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.
I place a lot of emphasis on the Buddha's teaching about mindfulness of the body. The body is a powerful dharma gate. I encourage people to deeply investigate the body and use it as a place of recollection in daily life.
Our individual and cultural habits, our confusion, all require a sincere and ongoing commitment to spiritual life and practice. In order to mature our 'layastic' practice, we need to develop a palette of practices: mindfulness, loving-kindness, inquiry, reflection, precept practice, service, sutta study, etc.
I believe passionate engagement is the foundation of the spiritual path. Spiritual life blossoms when mindfulness is woven with a heartfelt sense of loving-kindness and compassion. With warm mindfulness as the basis of practice, our attachment to identity, roles and experience begins to loosen. As our experience and understanding matures, faith develops. This nourishes a devotion to practice which further deepens our insights.
It is precious to be born in the human realm and have an opportunity to practice and awaken. May we appreciate our inheritance and bring to life the teachings of the Buddha.
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2007-06-18
"Buddha And His Son" Father's Day
2009-12-18
"I am a Bad Meditator": Seeing through the Illusion of Self
2008-03-24
"The Spatula By The Toilet Shines With Light"
2020-12-30
"Understanding, Paradox and Love"
2020-06-28
13th: Reflections on 400 Years of Racism in USA
2013-01-20
7 Factors of Awakening
2021-09-12
9/11 20 Years Later
2015-08-18
A Life of Practice
2011-05-03
A Life of Truth
2022-12-18
Adhiṭṭhāna - Right Resolve
2019-06-16
Aging, dying, awakening
2001-09-18
An Appropriate Response?
2018-02-18
An awakening
2009-06-14
An Overview of the Path
2019-04-14
Anapanasati Retreat: Mindfulness of Breath and Dharma
2006-05-11
Anapanasati: The Path To Concentration
2017-10-06
Anathapindika: Letting Go into Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-04-11
Anger and Clarity
2022-10-08
Atonement: At-One-Ment (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1999-01-25
Attachment and Non-Attachment
2021-06-27
Awakening the Three Centers - Body, Heart, Mind
2010-12-29
Awakening To What?
2013-05-05
Awareness & Human Experience (pt 1)
2013-05-12
Awareness & Human Experience (pt 2)
2016-05-03
Awareness of the body
2021-04-04
Beginner's Mind
2021-10-03
Being Real Together DEI Part 2
2017-06-11
Being with 'what is' on a silent retreat (aging, dying and awakening)
2006-12-06
Beyond Intoxication
2011-01-04
Big Mind/Heart Meditation
2020-08-09
Bird's Nest Roshi: The Eight Worldly Winds
2013-05-17
Birth & Death
2007-09-23
Birth-and-Death
2021-02-14
Black History, Our History
2017-07-23
Body dukkha during vertigo experience
2022-05-08
Both/And - The Paradox of Living the Dharma
2017-03-20
Brahmaviharas: Metta
2017-05-14
Brahmaviharas: Mudita
2017-05-21
Brahmaviharas: Upekkha
2022-05-30
Broken Hearts & Right Action
2017-08-21
Buddha Breathed Himself to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-05-06
Buddha's Awakening: What Really Happened...
