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What we pay attention to
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
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Feeling Vedana
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
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Volition/Intention
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
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Between stimulus and response
Payton led a very lively discussion this Sunday on what choices we have around the moment between stimulus and response. Specifically, the chain of experiences as described by Christina Feldman: What we contact, we feel [this is Vedana or Feeling Tone]. What we feel, we perceive. What we perceive, we think about. What we think… Read more
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Right View
This past Sunday Zac led our discussion on the topic of Right (or “Wise”) View. He played excerpts from two talks: Lama Surya Das 2012-01-17 32:07 Right View Insight Meditation South Bay – Silicon Valley: Tuesday Talks—2012 http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/283/22760.html Rob Burbea 2006-12-31 56:58 Views In Practice (…They make all the difference) Gaia House: New Year’s Retreat… Read more
