Archive of Talks

This past week, Michael led our Sangha in an exploration of the ever-present idea of “self” and all the identifications and attachments that entails. In particular, he looked at traditional Buddhist concepts and how they have evolved in our modern world. To make the Dharma up-to-date and relevant to our lives, we may set aside… Read more

Building on last week’s exploration of Engaged Buddhism, this week Lorilee offered a talk by one of the world’s best known teachers in this practice: Thich Nat Han. In a talk given at Plum Village on the last day of 2008, “Thay” as he is often called by his followers, presents “The World We Are”,… Read more

Britt guided our reflections this Sunday, focusing on questions around radical acceptance and engaged Buddhism — examining where the collective efforts towards the liberation of all beings lies in our individual practice and what we have to give up in order to get there. She played a wonderful talk by Reverend angel Kyodo Williams, which… Read more

Today, Zac led our reflections on the teaching of the Three Characteristics or three marks of existence. The phrase to “see things as they really are,” itself a fascinating and potentially problematic term, refers to experiencing reality through the lens of the three characteristics. An important tenet of the dharma is that learning to see… Read more

This Sunday, Margaret led our Sangha on the topic of Aversion and its roots. She played a talk by Shaila Catherine that included a guided meditation. That talk is available here: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/163/talk/23912/ She also referred to another talk on emotions by Shaila Catherine: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/163/talk/48118/ While she didn’t play that talk during the Samgha, she read… Read more

This Sunday, Patrick led our Sangha discussion on the topic of Equanimity and how it fits in with the other three Brahmaviharas of Loving-kindness, Compassion, and Sympathetic Joy. Patrick played a talk by Winnie Nazarko, which is available here: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/315/talk/47729/ Read more