Eve Decker's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Equanimity is a quality the Buddha described as essential to awakening. This talk discusses what that means and how do we practice?

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Compassion - turning toward suffering with care and wise responsiveness - is a familiar tenet of Buddhism. Renunciation is also a central teaching. What does that mean for lay practitioners and how does it relate to compassion?

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Awakened heart dwells in the present moment and chooses wise response to the unfolding, ever changing, less-predictable-than-we-think experience of now. The Buddha taught four basic qualities of the awakened heart: friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. These qualities frequently overlap, are innate (though sometimes/often not in charge) and c...

(Big Bear Retreat Center) The story of the Buddha's time from royalty to spiritual teacher and his emphasis on wisdom and compassion. The story of Ledi Sayadaw in Burma bringing mindfulness to lay people in response to colonialism.

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Talk begins by bringing in the concept of "backdraft" - how distress can seem temporarily worse when we apply self-compassion. Majority of talk is about the necessity of joy for resilience, and the practices of glimmers, knowing what you love & gratitude

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Our practice begins with lovingkindness phrases, moved to mindfulness, then equanimity and self-compassion

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Description of the components of self-compassion including Buddhist teachings, neuroscience, the 3 components of self-compassion, soothing touch and the self-compassion break

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Description of metta, heart practices, metta sutta from the Buddha. Guided metta phrase practice

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught transcending (and not identifying with) the thinking mind through present moment awareness. He also taught about using the thinking mind skillfully to incline toward wholesome, well-being inducing states. These two bodies of practice are different but each crucial in their own way, and support each other. This talk looks at working with...

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept, and it's more than a feeling. It's an understanding, a motivation, and an ever-growing collection of pragmatic responses to distress that we have available internally for ourselves and others.

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept, and it's more than a feeling. It's an understanding, a motivation, and an ever-growing collection of pragmatic responses to distress that we have available internally for ourselves and others.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dhama Talk

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's teachings point to the need for clear understanding of our own minds and hearts, along with intention, compassion, and practice. As the adage goes, we must become the ones we seek while we work to change (or even consistently comfort) the world. To do that, we need to know what's going on for us internally and know how to wisely self-soothe w...

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha said that "Hatred will never end by hatred, by love alone will it end". He also taught that we can exacerbate our suffering with the stories and beliefs we have going on in our minds. The remedies he shared to cope with suffering fall under the umbrella terms 'wisdom' and 'compassion'. Join Eve for a look at some specific teachings and practice...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's third foundation of mindfulness - mindfulness of mind states - give us directions that allow us to see mental-emotional patterns clearly without negative judgment or identification. This approach to habits we often identify as "self" gives us a very helpful way to work difficult emotions. The motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for h...

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's second foundation of mindfulness - vedana in Pali or 'feeling tone' - is a powerful and often under-utilized teaching and practice that can help us work skillfully with difficult emotions. The motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much t...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Eve shared her original song with us, "Sand Makes a Pearl".

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation & includes a dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) An exploration of emotions, and the Buddha's teaching on mindfulness as an antidote for working with them. The motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much today as it did in his time almost 2,600 years ago.

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Four Noble Truths were called "Dependent Origination, telegram-style" by Buddhist teacher Venerable Ayya Khema. Dependent Origination has also been called a 'mysterious rune'! We will take a look at this foundational teaching/insight and see if it has useful application for us in our pursuit of experiencing and offering well-being. The motivation that...

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We will look at the general teaching and then apply it to the distress of anxiety. The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much today as it did in his time almost 2,600 years ago.

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wise Speech. The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much today as it did in his time almost 2,600 years ago.

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much today as it did in his time almost 2,600 years ago.