Archive of Talks

  • 04/01/12 – Daily Practice of the Path

    Michael hosted a discussion on opportunities and frameworks for enhancing our daily practice of the Eightfold Path, centering on an excerpt from a dharma talk titled “Crossing the Flood” by Andrea Fella.  We listened from minute  1:16 through minute 20:14.  The entire talk can be found at http://dharmaseed.org/talks/?search=crossing+the+flood&sort=-rec_date Read more

  • 03/25/12 – Mindfulness

    Margaret framed our reflections on Mindfulness with some telling quotations, and then played a recorded dharma talk. Here are the framing quotations: “Mindfulness is that quality of attention which notices without choosing, without preference; it is choiceless awareness that, like the sun, shines on all things equally.” –p.23, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: the Path… Read more

  • 03/18/12 – Wise Effort

    On Sunday, Payton led a discussion on Right Effort as part of our investigation of the Eightfold Path. Below are the notes from that presentation. We also have an audio recording of the session as there were so many people absent that we’ll figure out what to do with soon. In discussing Right Effort, we… Read more

  • Welcome to the new site

    Welcome to the new site! We are currently transitioning our content to this site, so please focus on your breath until the internet bell rings (you may need to wait a few weeks). Currently we are posting titles and links for Sundays, working backward from the present.  Thanks for your patience. Metta. Read more

  • 03/11/12 – On and Off the Path

    Michael focused the discussion on observing when we were on or off the Eightfold Path, anchored in portions of a talk by Gil Fronsdal on Right Speech (from 0:46 to 9:52) http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/977.html and an excerpt from Jon Kabat Zinn’s Coming to Our Senses, page 248: Each moment of now is what we could call a… Read more

  • 03/04/12 – Wise Intention

    Anne led the sangha in reflections on Wise Intention, using as an anchor portions of a dharma talk by James Baraz http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/86/talk/562/ Read more