Category: Dharma Talks
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The Second Arrow
This talk was given by Karen Mori on August 10, 2025. Resources Sallatha Sutta Samyutta Nikaya 36.6 Carol Wilson: Dharmaseed, 2023-04-23 The Two Darts Susan Jeffers: Feel the Fear… and Do It Anyway
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The Strength of Patience (Khanti)
Bilha gave this talk on July 20, 2025. It was inspired by the Patience Sutta (MN 21).
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Generosity
Generosity is an important part of our practice. When we offer what we have to others, we break down barriers. Generosity allows us to open up and feel a sense of abundance. Of course, all lovers of the dharma love categories, lists. It may help to think of 4 types of generosity: Giving material things. This is usually…
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Kindness and Dharma
A Dharma Talk was given by Elizabeth Cheslak on April 20, 2025. The poem read and referenced is “Kindness” by the contemporary American poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Standing in the Middle of the Worldly Winds
This talk was given March 9, 2025. Bibliography Lokavipatti Sutta. Anguttara Nikaya 8.6 Rick Hanson: Buddha’s Brain “Pleasure is a signal to approach an experience or object that may aid survival, but our brains can trick us into thinking that pleasure will somehow make our well-being permanent.” Lama Karma: The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis:…
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The Nature of Thoughts
This Dharma talk was given on February 9, 2025. The Nature of Thoughts in Buddhist Teachings (with Some Neuroscientific Perspective) Neuroscientific research shows that: Personal Example: Thoughts Are Not Reality While guiding a meditation, I noticed a building stress in my body. I became aware of an anxious thought: “Am I using the right words?…
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What is Right Samadhi? Comments on Concentration in the Suttas and in the Commentaries
Introduction Over the past year we have discussed the Four Noble Truths and seven branches of the Eightfold Noble Path. We come this morning to the eighth and final limb of the Eightfold Path. This final branch is called Right Samadhi–frequently translated as Right Concentration–and it is one of the set of three limbs that…
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Right Effort
These notes are from Curt Fish’s October 13, 2024, Dharma talk. Right Effort is effort directed at cultivating the skillful and abandoning the unskillful. Here’s a description of Right Effort from a post on Quora: Right effort—is such a great limb of the path—such a key spot, internally, in our practice. It’s this beautiful place…
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Comments on Generosity
Karen and Brian spoke briefly about generosity and dana on September 22, 2024.
