Archive of Talks

We may devote our energy on and off the cushion to cultivating and sharing love and wishing well to those we care for.  And, we may notice that we have a not-so-hidden agenda in mind – perhaps a change in the disposition or the situation of the Other, or ourselves.  What would it mean to love with… Read more

The Pali term katannuta (“to have a sense of what was done”) is often translated to gratefulness. Buddhism emphasizes the preciousness – both the rarity and opportunity of human life. However, in our daily stresses, especially during the end of the year, it can be hard to feel this gratitude. This week, Sonia guided our Sangha, playing… Read more

Today we spoke about Buddhism, Science, Philosophy, Myth, Epistemic Traps and what all these have to do with one another and more importantly, what they have to do with our response to the world as it we find it. If you’d like to pull on one of the many threads Eric tried to weave together today,… Read more

   The feeling that somehow we are not enough pervades the modern psyche – not wise enough or compassionate enough, not good looking or financially secure enough, not having enough friends, just for starts.  And this is not only a contemporary problem.  The feeling of Lack has been an element of being human at least as far back… Read more

Most of us are aware that Samadhi reaches far beyond the western idea of concentration, and the explorations of Samadhi by Christina Feldman and Yahel Avigur confirm that understanding and show some unexpected vistas to which this practice can lead us.   The deep connection of Samadhi to insight reminds of why the Buddha himself… Read more

As if the world not obeying our wishes wasn’t hard enough, we are often completely surrounded by noise. Sometimes that noise takes the form of literal sounds: phone calls, the charismatic TV, the shouted town meeting. Increasingly that noise is textual: email, text messages, social media. And ever present is the noise of the mind:… Read more