Archive of Talks

The story Zac read today was about Khemā of Great Wisdom. He goes on to say, “the other story that I didn’t get to was about Bhaddā Kuṇḍalakesā: The Debating Ascetic. The material was from Great Disciples of the Buddha (publishers website here, full PDF here).” Slightly different versions of these stories can be found… Read more

This past Sunday, Margaret guided our reflections while featuring a talk by Greg Scharf on Impermanence and non-clinging. The link for the talk was: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/229/talk/38189/ A few notes and quotes follow. This talk starts with a Jataka story.   These are the stories that tell about the previous lives of the Buddha, in both human and… Read more

Wendy guided our reflections this past Sunday, using Gil Fronsdal’s perspectives on the ever-challenging and very interesting Buddhist concept of Not-Self to launch our discussion. The two talks of which Wendy played clips are below:http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/837.htmlhttp://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/845.html Read more

This Sunday, Joey guided the sitting and discussion with a talk by Andrea Fella on “Receptive Awareness”. The talk is here: http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/7172.html What are the activities or areas of your life where you habitually lose mindfulness?  Planning, driving, spacing out as you wash the dishes, jumping on the computer, turning on the radio?  Once you can… Read more

This past Sunday, Rebecca guided our reflections keyed to the final chapter in Joseph Goldstein’s book on the Satipatthana Sutta (the book is here): “The Realization of Nibbana,” Read more

Today Payton played a talk by Gil Fronsdal entitled “Response to Election” which focused largely on the role of mindful practice in times of great fear and anger. Gil spoke on the importance of love during these times. He listed what he called the four kinds of love emphasized in Buddhist teachings (which are in… Read more