Archive of Talks

Payton led the discussion this past Sunday on the topic of Freedom: Relief vs. Release. The discussion was centered around a talk by Gil Fronsdal, available here: http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/6816.html Gil brought up the social/philosophical tensions that exist in all our lives and how perhaps the “middle way” isn’t just choosing a place on that spectrum. Just… Read more

This past Sunday, Mike shared parts of a dharma talk by Sean Feit on the original Buddhist ideas of hiri and ottappa – sometimes translated as Conscience and Concern. Called “The Guardians of the World”, often these terms are translated as Shame and Moral Dread, which perhaps accounts for how little they are discussed in the… Read more

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

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

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

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