Archive of Talks

Wendy guided our reflections on Fear today, centering around a talk by Tara Brach, “Meeting Fear with a Wise Heart”  (part 1) http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/175/talk/5711/ Brach’s methods of discerning the deeper causes of fear and meeting them seem to draw on a number of traditions in addition to Theravadin Buddhism, including Jungian paradigms and Tibetan Buddhism, woven into a… Read more

This Sunday, Nancy guided our reflections in three ways, focusing on ways to meet aging and illness in the most awakened ways possible.  First were excerpts from videos from Stephen and Ondrea Levine, longtime teachers on this topic, now experiencing chronic illnesses themselves .  Second, we paired up and shared an exercise in the Ah… Read more

Shery guided our reflections today, drawing on her own experience and on an excerpt from a dharma talk by Tara Brach, titled “Healing into Life and Death, which can be found at http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/175/talk/12134/ Since our discussion time was a full one, we did not have a chance to get to the guided meditation at the end of… Read more

Joey led our exploration of women Buddhist poets, from 2500 years ago forward, drawing principally from two in-print anthologies (Women in Praise of the Sacred, ed. Jane Hirschfield; and Voices of Insight, ed Sharon Salzberg) as well as The Therigatha <http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/> available on line.  The Therigatha contains 75 poems by early Buddhist nuns, with approaches ranging… Read more

Michael guided our reflections today, utilizing a few brief passages from the ancient Sammaditthi Sutta: The Discourse on Right View (in the Buddha’s Middle Length Discourses)  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.ntbb.html and a dharma talk by Gil Fronsdal on “The Absence of Mistrust,” in which Gil proposes that Absence of Mistrust might lead to a more profound engagement with life than even the… Read more

Payton guided our reflections today on the Dhammapada, a central book in the Buddhist canon, well characterized in the words of Jack Kornfield, which Payton quoted: “These teachings are as true now as the moment they were offered from the Buddha’s own lips. One page, one verse alone, as the power to change your life.… Read more