2017-01-27
Buddhist Easter
2020-05-03
Caring, Not Caring, Clinging and Letting Go
2017-01-22
Catalyst For Engaged Buddhism
2021-03-08
Chanting Refuges
2021-03-12
Chanting Refuges
2006-05-21
Co-creative Dharma Talk
2007-03-11
Co-Creative Talk: Shunyata, Anatta and Anicca: Practice in Everyday Life
2006-07-23
Co-Creative Talk: The World, Anatta and Self Respect
2009-06-07
Collaborative Talk: Eugene Cash & Students
2008-12-14
Collaborative Talk: Students & Eugene Cash
2018-12-30
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas
2006-06-11
Compassion
2010-05-19
Compassion and the Judging Mind
2021-02-28
Compassion for Self and Others
2007-05-13
Concentration and Mother’s Day
2022-09-11
Contemplating 9/11/2001
2000-03-09
Contemplation of the Body
2011-04-29
Continuity and Intimacy
2022-10-11
Conventional Mind & Luminous Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-06-07
Courage & Compassion: Living the Dharma Now
2022-07-17
Courage, Here and Now
2020-04-05
Covid-19 Right Action, Right Practice
2020-03-29
Covid-19, The Big Picture: Being Real, Mindful & Generous
2008-04-06
Crisis in Tibet, Lama Gosananda, The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
2020-03-12
Day 12 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-29
Day 3 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-30
Day 4 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-06
Day 6 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-09
Day 9 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2000-03-23
Death, Grief and Practice
2006-01-21
Dharma and Creativity
2019-10-06
Different practices in Buddhism
2020-04-26
Discovering Life Without the Judging Mind
2019-04-21
Discovering What Is Within
2019-05-11
Do Not Waste Your Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-12-27
Don't Underestimate The Breath
2012-12-16
Doubt
2020-08-30
Dukkha, Beauty & the Mystery of Life: Learning from Robin Wall Kimmerer
2016-07-08
Dying and Awakening
2018-10-07
Earth Care 2018
2022-04-17
Elon Musk, Vulnerability & Awakening
2020-03-03
Embodied Awareness: Postures and All Activities (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-12-18
Endings and Beginnings
2005-06-06
Equanimity and Going Home
2013-08-04
Eros & Sexuality as Part of Practice
2010-05-30
Eugene Cash & Martin Aylward
2022-11-27
Everything is Given – Grateful for Life, Dharma, This Moment
2021-05-23
Exploring the Dharma: Surprise, Discovery, Mystery
2020-08-16
Fascism & Engaged Buddhism Election 2020
2017-02-19
Fear
2006-08-13
Forgiveness: Giving up all Hope of a Better Past
2023-01-08
Four Ennobling Truths
2012-11-11
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2015-07-08
Gay Marriage and Charleston
2006-01-08
Generosity (dana)
2016-05-01
Getting intimate with reality
2018-11-30
Giving Oneself to Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-03-14
Going Home Dialogue with Eugene & Tuere
2021-09-05
Graceful with the Dukkha of Life
2016-11-05
Grateful for Life in the Light of Impermanence
2019-05-15
Grateful for This Moment of Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2005-11-27
Gratitude
2012-01-22
Gratitude for the Practice
1997-06-23
Gratitude: True Blue Dream of Sky
2016-10-31
Great is the Matter of Birth and Death
2021-04-25
Grounded Responsibility
2012-03-04
Group Discussion: Skilfullness in Practice
2012-03-25
Group Discussion: Skilfullness in Practice, pt 2
2021-10-31
Halloween - Celebrating the Magic of Each Moment
2021-10-24
Heart of Emptiness
2006-07-30
Heaven is Other People
2021-01-31
Heavenly Messengers
2007-12-23
Holiday Talk
2017-12-17
Holidays
2020-12-27
Holy Days Hallelujah!
2006-10-01
How Do We Assess Our Practice?
