Archive of Talks

Anne began our series on the Five Hindrances, by focusing on Greed.  Among other resources, she drew on a talk by Joseph Goldstein, using selected excerpts (minutes 1-10, 14:30-27:10, and 34:30-44:29).  You may find the entire talk at http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/96/294.html If you are interested in further exploring the topic, Anne recommends you might want to listen to this… Read more

Today Michael introduced the technique of listening to the Sound of Silence, using a talk by Ajahn Sumedho.  The portion we listened to begins at minute 13.40 of this link. http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/10/talk/4264/ We also discussed and explored Ajahn Sumedho’s encouragement to look at each arising object of consciousness intuitively and holistically to see “the way it… Read more

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