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Pamela Weiss
Pamela is the author of the recently released book, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism. She has practiced in the Soto Zen and Theravada traditions since 1987, is a guiding teacher at San Francisco Insight, and sits on the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock. Pamela is also a leadership coach and pioneer in bringing mindfulness programs into the workplace. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Eugene, and little dog, Grover.
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2021-01-01
"Guided Heart Practice: Receiving and Extending Kindness"
2021-01-01
"Guided Heart Practice: Receiving and Extending Kindness"
2013-12-06
"I Am Because We Are"
2021-01-01
"Letting Go, Love & Faith"
2020-12-31
"Meditation Instruction on Mental States"
2021-09-28
"The Earth Element: Resting in Our Bones"
2021-09-30
"Water is Life"
2020-06-29
4 Principles for Social Change: Change the Narrative
2020-06-24
4 Principles for Social Change: Proximity
2021-08-29
A Bigger Container
2020-07-15
A Bigger Sky
2020-07-13
A Bigger Sky
2020-07-19
A Bigger Sky: Book Launch Talk
2016-08-31
A Morality of Love
2019-05-12
A Tribute to Buddha's Mom
2022-01-23
A Tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh
2015-07-29
A Way Out of No Way
2014-01-22
Action And Speech
2020-04-27
Advice to Rahula
2014-08-06
After Things Fall Apart
2024-06-30
Ahimsa: the Ethical Backbone of Practice
2020-05-06
An Appropriate Response
2025-02-16
An Appropriate Response
2015-03-25
An Appropriate Response - 4 Principles
2015-04-01
An Appropriate Response: 4 Principles
2017-11-22
An Attitude of Gratitude
2020-06-03
Ananda on How to be an Ally
2020-04-20
Ananda's Compassion
2008-06-11
Anatta
2008-05-21
Anatta
2008-04-16
Anicca - Letting Go
2008-04-23
Anicca - Q&A
2022-07-31
Appadama, Walking the Path with Care
2013-10-30
Aspects Of Meditation
2009-05-06
Aspiring Bodhisattvas
2017-09-27
Atonement
2016-10-12
Atonement
2017-07-05
Awakening Compassion And The Five Skandhas
2014-05-14
Awareness Of Mind
2020-01-19
Balancing Masculine and Feminine
2010-12-02
Barking, Barking, Barking: Mindfulness as Respectful Listening
2020-12-29
Being Here, Being Free
2022-09-25
Being Nature
2022-11-20
Bhutan with Dorje Phagmo, the Fierce Emanation of Compassion
2017-04-19
Big Mind, Small Mind and Poop
2015-07-15
Bodhisattva Aspiration
2009-03-25
Bodhisattva Path
2015-08-05
Bodhisattva Path: Inspiration, Aspiration and Appropriate Response
2009-03-18
Bodhisattvas Archtype
2011-04-06
Brahma Viharas - Overview
2020-06-14
Buddha as a Social Revolutionary
2014-04-02
Buddha's Awakening
2014-07-14
Buddhism In America
2017-09-18
Building Bridges, Not Walls
2014-10-08
Climate Change And Not Knowing
2018-12-30
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas
2020-06-01
Coming Undone
2020-05-27
Compassion
2011-06-01
Compassion
2016-02-17
Compassion Wakes Up
2018-03-07
Courageous Speech
2014-10-22
Cultivating Kindness
2008-12-05
Cultivating The Heart Center: Listening And Loving Everything
2018-11-27
Day 1, Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-01
Day 5 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-20
Days of Awe
2021-09-26
DEI Statement
2018-09-19
Dhyana and Jhana
2018-09-12
Dhyana Paramita
2019-10-06
Different practices in Buddhism
2022-03-27
Disarming the Self
2023-09-03
Do No Harm: Exploring the Buddhist Precepts
2018-06-27
Don't Wait: A Call To Action
2008-04-30
Dukkha
2016-10-26
Dukkha Dharma Doors
2018-12-19
End of Year Reflection
2011-07-28
Equanimity
2013-11-27
Everything Is Given
2017-05-10
Exploring Mindfulness
2020-10-25
Facing Uncertainty
2016-01-27
Faith
2024-06-04
Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-09-27
Finding a Way Out of No Way
2020-05-13
Finding Center
2020-04-22
Finding Refuge
2019-05-15
Finding Refuge
2016-12-14
Finding the Middle Way
2021-09-06
Finding True Refuge
2010-02-06
Five Faculties - Concentration
2010-02-04
Five Faculties - Mindfulness 1
2010-02-05
Five Faculties - Mindfulness 2
2010-02-03
Five Faculties - Wholeheartedness
2010-02-07
Five Faculties - Wisdom
2010-02-02
Five Faculties – Faith
