's tru ...

Listen to a dharma talk I gave at Marin Sangha on March 12, 2017. This talk focused on the Buddhist teachings on intrepidity and fearlessness. How to cultivate strength of mind in the face of danger and difficult conditions.

This is a dharma talk I gave on August 8, 2017 at IMSB in Mountain View, Ca, on the topic of Skillfully Recognizing Empty Appearance. Though the Buddhist notion of emptiness can be quite challenging for Western Buddhist practitioners, the rich teachings on emptiness offer a clear path to apply wise view, wise action and skillful means in daily life.

This recording will introduce you to Mindfulness of Breath Meditation as a concentration practice or what is known as Shamatha. If you are new to mindfulness of breath meditation, you may wish to down load my recording for beginners and practice this for some time before trying this more advanced practice.

Fierce compassion and discerning wisdom are necessary for cutting through all forms of doubt that impede our capacity to be a source of upliftment and awakening for ourselves and others. This talk is a follow-up to the talk I gave on Fearlessness. Enjoy!

Lovingkindness meditation, or metta, is a mindfulness practice for the heart: a beautiful way to cultivate feelings of compassion and love for self, others and ultimately all beings. Lovingkindness Meditation #2 is a 25-minute guided metta practice to generate lovingkindness for a neutral person and then for a somewhat difficult person. Metta meditation should be done at your own pace. It is not necessary to force yourself to move onto this often more challenging metta practice until you fee ...

David Vago, PhD and Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP tackle the traditional Buddhist concept of "enlightenment" from their modern clinical points of view in a stimulating and fun discussion. Part 2 focuses on S-ART, David's neurobiological framework for describing the positive effects of meditation on self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence; Theravada, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna notions of awakening and not-self; secular mental training; different interventions for different psy ...

This is a dharma talk I gave on August 24, 2017 at Bloom of the Present Sangha in Santa Cruz. This is a follow-up to my talk on Emptiness in that non-hatred is probably the other most difficult of the Buddhist precepts to apply as a Buddhist practitioner/householder living in a world characterized by human suffering that arises from hatred, greed and primordial ignorance. This talk had particular significance as it was delivered two weeks after the horrific events that transpired in Charleston.

Listen to the first of two talks I delivered at Marin Sangha in May 2016 on Delusion and Non-delusion. This first talk covers the Buddhist psychological description of how delusion manifests in human perception and its effects on collective and personal human suffering.

Listen to the second of two talks on non-attachment—certainly the most misunderstood and maligned Buddhist ideal. This talk focuses on the practical application of non-attachment in daily life. Together the Marin Sangha and I explored various ways to cultivate non-clinging by transforming greed with equanimity, hatred with compassion, and delusion with clarity.

Listen to two talks I delivered at Marin Sangha on non-attachment—certainly the most misunderstood and maligned Buddhist ideal. This first talk deconstructs the term into its various meanings and explores the philosophical implications of non-attachment and identity clinging through the Buddha’s teachings from the Pāli Canon and those of several modern-day Buddhist teachers.

David Vago, PhD and Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP tackle the traditional Buddhist concept of "enlightenment" from their modern clinical points of view in a stimulating and fun discussion. Part 2 focuses on S-ART, David's neurobiological framework for describing the positive effects of meditation on self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence; Theravada, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna notions of awakening and not-self; secular mental training; different interventions for different psy ...

n these turbulent times it is important to understand how effective social action and the Buddhist practices of wise speech, embodied awareness and right action complement one another. Virtuous conduct, sīla, depends upon a Buddhist practitioner's ability to comprehend and enact right view: impermanence, not-self and the causes of suffering and non-suffering. This talk clarifies how to hold the precepts while boldly, fearlessly engaging in social action.

The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation by Langri Tangpo, beautifully illustrate the reality that in the Buddhist literature mind and heart are not separate; rather a sacred complex of one mind/heart. Seating oneself firmly in the sacredness of mind/heart allows full extension of the Bodhisattvic commitment to develop Bodhichitta, the altruistic intention to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. The Eight Verses form a practical manual for developing the Bodhisattvic p ...

This is a dharma talk I gave at marin Sangha on November 5, 2017. The topic of the talk is Bodhicitta: a dedicated, heart-felt desire to fully awaken for the benefit of all other beings. Bodhicitta reminds us that every moment is an invitation to awaken all beings by motivating ourselves to engage in other-regarding behaviors. This is how we take on the responsibility of decreasing the mass of human suffering by seeding the world with at least one more quiescent, wise and compassionate perso ...

Join me Kevin Miller as I interview entrepreneurs, business owners and experts who share their stories and insight on how to be successful in business. Listen and learn as we have fun discussing their business journey from start up's to multi million dollar enterprise. I enjoy learning from the many high profile guests I have been fortunate enough to interview and I hope you do too. As a successful business owner and entrepreneur, I believe that we never stop learning. ' Every day is a schoo ...

This dharma talk was delivered at Marin Sangha on May 31, 2015. I was asked to talk about the Buddhist psychology of addiction. The talk covers quite a bit of ground including childhood trauma and its physiological and psychological role in teen/adult addiction. The talk also has instructions for landing in the aliveness of physicality as it is.

The first path factor of the Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path is right view, also known as wise understanding. Though right view is the first of the Eightfold path factors, it represents the fruition of the succeeding seven path factors. Right view and right intention (the second path factor) together encompass supreme training in wisdom; a training designed to awaken the faculty of penetrative understanding—that which knows things as they truly are. The Buddha defined right view as understandi ...