Archive of Talks

  • Working with Anger: Lojong Trainings

    This Sunday, Joey played a wonderful talk by Norman Fischer. Norman discussed the Tibetan Buddhist practice of using “Lojong” slogans to bring mindfulness to daily life. Mostly the focus in the talk was using the slogans in relation to anger, but also how they are applicable to many other situations. The talk is here: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/134/talk/21034/ Joey… Read more

  • Right Thought and Livelihood

    Rebecca led a active discussion this Sunday based on reading another chapter from Joseph Goldstein’s book, Mindfulness. The topic was aspects of Right Thought, including how to interpret the Precepts and how that leads to Right Livelihood. Read more

  • The Inexpressible

    This past Sunday, Sam guided a wonderful discussion on poetry and its attempt to express the inexpressible. Sam based his talk around a recent retreat workshop that he attended where poetry was the main focus. Here is a talk that Sam used by Mark Coleman: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/115/talk/15436/ Sam also read several poems from “House of Light”… Read more

  • Unentangled Knowing

    This Sunday, Wendy led the discussion on the topic of “Unentangled Knowing”, based around a talk by Guy Armstrong. The talk is here: http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/79/talk/32559/ The discussion centered around the central four links of the Buddha’s conceptual chain of “Dependent Origination”: Sense contact, which leads to Feeling tone, which leads to Craving, which leads to Grasping.… Read more

  • Our Bodies, Concentration, and Insight

    This Sunday Michael guided a meditation on the first Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Body. The practice he shared was from the teachings of Bhikkhu Anālayo, a scholar and meditation teacher from Germany. Anālayo compared the Satipatthana Sutta in three of the original traditions of Buddhism and found which parts are common among them.… Read more

  • Sloth and Torpor

    Adam guided our reflections this past Sunday on the Hindrance of Sloth and Torpor. Laziness is only one facet of this complex Hindrance to our lives, meditative and otherwise.  A dharmic analysis of the causes and conditions of Sloth and Torpor can help us meet this hindrance with more skill and greater effectiveness. From Adam: I… Read more