Archive of Talks

Although insight into the absence of a Self seems elusive, Joseph Goldstein outlines three practical ways in which we can glimpse this insight in daily life.  Sam guided our reflections on Joseph’s strategies this past Sunday. Read more

This Sunday Ginny guided our reflections, focusing on practice as the ground for, and source of our capacity to be present to and show up for the fullness of life in community.  As James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Read more

This past Sunday, Zac guided our explorations of the fundamentals of practice that we can return to as a sources of wisdom, guidance, and resilience in the many conditions we find ourselves in. Here are the three talks of which Zac played excerpts: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/13850.html https://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/96/43807.html Read more

This week we had a more active Sangha. Sojun guided us to practice an connection and awareness exercise derived from the Clowning tradition and viewed through the lens of Zen. We explored what it was like to fail and what that failure meant, and then how it felt to be held in community even in… Read more

This week, Joey led our Sangha on the topic of mindful communication, using different strategies and practices to improve our interaction with the world. She played excerpts from three talks, available from the links below. Will Johnson, The Posture of Meditation; Breathing through the Whole Body: The Buddha’s Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body and Breath… Read more

The challenge with difficult emotions is that we don’t want to feel them. During this week’s Sangha, Payton guided the discussion around how we experience and relate to strong emotions like grief, deep sadness, anger, and fear. Buddhism is often characterized as a way to become healed from difficult emotional states, yet perhaps some difficult… Read more