Stephen Batchelor's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
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2016-04-12
'Good Snowflakes: They Don't Fall Anywhere Else'
2006-07-21
A Democracy of the Imagination
2014-04-25
A Dry Shit Stick
2014-07-23
A Fourfold Task (Part 1)
2014-07-24
A Fourfold Task (Part 2)
2012-07-21
A Secular Culture of Awakening
2013-04-25
A Solar Buddhism
2010-04-07
A True Person of No Status
2014-07-22
A Twofold Ground
2020-07-22
Afternoon Teachings, Questions & Answers
2020-07-21
Afternoon Teachings, Questions & Answers
2015-07-19
An Ethical Life
2011-04-21
An Ordinary Person's Life
2007-04-11
Be An Island Unto Yourself
2006-07-16
Birth and Death
2006-07-20
Buddhanature
2021-02-06
Buddhism, Reality, Zen and God - Discussion Panel
2013-04-21
Clearly Visible but Hard to See
2020-07-24
Closing Session of the Retreat
2011-04-17
Coming to Terms with Birth and Death
2021-10-09
Community and Care: Part 3 - Dharma Talk
2010-07-13
Conditionality
2016-07-19
Confusion: Reflections on Moha
2006-07-18
Contingency and Emptiness
2018-04-27
Courage
2006-04-20
Creativity
2019-04-07
Dharma Gates are Numberless
2020-04-21
Dharma Talk, Questions
2020-04-22
Dharma Talk, Questions
2020-04-23
Dharma Talk, Questions
2017-04-25
Emptiness and Solitude
2010-07-15
Entering The Stream
2006-07-19
Entering the Stream
2014-07-25
Entering the Stream
2015-07-23
Entering the Stream
2016-07-21
Enthusiasm: Reflections on 'Right Effort'
2019-07-21
Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana for Everyone
2019-07-25
Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana, Imagination and Creativity
2019-07-23
Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana, McMindfulness and Ethics
2015-04-22
Four Truths, Four Tasks, Four Vows
2009-07-14
From Place to Ground
2007-07-14
Go Forth into the World
2006-07-17
Going Against the Stream
2018-04-25
Great Doubt
2018-04-23
Great Faith
2009-07-17
Healing the Five Clusters
2019-04-09
In Praise of Ignorance
2016-04-13
Instruction - I Don't Know
2016-04-15
Instruction - Waiting and Listening
2016-04-11
Instruction - What is This?
2015-07-24
Instructions - Behold the Ceasing
2018-07-27
Instructions - Dwelling in Emptiness
2015-04-19
Instructions - Dwelling in the Breath
2015-07-20
Instructions - Fully Embrace Life
2015-07-22
Instructions - Letting Go of Reactivity
2018-07-23
Instructions - Letting Go of Reactivity
2015-04-23
Instructions - Listen and Wait
2014-04-24
Instructions - Mindfulness of Breath (day one)
2018-07-25
Instructions - Questioning
2018-07-25
Instructions - Questioning
2014-04-28
Instructions - Questioning (day five)
2015-04-21
Instructions - What is This?
2014-04-26
Instructions (day three)
2018-04-22
Instructions 1
2018-04-24
Instructions 3
2018-04-26
Instructions 5
2010-07-11
Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2011-07-23
Irrigating the Field
2009-07-15
Mara The Killer
2019-07-20
Morning Instructions - Meditation as Dwelling on This Earth
2019-07-24
Morning Instructions - What is This ?
2013-07-14
Morning Talk - A Secular Vision
2013-07-16
Morning Talk - Aridity
2013-07-20
Morning Talk - Buddhist Scepticism?
2013-07-18
Morning Talk - How to Live a Life Without Opinions
2013-07-19
Morning Talk - On Emptiness
2013-07-15
Morning Talk - Solitude
2013-07-17
Morning Talk - The Ultimate
2014-04-29
Nirvana is Now
2013-04-19
Opening Talk
2013-07-12
Opening Talk
2010-07-10
Opening Talk for Meditation and Study Retreat
2016-04-10
Question and Response
2012-07-16
Radical Attention
2016-07-17
Reactive or Responsive ?
