Archive of Talks

Michael led the sangha in exploring Sensory Awareness — a variety of mindfulness of body, which consists of simple, gentle experiments to open up clear, fresh contact with our own selves and the world around us.  As we engage ever more deeply with ordinary activities – standing up or sitting down, coming into contact with… Read more

Rebecca guided our reflections today, using a talk by Joseph Goldstein from last year’s three month retreat at IMS, titled Working with Fear, which systematically and in detail explores physical and emotional fears, their origins and ways to meet them. http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/96/talk/17678/ Read more

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