Recorded from a zoom session on Oct. 29, 2023. Catherine and the group discuss powerful emotions and ways to stay steady as war breaks out in the Middle East.

Catherine gives a short talk on riding the waves of change in chaotic times and suggests that we choose peace in the face of it. She also explains a slight pause in her schedule. Recorded on February 26, 2023 in Victoria, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram from a session that took place in 2003 in southern California. Recorded on previous media and re-mastered for this podcast channel.

A session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, originally recorded in Los Angeles in 2004 and recently remastered and produced for this podcast channel.

Recorded on Maui in 2010 from a session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Originally recorded in Los Angeles in 2004 and recently re-mastered for podcast format.

A direct message from Catherine and an excerpt from a Dharma Dialogues session that took place in Ojai, California in about 2011. A reminder to take care when spending time with family and friends and an encouragement to those who are spending this season alone.

Excerpted from a session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Recorded in 2001 in Malibu, California and recently re-mastered as a podcast from previous recorded formats.

This is another archival session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Malibu, California in 2005.  It’s called Proper Identification.

A session of Dharma Dialogues recorded in about 2004 in Santa Monica, California.  Although this was produced on other media formats long ago, this is the first time for a podcast format and has been re-mastered for sound quality.

This podcast was originally recorded in April 2003 in Santa Monica, California.  It was a time in when the US had just invaded Iraq. We have re-mastered the sound recording for this podcast though it was published on other formats years ago.  The title is taken from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s book The Strength to Love. 

This session with Catherine was recorded in Santa Monica, California in September of 2002, twenty years prior to the podcast upload of today’s date.  It was originally produced on CDs and later on MP3s.  We have remastered the sound and offer it as a prescient discussion for facing the threats of our time.

This podcast is a recording from a Dharma Dialogues session with Catherine that originally occurred in Ojai, California in 2009.  In years past it was produced on CD and MP3 and has now been re-mastered for use as a podcast.  Although some of the references are cultural or news events from that time, Catherine’s message in these conversations is timeless. Just as neurotic thought can become a conditioned habit, so can the experience of clear and simple awareness.

A public talk Catherine gave on Maui in January of 2010.  In  it she elaborates on seven qualities that naturally occur when one’s mind is at ease and clear.  These qualities form the basis of Catherine’s second book, Passionate Presence, which was published in 2003.

Catherine considers Shakespeare’s famous line in the context of ending one’s life, the reasons why this is rarely acceptable, and a reframing of the question itself.  Recorded on August 31 in Victoria, Australia.

A direct message from Catherine discussing what can happen when we clash in values and views with old friends with whom we once agreed on all substantial matters. Recorded on August 13, 2022 in Victoria, Australia.

An Ask-Me-Anything podcast recorded on August 16, 2022.  Catherine addresses, among other topics, the question of what awareness might remain when our brain functions are diminished.

An Ask-Me-Anything podcast taken from emails sent to Catherine.  Recorded on July 18, 2022 in Victoria, Australia.

Catherine answers questions sent in by email.  Recorded on July 8, 2022 in Victoria, Australia. The title of this podcast comes from the opening line of Third Zen (Chan) Patriarch’s famous verses.

Catherine addresses questions sent in by email.  Recorded on June 18, 2022 in NSW, Australia. 

This conversation was recorded on June 5, 2022.  It is an insight into the mind and interests of a twelve-year-old Australian boy whose childhood is both contemporary and delightfully old world, a combination that is becoming more rare in the time of screens, social media, and the obsession with all things cyber. 

Catherine’s talk with filmmaker Michael Shaw (Living in the Time of Dying) on the challenges in accepting the unacceptable. Recorded on May 22, 2022 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Broadcast on June 20, 2021.  Hosted by Melanie Greblo and The Coterie:  https://thecoterieglobal.com/

A short, direct message from Catherine recorded on April 30, 2022

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on April 9, 2022.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, broadcast from NSW, Australia on March 26, 2022.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Feb. 6, 2022.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on January 2, 2022

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from Australia on Jan. 1, 2022.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues.  Broadcast on Dec. 5, 2021 from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Dec. 4, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Nov. 7, 2021, broadcast from NSW, Australia

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Broadcast from NSW on Nov. 7, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Oct. 2, 2021; broadcast from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Broadcast from NSW, Australia  on Sept. 4 and 5, 2021

