New audio Dharma talks will be added regularly!
what is meditation anyway? Why is it a good thing to do?
Presented by Mary Kullman
Mary Kullman, Present Moment Sangha Co-Leader and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher presents a Dharma Talk about the benefits of meditation at a sangha meeting held in September, 2021.
Awakening Compassion: Inside & Out
Presented by Mary Kullman
Mary Kullman, Present Moment Sangha Co-Leader and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher presents a Dharma Talk about Awakening Compassion at a Half-Day of Mindfulness retreat held March 7, 2020.
Awareness As A Lifestyle
Presented by Steve Armstrong
My biding motivation for the practice of teaching is to share my interest, my understanding and my confidence in the Buddha’s way for a balanced and deeply happy life. Given the pace of our culture and the direction in which it is going, mindfulness is essential to sanity. Since my first vipassana retreat in 1975, I’ve experienced the wisdom of sanity, peace and freedom. Click here to access the Dharma talks.
The Four Noble Truths
Presented by Mary Kullman
Mary Kullman, Present Moment Sangha Co-Leader and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher leads you through a series of Dharma Talks about the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths are the core of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body
Presented by Tara Brach
Our fear management strategies–versions of fight/flight– contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.
Being Who You Already Are
Presented by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is a way of waking up to the life that’s yours to live and to embodying that life moment by moment by moment …
The Noble Eightfold Path: A Summary Talk
Presented by Shell Fischer
The Buddha taught us that – happily – there is a way out of suffering, and that way is the Noble Eightfold Path. The path itself is often illustrated as a wheel … the Dhammachakra (chakra = wheel) … and each of the 8 parts of this wheel is represented as a spoke – which means that our practice of them should flow seamlessly together, as a whole. In this talk, Shell offers a summary of the path in anticipation of a series of talks on these 8 essential practices.