2007-07-29
If It’s In The Way, It Is The Way
2018-12-31
Impermanence and Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-19
Impermanence and youth
2006-01-29
Impermanence: No Moment Can Be Repeated
1999-03-02
In the Seen, Just the Seen
2000-03-17
In the Seen. Just the Seen
2019-07-07
Independence 4th July
2021-03-21
Inquiry Repeating Questions
2021-03-19
Inquiry: Monologue 10minutes per person
2021-03-20
Inquiry: Repeating Questions 10minutes each way each question
2022-01-16
Inspiring People: The Dharma of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & bell hooks
2021-03-06
Instructions
2021-03-10
Instructions
2021-03-14
Instructions
2006-03-05
Intensive Retreat Practice
2006-12-03
Intensive Retreats
2019-03-31
Intimacy
2012-12-14
Intimate Mystery
2016-01-28
Intoxicated with Reality
2017-12-10
Investigating reality
2015-12-12
Investigating Reality: Awareness, Inquiry and Waking Up - Afternoon Session
2015-12-12
Investigating Reality: Awareness, Inquiry and Waking Up - Morning Session
2018-11-27
Investigation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-12-29
Investigation: Reality is Revelatory
2017-01-08
Letting Go
2016-12-31
Letting Go - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-11
Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-05-13
Letting Go into Living and Dying (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-03-18
Letting Go: The Skill of Release
2009-12-31
Liberating Intimacy
2015-12-31
Liberating Paradox
2020-05-10
Living and Practicing with Unknowing
2021-08-15
Living From the Dharma
2006-12-08
Living Truth
2016-05-19
Love and Buddhism (Valentine's day talk)
2019-09-23
Love, Letting Go and the Nectar of the Dharma - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2022-06-07
Loving the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-09-04
Loving this Moment
2022-08-27
Loving This Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2006-06-23
Luminous Mind
2012-03-12
Maranasati
2018-05-06
Maranasati Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-03
Maranasati Retreat Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-09
Maranasati: Dying and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-08
Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-11
Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-11-03
Maranasati: Letting Go of Everything
2016-11-06
Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death
2012-03-11
Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death
2018-06-07
Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-01-27
Maranasati: Normalizing Death
2021-03-20
Meditation
2021-03-20
Meditation
2021-03-21
Meditation
2022-09-14
Meditation is Good! (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-08-12
Mind and Nature
2017-12-30
Mind Fullness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-07-26
Mindful Contemplation of the Body
1999-01-23
Mindful Contemplation of the Body
2019-09-29
Mindfulness and Technology
2005-06-03
Mindfulness and the Brahma Viharas
2017-08-17
Mindfulness of Breath: Energy, Effort, Discovery (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-01
Mindfulness of emotions
2012-07-22
Mindfulness of Feelings (Vedana)
2012-08-05
Mindfulness of Mind, part 1
2012-04-11
Mindfulness of the Body
2012-06-24
Mindfulness of the Body, Pt 1
2012-07-08
Mindfulness of the Body, Pt 2
2007-11-18
Mindfulness: Faculty and Power
2007-12-16
Mindfulness: Presence and Participation
2018-06-09
Miracle of Aging, Letting Go and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-07-06
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2008-02-25
Monday Night Meditation
2016-02-29
Monday Night Meditation Class with Eugene Cash, Andrew Harvey and Sister Abegai…
2008-02-11
Monday Night Talk with Jack Kornfield
2021-03-05
Morning Instructions
2021-03-09
Morning Sit with Instructions
2021-03-13
Morning Sit with Instructions
2004-02-16
Mudita
2016-08-14
Mudita
2005-06-05
Mudita - a Feat of Joy
1999-01-27
Mystery of Awakening
2006-01-01
