Sylvia Boorstein's Dharma Talks
Sylvia Boorstein
My greatest joy is giving the gift of love and hope through the dharma, knowing it is possible for humans to transform their hearts. These dharma gifts include paying attention, practicing clarity and kindness and addressing the suffering of the world--which, of course, includes ourselves.
Right now I'm most enthusiastic about the first gift, paying attention, because it makes every part of our lives better. Paying attention allows us to become more clear, and each moment of clarity is a gift to ourselves and those around us. Clarity keeps us from contributing to more suffering. The gift of clarity and kindness also supports a peaceful heart, which allows us to address the suffering in the world with love. When we practice clarity, we offer the possibility for humans to live in a different way. But a peaceful heart is only the beginning. We also have to take action, go out and directly address the suffering with peace in our hearts.
As a parent, grandparent and a psychotherapist, I teach out of the stories of my life and the lives of those around me. I am especially touched by personal narrative, accounts of spiritual journeys, and how these become vehicles for connecting with the dharma. I believe in revealing my own story so that others are more at ease to reveal theirs. Truth talking is a way out of suffering. Discovering how our hearts and minds work and creating a dialogue supports right speech practice. This is an on-going primary practice that we can do all the time. My hope is that I encourage people how to pay attention and to tell the truth by example.
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Select from Sylvia Boorstein's
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2023-09-06
"Everything Passes? That's Terrible!" ~ Barbie (2023)
2008-01-09
"I Shall Not Want"
2013-10-16
"It's Incredibly Easy to Get Annoyed"
2021-11-10
"May All Beings Be Peaceful & Happy & Come to the End of Suffering"
2023-09-13
"Neighbor is not a geographic term. It's a moral imperative."
2010-10-27
"Presents of Mind"
2010-03-10
"Wisdom is Wisdom"- Mindfulness Part 1
2003-05-14
3 Characteristics of Existence
2003-04-09
5 Spiritual Faculties
2005-06-08
65 Min Of Being High
2003-09-10
9-11, 2 years later
2006-02-08
A Break In The Clouds
2000-11-27
A Dharma Hologram
2003-07-23
A Mind Like a Deer
2011-01-05
A New Beginning
2003-02-21
A Prayer For Peace
2013-09-11
A World Designed to Sadden
2006-02-21
Accomodating To Life
2002-01-30
All is Suffering, All is Compassion
1999-03-07
Always Beginning Again
2013-03-17
An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete
Guide to P…
2005-06-22
Anqulimala Sermon & Forgiveness
2016-09-28
Anyone Who Understands Impermanence Ceases to Be Contentious
2021-05-05
Anyone Who Understands Impermanence Ceases to be Contentious
2002-02-27
Ardency
2009-01-05
Are You Brave Enough To Be Transformed By Lovingkindness?
2022-08-03
August 3rd Dharma Talk
2008-01-03
Avoiding Bitter-Ocity
2018-06-25
Awakening in Every Moment, Day 1, Evening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-25
Awakening in Every Moment, Day 1, Opening Afternoon Session (Retreat at Spirit …
2018-06-26
Awakening in Every Moment, Day 2, Morning Session #1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-26
Awakening in Every Moment, Day 2, Morning Session #2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-26
Awakening in Every Moment, Day 2, Morning Session #3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-01-06
Awakening Joy- Sylvia Boorstein and James Baraz
2009-06-03
Aware of the Passing of Time
2018-06-26
Awareness in Every Moment, Day 2 Afternoon Session #1(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-26
Awareness in Every Moment, Day 2, Afternoon Session #2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-26
Awareness in Every Moment, Day 2, Evening Session- Q&A
2018-06-27
Awareness in Every Moment, Day 3, Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1991-02-06
Balance And Practice
1996-02-16
Balance In Practice
2013-06-19
Balancing the Hindrances with the Factors of Enlightenment
2022-03-02
Balancing the Mind in the Middle of Sorrow
2000-02-17
Basic Texts as a Source of Faith
1999-02-14
Be On The Lookout
2019-04-13
Befriending Your Life : The Liberating Practice of the Brahma-Viharas - Day 1 o…
2019-04-14
Befriending Your Life : The Liberating Practice of the Brahma-Viharas - Day 2 o…
2011-09-28
Beginning the New Year with forgiveness (PLEASE NOTE: False start--2+minutes th…
2022-10-19
Being a 21st century Western Buddhist
2020-01-08
Being a Friend to Everything
2008-06-18
Being Freed From Fixed Views
2016-05-11
Being with the Syrian Refugees in Greece -- A Presentation by John Namkung
2013-08-06
Best Advice from Teachers
2015-03-15
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
2012-02-29
Birth, Death and Vision for an Amazing Future in a technology world.
