Following is an archive of teachers and topics for our Thursday evening meetings in 2009. Visit the Recorded Dharma page to download or listen to these dharma talks.
| December 31 |
New Years Eve |
No meeting. |
| December 24 |
Christmas Eve |
Community-led gathering |
| December 17 |
Arinna Weisman |
Website |
| December 10 |
James Baraz |
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| December 3 |
Anam Thubten Rinpoche |
Website |
| November 26 |
Thanksgiving Day |
No meeting |
| November 19 |
James Baraz |
The Body: Storehouse of
Experience |
| November 12 |
Rev Heng Sure |
Abbot of Berkeley Buddhist Monastery |
| November 5 |
Arinna Weisman |
Website |
| October 29 |
Anthony Rodgers |
Developing Our Understanding. Anthony is one of James'
young mentees with a strong practice who works in hospice and chaplaincy |
| October 22 |
Yvonne Rand |
Practices in Daily Life Website |
| October 15 |
James Baraz |
Heaver or Hell: The Choice is Yours |
| October 8 |
Alan Senauke |
Berkeley Zen Center: The World is What We Make It |
| October 1 |
James Baraz |
Cleaning Our Slate |
| September 24 |
James Baraz |
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| September 17 |
Eve Decker |
Metta for Yourself (Self-love) w/ dharma music. Website |
| September 10 |
Alexa Ouellett |
East Bay Healing Collective. Website |
| September 3 |
Catherine Ingram |
Dharma Dialogues. Website |
| August 27 |
James Baraz |
Being the Awareness |
| August 20 |
Phagyab Rinpoche |
Founder of the Compassion Project. Website |
| August 6 |
James Baraz |
Intersecting Realities |
| July 30 |
James Baraz |
Woman at the Well |
| July 23 |
Catherine Ingram |
Dharma Dialogues. Website |
| July 16 |
James Baraz |
On Metta |
| July 9 |
James Baraz |
Castles in the Sand |
| July 2 |
James Baraz |
You Never Know |
| June 25 |
James Baraz |
Contentment |
| June 18 |
Kate Janke |
Fear |
| June 11 |
James Baraz |
Reflections on Our Deepest Truths |
| June 4 |
James Baraz |
Verses on the Faith Mind Part 3 (3rd Zen Patriarch of China) |
| May 28 |
James Baraz |
with guest Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri |
| May 21 |
James Baraz |
Verses on the Faith Mind Part 2 (3rd Zen Patriarch of China) |
| May 14 |
James Baraz |
Verses on the Faith Mind Part 1 (3rd Zen Patriarch of China) |
| May 7 |
James Baraz |
with guest Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. More info |
| April 30 |
James Baraz |
Bamboo Acrobats |
| April 23 |
James Baraz |
The Benevolence of Life |
| Aprl 16 |
James Baraz |
Confidence |
| April 9 |
James Baraz |
Am I Good Enough? |
| April 2 |
Yvonne Rand |
Cultivation of Patience . Yvonne Rand's website. |
| March 26 |
James Baraz |
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed Awareness |
| March 19 |
James Baraz |
A Meditative Instruction: Interested Awareness |
| March 12 |
James Baraz |
A Meditative Instruction: Kind Awareness |
| March 5 |
James Baraz |
Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot |
| February 26 |
Ernest Isaacs |
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| February 19 |
Lama Palden |
What is True Refuge? / Lama Palden's website |
| February 12 |
Wes Nisker |
Darwin's 200th Birthday + Suggestions for Lowering Our Impact on Earth / Wes Nisker's website |
| February 5 |
Richard Shankman |
Samadhi / Richard Shankman's website |
| January 29 |
James Baraz |
Letting in the Love |
| January 22 |
James Baraz |
Barack Obama's inauguration in the context of dharma practice |
| January 15 |
James Baraz and guest Paul Ekman |
Emotional Awareness: facial expressions and human emotions |
| January 8 |
James Baraz |
Emotional Awareness |
| January 1 |
Rev Heng Sure |
Buddhist Songs of Enlightenment |
