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Eve Decker's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
Eve Decker
Eve is a long time student of the dharma. She began practicing Vipassana in the early 1990s, trained in mindfulness-based social action through the two-year Path of Engagement program at Spirit Rock. and is a certified meditation teacher through the Community Dharma Leader Program. Eve is also a performing artist and co-founded the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots(1993-2009). They were dubbed “Best Band with a Conscience” by the SF Bay Guardian, toured nationally, and released five CDs. In 2006 Eve released a solo CD, “Commentary on the Perfections of the Heart”, ten original songs based on a Buddhist list of qualities that promote a contented heart. A review of the CD in Tricycle magazine said, “Decker’s melodies, and her luscious, inventive phrasing, give her songs the power of a transmission”. Here's what James Baraz has to say, "Listening to Eve’s songs are often just what I need to remind myself of the truth inside. They’ve been a big part of my daily life practice to inspire and open my heart. I love Eve Decker’s music!"
2024-04-25 Tender and Fierce Self-Compassion: Two Essential Ways to Practice 57:28
Self-Compassion requires us to cultivate capacities of presence with difficulty, kindness, and awareness of common humanity. But this doesn't mean that it always must be tender and internal. Often, our self-compassion requires us to be action-oriented and courageous. Join Eve for a look at these two forms of self-compassion and some ways to practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-04-11 Supporting our Peace with Mindfulness of Feeling Tone 50:13
During mindfulness practice, we might anchor our awareness through a focus on breath or body. We can also become mindfully aware of vedena, or feeling tone: whether we experience something as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Becoming mindful of this mental function helps us interrupt our own reactivity, in order to both experience and offer greater levels of equanimity and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-03-28 Practices to Increase Contentment 50:13
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).
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-03-14 Appreciation of Goodness 54:32
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
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-02-29 Contentment through Wise Joy 54:58
This week, join Eve Decker as we consider elevating 'wise joy' in our practice and life, as an essential source of energy and contentment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-02-22 Contentment Through Mindfulness 52:23
a look into a few of several practices that support us in deepening contentment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-01-25 Two Paths to Self-Forgiveness 56:35
There are often things about ourselves that can be hard to forgive: the ways we have caused harm to others, the way we have caused or chronically cause harm to ourselves, and the ways we perceive ourselves as imperfect. Join us for an exploration of two possible paths that can lead to a greater sense of self-forgiveness.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-12-14 Supporting our Peace with Mindfulness of Thoughts 58:13
Join Eve Decker for an exploration of the why and how of increasing our capacity to experience and offer peace through mindfulness of thoughts. "As contemplation deepens, the seemingly solid, stable mind reveals itself to be a stream of mental acts flashing in and out of being, coming from nowhere and going nowhere, continuing in sequence without pause."- Bihhhu Bodhi "Watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become." - Buddha
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-10-12 Self-Compassion as Skillful Response to Difficult Emotions 49:29
Learning or deepening a capacity to meet our own difficult emotions with compassion rather than reactivity helps us move toward wise action or letting go, depending on what may be needed.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-09-28 Mindful Self-Compassion- Part 1 or 3 54:09
Part 1 in a three part series on Mindful Self Compassion (MSC). Each session stands alone and/or you can participate in all three - each will have different, related information and practices.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

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