Archive of Talks

This Sunday, Mike guided a very involved discussion around Anatta, typically translated into English as “not-self” and a frequent stumbling block for many new to the practice. After all, clearly there is a “self”, and self-denial is the source of much suffering in our culture. The Buddha was not in disagreement with that, but rather… Read more

This Sunday Wendy led the discussion, playing a talk by Tara Brach which included the wonderful Inuit story of the Skeleton Woman. The talk is here: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/175/talk/38657/   Read more

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