Archive of Talks

The recorded talk today was by Guy Armstrong entitled Patterns of Becoming 2: The Five Aggregates Here’s a link to the recording on Dharmaseed: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/79/talk/15469/ Read more

Wendy offered a presentation on Metta this morning, which included portions of these recorded dharma talks: John Teasdale The Significance of Kindness and Care http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/238/talk/12371/ Adrianne Ross Guided Loving Kindness Meditation http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/3/8168.html Read more

Joey led us in reflecting on the third of the Brhama Viharas, Sympathetic Joy, by sharing a talk from Christina Feldman, which Joey heard on a recent retreat.  Though that talk is not available online, here is a link to another of Christina’s talks, simply titled “Joy,” from November 19, 2009, which covers the same… Read more

Anne directed our reflections on Compassion, the second of the Brahma Viharas, with a portion of a talk by Sally Armstrong http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/153/talk/13479/ and guided our meditation, reading from Jack Kornfield’s book Wise Heart, pages 33-34. Read more

Jackie brought our focus to the fourth Brahma Vihara, Equanimity, centering on a talk titled “Equanimity – Meeting in the Middle, by Joseph Goldstein, from April 2012, at the Forest Refuge. http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/96/15863.html As with all the Brahma Viharas, the meditative practice which fosters equanimity often makes use of the heartfelt iteration of traditional phrases.  Here… Read more

To explore further dimensions of concentration, Michael used a part of a talk by Joseph Goldstein as well as extracts from Henapola Gunaratana’s book on the jhanas, “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English.”  Joseph’s talk is one of a series of 46 that he gave over the years, methodically going through the Satipatthana Sutta, the basic… Read more