Pamela Weiss's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        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 
    
        2018-01-01
            Guided Meditation - 10 minutes 
    
        2018-01-01
            Guided Meditation - 15 minutes 
    
        2018-01-01
            Guided Meditation - 20 Minutes 
    
        2018-01-01
            Guided Meditation - 30 minutes 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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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        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