Archive of Talks

Wise View is the first element of the Eightfold Path to end suffering, and it is the lens through which all the other elements can best be understood.  Joey led the discussion this past week, drawing from dharma talks and an interview between Loch Kelly and Adyashanti to help define Wise or Right View, offering… Read more

Here are a number of the passages cited in the presentation on Awareness Michael gave during his presentation this past Sunday.  In general, there is a progression from easy entry into Awareness of Awareness up to its more powerful implications. Nisargadatta, from I Am That :    this is not a rarified realization.  I ask… Read more

This Sunday, Rebecca led our Sangha discussion by reading some thoughts on Anatta, and then playing a version of the “Big Mind” guided meditation led by Joseph Goldstein. The guided meditation is available here: Read more

This Sunday, Joey led the dharma discussion drawing from a talk by Sally Clough Armstrong, focusing on ways of remembering mindfulness and compassion when a tendency to blame or negative states of mind arise. Sally brings interesting references to neuroscience and skillful means for addressing our sometimes negative responses to inevitable unpleasant moments. The talk… Read more

This Sunday, Payton guided the Sangha discussion. We continued the theme of noticing the space between our experience and our reaction, by trying to become more aware of Vedana, or the Feeling Tone (pleasant, unpleasant, or neither) that happens just as our senses make contact with the world. More specifically, we discussed trying to feel the sensation… Read more

This past Sunday, Margaret led our Sangha discussion on the topics of volition (intention),  the underlying motivations for intentions, and how kharma is related to those underlying motivations. We based this discussion on: The first 8 and a half minutes of a talk by Joseph Goldstein: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/96/talk/24781/ A reading from the section “The factor of volition”,… Read more