Archive of Talks

This Sunday, Mike B. led our sangha discussion, exploring the complex question of “what is the goal of Insight practice?”. He played excerpts of a talk by Shaila Catherine, and read some of a controversial piece by Daniel Ingram. The Shaila Catherine talk can be found here: http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/163/22632.html The link to Daniel Ingram’s book in… Read more

This Sunday, Payton led the Sangha’s discussion by exploring a Zen concept that Dogen called “Dōshin” (perhaps Bodhicitta) or, as translated by Gudo Nishijima, “the will to the truth”. Payton read quotes from Brad Warner’s book “Sit Down and Shut Up”, which itself is an exploration of Zen Master Dogen’s work, Kana Shōbōgenzō. Below are… Read more

This week Sam led a discussion continuing on the topic of “the Deathless” from previous weeks by exploring how we create our sense of Self. He played 3 excerpts from the talk “The sweet essence, part 2” by Patrick Kearney. The excerpts were at times 0:00-4:58, 10:52-11:58, and 24:49-33:57. He also played the first 14… Read more

This Sunday, Lorilee led our Sangha discussion with a guided meditation by Joeseph Goldstein. The recoding she played is available here: http://www.diydharma.org/guided-vipassana-meditation-joseph-goldstein Read more

Sam led our Sangha this week on the topic of a phrase mentioned many times in Buddhist cannon: “the deathless”. Sam chose excerpts from the following talks (from dharmaseed.org): 2016-03-27 Energy of Release – The Deathless Element – where Consciousness Finds no Footing 59:12 Ajahn Sucitto Buddhist Retreat Centre : The Deeper You Go, the… Read more

Today, Margaret shared a very deep talk with the sangha on the Mula Sutta as interpreted by Thanissara. The link is:  http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/178/talk/47371/ And here are the Pali and English translations of the last ten lines.  These were taken from http://obo.genaud.net/dhamma-vinaya/pali/an/10_tens/an10.058.pali.bd.htm and https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.058.than.html respectively. Read more