Archive of Talks

Nancy framed our session today with multiple short talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, which focused our attention on skillful ways to discover where energy is needed in our individual meditations, and then finding ways to cultivate those particular energies.  Each of his three talks were about 16 minutes long and all can be found on Thanissaro’s… Read more

Payton led our explorations this morning, as for a second time we looked into the Second Factor of Awakening.  Usually translated as Investigation, Vicaya was translated as Interest in the talk by James Baraz which anchored the discussion http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/86/talk/12188/ Baraz spoke of several ways of cultivating increased interest in what can be observed in Mindfulness, including… Read more

Joey led our reflections this morning, anchoring them in excerpts from a dharma talk by Tara Brach, which experientially explores different approaches to the deep truths that meditation can reveal.  For the compete talk, click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbaMKK863nI&feature=youtu.be&list=UUE3E-d8dUieqIbKYIO5-pFg If you have trouble with this link go to http://www.tarabrach.com/audioarchives2014.html and scroll down to 8/27:  Loving Truth: The Power of… Read more

Michael guided our explorations today, which were centered around the teachings of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, the contemporary Burmese meditation master who in the lineage of teaching Vipassana to lay people, begun by Mahasi Sayadaw in the mid 20th century.  Instead of focusing on mindfulness of body (kayanupassana – breath, posture, sensations such as hearing, etc.), the… Read more

This Sunday we began our series of reflections on the Seven Factors of Awakening, with two sessions to be devoted to each.  Margaret initiated the series with a focus on the first factor – Mindfulness –  anchoring it in an excerpt of  a talk by Joseph Goldstein. http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/96/talk/1965/ Joseph’s talk explored four aspects of mindfulness… Read more

Today, Wendy hosted our Extended Guided Meditation, beginning with Tara Brach’s guided meditation: Awakening the Heart of Compassion http://media.dharmaseed.org/recordings/2011/12/20111231-Tara_Brach-IMCW-guided_meditation_awakening_compassion_tonglen.mp3 This was followed by guided walking meditation by Elisabeth Blaikie: http://www.fragrantheart.com/cms/free-audio-meditations/spiritual-awareness/walking-meditation-indoors Read more