2001-02-28
Born to Win
2015-03-14
Brahma Vihara Day 14 - Compassion
2019-02-13
Brahma Viharas & Happiness
1995-11-23
Buddha Soup
2021-10-20
Buddhas Teaching on Impartial Kindness: The Metta Sutta
2015-10-14
Buddhist Wisdom Part 1 - Being there is the same as not being there.
2022-11-02
Building a Mind One Story at a Time
2022-06-15
By Not Clinging to Fixed Views
2005-08-24
By Not Clinging To Views
2009-12-09
By Not Holding to Fixed Views
2018-01-09
Can You Wake More Up Than Up? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-04-16
Can't Complain
2008-04-23
Can't Complain - part 2
2001-02-08
Cemetery Contemplations, Old And New
2004-02-11
Chapter 2 - The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2004-02-18
Chapter 3 - The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2004-02-25
Chapter 4 - The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2004-03-03
Chapter 5 - The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2004-03-10
Chapter 6 - The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2004-02-04
Chapter I- The Life & Teachings Of The Buddha
2003-02-11
Cherishing, Self Cherishing & Self-Cherishing
2014-04-30
Choose to Put Your Burdens Down
2014-05-21
Class I or II : Practicing the Path of Peace
2018-01-15
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-11-18
Co-teaching with Toni Bernhard on How to Live with Chronic Pain and Illness
2014-01-15
Committing to Save the Planet with Bob Doppelt and Sylvia Boorstein
2014-01-16
Compassion
1998-12-03
Compassion and the Paramis
2017-08-16
Compassion Equals Forgivess: Prayers for Those Who Hurt Us (Drop in program at …
2015-07-11
Compassion for someone who is suffering
2021-09-15
Compassion, Through Wisdom, Is Liberation From Suffering
2021-09-22
Compassion, Through Wisdom, Is Liberation From Suffering (Part 2)
1994-02-04
Complete Metta Retreat
2013-02-13
Concentration, loving kindness, and peace.
2002-02-13
Consolation
2016-10-05
Consolidating Equanimity as the Basis of Wisdom
2017-02-15
Contingency (Drop-in Class at Spirit Rock)
2013-11-06
Costing Not Less Than Everything
2018-11-07
Courage as the Buddhist Equivalent of Hope
1997-06-24
Courageous Living
2002-01-02
Courageous Non-Violent Activism
2022-04-13
Cultivating a Wonderful Mind
2015-03-22
Cultivating the Heart of Inclusivity
2018-01-13
Day 1: Afternoon Practice Session (part 1) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Afternoon Practice Session (part 2) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-13
Day 1: Morning Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-14
Day 2: Afternoon Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-14
Day 2: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-10
Day 2: Morning Instructions - Metta for self and easy person
2018-01-14
Day 2: Morning Practice Session
2015-07-14
Day 6: Morning Instructions
2015-07-15
Day 7: Afternoon Instructions
1998-02-01
Day For Couples
1998-02-01
Day For Couples #1
1998-02-01
Day For Couples #2
1998-02-01
Day For Couples #3
2001-06-24
Day Long - Equanimity Pt 1
2001-06-24
Day Long - Equanimity Pt 2
2001-06-24
Day Long - Equanimity Pt 3
1998-02-01
Day Of Couples #4
1998-02-01
Day Of Couples #5
1993-10-31
Day Of Metta
1993-10-31
Day Of Metta - I
1993-10-31
Day Of Metta - II
1993-10-31
Day Of Metta - III
2016-01-17
Day Six: Morning Instructional Sit
2016-01-13
Day Two: Morning Instructional Sit
2021-04-08
Death and Dying
2001-11-26
Determination
2019-04-17
Determined to be Free/ Brahma Viharas & Tiger Woods
2023-11-29
Developing Peace in the Breath and the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-03-18