New Year’s Dharma Talk
2009-12-27
No Part Left Out
2018-04-15
Noble Eightfold Path (overview)
2018-05-20
Noble Eightfold Path (Right Action)
2018-04-29
Noble Eightfold Path (Right Intention)
2018-05-27
Noble Eightfold Path (Right Livelihood)
2018-05-13
Noble Eightfold Path (Right Speech)
2018-04-22
Noble Eightfold Path (Right view)
2021-03-19
Normalizing Death
2013-05-14
Not Knowing
2014-12-29
Not Knowing is Most Intimate
2008-01-13
On Relationship
2008-03-09
On Retreat: The Skill & Art of Practice
2015-05-06
One Heart: Relative and Ultimate
2003-10-11
Openess, Acceptance and Intimacy
2016-01-24
Opening Night Talk
2003-10-10
Opening Talk for the Intimacy of Awakening
2008-11-01
Openness Acceptance Intimacy
1999-02-16
Openness, Acceptance, Intimacy
1999-02-20
Our Practice Place
2020-05-31
Pandemic of Racism: For George Floyd
2008-03-10
Paradox And Awakening
2014-06-04
Paradox of Dharma
2014-10-11
Paradox of Dharma
2019-05-26
Paradox of Reality
2005-06-04
Passion, Compassion, Dispassion
2011-08-28
Pilgrimage As Practice
2019-08-18
Poignancy of Human Life
2018-04-08
Post retreat talk 1
2018-04-08
Post retreat talk 2
2021-01-24
Post Retreat: Love and Reality
2020-06-21
Post Retreat: Waking Up Now
2016-05-05
Practice knowing and not knowing
2022-02-06
Practice of Sincerity
2017-03-11
Practice on silent retreats
2017-01-29
Practicing With Anger and Uncertainty
2019-10-20
Practicing with Dukkha
2016-11-20
Practicing with Politics
2006-05-07
Precious Human Birth
2006-11-26
Questions
2013-05-19
Questions and Answers
2013-01-27
Questions and Answers
2010-01-24
Questions and Answers
2008-04-27
Questions and Answers
2008-03-30
Questions and Answers
2007-09-16
Questions and Answers
2007-08-26
Questions and Answers
2007-05-06
Questions and Answers
2007-03-04
Questions and Answers
2006-09-17
Questions and Answers
2006-08-27
Questions and Answers
2006-06-18
Questions and Answers
2006-06-04
Questions and Answers
2006-01-15
Questions and Answers
2007-11-25
Questions and Answers
2007-12-02
Questions and Answers
2016-06-19
Questions and Answers with Thanissara and Eugene Cash
2020-07-12
Real Dharma at 86: Jane Elliott Teaching About Racism
2021-03-28
Real Life Skillfulness
2013-05-26
Relaxing with Experience
2000-03-11
Renunciation
2013-12-04
Rest in the Knowing
2021-12-19
Retreat and Dukkha and Sukha
2008-03-23
Retreat Questions and Answers
2016-10-16
Right Action
2022-07-24
Right Action in Response to Life
2016-11-27
Right Effort
2010-01-17
Right Intention & The Awakened Heart
2008-01-06
Right Intention, Aspiration, Resolve
2006-09-03
Right Livelihood: Virtue, Wisdom and Mindfulness at Work
2016-12-11
Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration
2013-04-07
Right Speech
2021-08-08
Right Speech & Mindful Speech
2016-08-28
Right Understanding
2000-03-29
Ryokan
2013-12-07
Ryokan: The Human Face of Awakening
2006-05-28
Samadhi
2021-10-10
Sangha - Practicing Together
2022-06-04
Satipatthana & Awareness
2020-04-28
Satipatthana Series, Class 10
2020-04-07
Satipatthana Series, Class 4
2020-04-09
Satipatthana Series, Class 5
2020-04-14
Satipatthana Series, Class 6
2020-04-16
Satipatthana Series, Class 7
2020-04-21
Satipatthana Series, Class 8
2020-04-23
Satipatthana Series, Class 9
2020-03-26
Satipatthana Series, Part 1
2020-03-31
Satipatthana Series, Part 2
2020-04-02
Satipatthana Series, Part 3
2021-09-17
Satipatthana: Refrain and Letting Go
2007-11-11
Seeing with New Eyes: The Skills and Fruit of Mindfulness
2020-10-11
Self & Not-Self
2003-07-07
Sex and the Dharma Pt 1
2003-07-14
Sex and the Dharma Pt 2
2022-10-30
SF Insight 30th Anniversary Celebration
2021-03-07
Simplicity of Being
2019-06-23
Skillful means
2021-03-11
Small Mind, Big Mind, Luminous Mind
2018-05-09
Story of Anathapindika: Death and Letting go (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-10-28
Student Themes & Talk
2019-06-02
Sukkha and Dukkha of Relationships
2023-03-26
Surrendering to Change
2019-09-01
Surrendering to Impermanence
2007-01-28
Tanha and Transformation
2017-09-17
