Archive of Talks

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

Margaret guided our further investigation of the crucial concept of No-Self today, drawing on a number of sources.  The most ancient of these sources is the brief Anatta Lakkhana Sutta (The Discourse on the Not-Self Characteristic), from the Samyutta Nikaya, available at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/wheel017.html#s2 The concept was further clarified in excerpts from a recent talk by Joseph… Read more

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