Development of Moral Courage
2017-04-12
Dharma Conversations with Tony Bernhard (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2015-01-28
Dharma of Ferdinand
2015-10-21
Dharma Wisdom Part 2 of 3
2013-09-18
Dialogue: Sylvia Boorstein and Toni Bernhard; On Waking Up
2017-01-04
Does Real Change of Mind Happen? How? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1996-02-04
Dog In The Road - Hindrances And Their Antidotes
2020-02-05
Don't Get Distracted
2020-02-12
Don't get Distracted: You Might Forget to Be Kind
2012-10-17
Don't Make Your Mind a Problem
2012-10-17
Don't Make Your Mind a Problem: III
2012-10-17
Don't Make Your Mind a Problem:II
2008-01-10
Drafting On The Happiness Of Others
2003-05-22
Eight Fold Path
2019-06-19
Empty
2002-09-25
Envisioning A World of Peace in Difficult Times
1995-10-07
Equanimity
2012-11-07
Equanimity
2015-07-15
Equanimity and the Brahmavihāras
2016-11-30
Equanimity Does Not Mean Indifference
2001-06-24
Equanimity Pt 1
2010-10-13
Estamos Bien
2015-12-16
Ethical Behavior or The Goal of Practice as the Expression of Wisdom
2016-01-12
Every moment of Awakened Awareness is a Meritorious Act
2010-01-12
Everybody has to arrive safely
2014-02-26
Everybody is Wise
2014-01-22
Everyday Life is a Mindfulness Practice
2010-06-30
Everyday Lightening Strikes
2010-06-30
Everyday Lightening Strikes
2001-06-20
Everyone Is Responsible, No One is Guilty
2006-02-01
Everything Hangs On Intention
2013-03-06
Everything Happens
2011-03-23
Everything is a Mindfulness Bell
2015-06-03
Everything is Spiritual Practice
2004-02-22
Factors Of Enlightenment
2001-12-05
Faith
1995-11-28
Faith And Confidence
2001-10-31
Faith in Goodness in Complex Times
2001-10-31
Faith in Goodness in Complex Times
2014-08-06
Faith in Times of Challenge
2002-06-12
Faith Practices of the Third Zen Patriarch
2002-05-01
Feeling Our Pain
2005-01-07
Ferdinand, The Buddha, And The Metta Sutta: Line By Line
2018-03-07
Focused and Fearless (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2006-03-01
For Ash Wednesday: Renunciation
1988-04-01
Force Of Metta
2011-06-25
Forms of the Caring Heart
2008-01-23
Fourth Noble Truth
2024-04-24
Freeing the Mind that is Held Hostage in Tight Places:The Keys to Liberation
2009-01-14
Friendliness, Consolation And Appreciation
2019-02-06
From Contention to Compassion
2012-01-18
Generosity as the Beginning and End of the Path
2012-03-10
Get a Grip: Concentration as the Antidote to the Flurried Mind
2001-11-07
Give Me Your Hand
2001-11-07
Give Me Your Hand
2002-08-21
Giving Up is Not an Option
2004-05-24
Good Enough & Take Care
2005-11-09
Grateful For This Moment
2009-07-01
Gratitude
2003-07-30
Gratitude
2013-02-27
Gratitude as Wisdom Practice
2000-11-23
Gratitude For A Precious Human Birth
2023-11-28
Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of the Body and the Breath
2018-05-09
Happiness and Paramis
2018-06-06
Happiness Depends on Kindness and Compassion (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-05
Happiness is a Benevolent Mind
1996-02-14
Happy 20Th Birthday Ims-Experiencing The Seven Factors
2009-05-27
Have you trained your heart to love. - Talk Not Recorded
2022-10-26
Helping is Happening in the World
2012-09-19
Here's to Life: Dharma Liberation
1991-10-03
Hindrances
1994-02-13
Hindrances: Storms Of The Mind
2002-08-07
Hold My Hand
2001-04-18
Holding Hands
2014-09-10
Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh
2016-02-24
How a Poised Mind Creates Compassion
2016-06-22
How Broken Heartedness Cultivates a Limitless Heart: Practicing Compassion
2011-08-31
How Do We Become Wise?