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on August 8, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on August 7, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on July 4, 2021 broadcast from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram on July 3, 2021.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a zoom session of dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on June 6, 2021 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on June 5, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on May 2, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on May 1, 2021 and broadcast from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on April 4, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Broadcast from NSW, Australia on April 3, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on March 7, 2021 

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on March 6, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Feb. 7, 2021 and broadcast from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Feb. 6, 2021.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on January 3, 2021 in NSW, Australia

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded on January 2, 2021 and broadcast from NSW, Australia.  The title is a quote from Leonardo da Vinci.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Dec. 6, 2020.

Excerpted from a zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Dec. 5, 2020 in NSW, Australia

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in NSW, Australia on Nov. 8, 2020.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded on Nov. 7, 2020 and broadcast from NSW, Australia.  The title comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi classic of 1961.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Oct 18, 2020.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Oct. 17, 2020.  

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast on Oct. 4, 2020 from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Oct. 3, 2020.  The title comes from a quote by Albert Camus. 

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast on Oct. 3 from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session with Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast from NSW, Australia on Sept. 19, 2020.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Broadcast on Sept. 6, 2020 from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Sept. 5, 2020 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on July 19, 2020 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on July 18, 2020 from NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on August 2, 2020 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded on Aug. 1, 2020 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in NSW, Australia on July 5, 2020.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, which was broadcast from NSW, Australia on July 4.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Recorded on June 21, 2020 in NSW, Australia.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Broadcast from NSW, Australia on June 20, 2020.

Excerpted from a Dharma Dialogues zoom session with Catherine, which was broadcast from Australia on June 7, 2020.

Excerpted from a Zoom session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine on June 6, 2020.  Catherine will be holding zoom sessions four times a month until further notice.  For details, visit CatherineIngram.com/schedule.

Recorded on May 28, 2020 in NSW, Australia. Catherine resumes the In the Deep podcast channel and will again be posting podcasts twice a month.  Please see also the schedule for live zoom sessions beginning the weekend June 6 and 7, 2020.  These will occur on the first and third weekends of each month until ... Read More about New Ways of Life

Catherine reads questions and discusses issues sent in by email from around the world,  Recorded in March 2020.

A conversation between Catherine Ingram and Berry Lieberman.  Berry is the founder of the Australian journal Dumbo Feather and of Small Giants, an impact investment firm, which uses “all forms of capital”–intellectual, empathic, activist, and monetary–for the greater good.  Recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in November 2019 in the midst of Australia’s summer of fires. ... Read More about Acceptance

Catherine has a conversation with her friend Juliette, a lover of solitude and of the “less trampled places.” Recorded in February 2020 in Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in November, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Melbourne, Australia.  November 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Melbourne, Australia.  November 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Melbourne, Australia in November 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Melbourne, Australia in November 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Melbourne in November 2016.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in October 2019.

The title comes from the famous zen saying.  Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia in September 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram. Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in September 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in August 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in August 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia. This podcast title is a quote by Edward Snowden.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in July 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in June 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Lennox Head, Australia.  June 2019

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in April 2019.

Opening talk of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Byron Bay, Australia, summer 2012.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in April 2019.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in March 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in March 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in Feb. 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in January 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in January 2019.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in October 2018.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Oct. 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Oct. 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Title from an essay by Bertrand Russell.  Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in September 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in August 2018 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in August 2019 in Lennox Head, Australia

A brief summary of this episode

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in July 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in June 2108 in Lennox Head, Australia.  Catherine begins her talk with Wendell Berry’s short poem, “The Vacation.”

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in June 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.  Catherine discusses the Sufi quote:  “Even though you have broken your vows perhaps ten thousand times, come again.”

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in May, 2018.  Catherine discusses the the perilous time in which we live and the possibility to find courage within it.

Catherine discusses the distinction between creative expressions that arise from a quiet mind/heart and those that arise from inner turmoil. Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in May of 2018.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Melbourne, Australia.  Recorded in April of 2018.  Catherine explains Poonjaji’s main teachings of the pointlessness of spiritual striving and of the only perspective that is of use–tuning into an underlying quiet throughout all activity and noise.  

