Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

May 2022

Teachings

The Three Beautiful Roots: Cultivating the Three Wholesome Qualities in Unwholesome Times

How can we find the courage to have alobha, to give freely without attachment; adosa, to let go of aversion and punitive actions and live with integrity; and amoha, to gain insight into the nature of things without delusion? In this dharma talk, we will learn to practice the three beautiful branches of dana (giving), sila (moral integrity), and bhavana (cultivation, meditation), and to live as heart-centrically as we can.

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Apr 2022

Focusing for Meditators: Accessing the Wisdom of the Felt Sense

David Rome

The practice of Focusing builds directly on the mental skills of mindfulness and awareness in order to develop action-oriented intuitive insights into the challenges we encounter “off the cushion.” Using contemplative methods from Western psychology and philosophy, Focusing puts us in touch with the subtle level of experience known as the felt sense, where the non-conceptual wisdom of the body can be unfolded.

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Mar 2022

Meditating With Emptiness

Kurt Spellmeyer

In this Dharma Talk, Kurt Spellmeyer—a Zen priest and a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey—discusses the importance of emptiness in Zen Buddhism.

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Feb 2022

Opening the Heart of Great Compassion: The Path of Shin Buddhism

Mark Unno

Mark T. Unno, a fourteenth-generation Shin Buddhist priest and the head of the Religious Studies department at the University of Oregon, explores the concept of compassion in Shin Buddhism.

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Jan 2022

The Bodhisattva’s Path of Meditation

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

In this Dharma Talk series, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche explores approaches to meditation inspired by Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva.

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Dec 2021

How to Fight Injustice Without Hating

Valerie Brown

Based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings of engaged Buddhism and the Plum Village tradition, this course offers practices to help ground ourselves amid the negativity and injustice that we face. From a peaceful center, you’ll discover how to skillfully respond to strong emotions that may arise while engaging in social causes.

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Film Club

Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community

The Lion’s Roar

Originally released in 1985 in 16mm and beautifully remastered in 2021, The Lion’s Roar is an intimate portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

By Mark Elliott