2004-06-09
How Do You Help Yourself in Compassion #1
2009-02-09
How Mind Habits Change
2008-10-29
How Suffering Is The Basis For Morality
2015-06-17
How the Dalai Lama Did Not Say Something New
1990-01-01
How This Practice Works
2010-10-06
How to be Sick
2018-10-10
How to Be Sick - Guest speaker Toni Bernhard
2018-07-25
How to Change Your Mind-Incrementally
2005-05-23
How To Know What Is Time And What Matters
2023-12-01
How Wisdom Grows (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-01-10
I Am Asleep, But My Heart Is Awake
2004-09-01
I Didn't Know If I Should Laugh or Cry
2000-12-20
I Talk To My Friends
2017-05-24
I Would Have Wanted More, But I Never Wanted Other (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-08
Identifying Fixed Views
2002-05-10
If I Pay Attention, I Am Kind
2015-07-13
Impartial Kindness
2015-04-22
Impartial Kindness (Metta Sutta) Part 2
2009-08-26
Impermanence and Contingency
2013-11-20
Impermanence and Contingency
2013-11-27
Impromptu Interview with Korean Bhikkhuni
2006-04-03
In And Out Of Egypt
2012-01-07
In Gladness and in Safety, Omitting None
2011-06-22
In Memory of Joko Beck Pt I
2011-06-22
In Memory of Joko Beck Pt II
2018-05-30
Insight, Wisdom, Compassion, and Strawberries
2023-12-02
Instructions for Everything (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-23
Integrity is the Cause of Happiness:Precepts Practice
1994-02-05
Intention
1994-02-05
Intention
2010-12-29
Intentions for the New Year
1992-02-13
Interrelationship Of Metta And Vipassana Practice
2011-06-23
Introduction to Lovingkindness
1993-01-25
Introduction To Vipassana Practice
2006-04-02
Introductory Talk: Metta & Mindfulness For Christians And Jews, with Norm and M…
2018-07-18
Joy as a Balancer of a Broken Heart
1998-02-12
Karma, Forgiveness & Equanimity
2017-10-04
Kate Munger and The Threshhold Choir (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2002-07-03
Keeping the Faith
2003-06-04
Keeping the Heart Afloat
2006-01-06
Keeping The Heart Companionable
1995-06-12
Kindness
2001-12-26
Kindness Is Contagious
2004-07-28
Less Boring and It Has Peaches
2012-10-31
Let it Be
2003-04-16
Let's All Get Liberated
2005-05-26
Liberated From Taints: The Buddha's Instructions
2015-08-12
Liberation is the Whole of the Dharma
2016-09-21
Liberation- Think in a New Way
1995-07-28
Life As Practice
2011-06-15
Life is Manageable because People are Kind
1999-03-20
Lifelong Heart-Healing
2023-01-25
Listen to the Rain & Knit
2002-02-20
Living Your Life Out Loud
2002-08-19
Looking for the Redemptive Moment
2021-06-16
Loving Well is the Best Response
2014-10-26
Lovingkindness as the Key to Liberation
2011-01-16
Lovingkindness as the Practice of Freedom
1996-02-07
Lovingkindness: The Natural State Of The Heart
2005-11-02
Madama Vesells Wisdom
1995-04-17
Making Compassion Real
2003-03-19
March 19th, 2003
2004-08-18
May I Be Free Of Enmity And Danger: Buddhist Perspective Of Political Activism
2014-11-05
May I Feel Safe
2014-11-12
May I Have Mental Happiness: 2nd of 4 talks
2009-02-02
May I Meet This Moment Fully As A Friend
2009-10-23
May I Meet this Moment Fully, May I Meet it as a Friend
2016-01-06
May Our Practice be the Cause of Happiness for Self and Others
2008-10-15
May These Precepts Be The Cause Of Happiness
1992-04-07
Meditation
2014-10-15
Meditation: It IS what you think!
2022-09-21
Meditative Techniques to End Confusion
2002-05-29
Memorial Day Re-dedication to Peace
2006-03-15
Metta & Equanimity
2001-01-02
Metta 1
2001-01-21
Metta 2
2003-01-02
Metta 3
2004-01-21
Metta 4
2003-02-06
Metta And Mindfulness
2012-03-03
Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another
2011-01-11
Metta as the Heart of Mindfulness
2001-03-01
Metta Sutta
2001-07-11
Metta Sutta
2006-01-10
Metta Sutta - All Of The Path
2006-08-25
Metta Sutta As The Whole Path
1988-04-01
Metta/lovingkindness
2004-10-11
Midnight On The Airplane
2010-01-08
Mindful of the Climate of the Heart
2005-11-23
Mindfulness
2001-10-03
Mindfulness
2015-05-20
Mindfulness - How it Supports Liberation
2009-06-25
Mindfulness As A Prayer For Peace
2002-06-05
Mindfulness as Intuition Practice
2016-03-09
Mindfulness is Compassionate Awareness
2012-04-11
Mindfulness of the Paramitas
2001-10-03
Mindfulness Sutta
2009-10-14
Mindfulness, Especially Virtue as a Source of Happiness, Part 2
2008-06-23
Monday Night Talk
2013-10-30
Moods Masquerading as Imperatives - Happy Halloween!
