Archive of Talks

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

On January 21, Michael offered a presentation on the Distraction and Dharma. His interest piqued by the effect of increasing, even compulsive use of digital devices on the part of the general population (himself included), he put together the observations of several respected teachers on the subject of the kinds of distractions that we actually… Read more

This Sunday, Zac led our Sangha discussion exploring the question, “what is insight?”. He played an excerpt from a talk by Rob Burbea and read from the Samanupassana Sutta: Assumptions. Read more