Archive of Talks

Wendy directed our attention to Joy, the third of the Brahma Viharas, and used a quite joyful talk by Jack Kornfield titled “Joy and its Causes” from Nov 15 2010 to set up the discussion, a talk you can find by going to http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/85/talk/10886/ Read more

Payton Swick guided our reflections on The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and how those shape our entire life experience, using excerpts from a talk by Robina Courtin, which can be found at http://www.zencast.org/zencast_117_bodhicitta good follow-up article can be found at http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/calling-bs-on-the-minds-stories Read more

Rebecca tuided our reflections, using material from Donald Rothberg,  “Self and Not Self, The Core Teachings of the Buddha” You can access a dharma talk on this topic by Rothberg at http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/55/talk/16969/ And he also offers a 20+minute guided meditation on the Self and Non-Self at http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/55/talk/16968/   Read more

Sam guided our reflections today, using a recent retreat talk (July 20) by Christina Feldman, on Effort and Effortlessness, which you can listen to or review at http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/44/talk/16810/ Read more

Margaret guided our reflections this week, using parts of a July 16 talk by Christina Feldman on “Joy.”  That talk can be found at http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/44/talk/16723/ Read more

Michael turned the group’s attention to the question of questioning itself – the questions we are constantly asking ourselves, for better or worse – initiating the discussion with the first 15 minutes of Gil Fronsdal’s talk on “The Inquiring Mind.”  Our own discusion took it from there, but if you’d like to hear what Gil’s… Read more