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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-05-30
Knowing and Meeting Your Own Needs
As an Act of Compassion
49:07
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Eve Decker
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Many of us learned, for multiple reasons, to ignore our own needs. While this may support being of service to others in the short term, in the long term we can burn out and become resentful if we don't know what our authentic needs are and endeavor to meet them. We are each our own primary caregiver, and how we meet and respond to our own version of Universal Human Needs makes a big difference in how consistently available we can be to others. Using the skills of mindfulness, interconnection, compassion, and more, we can bring awareness and warmth into how we take care of our own needs. Hope to see you! Warmly, Eve
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-03-28
Practices to Increase Contentment
50:13
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Eve Decker
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Mindfulness helps us see our minds. Neuroscience and our own observations make clear that the natural negativity bias is there, and can be overridden in favor of intentional practices that increase contentment. Join Eve to explore two of these practices - appreciating others ('mudita' in Pali) and appreciating ourselves (noticing and savoring our innate and expressed goodness).
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-03-21
Great Female Disciples of the Buddha
50:09
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James Baraz
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Most of the Buddha's disciples whose names we are familiar with, such as Ananda and Sariputta, are men. The Buddha also had women disciples who were wise and profound practitioners like Mahapajapati, the Buddha's aunt/foster mother, responsible for the establishment of the order of nuns or Patacara, revered teacher, who tragically lost her family and eventually became fully enlightened.
“If the measure of a human life is a chance to have significance that extends beyond itself, then we’ve hit the jackpot. We are alive at game time on the planet, when everything we value is genuinely threatened, when it’s time for all hands on deck.”
—Terry Patten, A New Republic of the Heart
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-03-14
Appreciation of Goodness
54:32
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Eve Decker
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The Dalai Lama said “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” And the Buddha taught that the wholesome energies that support goodness are the stepping stones to freedom. Join Eve for a deeper look at appreciation for goodness, the ensuing increase of inner ease, and ways we can practice.
With metta, Eve
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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