2010-02-01
Five Faculties Overview
2016-04-18
Forgetting the Self
2016-04-13
Forgetting The Self With Ayya Anandabodhi
2024-01-14
Freedom and the Jewel of Sangha
2014-07-02
Freedom From And Freedom For
2017-03-30
Freedom from Injustice: A Tribute to Bryan Stephenson
2019-08-16
Freedom Is Possible
2021-11-21
Giving Thanks
2014-12-28
Grandmotherly Mind
2020-04-15
Grandmotherly Mind
2014-11-26
Gratefulness: On Learning to See
2015-10-14
Gratitude, Generosity and Giving
2021-06-13
Gratitude, Generosity and Giving
2020-04-06
Groundlessness and Faith
2015-12-27
Guided End of Year Reflection 2015
2014-12-05
Guided Meditation
2026-05-31
Guided Meditation
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 10 minutes
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 15 minutes
2026-06-25
Guided Meditation - 1st Foundation
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 20 Minutes
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 30 minutes
2026-06-27
Guided Meditation - 3rd Foundation
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 45 minutes
2018-01-01
Guided Meditation - 5 Minutes
2011-08-03
Guided Meditation - Sky-like Mind
2019-03-24
Guided Meditation Instructions: Body and Breath
2015-11-18
Hands and Eyes of Compassion
2015-10-21
Happiness, Hunger, Giving & God
2020-11-29
Healing the Divide
2011-08-01
Hearing The Cries Of The World
2023-01-29
Heartbreak in America
2020-04-12
Holy Days
2019-12-13
Holy Days
2021-12-05
Holy Days
2016-06-15
Honoring Orlando
2020-07-06
Hope
2018-12-12
How Suffering Happens
2021-01-10
How to Meet the New Year
2021-04-18
How to Practice All the Time
2017-08-16
I See You Mara
2015-12-30
Ice Cubes, Generosity, and Revelation
2013-08-07
Identification - Taking Birth as self
2018-02-28
Illuminating, Inspiring Speech
2021-10-17
Illusion and Delusion
2023-10-15
In this world...
2020-06-17
Inanna and The Fierce Feminine
2016-11-02
Infinite Possibility
2016-06-22
Inner Disarmament
2023-10-03
Instructions on the Arising and Passing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-12-06
Integrating The Three Centers: Wholeness
2017-05-31
Internal and External Mindfulness
2017-05-24
Internal And External Mindfulness
2009-04-01
It Is All Given - Exploring Generosity
2018-07-11
It Is Possible
2019-04-17
It Was Not What I Had Expected
2011-07-31
Joy
2022-08-21
Judith Ragir and Pamela Weiss - Untangling Karma
2018-08-18
Kshanti Paramita
2009-06-24
Kshanti Paramita - Cultivating Patience
2017-01-11
Language, Lies and Truth
2012-10-20
Listening and Loving
2020-03-30
Listening and Loving
2011-08-01
Listening And Loving
2011-09-07
Listening as Attention
2011-09-21
Listening to the Sycamores
2019-03-23
Listening With Love
2023-06-25
Living by Vow
2015-06-24
Love and Fearlessness in Charleston
2007-12-01
Love Is Wisdom's Natural Radiance
2015-01-03
Love; The Fabric of Reality
2019-02-13
Mara's Many Arrows
2017-07-26
Meditation, Enlightenment and God
2017-07-19
Meet Each Teach
2018-11-29
Melting into Tranquility (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-01-02
Melting the Ice Cube (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-05-25
Metta
2011-05-11
Metta for Self
2014-03-19
Mindfulness And Concentration
2024-06-01
Mindfulness: Listening with Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-28
Mindfulness: Tell Me Everything (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-06-15
Mistakes the Buddha Made
2024-08-05
Monday Night Meditation
2017-08-23
More Mara: Touching the Earth
2021-05-16
Mother Trees - The Roots of Connectivity
2015-08-19
Mountains Are Mountains
2023-02-27
Mountains Are Mountains
2024-08-11
Mountains Are Mountains
2020-05-11
Moving from Judgment to Curiosity
2021-03-21
Ongoing Awakening - The Three Watches of the Night
2021-03-21
Ongoing Awakening - Three Watches Of The Night
2020-08-23
Ongoing Awakening: Buddha, Mahapajapati and Ananda
2020-07-29
Ongoing Practice
2011-04-20
Opening and Closing the Heart
2024-09-05
Opening Night (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-01
Ordinary Bodhisattvas Change the World
2015-07-08
Our Burning House
2017-05-31
Our Human Tangle
2014-11-05
Our Planet: Luck or Love?
