Archive of Talks

Payton played a talk by Tara Brach, linked below. Tara Brach – Impermanence: the gifts of facing reality http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/175/talk/12558/ Read more

Sam guided our reflections on Enlightenment this Sunday, framing them with a talk by James Baraz. The talk offers a presentation of non-Buddhist perspectives on enlightenment through stories and quotes of Advaita (non-dualistic) teachers such as Ramana Maharshi, Poonjaji, Eckhart Tolle, and Adyahshanti. . . . The talk ends with a brief guided meditation. http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/86/talk/11695/ (This talk is third in a… Read more

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