2009-07-08
Morality - Second in a series of the 10 Paramitas
2014-05-28
More of the Third Zen Patriarch
2015-03-23
Morning Instruction Day 22
2015-03-16
Morning Instructions Day 17
2014-01-18
Mudita
2000-11-29
Music and the River of Loss
2000-11-29
Music and The River of Loss
2023-06-21
My Heart Goes Out to You
2011-03-30
My Religion is Kindness
2006-04-12
Nahid Angha Discusses Sufism with Sylvia
1995-02-01
Natural Antidotes To Hindrances
2022-02-23
Ne stressez pas! (Don't make things more complicated.)
2015-01-01
New Year's Gathering
2015-01-01
New Year's Gathering and Reflections, part 2
2015-01-01
New Year's Gathering and Reflections, part 3
2014-12-31
New Year's Resolutions: May All People Be Peaceful and Happy
2015-01-05
New Years Resolutions
2014-07-02
No Addiction to Preferences
2001-09-26
No One Separate
2000-02-24
No One There At All
2005-08-03
Noble Friends Is The Whole Of The Holy Life
2017-04-05
Not Clinging to Fixed Views: Social Activism as Spiritual Practice (Drop-in at …
2023-01-04
Nothing but Kindness
1999-02-21
Nothing Is Worth Thinking Out
1998-02-15
Nothing Short Of Liberation
2011-03-09
Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1
2016-08-10
Nyanaponika Thera on the Power of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part III
2009-02-04
On Being Certain
2003-07-09
On Consoling & Being Consoled
2010-03-24
Opening is the Ocean of Light- Sylvia Boorstein and Mingtong Gu
2018-01-12
Opening Night: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1994-02-10
Opening Talk, Refuges, Precepts, Guided Meditation
1998-04-23
Paramita As A Gift Of Generosity
2001-04-18
Paramita Meditation
2010-11-03
Paramitas- Each a Permutation of the Others
1998-11-26
Passionate Practice
2005-04-13
Path of Practice Part 1: Wise understanding & Intention
2003-01-22
Pathways to Peace
1993-10-18
Patience
2001-02-21
Patience
2002-09-30
Pay Attention: Art of Forgiveness
2021-10-13
Paying Attention: What it's all about!
1999-02-18
Peace Is Possible
2004-06-02
Peace is Possible in the Middle of Life
2015-07-29
Peace is Possible in this Very Everyday Life
2021-12-22
Peace On Earth and Good Will Toward Men
2015-03-04
Permutations of Compassion
2011-01-19
Pilgrimage
2014-10-29
Poison and Weapons and Fire Won't Harm Them
2000-03-01
Practice as a Prayer
1992-04-07
Practice In The Spirit Of Metta
2016-12-21
Practicing Loving the Stranger
2012-06-06
Practicing Peacefulness
1990-04-27
Practicing Vipassana In The Spirit Of Metta
2009-01-17
Presentations In Neuroscience #1
2009-01-17
Presentations In Neuroscience #2
2009-01-17
Presentations In Neuroscience #3
2006-04-06
Q&A with Norm And Mary
2017-05-31
Radical Integrity (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2011-09-21
Re-dedication to Compassion
2018-02-14
Reality is a Controlled Hallucination (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2014-12-17
Recollections of Small Acts of Kindness
2011-08-10
Reflecting on the Passage of Time
2004-02-27
Releasing The Hands Of The Heart Through Wisdom
2022-09-14
Religious Imagination: An event can be true even if it did not happen!
2013-07-24
Remember, Be Happy!
2002-03-27
Renewing Our Hearts in 2002
2009-07-15
Renunciation
2012-06-13
Resting in Insight and the Good Heart on Bad Days & Good Days
2016-01-01
Retreat for New Year's Day - Afternoon Session
2016-01-01
Retreat for New Year's Day - Morning Session
1990-07-23
Right Effort
2005-04-20
Right Effort, Right mind
1996-02-11
Right Effort: Strive On With Diligence
2005-07-20
Sandy Borcher Talking About Her Teacher
2010-01-13
Seeds of Goodness- omitting none
2004-04-07
Seeing Clearly
1998-11-22
Seeing In A New Way
2005-02-06
Seeing In A New Way
2001-09-12
September 12th, 2001
2004-01-07
Somebody's Laura
2011-08-17
Someone Has to Show You the Right Path
1994-02-08
Special Challenges To Loving
2001-01-03
Spirit Matters
2024-09-09
Spirit Rock Founders Remember the Early Days (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1991-01-05
Spiritual Practice In Daily Life
2017-03-01
Stabilizing the Mind (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2015-10-28
Stay & Soften Part 3 of 3 Fundamentals of Buddhism
2000-02-10
Staying Awake To Heal The World
2001-02-14
Stop
2017-07-12
Stop Worrying: Cultivate Active Engagement for the Good
2009-01-12
Stories About How Mindfulness Works
2014-04-23
Stories We Tell pt 1 of 2
2014-04-23
Stories We Tell pt 2 of 2
2005-04-06
Stream Entry, Kensho and Enlightenment
1990-04-20
Strengthening The Practice
2022-01-19
Supporting Equanimity: I Talk to My Friends.
