01:29: Guided meditation led by Sean Fargo (sensing into the body with acceptance and care)

30:35: Opening to what’s here, whether pleasant or unpleasant

33:40: Moving from aversion to joy during meditation’s pauses

35:50: Question: Where does craving for a particular outcome come from?

36:40: Where craving (and desire to control) comes from, and how to practice sensing into it

42:50: The paradox between surrendering and maintaining agency

43:43: Realizing the illusion of control and surrendering to what’s here

46:50: Using the practice to understand the layers of cause and effect

51:30: Question: What is the best posture for meditation?

52:56: Posture and our mental framing of the practice

55:20: Standing, meditation benches and other means of staying alert 

1:02:10: Subtle means of staying alert, such as remembering why we are practicing

1:04:10: Staying alert by choosing practices that are specific or interesting to you

1:07:05: Question: Differences between vipassana and mindfulness practices

1:08:10: Mindfulness as a secular, wider-scope approach to vipassana meditation

1:09:40: Question: I “bombed” a class and now I have confidence issues, what do I do?

1:12:06: Letting go of responsibility for how others show up, and what they receive

1:13:54: Building confidence with strangers, versus close friends and family

1:15:50: Finding balance between maintaining boundaries and allowing for vulnerability

1:21:46: Question: Do I lean on the group too much when I’m teaching? 

1:22:24: Common challenges when teaching groups live

1:25:20: Recommended Resource: Giovanni Dienstmann on Self-Confidence

1:27:20: Practice and learning from our mistakes, Sean shares a personal story

1:31:45: Teaching as about helping people versus being about ‘mindfulness’

1:34:45: A student shares how surrender versus control shows up in his life

1:38:35: The importance of having safe spaces to share and connect with others

1:41:45: The stigma (for men) around ‘softening’

1:43:50: Men as experiencing adverse effects of meditation as a result of hardening around a single identity

1:48:00: Men Talking Mindfulness podcast

1:50:25: It’s all our responsibility to allow people to soften around their identities

1:54:10: It’s important to feel what we feel, and many are looking for safe spaces to do that