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia, April 2018.  Catherine discusses the first noble truth in Buddhism, the truth of suffering.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Melbourne, Australia in April 2018.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in April 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in April, 2018.  Recorded in Melbourne, Australia

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in March 2018.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in March 2018 in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in February 2018.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  January 2018

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia, February 2018.

Catherine discusses the human drives of pleasure and destruction.  Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues and recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in January 2018.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in September 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine.  Recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in September 2017.  Catherine speaks about the possibility of finding a deeper quiet even within anxiety, stress, and apprehension.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Byron Bay, Australia in September 2017.

An interview with Catherine on Nyck Jeanes show on Bay FM in Byron Bay, Australia.  Recorded in July 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in September 2017.   Catherine speaks about the non-sticking nature of thought.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia, recorded in August 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in August 2017.  Catherine speaks about loving the living world, the sorrow in watching its demise, and the need to love all the more.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in July 2017.  This title is taken from a quote from Poonjaji about the necessity of visiting the well of nothingness in oneself, the point of stillness–to see clearly, to refresh.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in July 2017.

This is an interview with Catherine conducted by Chip Richards for the Uplift Podcast.  It took place in Byron Bay, Australia in December of 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Byron Bay.  Recorded in July 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in July 2017.  Catherine addresses the challenges of chronic pain and considers ways to use one’s attention to live as full a life as possible, even with pain.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia in June 2017.  Catherine addresses the human desire for security and the understanding that the most reliable security comes from knowing how and when to let go.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in June 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in June 2017 in Lennox Head, Australia.  Catherine discusses how conditioned concepts obscure clear perception.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues recorded in June 2017.  Catherine addresses the myth of purifying the mind.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in April, 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Byron Bay, Australia in April 2017.

An interview conducted by Mark Matousek with Catherine Ingram for Mark’s online course called The Seeker’s Forum. Recorded by phone in August 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in April, 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in April 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia on Easter Sunday 2017,

Interview with Catherine recorded in March 2017 on ABC national radio in Sydney, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Byron Bay, Australia.  Recorded in April 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in April 2017 in Lennox Head, Australia.  Catherine considers Satre’s famous statement:  “Hell is other people.”

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Byron Bay, Australia.  Recorded in April 2017.  Catherine explores the inherent emotionality of humans, borrowing the phrase “emotional creatures” from Eve Ensler’s excellent Ted talk and stage play.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in April 2017.  Catherine speaks on the nature of impermanence and the freedom in knowing that everything comes–to pass.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Lennox Head, Australia.  Recorded in March 2017.

Dharma Dialogues recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in March 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in March 2017.  Recorded in Lennox Head, Australia.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Byron Bay Australia, February 2017.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram.  Recorded in March, 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia.

Catherine’s holiday and end-of-year reflections.

Catherine’s description of a close call on a highway in Australia, the biochemistry that automatically ensued, and the stillness that was needed in the aftermath.  Recorded in Byron Bay, 2016.

Catherine speaks about the wave of fear that is consuming people due to recent world events–and offers reflections on staying steady.

Catherine’s conversation with Moon Zappa the day after the election of Donald Trump and two days after the death of Leonard Cohen.  Recorded in Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 2016.

Catherine reflects on Trungpa Rinpoche’s quote to “elegantize your life” and the importance of living within an aesthetic of sacred space.

An interview with Catherine by Mitchell Rabin for his show on Progressive Radio called A Better World.  Recorded in New York City in 2012.

Catherine is in conversation with New York Times best-selling author Geneen Roth on coming to the end of spiritual seeking.  Recorded in Sept. 2016.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues.  Recorded in Los Angeles in 2005.

Catherine discusses the pressures that most working people face in navigating through increasingly complicated bureaucracies and sped-up lives and the need to simplify as much as possible within those constraints.  Recorded in 2016.

Interview with Catherine by Paul O’Brien of Pathways on KBOO in Portland, Oregon.  Recorded in 2010.

Catherine’s reflections on aging bodies and the continual swirl of change in life.

A conversation between Catherine and Mark Matousek that occurred on Maui in 2009 as part of a longer discussion on a worldwide webcast.  Catherine begins with defining “awakened intelligence” as a specific form of intelligence and one which can be cultivated.

Catherine reflects on the change from breathless thrills of younger life to subtler and quiet joys in older life.  Recorded in 2016.