2016-02-17
Supreme Friendship
2019-07-31
Sylvia and Friends - Wednesday
2010-09-01
Sylvia and Jack in Conversation
2019-06-12
Sylvia Boorstein
2010-09-05
Sylvia Boorstein & Lin Jensen: Life Beyond Buddhism, Part 1 of 2
2010-09-05
Sylvia Boorstein & Lin Jensen: Life Beyond Buddhism, Part 2 of 2
2009-04-01
Sylvia Boorstein in dialog with Rabbi Jeff Roth
2015-02-04
Sylvia with guest Barbara Bogatin from the San Francisco Symphony
2003-09-02
Sylvia, Susan Moon from BPF
2006-08-23
Sylvia's 70Th Birthday Celebration Evening Talk With Teachers
2006-07-23
Sylvia's 70Th Birthday Celebration, Family Dharma
2011-07-27
Sylvia's Experience of Kala Chakra
2017-03-08
Sylvia's Wednesday Class with Drummer Barbara Borden (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2003-01-29
Take a Deep Breath
2002-10-30
Take Care
2023-10-04
Taking Your Mind to the Laundry: How Wisdom Accumulates
2015-04-29
Talk #3 on Metta Sutta
2003-05-07
Teaching with Joan Borysenko
2022-01-27
Tenderness and a Tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh
2018-09-26
Tenderness in a Rough World
2001-11-22
Thanksgiving Talk For 2001
2008-01-16
The 3Rd Noble Truth - The Pleasure Of Sufficiency
2005-05-25
The Barking Dog, Seeing in a New Way
2003-09-17
The Benevolent Heart & the Redheaded Woodpecker
2005-01-03
The Best Of Intentions
2016-06-15
The Brahma Viharas as a Starting Point
2020-01-15
The Buddha under the Tree Story is True
2015-03-11
The Centrality of Kindness
1999-02-28
The Dharma Of Horton
1995-02-03
The Difficulties Of Loving Beings
2005-11-16
The Entire Compendium Of What The Buddha Taught - part 1
2005-11-23
The Entire Compendium Of What The Buddha Taught - part 2: Mindfulness
2006-01-19
The Essense Of What The Buddha Taught
2023-11-28
The Evolution of Intention: The Buddha, Maha Ghosananda and All of Us (Retreat …
2008-01-02
The First Noble Truth - part 1 of 4
1990-07-13
The Foundations Of Mindfulness
2013-05-29
The Foundations of Mindfulness: Why we Practice
2019-03-27
The Four Noble Truths
1991-02-03
The Four Noble Truths And The Eight Fold Path
2012-03-14
The Grace of Connection
2004-05-28
The Grace Of Peace
1999-03-26
The Great Good Fortune To Be Able To Practice
2018-10-03
The Healing Power of Love
2006-02-19
The Heart of the Path - Part 1
2006-02-19
The Heart of the Path - Part 2
2006-02-19
The Heart of the Path - Part 3
2006-02-19
The Heart of the Path - Part 4
2004-06-30
The Incorruptibly Loving Heart
2014-09-24
The Inner Nun
2004-06-16
The Insanity of War
2009-02-23
The Joy Of Mindfulness
2009-02-15
The Leaky Boat
1999-03-14
The Liberating News Of Impermanence
2016-07-27
The Liberation Potential of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part I
2016-08-03
The Liberation Potential of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part II
2005-07-12
The Metta Sangha, The Metta Sutta
2017-08-07
The Metta Sutta, Dunkirk and The Last Dalai Lama, they sound like 3 different t…
2009-02-28
The Metta Sutta: How Not To Die Of Bitterosity
2010-08-18
The Mind Body
2015-08-05
The Mind Heart & Emotional Heart
2011-12-21
The Miracle of Changing One's Mind
2018-08-15
The Most Awesome Skill We Have (drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2023-01-13
The Only Response to Suffering is Compassion
2012-03-20
The Paramitas as the Path
2000-02-07
The Path To Happiness Thru Clear Seeing
2009-10-07
The Permutations of Mindfulness
1994-02-15
The Phantom Tightrope: Balancing Practice
2017-03-22
The Point of All Our Practice (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2008-11-19
The Point Of Practice
2015-04-15
The Practice of Impartial Kindness - Part 1 of 3
2014-12-24
The Practice of Just This
2000-02-05
The Practices Of Clear Seeing And Tenderness
2021-04-07
The Preciousness of Life and Connection
2022-03-17
The Prelude to Compassion is the Willingness to See
2004-10-13
The Response Of The Open Heart
2002-10-09
The Sacrament of Human Connection
2003-04-23
The Shamanic Heart
2001-06-13
The Soul and The Cosmos are Dancing
2014-07-30
The Stories That People Will Say About Us
1999-11-29
The Sudden And Startling Arising Of Wisdom
1999-02-07
The Territory Ahead: Where Are We Going?