2020-09-21
Our Women Ancestors: Finding a Way Out of No Way
2008-04-09
Overview
2018-06-13
Paramitas: The Path of Cultivation
2015-01-21
Power and Love: A Tribute to Martin Luther King
2011-08-03
Practicing Equanimity
2018-09-26
Prajna Paramita
2016-02-10
Race, Listening and Love
2022-03-27
Radiant Heart Meditation
2017-11-29
Reactivity, Response-ability and Curiosity
2014-10-12
Real Leadership
2014-10-12
Real Leadership
2016-10-19
Reclaiming Darkness
2017-12-20
Reflection, Intention and Impermanence
2015-04-01
Reflections On Being Human
2016-12-21
Reflections on Chronos and Kairos
2020-04-01
Refrain From and Decidedly Do
2016-06-01
Refuge and Refugees
2018-08-16
Refuge in Buddha
2018-08-18
Refuge in Sangha with Andrea Fella and Amana Brembry Johnson
2017-03-08
Refuge, Respect, Return, Remember
2019-03-06
Refuge, Return, Remember
2016-01-13
Relative and Absolute
2017-08-09
Relax, Receive, Allow
2020-04-13
Remembering
2026-06-24
Remembering Intimacy
2011-05-16
Remembering our Loveliness
2007-09-09
Right View
2007-04-08
Sati (Mindfulness)
2020-04-29
Science and Story
2015-10-28
Self-Hatred and Self-Love
2011-06-21
Sending and Receiving Compassion
2011-05-04
Sending and Receiving Metta
2013-11-13
Settling, Being With and Just Being
2009-05-13
Sila Paramita
2018-07-18
Sila Paramita
2007-02-11
Speech, Impermanence & Beauty
2016-02-24
Stillness, Insight and Sweetness
2011-01-01
Stitching Our Life Into Wholeness.
2020-07-27
Stories Matter: Inanna
2013-06-19
Studying & Melting the Self
2016-03-30
Studying the Self
2019-06-02
Sukkha and Dukkha of Relationships
2019-02-20
The 84th Problem
2006-05-14
The Buddha’s Last Instruction
2022-10-16
The Climate Crisis and the Middle Path
2017-01-01
The Dharma is What Holds This Teapot Together
2018-11-14
The Fire Sermon
2019-04-24
The First Free Women with Matty Weingast
2010-07-07
The First Noble Truth - Dukkha & Mara
2014-06-04
The Flame Of Love And Longing
2010-06-06
The Four Noble Truths - Dukkha
2010-06-02
The Four Noble Truths - Overview
2021-05-30
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2019-06-05
The Heart of It
2010-03-24
The Hero's Journey - Into the Unknown
2010-04-18
The Hero's Journey - Overview
2010-04-14
The Hero's Journey - The Awakening Part 1
2010-05-05
The Hero's Journey - The Return
2010-04-07
The Hero's Journey - The Struggle
2010-04-28
The Hero’s Journey - The Awakening Part 2
2010-05-18
The Hero’s Journey - The Return - Dogen 'Fanning'
2018-10-24
The Hope of Not Knowing
2021-02-21
The Human Face of the Buddha
2011-06-15
The Human Journey: Listening to the Call
2011-06-19
The Human Journey: The Great Awakening
2011-06-17
The Human Journey: The Great Struggle
2018-06-29
The Human Journey: Walking the Spiritual Path - Part 1
2018-06-29
The Human Journey: Walking the Spiritual Path - Part 2
2013-07-03
The Hungry Self
2014-12-15
The Jewel of Community
2019-01-30
The Judging Mind
2015-04-12
The Life of the Buddha: History and Myth
2017-05-03
The Living Dharma
2018-12-05
The Mind of Faith
2019-09-08
The Mind of the Great Sage
2022-12-11
The Mystery of Love
2023-01-01
The Power of Intention
2016-09-14
The Power of Listening
2014-09-17
The Power of Myth
2014-01-29
The Power of Speech
2008-03-14
The River Of Life
2010-07-15
The Second Noble Truth - Tanha
2010-07-28
The Second Noble Truth - Tanha & Rain
2023-02-26
The Shape of Spiritual Life
2015-09-02
The Story of Bahiya Part 1
2015-09-09
The Story of Bahiya Part 2
2010-09-08
The Third Noble Truth - Nibanna
2017-01-28
The Three Bones
2024-09-07
The Three Characteristics: Anicca (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-05-22
The Truth of Change
2018-01-24
The Two Truths
2015-05-20
The Two Truths
2014-09-10
The World Is Made of Stories
2018-06-06
The World is Workable
