Christina Feldman's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Christina Feldman
What I teach is a reflection of the constantly changing nature of my own practice. When I give a talk it is not a set agenda, but something that I've been reflecting about. The talks tend to be in rhythm with my own practice.
At the moment, I'm reflecting on the interplay of the personal and the non-personal, on aloneness and intimacy, on emptiness and embodiment. This process of reflection is a slow one. I hold a question in the background of my consciousness and then prepare to be surprised, to see what actually arises.
I enjoy the dharma a great deal. I try to convey that meditation practice is not a pathway of endlessly overcoming obstacles, but also a path of tremendous joy. It brings a great deal of profound truth to people's ability to find happiness. I have great faith in the Dharma, and a bottomless faith in people's capacity to be wise.
The ancient traditions of Buddhism are as relevant today as they were 2,500 years ago because people's capacity for getting themselves into trouble, for confusion, alienation and separation is not so different from Buddha's time. Vipassana, then and now, offers people an opportunity to transform themselves, and in so doing, transform the world around them.
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1999-12-01
A Compassionate Life
2008-12-30
A Taste of Freedom
1994-01-01
Acceptance
2000-06-01
Acceptance
1993-05-04
Acceptance
1996-01-01
Acceptance and Control
1997-03-01
Accetance
2000-06-03
Aloneness and Intimacy
2010-09-16
An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
1991-10-05
Attainment and Non-Attainment
1992-10-06
Attainment and Non-Attainment
1994-06-02
Attention and Insight
1993-06-02
Attention, Calmness, Insight
1992-10-05
Attentiveness, Calm, Insight
1996-03-03
Authority
1996-06-03
Awakening and the Personal Story
2009-09-30
Befriending the Mind
2000-01-01
Beginner's Mind
1991-10-02
Beginning of a Journey
2013-03-01
Being Embodied
2014-11-26
Brahma Viharas
2015-11-24
Brahma Viharas
2016-11-17
Brahma Viharas
1997-06-01
Calm Abiding
2011-09-18
Calming the Formations
2001-09-09
Changing Course of Heart and Mind
2013-11-05
Citta - The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
2001-01-20
Climate of Awakening
2008-12-06
Compassion
2007-09-21
Compassion
2011-09-22
Compassion
2004-12-11
Compassion
1992-10-07
Compassion
1992-06-05
Compassion
2003-01-22
Compassion and Emptiness
1993-10-02
Compassion and Wisdom
1995-09-03
Compassionate Listening
2008-11-08
Contemplation of Mind
2007-11-06
Contemplation of Mind
1997-06-02
Craving and the End of Craving
2007-11-02
Cultivating the Collected Mind
1998-04-01
Culture of Awakening
1995-09-02
Culture of Healing
1999-09-03
Dharma Gates
2020-09-17
Dharma Talk
2020-09-15
Dharma Talk - Seven Limbs of Awakening: The Treasures Within
2021-01-23
Dharma Talk and Short Guided Meditation
2011-12-30
Dimensions of Desire
2012-12-29
Dimensions of Desire
2010-11-15
Dimensions of Insight
2006-12-29
Disappointment
2017-09-24
Dukkha and Vulnerability
2015-01-16
Embodied Mindfulness
2012-09-08
Embodiment
2013-11-07
Embodiment
2014-11-10
Embodiment of Insight
2001-06-27
Emotional Wakefulness
2011-11-06
Equanimity
2013-01-01
Equanimity
1999-09-02
Equanimity
1993-01-01
Equanimity
1997-09-01
Faith
1993-06-01
Faith
1995-12-31
Faith and Fear
1992-10-04
Faith, Motivation
2014-12-06
Fearless Kindness
1995-12-29
