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February 27, 2023 | 1 hr. 51 min.

Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation

Pamela Weiss

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September 7, 2021 | 2 hr.

Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation

Pamela Weiss

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September 6, 2021 | 1 hr. 57 min.

Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation

Pamela Weiss

Talks

December 29, 2020 | 1 hr.

Being Here, Being Free

Pamela Weiss

We come in with all of this momentum from our life. There’s often a backlog of unfelt, unseen stuff that wants to be expressed. Our practice is not to try to stop what’s arising, but to be here for it. To allow what’s here to come, and to go. You may notice as you sit amidst the churn, sleepiness, boredom, or contentedness—whatever the array of things you’re feeling—that there are moments of here. Be in that noticing: when are you here, and when are you not? Not with judgment, but as devotion, a dedication to being with your life.

Articles

October 9, 2020

A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

Pamela Weiss

Archetypal masculine and feminine energies are wider and more comprehensive than common definitions of male and female gender. These archetypes are not about gender identity; they represent universal forces—what Carl Jung called anima (feminine) and and animus (masculine)—that exist in each of us...When they are in balance, life flows with grace and ease. Good health and balance reign in our minds and bodies, and all across the planet. Winter turns to spring, summer turns to fall, and all is right in the world.

Talks

September 21, 2020 | 51 min.

Our Women Ancestors: Finding a Way Out of No Way

Pamela Weiss

We live in two dimensions of being human, which can be called horizontal and vertical. In the horizontal aspect, we move across the surface, getting from here to there. If you look out at the ocean, you can see the surface with all the chop and the waves and so on. That’s one dimension. And that’s useful. It’s good to get from here to there. But there’s another dimension, which is the vertical—when we drop under the surface, under the churn at the top of the water, and we let ourselves descend down, down, down into the still, dark, quiet at the bottom of the ocean. Ultimately, we find a way to do both: to be engaged in horizontal movement, engagement, activity, without losing contact with the depths of our knowing, the depths of our being.

Talks

January 1, 2017 | 62 min.

The Dharma is What Holds This Teapot Together

Pamela Weiss

Entering the stream of the Dharma, we return to our river nature, discovering in our direct experience what it is to be a human being. Through our habits and through the boxes we clump our life into we lose contact with vitality and lightness—the impermanent, flowing life that we are. When we have the opportunity to genuinely rediscover that in ourselves, we rediscover our river-like nature. And we discover that river nature is also the nature of everything: loving awareness, alive, fluid, bright, kind, spacious. It is what connects. It’s the web that connects me to you and us to everything else.

Talks

December 30, 2015 | 52 min.

Ice Cubes, Generosity, and Revelation

Pamela Weiss

Articles

January 1, 2001

Leadership: A New Narrative

Pamela Weiss

There is a new narrative that is needed today more than ever, and it’s a narrative about leadership. The assumption or the hope is that Buddha’s teaching has something to contribute to a healthier, wiser narrative of leadership. Perhaps it can help us all survive the difficulties that we face, and to find ways to shift our perspective so that we can find answers where it looks like there are none.

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