GBS Audio Talks

Audio recordings of recent talks from our Everyday Dharma meetings  in MP3 format. Click on the link to listen or save them to your PC by right-clicking on the link to "save as."

*Visit the Videos page for the video of Joe's talk.

*Visit the Videos page to watch the video of Daigan's talk.

* The first minute of John Mifsud's talk was not recorded in which he introduces the Three Truths of Existence as impermanence, dukha (suffering), and no-self.

* Only 12 minutes of Laura's talk were recorded due to technical difficulties, but we felt it was worthwhile for listeners to hear a portion of this wonderful talk so they will be encouraged to listen to future (and previous) talks by Laura.

* Visit Videos to watch the demo of Michael Wenger's brush paintings ("Inklings"). 

"We Are All Egyptian" by John Mifsud

July 17, 2011

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David Zimmerman's poem was "It Was Like This: You Were Happy" by Jane Hirshfield, which is available at http://www.panhala.net/Archive/It_Was_Like_This.html.

Larry Robinson recited the following poems, all of which are available on the web, except for the last, which is reprinted here:

"Bugs in a Bowl" by David Budbill; "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver; "The Well of Grief" by David Whyte; "The Way It Is" by William Stafford; "For the Children" by Gary Snyder; "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Love This Miraculous World" by Wendell Berry

Greg's poems - "Hero," "Emerald," and "Firefly Spell" - are available on his blog, http://the purplewalk.blogspot.com.

Poem transcripts

Rainer Maria Rilke: Widening Circles - Book of Hours, I 2

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

Dizang's "Intimacy" - Book of Serenity, Case 20

Dizang asked Fayan, "Where are you going?"
Fayan said, "Around on pilgrimage."
Dizang said, "What is the purpose of pilgrimage?"
Fayan said, "I don't know."
Dizang said, "Not knowing is most intimate."

**Video of Cynthia Kear's talk

**Video of Joan Amaral's talk

**Video of John Mifsud's talk

** Video of Marc Matheson's talk

* Bill Weber's talk was recorded in two parts. There is a gap of a couple of minutes between the two parts.

* Introduction to Michael Ryuei McCormick's talk

* Ven. Chodron's talk on the Eightfold Path was recorded in two parts. There is a gap of a couple of minutes between the two parts.

* Laura Burges's talk on the Four Noble Truths was recorded in two parts.

To listen to our audio archives of talks before 2010, please click here.