After the Orlando shootings.  Recorded in June 2016.

This is an interview with Catherine conducted by David Welch of Awaken.com on what it means to be awake.  Catherine’s emphasis is on being awake to the events in one’s own time in addition to one’s personal awakening.  There were some Skype audio glitches, mostly cleaned up by our wonderful sound engineer.

A talk Catherine gave at the New Thought Spiritual Community in Watermill, NY in May 2016.

Excerpted from a session of Dharma Dialogues in Los Angeles, 2003.

Catherine reflects on the increasingly tender feelings that come with age.  Recorded in East Hampton, New York in 2016.

A conversation with Academy Award-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl on the sometimes hard-won value of self acceptance, no matter how much the world celebrates your work.  Recorded in East Hampton, New York in 2016.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in 2011.

Catherine is interviewed by the wonderful L.A.-based performance artist Jonna Tamases, who stays in character as Giselle, of The Giselle Show, a kooky button maker from Hamburg, Germany.  Recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.

Catherine discusses some of the problems of religion as well as a relationship to the sacred without religion or belief.  Recorded in East Hampton, New York in 2016.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in East Hampton, NY in 2014.  Catherine examines the unrealistic expectations of happiness promoted by western culture, especially in the U.S.

A session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Berkeley, California in 2016.

Catherine’s conversation with Peter Russell focusing on the exponential acceleration of change and the life-threatening problems that ensue as a result.  Catherine and Peter also discuss the perspectives that foster inner calm in the face of these dire threats.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.

Excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Los Angeles, recorded in 2016.  Catherine discusses the insignificance of negative thoughts when one’s attention is primarily resting in simple presence.

Excerpt from Dharma Dialogues in Los Angeles in 2016.  Catherine speaks about the ease of connection and communication between people when neither has a particular agenda of getting something from the other.

Excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.

Excerpt from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Los Angeles in 2016.  Catherine speaks about the quality of presence that gives a sense of timelessness and about the importance of direct experience in the face of any philosophy or teachings.

Excerpted from Dharma Dialogues in Los Angeles in 2002 in which Catherine speaks about the confidence that comes from direct experience rather than faith or belief.

As we enter the year 2016, Catherine speaks about an important resolution of the past and the one that is most pressing to her now.

Catherine discusses the nature and power of remorse and friendship, having lost someone to sudden death and having been estranged from that friend for the last years of his life.  Recorded on Dec. 15, 2015.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Ojai, California in around 2007.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Los Angeles in 2005, in which Catherine speaks about the sometimes difficult experience of holidays–expectations of greater connection and disappointments therein–and she reminds the listener of where to find true connection.

Catherine addresses fear and its antidotes.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Los Angeles in 2004, in which Catherine examines the important role of desire in human life and the need for clarity in pursuing it.

Recorded by Catherine in November, 2015 in East Hampton, New York.  A contemplation on letting yourself see and be infused by beauty.

Excerpt from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Los Angeles in 2005.

Opening talk and dialogue excerpted from a longer session of Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Los Angeles in 2005.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in 2012.  Catherine speaks on the unstained nature of mind, no matter what one has endured or the missteps one has taken.

An excerpt from Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Los Angeles in 2004.

The opening talk and first conversation from a session of Dharma Dialogues, recorded in Los Angeles in 2004, in which we examine the effectiveness of love versus rage in accomplishing change in the world.

A short selection from Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram, recorded in Byron Bay Australia in 2012.  An invitation to tune your awareness to “the silent channel,” even when there is static in the mind.

The opening talk of a session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram examining the importance of attachment bonding for emotional health and challenging the spiritual taboos and beliefs that promote the avoidance of all forms of attachment.

Catherine’s guest lecture at New Thought Spiritual Center on Long Island, NY in 2015 on the importance of finding community in unlikely situations.

The opening talk from a longer session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram that took place on Maui in 2010.  Includes a discussion about the obsession that can occur in the ending of a relationship.

An interview with the legendary professor Sheldon Solomon based on his work in Terror Management Theory–how human behavior is conditioned by our awareness of mortality and the strategies we employ to cope with the fear of death.

The opening talk of a session of Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram in Byron Bay, Australia, 2011.  The title comes from a line in the song “Boogie Street,” by Leonard Cohen.