Form and Spirit in Meditation
1998-04-03
Four Heavanly Messengers
2011-11-11
Generosity
2001-10-13
Genuine Acceptance
2007-12-15
Gladdening the Mind
1993-10-05
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
1993-10-04
Guided Meditation
2005-01-02
Guided Meditation - Body, Mind and Open Awareness
2005-01-03
Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness
1995-09-04
Guided Meditation on Sense Doors
1992-03-01
Happiness
1992-10-02
Happiness
1992-06-01
Happiness
1998-04-04
Healing
1996-06-02
Healing
1995-03-02
Healing
1997-03-03
Healing Space
2009-03-11
Hindrances
2012-11-02
Hindrances
1992-06-02
Impermanence
1992-10-01
Impermanence and Insight
1992-06-03
Insight Pt 1
1992-06-04
Insight Pt 2
1992-03-03
Insight; Deepening in Meditation
1993-05-03
Instructions - Metta
2020-09-16
Instructions and Guided Meditation
2010-12-31
Instructions on Contemplation of Mind
2011-11-02
Instructions on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Part 1)
2011-11-07
Instructions on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Part 2)
2018-09-09
Instructions – 1st Satipatthana: Mindfulness of Body, Walking Meditation
2018-09-12
Instructions – 3rd Satipatthana - Citta - Moods
2003-09-08
Intimacy with the Moment
1994-09-01
Intro & Instructions - Lovingkindness Weekend
2004-12-10
Intro to Compassion Retreat
2010-12-29
Introduction to Metta Meditation and Guided Meditation on Metta Towards Oneself
2022-09-12
Introduction to Viriya
2020-09-14
Introductory Talk for the Retreat
2010-11-24
Investigation
2003-01-21
Investigation
1994-06-06
Journey of Renunciation
2009-01-02
Journey to a Bow
2009-11-19
Joy
2013-11-14
Joy
2002-12-29
Joyful Effort
1992-06-07
Language of Silence
1991-09-01
Learning
1991-09-02
Learning
1993-10-01
Living Our Truth
1992-10-09
Living Our Truths
2003-12-12
Loving Kindness
2001-01-21
Loving Kindness
1992-03-05
Loving Kindness
1993-05-02
Loving Kindness
2001-01-22
Loving Kindness Closing Talk
1994-09-02
Lovingkindness
1992-06-06
Meditative Spirit
2015-11-12
Meeting the Hindrances with the Awakening Factors
1991-06-02
Meeting with Mara
2012-11-05
Mental and Emotional States
2012-12-01
Metta
2004-01-02
Mind of Compassion
2007-09-19
Mind of Kindness
2022-09-17
Mindfulness
2010-09-11
Mindfulness and its Allies
2017-11-03
Mindfulness, Metta, Hindrances
2008-11-25
Non-Self
2011-01-01
Non-Self and Emptiness
1998-06-02
One Fortunate Attachment
2013-02-27
Opening Talk
2013-09-22
Opening Talk
2001-10-12
Opening Talk for Acceptance Retreat
2009-01-15
Opening Talk for An Exploration of Mindfulness MBCT/SR Retreat
2011-01-19
Opening Talk for An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat
2012-11-30
Opening Talk for Boundless Friendliness
2007-12-14
Opening Talk for Gladdening the Mind
2008-12-05
Opening Talk for Heart of Kindness, Mind of Kindness Retreat
2010-01-14
Opening Talk for MBCT/MBSR Retreat
2008-09-12
Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
2009-09-26
Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation Retreat
2012-09-07
Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR …
2010-09-10
Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR
2011-09-16
Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR…
2012-12-27
Opening Talk for New Year Retreat
2011-12-27
Opening Talk for New Year's Retreat
2012-01-04
Opening Talk for Origins and Applications of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat
2009-12-27
Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat
2008-12-27
Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight Retreat
2010-12-27
Opening Talk for The New Year's Retreat
2011-11-01
Opening Talk for the November Solitary Retreat
1991-06-04
Original Blessing
2009-11-10
Papanca
2006-11-13
Papanca
2011-11-23
Papanca
2012-09-11
Papanca
2022-09-18
Passaddhi
1994-06-01
Path of Compassion
1993-12-29
Path of Peace
1991-10-03
Path of the Bodhisattva
2004-12-12
Patience
2014-09-14
Patterns of Obscuration
1996-06-01
Personal Mythology (3) - Free Within Our Stories
1994-06-03
Personal Mythology and Awakening (1)
1994-06-04
Personal Mythology and Awakening (2)
1991-10-01
Power of Beliefs
2010-11-05
Practicing with the Hindrances
2007-09-16
Precious Human Life
1991-06-03
Pursuit of Perfection
2014-11-20
Question and Answer Session
2015-11-21
Question and Answer Session
2016-11-23
Question and Answer Session
2013-11-21
Questions and Answers
2017-11-21
Questions and Answers
2000-06-02
Reflections on Emptiness
2011-12-28
Refuge
1999-09-04
Remarkable Self
2009-12-30
Renunciation
2004-09-16
Renunciation
1993-10-03
Reverence
1991-06-01
Reverence
1992-03-04
Sacred
1995-03-01
Sacred Space, Healing Moment
1992-10-08
Search for Self, Search for No Self
2016-11-06
Shapes of the Mind
1997-03-02
Shaping Our World with Intention
2022-09-17
Short Meditation Sitting & Inquiring into Clinging and Non-clinging
2022-09-18
Short Meditation Sitting and Piti (continued)
2022-09-18
Short Meditation Sitting and Samadhi
2022-09-17
Short Meditation Sitting, and Teachings on Investigation
1992-10-03
Silence
2020-09-18
Some Reflections, on the Closing Day of the Retreat
2010-01-02
Spaciousness
2009-09-27
Spaciousness
2017-11-11
Standing at the crossroads
1996-03-01
Staying in Touch
2011-01-20
Suffering and the Causes of Suffering
2013-09-24
Swimming Against the Tide
2001-06-25
Taking Refuge
2011-09-20
Taste of Freedom
2022-09-17
Teaching on Piti and Short Meditation Sitting
2022-09-17
Teachings on Viriya (continued)
1993-06-03
The Art of Non Dwelling
2005-01-01
The Body
2005-01-01
The Body - Guided Meditation
2022-09-17
The Bojjhanga
2014-02-17
The Dialogue Between Mindfulness and Wise Effort
2010-12-28
The Four Great Contentments
2015-09-16
The Four Sublime Abidings
2001-09-11
The Implications of Impermanence
2010-01-16
The Journey From Aversion to Kindness
2010-09-14
The Judging Mind
2013-09-27
The Judging Mind
1991-10-04
The Language of Silence
2014-09-17
The Life that Doesn't Go Away
2004-08-29
The Magic of the Mind
2003-12-13
The Ox Herding Pictures
1993-06-05
The Purpose of the Journey
2008-09-13
The Road Less Travelled
1993-06-06
The Self
1993-06-07
The Spirit of Freedom
2003-09-12
The Ten Paramis
2014-11-05
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness - Mental States
2007-12-28
The Wisdom of Boredom
1996-10-27
The Wisdom of Loving Kindness
2010-11-08
The World Led by Mind
1998-06-01
The World of Emotion
2006-11-06
Thought and Mental States
2017-09-27
Towards Embodiment
1994-06-05
Trust - Motivation
2022-09-18
Upekkha
2015-11-05
Vedana
2012-11-13
Viriya
1999-09-01
Visibility and Invisibility
2022-09-17
Welcome, and a Short Meditation Sitting
2015-09-13
Where Does it All Go Wrong ?
1993-06-04
Wholeheartedness, Mindfulness
1998-04-02
Wilderness of the Heart
1992-03-02
Wise Effort
2006-11-02
Wise Intention
1998-09-01
Wise Intention
1996-12-01
Wise Intention and Attention
2009-01-17
Wise Mindfulness
2012-01-05
Wise Mindfulness
1996-03-02
World of Feeling
