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Eugene Cash's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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I am intrigued by how we can live the 'holy life' as lay people. How do we erase the imaginary line between formal sitting practice and the rest of our lives? How can we bring full engagement to formal and informal practice? Is it possible to embody, in our lives, the understanding and insight that comes with intensive training? And can we live our lives in a way that expresses and continues to deepen our realization? These questions fuel my practice and my teaching. I place a lot of emphasis on the Buddha's teaching about mindfulness of the body. The body is a powerful dharma gate. I encourag...

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Episodes

Eugene Cash: Great is the Matter of Birth-and-Death Maranasati 04.06.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash: Guided Meditation 03.06.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash: Loving Our Elemental Nature 02.06.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Loving the Dharma imbues our practice with heartfulness. This heartfulness allows us to experientially know our elemental nature as well as our Buddha Nature.

Eugene Cash: Guided Meditation 01.06.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash: Being Embodied: The First Foundation of Mindfulness 31.05.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash, Pamela Weiss: Taking the Precepts 31.05.2026

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash: Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29.10.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.

Eugene Cash: Buddhism and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26.10.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the Normalcy of Death in Buddhism. Looking at the many ways Buddhism understands death: Death of the body; The life and death of each moment; Becoming harmonious with Death as part of Life; Death as a Doorway to the Deathless,

Eugene Cash: Awakening to Suffering and its End (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17.10.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to land in present moment with both sukkah and dukkah. How being here leads to letting go, freedom, and ' the sure hearts release'. Freedom is right here in our own body, heart and mind if we relax and settle into the truth of each moment.

Eugene Cash: The Parami of Patience 20.07.2025

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what you love and what you care about, and with that dedication comes a trust that by planting beautiful seeds, eventually in their own time they will bear fruit."

Eugene Cash: Paradox of Life and Death 03.07.2025

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.

Eugene Cash: Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness 01.07.2025

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.

Eugene Cash: Normalcy of Life and Death 29.06.2025

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.

Eugene Cash: The World of Fear and the Practice of Fearlessness 22.06.2025

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) When you experience your fear you become fearless. All other fears merge with that fear. If you fear that fear, then you will become fearful. Be fearless, and all your fears will flee. ~Kabir

Eugene Cash: Memorial Day Metta - Dharma Talk 26.05.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Eugene Cash: Memorial Day Metta 26.05.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Eugene Cash: Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity 09.02.2025

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life; they do not hear the cry of distress continually pervading the world. Bound by selfishness, their hearts turn stiff and narrow... It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom and makes the narro...

Eugene Cash: The Art of Realizing Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 01.01.2025

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Knowing Impermanence Experientially is the doorway to Freedom. We see we can't hold on to anything! Letting Go– Not Clinging brings the Freedom to Be. Anicca vata sankhara chant: 'All conditioned things are impermanent. Their nature is to arise & pass away. To live in harmony with this truth. Brings the highest happiness'. Anicca vata sankhara chant.

Eugene Cash: Simplicity, Awareness, Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 28.12.2024

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How Relaxing into the Simplicity of Awareness brings an Intimate experience of the Knowing of Aliveness.

Eugene Cash: Maranasati 2024 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 16.09.2024

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating our mortality personally as well as learning how Buddhism utilizes Mindfulness of Death as a gateway to Awakening. The Advice to Anathapindika gifts us with the deeper teachings on letting go of attachment; letting go of our identity; letting go of life!

Eugene Cash: Right Effort: In Meditation, in Relationship & in the World 04.08.2024

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment... the effort to make each activity of our day meditation." - Ajahn Chah

Eugene Cash: Right Effort in Meditation Retreat: 24/7 Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 01.08.2024

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discovering how Right Effort leads to being present, awakening and realizing the Truth of the Dharma. We explored different currents of Rt. Effort: gentle; relaxed; willful; strong; fierce. We examined why and when different streams of effort might be skillful.

Eugene Cash: SFI Sunday Nights 09.06.2024

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Eugene Cash: Upekkhā: Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World 09.06.2024

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Upekkhā (Equanimity) is a Brahma Vihara, one of the ten Pāramīs, and one of the Seven Factors of Awakening

Eugene Cash: Precious Human Birth– Becoming Human in Each Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 03.06.2024

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What makes humans precious? The magic, mystery & wonder embodied consciousness that is characterized by the Oneness of Birth-and-Death, & the paradox of unity of suffering and awakening being in Precious Human Birth

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