Anne began our series on the Five Hindrances, by focusing on Greed. Among other resources, she drew on a talk by Joseph Goldstein, using selected excerpts (minutes 1-10, 14:30-27:10, and 34:30-44:29). You may find the entire talk at http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/96/294.html
If you are interested in further exploring the topic, Anne recommends you might want to listen to this talk by Gil Fronsdal. http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/1402.html
Today Michael introduced the technique of listening to the Sound of Silence, using a talk by Ajahn Sumedho. The portion we listened to begins at minute 13.40 of this link.
http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/10/talk/4264/
We also discussed and explored Ajahn Sumedho’s encouragement to look at each arising object of consciousness intuitively and holistically to see “the way it is.” He speaks of this often, and one good place to listen is talk on “Getting to the Root of the Problem.”
Payton played a talk by Tara Brach, linked below.
Tara Brach – Impermanence: the gifts of facing reality
Sam guided our reflections on Enlightenment this Sunday, framing them with a talk by James Baraz.
The talk offers a presentation of non-Buddhist perspectives on enlightenment through stories and quotes of Advaita (non-dualistic) teachers such as Ramana Maharshi, Poonjaji, Eckhart Tolle, and Adyahshanti. . . . The talk ends with a brief guided meditation.
http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/86/talk/11695/
(This talk is third in a series of four on Enlightenment from the point of view of different traditions, for which go to dharmaseed.org > teacher > James Baraz > Select from James Baraz’s talks dropdown menu > Enlightenment 1, 2, 3, &4
Wendy directed our attention to Joy, the third of the Brahma Viharas, and used a quite joyful talk by Jack Kornfield titled “Joy and its Causes” from Nov 15 2010 to set up the discussion, a talk you can find by going to
Payton Swick guided our reflections on The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and how those shape our entire life experience, using excerpts from a talk by Robina Courtin, which can be found at
http://www.zencast.org/zencast_117_bodhicitta
good follow-up article can be found at
http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/calling-bs-on-the-minds-stories
Rebecca tuided our reflections, using material from Donald Rothberg, “Self and Not Self, The Core Teachings of the Buddha”
You can access a dharma talk on this topic by Rothberg at
http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/55/talk/16969/
And he also offers a 20+minute guided meditation on the Self and Non-Self at
http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/55/talk/16968/
Sam guided our reflections today, using a recent retreat talk (July 20) by Christina Feldman, on Effort and Effortlessness, which you can listen to or review at
Margaret guided our reflections this week, using parts of a July 16 talk by Christina Feldman on “Joy.” That talk can be found at
Michael turned the group’s attention to the question of questioning itself – the questions we are constantly asking ourselves, for better or worse – initiating the discussion with the first 15 minutes of Gil Fronsdal’s talk on “The Inquiring Mind.” Our own discusion took it from there, but if you’d like to hear what Gil’s sangha had to say about the questions they carried, there’s another half hour on this recording of Gil’s talk from July 9, 2012.
