Archive of Talks

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

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