2014-07-20
Religion, Faith and Belief
2007-07-12
Rembrandt's Eyes
2017-07-23
Secular Ethics
2017-07-25
Secular Samadhi
2017-07-27
Secular Wisdom
2010-07-17
Self and Others
2008-07-11
Self and Society
2008-07-06
Siddhattha Gotama
2009-07-18
Society and Self
2006-04-16
Spirit of Zen
2008-03-22
Starting All Over Again Part One
2008-03-26
Starting All Over Again Part Three
2008-03-24
Starting All Over Again Part Two
2011-07-22
Stream Entry
2006-04-18
Sudden Awakening
2007-04-12
Ten Pictures of Zen
2010-04-03
Ten Thousand Things
2017-04-23
The Art of Solitude
2008-07-07
The Awakening
2010-07-12
The Elephant, the Arrow and the Raft
2015-07-21
The Elephant's Footprint
2012-07-15
The Everyday Sublime
2014-04-27
The Everyday Sublime
2012-07-18
The Five Bundles
2012-07-19
The Four
2010-04-05
The Four Great Vows
2016-04-14
The Four Great Vows
2011-07-21
The Four Tasks
2008-07-09
The Four Truths
2009-07-13
The Great Matter of Birth and Death
2008-07-12
The Great Passing
2007-07-08
The Groundless Ground
2012-07-17
The Hindrances
2010-07-16
The Middle Way
2008-07-08
The Middle Way
2011-07-20
The Middle Way
2019-04-11
The Middle Way
2011-07-19
The Noble Quest
2011-07-18
The Parable of the Ancient City
2018-07-24
The Parable of the Arrow
2018-07-26
The Parable of the City
2018-07-22
The Parable of the Raft
2017-04-27
The Paradox of Solitude
2012-04-07
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One)
2012-04-09
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two)
2014-07-26
The Practice of Philosophy
2015-04-20
The Strangeness of Things
2007-04-09
The True Person of No Status
2008-07-10
The Tyrant and the Monk
2014-07-21
Tread the Path with Care
2009-04-13
True Person of No Status
2010-07-14
Turning The Wheel
2007-07-10
Turning the Wheel
2009-07-16
Turning the Wheel of the Dhamma
2011-07-17
Two Metaphors: The Snake and the Raft
2009-04-15
Unholy Emptiness
2015-04-24
We Had the Experience But Missed the Meaning
2011-04-19
Where the Mind has Nowhere to Rest
2009-04-11
Why did Bodhidamma Come From the West?
2013-04-23
Your Original Face
2007-04-07
Zen is not a Finished Product
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Select one of Stephen Batchelor's 32 retreats
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2006-04-14
Zen Meditation
2006-07-15
Study Retreat
2007-04-06
Zen Meditation
2007-07-07
Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion
2008-03-22
Zen Retreat
2008-07-05
Meditation And Study Retreat
2009-04-10
The Zen Retreat
2009-07-12
Meditation and Study Retreat
2010-04-02
The Zen Retreat
2010-07-10
Meditation and Study Retreat
2011-04-16
The Zen Retreat
2011-07-16
Meditation and Study Retreat
2012-04-06
Zen Retreat
2012-07-14
Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2013-04-19
The Zen Retreat
2013-07-06
Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2014-04-23
Zen Retreat
2014-07-19
Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2015-04-18
Son Retreat
2015-07-18
Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat
2016-04-09
Son Retreat
2016-07-16
Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat
2017-04-22
Son Retreat
2017-07-22
Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat
2018-04-22
Sŏn (Zen) Retreat
2018-07-21
Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat
2019-04-06
Sǒn Retreat
2019-07-19
Secular Buddhist Retreat
2020-04-20
Son Retreat
2020-07-20
Secular Buddhist Retreat
2021-02-06
Buddhism, Reality, Zen and God - A Discussion Panel with Stephen Batchelor and …
2021-10-09
Community & Care - Online Fundraiser (Evening Event)
2012-04-09
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two)
62:09
Reflections on "an ordinary person's life," as understood in a passage by the 9th century Chan master Teshan. This idea is related to the Buddha's phenomenological analysis of human experience (the "all") into namarupa and consciousness, a vision of life where there is no transcendent awareness or consciousness "outside" ordinary experience, thereby revealing a common thread between the Pali Canon and early Chan.
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2012-04-07
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One)
59:36
Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
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