Archive of Talks

This Sunday Joey led a discussion on the process of recognizing and accepting what’s going on in our minds and hearts. A central theme was the practice of RAIN, described by Tara Brach here. There are different interpretations for the acronym, but the one we commonly see is this: R – Recognize what is happening… Read more

This Sunday Payton led a sitting and discussion around the topic of clinging as outlined by Gil Fronsdal in this talk: http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/6973.html In the talk Gil quoted the usual translation of the Platform Sutra in which the Buddha is recorded as having said. “Wisdom and Meditation are the same”. However, Gil notes, the character used for “wisdom”… Read more

This Sunday Joey played a talk by Guy Armstrong entitled “Patterns of Becoming: The end of Karma”.From the talk description: “The fifth and last in a series of talks discusses the troublesome patterns of mind and volitional action that we identify as self, and how we can step out of them with the tools of dharma… Read more

This past Sunday,  Sam guided our reflection and played a talk by Brian Lesage titled “Easing into the Boundless”. The talk is available on Dharmaseed here: http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/484/33161.html Read more

This Sunday Mike guided the group through a comparison and contrast of Mindfulness and Concentration. Underlying this topic was a talk given by Gil Fronsdal. The talk is here: http://audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/910.html Gil says: Mindfulness is a clear knowing of what’s going on Concentration is a deep focus on what’s going on …but that’s it’s not quite that… Read more

This Sunday Rebecca led the discussion reading from Joseph Goldstein’s book, Mindfulness, focusing on Right Effort and Right Concentration as steps of the Eightfold Path. There was quite an exploration of the four classic pieces of Right Effort: to prevent the arising of unarisen unwholesome states; to abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen; to… Read more