2011-01-26
The Transformational Capacity of Tenderness
2019-06-26
The Ultimate Self Protection Mantra
2008-02-27
The Universality Of The Dharma
2011-04-03
The Whole of the Path - What the Buddha Taught, Part 4
2017-01-10
The Wisdom Guided Heart: The Safest Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-07-22
The Wisdom of No Complaints
2010-09-29
The Wisdom of the Paramittas: Class 1 of 5
2004-12-29
The Work of the Tsunami
2016-03-23
The World Was Not More Dangerous Today Than It Was Yesterday
2010-01-27
There are Always, Always, Pockets of Goodness
2016-01-16
There is no more Reliable Refuge than one's own benevolent heart.
2021-06-09
There Is No Time but the Present: Reflections on Impermanence
2003-04-02
There Will Be a Next Fall
1994-02-18
There's No Place Like Home
2023-11-01
There's Nothing Left to Do But... Be Kind to Yourself & Everyone Else You Meet
2018-04-11
Thinking It Over (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-25
Thinking Outside the Box
2014-01-08
This is Buffalo (Essential Dharma 101; part 1 or 3)
2010-08-25
This is the Best Day Ever!
2010-06-23
This talk is unfortunately unavailable- Life as a Tightrope
2001-01-24
Thoughts on Renunciation
2001-01-24
Thoughts on Renunciation
2007-09-12
Three Characteristics In Honor Of Sherry
2017-08-30
Three Characteristics of Experience (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2011-03-02
Through the Eyes of the Dharma
2009-02-19
Tidying The Mind
2006-03-29
To Kiss Or Quarrell
2012-10-10
To Know the
2017-08-09
To Know the Truth (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2019-07-17
To know the truth only by not clinging to fixed views
2012-10-10
To know the truth only cease to cherish opinions.
2014-06-18
To Know The Truth: Only Close To Cherish Opinion
2021-12-16
Todo en La Vida es Temporal
2017-01-14
Transforming Confusing into Clarity and Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-08-11
Transforming the Mind from I to We Through Wisdom and Kindness
2004-12-11
Transforming The World Through Metta
2012-06-27
Transient are all Conditioned Things
2012-06-09
Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part A
with Clifford Sa…
2012-06-09
Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part B
with Clifford Sa…
2012-06-09
Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part C
with Clifford Sa…
2012-06-09
Tuning your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part D
with Clifford Sa…
2013-07-17
Unbewitched, Unbothered, Unbewildered.
2021-07-21
Understanding Impermanence Liberates the Mind From Suffering
2001-06-24
Unknown
2001-09-12
Untitled
2000-11-29
Untying Knot
2000-11-29
Untying Knots
2001-02-07
Untying The Knots
2004-07-02
Views and Opinions
2002-07-03
Visit with Yanai and Katherine
2015-01-14
We are Contenting Ourselves
2004-07-10
We Become Like Family
2003-08-20
We're All on the Grid
2017-12-13
Wednesday Morning Meditation (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-21
Wednesday Morning Meditation (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2019-01-09
Wednesday Morning Meditation Group
2004-02-16
Welcome Home
2024-09-11
What Are We Doing Here, Really?: The Point of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-09-02
What are we Missing?
2005-03-30
What Are We Really Meant to See?
2017-09-20
What Do I Know that I Didn't Know Before (Drop in program at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-08
What Do We Need Most to See?
2003-05-19
What Do We Really Want?
2006-02-15
What Do You Most Deeply Believe?
2018-04-25
What Does "Sit with Dignity" Mean?