2009-12-17
The World Was Made to Be Free In: Mindfulness as the Path to Freedom
2013-06-05
There Is No Sixth Skandha
2020-06-10
This is Why We Practice
2016-01-12
Time, Timeless and Intention in 2016
2017-12-13
To Hear the True Dharma
2017-06-28
Trauma and Taking Refuge
2011-07-20
True Happiness
2021-07-04
True Happiness - Independence and Interdependence
2023-04-16
True Refuge
2024-09-15
True Refuge: Finding Our Way Home
2016-01-20
Truth and Beauty
2019-02-27
Truth as the Doorway to Freedom
2020-06-08
Turning a Moment into a Movement: In Honor of George Floyd
2011-04-27
Two Wolves
2015-11-11
Two Zen Stories
2013-12-11
Ubuntu - A Tribute To Nelson Mandela
2026-06-26
Untangling Karma
2014-01-08
View And Intention
2009-07-15
Virya Paramita
2018-08-22
Virya Paramita
2015-04-01
Waking Up
2008-07-23
Walking the Bodhisattva Path
2015-08-05
Walking the Bodhisattva Path
2013-09-18
Walking The Path
2024-04-14
Walking the Path
2024-07-14
Walking the Path of the Precepts
2022-04-10
We Were Made For These Times-Interview with Kaira Jewel Lingo
2015-01-09
Welcoming 2015: Deep Time and the Web of Interconnection
2023-07-09
What Does It Mean To Be Free?
2014-04-01
What Is Awakening
2015-02-25
What Is Happiness?
2018-05-23
What is Meditation?
2017-10-25
What is this?
2012-12-13
What, How and Who
2017-01-29
Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on Power and Love
2018-10-17
Who Can Untangle This Tangle?
2017-09-06
Who Do You Think You Are?
2020-05-17
Why Practice?
2015-02-04
Willing To Be Dazzled: An Ode To Mary Oliver
2020-07-08
Willingness to be Uncomfortable
2019-04-03
Wisdom and Wonder
2018-03-28
Wise Action Engaging With The Precepts
2024-05-26
Wise Action in a World on Fire
2018-03-14
Wise Action: Do No Harm
2018-01-31
Wise Conduct
2016-07-28
Wise Conduct in a Mad World
2018-04-25
Wise Effort
2014-03-12
Wise Effort
2018-01-17
Wise Intention
2018-04-04
Wise Livelihood
2014-12-06
Wise Love: The Power of Equanimity
2018-05-02
Wise Mindfulness
2018-02-07
Wise Speech
2014-08-20
Wise View - Illusion and Delusion
2018-01-10
Wise View and Wise Attention
2016-09-07
Wise Words: The Power of Language
2023-08-20
Words Create Worlds
2009-07-22
Working with Anger
2011-04-13
Working with the BrahmaViharas
2023-10-02
You Are All Going to Die (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Select one of Pamela Weiss's 28 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2007-11-27
The Radiant Awareness of Being
2008-03-01
Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2008-12-02
Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening
2009-12-15
Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat
2010-11-30
Discovering Presence in Each Moment
2010-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2011-06-14
Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-12-11
Liberating Intimacy
2013-12-03
Intimate With All Things
2014-12-01
The Joy of Letting Go-Restoration, Forgiveness, Renewal Retreat Schedule
2014-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-11-26
Seven Factors of Awakening
2018-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-03-22
Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-09-21
No Part Left Out: A Meditation Retreat
for Self-Identified Womxn
2020-12-28
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat with Eugene Cash, Pamela Weiss, Tuere Sal…
2021-09-27
"No Part Left Out"
2023-10-01
Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life
2024-05-31
Dharma Yoga Mindfulness Training: Retreat #1
2024-05-31
Loving Each Moment: The Heartfelt Revelation of Dharma
2024-09-05
The Doorway to Freedom and Peace: The Three Characteristics
2026-05-30
Body of Awakening
2026-06-23
Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements
