Archive of Talks

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

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