2015-02-25
What does seeing clearly really mean?
1998-11-30
What Happens When You Stop the Story
2013-02-20
What Inspires Us
1993-10-14
What Is Practice?
2021-03-17
What Is Still True
2022-06-01
What is the Bliss of Blamelessness?
2015-07-09
What Is the Goal of Our Practice & How Does What We Do Here, Get Us There?
2023-04-26
What is the Key to Open the Heart
2018-08-29
What is the Meaning of Happiness
2010-06-02
What is Your Practice? Part 1
1995-11-06
What Keeps Us Awake And Happy with Jack Kornfield
2023-04-19
What Lifts up your Heart?
2016-11-02
What Makes Life Precious
2013-08-28
What Really Causes Happiness?
2014-06-25
What Should I Think?
2018-06-20
What Supports Your Mind in Times of Political Turmoil (Drop in program at Spiri…
2010-06-16
What the Buddha Really Taught
2009-11-04
What the Buddha Really Taught: The Metta Sutta
2005-11-30
What The Buddha Taught - part 3: Loving Kindness & Going Forth
2005-12-07
What The Buddha Taught - part 4: Generosity
2005-12-07
What The Buddha Taught - part 4: Generosity continued
2011-04-03
What the Buddha Taught - The Whole of the Path, Part 1
2011-04-03
What the Buddha Taught - The Whole of the Path, Part 2
2011-04-03
What the Buddha Taught - The Whole of the Path, Part 3
2024-09-25
What’s supposed to happen? What is the goal of practice? (Part 1)
2024-10-02
What’s supposed to happen? What is the goal of practice? (Part 2)
2010-03-17
When in Doubt, Make Belief- An Interview with Jeff Bell
2020-01-16
When we consider suffering, kindness is the only response
2001-12-12
Who Will Stay Awake With Me?
2006-08-02
Why We Practice
2008-03-05
Wisdom & The Paramitas - part 1
2010-10-20
Wisdom Everywhere
2009-01-08
Wisdom Sustains Equanimity - Equanimity Sustains Wisdom
2008-01-14
Wisdom, Equanimity And Kindness
2022-05-11
Wise Understanding and Wise Intention
2017-11-01
Wise View and Wise Aspiration
1998-04-17
Without Struggle, Without Agenda
1992-02-10
Working With Hindrances In Metta Practice
1992-10-05
Working With The Hard Stuff
1993-01-22
Working With The Hindrances
2017-09-27
You Cannot Emphasize Impermanence Too Much
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Select one of Sylvia Boorstein's 28 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2008-01-06
Metta Retreat
2009-01-04
Metta
2009-01-11
Scientists Retreat
2009-02-01
Insight Meditation February
2009-06-21
Jewish Mindfulness
2009-10-22
Insight Meditaton
2010-01-08
Metta Retreat
2011-01-10
Metta Retreat
2011-06-23
Lovingkindness: Cultivating the Open and Wise Heart
2012-01-06
Metta
2012-03-01
Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long
2012-06-09
Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Cl…
2012-10-15
Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)
2013-03-17
An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete
Guide to P…
2014-01-13
January Metta Retreat
2014-10-25
Metta (Lovingkindness) Research Retreat
2015-02-28
March Insight 1 Month Retreat
2015-07-08
July Metta Retreat
2016-01-11
January Metta Retreat
2017-01-09
January Metta Retreat
2018-01-04
January Metta Retreat
2018-01-12
Awakening in Every Moment: A Retreat in Mindfulness, Metta and Morality
2018-06-25
Awakening in Every Moment: A Short, Intensive Retreat in Mindfulness, Metta and…
2020-01-13
January Metta Retreat
2023-01-10
Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart
2023-11-27
Cultivating Equanimity: The Happiness of a Heart in Balance and Peace
2024-09-09
Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers
1995-02-03
The Difficulties Of Loving Beings
57:28
In this Dharma talk, given at a Metta Meditation residential retreat, Sylvia examines some of the key blocks we come up against that keep us from living in our true nature of joyful, loving, compassionate beings. Illustrating with stories, both poignant and humorous, she demonstrates that, our awareness to the contrary, we repeatedly fall away from living in our true nature, because we may forget who we really are. We may continue, for various reasons she discusses, to hold onto grievances that lock us into our own prisons of pain and suffering. It is through the liberating knowledge of meditation practice that we can free ourselves from this pattern. That is, in fact, the "edge" of this practice: that we can fall away into a sense of separateness, and that we are able to bring ourselves back to the truth of our oneness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center