Episodes
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.10.17
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on October 17, 2022, about the dynamics of pain. How does emotional pain bamboozle the strategic rational mind? How do the dysfunctional inner bids for connection demand that we wisely reparent ourselves? How do Buddhism and the other Wisdom Traditions offer us a treasure trove of healing possibilities?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.09.19
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on September 19, 2022, about facing darkness. Darkness calls to mind what metaphors and what experiences? How do we respond to those metaphors? What can we learn from reflecting on darkness? This talk took place a couple days before the Autumnal Equinox.
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.07.25
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on July 25, 2022, about freedom. What is problematic about our ordinary ideas about freedom? How do we recognize our unfreedom? What does true freedom look like?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.04.25
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on April 25, 2022, about discipline vs. tameness. How does the Buddhist paramita of discipline differ from neurotic over-control? How do we practice healthy discipline without over-taming our authentic animal nature? What is the relationship between animal wildness and wisdom? This talk fell in the week leading up to Beltaine.
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.03.28
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 28, 2022, about vulnerability. How deeply do you feel Life? How vividly do you taste the juiciness of human connection? What does vulnerability reveal about the Mahayana ideal of the Bodhisattva?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.03.21
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 21, 2022, inner renewal. What habits of mind keep us mired in the same old patterns? How do we explode the veneer of jaded familiarity? How do we recover the essential freshness and vitality at the heart of human experience?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.03.14
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 14, 2022, about the ego-cage. How do our preoccupations prevent us from seeing life as it is it? How do we create the vast majority of our misery? What does freedom really look like?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.03.07
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on March 7, 2022, about six temptations, those of Christ and Buddha. What draws us away from the Path and makes us forget ourselves? What are the patterns that trap us, sometimes without our realizing it? What does it mean to walk toward integration and wholeness?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.02.28
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on February 28, 2022, about radical simplicity. Why is it such “gift to be simple”? Why is it so hard to be simple? What is the deep link between simplicity and intimacy?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2022.02.21
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This is my dharma talk from the East Bay Healing Collective on February 21, 2022, about control. What are the unhealthy forms of control that drain us without serving us? What is the deep inner dynamic of control and fear? How do we find serenity with respect to the uncontrollable aspects of life, others, and our own nature?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.