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Eugene Cash's Dharma Talks
Eugene Cash
I am intrigued by how we can live the 'holy life' as lay people. How do we erase the imaginary line between formal sitting practice and the rest of our lives? How can we bring full engagement to formal and informal practice? Is it possible to embody, in our lives, the understanding and insight that comes with intensive training? And can we live our lives in a way that expresses and continues to deepen our realization? These questions fuel my practice and my teaching.
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2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life
2025-07-01 Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness 54:32
How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life
2025-06-29 Normalcy of Life and Death 47:41
How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life
2025-05-26 Memorial Day Metta - Dharma Talk 1:16:21
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2025-05-26 Memorial Day Metta 34:29
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2024-08-04 Right Effort: In Meditation, in Relationship & in the World 32:57
"Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment... the effort to make each activity of our day meditation." - Ajahn Chah
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2025-02-09 Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity 35:31
The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life; they do not hear the cry of distress continually pervading the world. Bound by selfishness, their hearts turn stiff and narrow... It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom and makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. ~Nyanaponika Thera To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2024-06-09 SFI Sunday Nights 29:05
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2024-05-05 Precious Human Birth- Being Human in a Coplex World 36:44
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2025-01-01 The Art of Realizing Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:46
Knowing Impermanence Experientially is the doorway to Freedom. We see we can't hold on to anything! Letting Go– Not Clinging brings the Freedom to Be. Anicca vata sankhara chant: 'All conditioned things are impermanent. Their nature is to arise & pass away. To live in harmony with this truth. Brings the highest happiness'. Anicca vata sankhara chant.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-12-28 Simplicity, Awareness, Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:06
How Relaxing into the Simplicity of Awareness brings an Intimate experience of the Knowing of Aliveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-02-18 Mutual Vulnerability 33:36
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2024-03-24 Holi: Springing into the Goodness of Being 40:34
Celebrating the Holy: Discovering Holi, Passover, Nowruz, Easter & Songkran in a Troubled World
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights
2024-06-09 Upekkhā: Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World 28:05
Upekkhā (Equanimity) is a Brahma Vihara, one of the ten Pāramīs, and one of the Seven Factors of Awakening
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2024-09-16 Maranasati 2024 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:42
Contemplating our mortality personally as well as learning how Buddhism utilizes Mindfulness of Death as a gateway to Awakening. The Advice to Anathapindika gifts us with the deeper teachings on letting go of attachment; letting go of our identity; letting go of life!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening
2024-08-01 Right Effort in Meditation Retreat: 24/7 Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:46
Discovering how Right Effort leads to being present, awakening and realizing the Truth of the Dharma. We explored different currents of Rt. Effort: gentle; relaxed; willful; strong; fierce. We examined why and when different streams of effort might be skillful.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Spirit of Insight, Dharma & Awakening
2024-06-03 Precious Human Birth– Becoming Human in Each Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:15
What makes humans precious? The magic, mystery & wonder embodied consciousness that is characterized by the Oneness of Birth-and-Death, & the paradox of unity of suffering and awakening being in Precious Human Birth
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Each Moment: The Heartfelt Revelation of Dharma
2024-06-01 Body: 1st Foundation of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:02
We explored the components & dynamics of the 1st Foundation: Breath; Body Posture; Parts of the Body; Awareness in all activities of the Body. We examined the Insight with leads to being Independent- Not clinging to anything in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Each Moment: The Heartfelt Revelation of Dharma
2024-05-27 Memorial: Precious Human Birth–– Being Fully Human Now 1:26:21
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
1999-02-24 The Attack of Mara 61:28
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2024-01-07 The Power & Simplicity of Awareness 41:45
“This vanishes, that vanishes, but that which knows their vanishing doesn’t vanish... All that remains is simple awareness, utterly pure.” - Maha Boowa
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights
2023-12-24 Goodbye 2023 Welcoming 2024 35:11
Celebrating the Dying & Rebirth of the Light. “You can pick all the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.” - Pablo Neruda
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights
2023-11-26 Gratefulness and the Giving of Thanks 32:53
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights
2023-10-22 Anicca: Discovering Harmony with Change 31:08
The beauty and mystery of each moment and its fugacious mystery. “Leave the circle of time and join the circle of love” — Rumi
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights
2004-01-02 Mudita - Feast of Joy 57:27
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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