Archive of Talks

  • 4/12/2015 – Pema Chodron: Taking Your practice into the world

    Wendy guided our reflections as we take in the final one of Pema Chodron’s six talks on Getting Unstuck: “Taking Your Practice into the World.”  How can we take what we learn on the cushion about the relief of suffering out into our daily lives?  If you’d like to listen to this talk, click here:… Read more

  • 4/5/2015 – Pema: Tools for Liberation

    Nancy guided our reflections as we took in the fifth of Pema Chodron’s talks on Getting Unstuck: “Tools for Liberation.”  This talk furthers exploration of skillful means to deal with shenpa, the basic underlying hook of suffering, and you can listen to it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ss0mj8sf4az9q32/Pema%205%20Tools%20for%20Liberation.mp3?dl=0   Read more

  • 3/29/2015 – Pema: Enjoying the Process

    Margaret framed our reflections as we listened to the 4th talk of Pema Chodron’s “Getting Unstuck” retreat.  Here Pema continues her exploration of how one encounters, understands, and eventually moves beyond the force of ‘shenpa’ which underlies the suffering in our lives. You can listen to this talk by clicking here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ug0q0xdbpx4aq52/Pema%204%20Enjoying%20the%20Process.mp3?dl=0     Read more

  • 3/22/2015 – Just before suffering

    Lorilee guided our reflections this Sunday, as we listened to the third of Pema Chodron’s talks in her Getting Unstuck series, titled “Meditation: the Path to Enlightenment.”  You can access that talk by clicking here https://www.dropbox.com/s/4h0b9rortg2zh52/Pema%203%20Meditation_%20Path%20to%20Enlightenment.mp3?dl=0 Discussion centered primarily about the ways in which the experience of shenpa precedes even suffering.  It is the primary contraction… Read more

  • 3/15/2015 – Pema on the root of suffering

    This Sunday Payton guided our reflections on the second of Pema Chodron’s talks in the series titled “Getting Unstuck.”  Her dharma talk, titled “Exploring the Itch,” explores the key concept of Shenpa – a pre-conceptual impulse that lies beneath dukkha itself and gives rise to both suffering and unskillful strategies we resort to in order to… Read more

  • 3/8/2015 – Pema Chodron Series “Getting Unstuck”

    Jessica framed our reflections this morning, playing the first of Pema’s talks in this “Getting Unstuck” series, titled “Learning to Stay.”  Our discussion largely centered around our own practices and the three ways in which we typically refuse to stay with what comes up in our meditation. If you’d like to hear the talk, just… Read more