Archive of Talks

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

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

Payton hosted us in a offering of the Chinese Tea Ceremony this Sunday.  Different in nature from the Japanese Tea Ceremony, this one is designed to serve – and awaken – a number of people at the same time, as we join in observing the preparation and then all partake of the tea at the… Read more

Nancy guided our reflections today with the third session on Equanimity, which brings to a close our series on the Seven Factors of Awakening.  She drew on instructions by Ajahn Thanissaro http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/shorttalks/y2014/140601(short)_Patience_&_Equanimity.mp3 http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/seven_factors/07%20Equanimity%20(110927).mp3 and an extended dharma talk and guided meditation by Ayya Khema http://ayyakhematalks.org/Media/Green_Gulch_1996/GG_96_talk_08.mp3   Read more

Meeting at Joey’s place on our coldest morning this year, we explored Equanimity with a dharma talk by Martine Batchelor http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/119/talk/24374/ Read more

Lorilee guided our reflections this morning as we embarked on the Factor of Equanimity, the final Factor of Awakening.  The morning centered on a talk by Christopher Titmouse titled “The Wisdom of Equanimity” https://archive.org/details/DharmaTalkWisdomOfEquanimity   Read more