Techno dukha, and dealing with the judging/comparing mind with compassion
2006-11-19
Thanksgiving
2010-11-21
Thanksgiving Talk
2023-04-30
The 2nd Factor of Awakening: Investigation & Inquiry
2022-02-20
The 2nd Factor of Awakening: Investigation and Inquiry
2007-12-30
The Alchemy of Letting Go
2007-12-31
The Alchemy Of Release
2009-05-11
The Art and Skill of Samadhi
2007-02-24
The Art Of Acceptance (2 Of 2)
2009-05-11
The Art of Concentration
1999-02-24
The Attack of Mara
2006-07-02
The Body of Awakening: Three Stages of Practice
2008-08-10
The Body: Image & Boundary
2007-11-04
The Brahma Viharas: Joy
2007-09-22
The Brahma Viharas: Karuna (Compassion)
2007-08-05
The Brahma Viharas: Metta
2017-03-20
The Brahmaviharas
2016-10-09
The Dharma of "Howl"
2022-01-09
The Dharma of 2022
2020-10-04
The Eightfold Noble Path
2020-11-15
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Action
2021-01-17
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Concentration
2020-12-06
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Effort
2020-11-01
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Intention
2020-11-22
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Livelihood
2020-12-20
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Mindfulness
2020-11-08
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Speech
2020-10-18
The Eightfold Noble Path: Right View/Right Understanding
2009-07-26
The Eightfold Path: Right Action
2009-11-08
The Eightfold Path: Right Concentration
2009-06-28
The Eightfold Path: Right Intention
2009-07-12
The Eightfold Path: Right Speech
2009-06-21
The Eightfold Path: Right View
2014-06-07
The Endless End
2020-09-06
The First Noble Truth: Dukkha
2008-03-16
The Flavors of Retreat
2009-01-18
The Four Noble Truths
2012-11-18
The Hindrances
2016-08-21
The Importance of the Noble Eight-Fold Path
2022-10-02
The Ineffable Goodness of our Nature
2009-12-13
The Judging Mind
2016-06-26
The Love of Being Yourself: Reflections on LGBT Pride
2007-11-28
The Mysterious Power Of The Breath
2006-01-22
The Natural Path to Mindfulness: Working with the 5 Hindrances
2014-10-12
The Oneness of Duality: Eugene and Howie Share the Dharma
2008-11-09
The Paradigm Shift
2015-01-02
The Paradox of Reality
2009-05-15
The Path of Samadhi
2020-05-24
The Perfection of Patience
2015-08-14
The Pleasure of Samadhi
2006-08-13
The Power of Commitment
2023-01-15
The Powerful Dharma of Love & Freedom – Martin Luther King JR
2008-12-07
The Retreat Never Ends
2014-01-02
The Samadhiness of Experience
2008-09-14
The Sattipathana Sutta
2020-09-13
The Second Noble Truth: The Cause of Suffering
2019-08-04
The shock of the Now
2015-10-19
The Spirit of Embodiment
2000-09-25
The Third Noble Truth
2000-03-02
The Third Noble Truth
2008-12-07
The Three Centers
2017-01-27
The Three Characteristics: Dukkha
2013-01-06
The Truth
2022-06-12
The Truth Will Set You Free
2005-12-11
The Voice of Judgment
2010-12-03
The World of Dew: A Talk on The Two Truths
2008-04-20
Thoughts on a Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche
2021-05-09
Unhardening the Heart
2008-02-24
Unplugged: Reflections from One Month on Retreat
2008-07-05
Unprepared
2015-05-07
Upekkha/Equanimity
2020-08-02
Viriya In Life Practice: Bringing Energy, Action and Wisdom into the Election
2022-03-13
War and Peace
2021-01-03
Welcoming the New Year with Love
2021-01-03
Welcoming the New Year with Love
2017-09-10
What is consciousness?
2017-10-25
What is this?
2022-08-14
Wisdom and Ignorance: Alex Jones, Donald Trump & Angulimala
2015-06-11
Wisdom of Aging
2017-06-06
Wisdom of Aging (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-06
Wisdom of Aging: Awakening to Life
2019-03-24
Women Buddhism Awakening
2019-08-25
Wonderment
2007-02-17
You Are Not It; It Is You!
2000-12-06
You Are The Path
2000-12-04
You Are the Path
2004-11-08
You Are The Path
2001-08-17
You Are The Path: An Overview Of The Eightfold Path
2007-05-20
“Were Mind and Matter Me …” Reflections on the Skillful Use of Self and Not-Self
