Eugene Cash's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House)
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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...
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48 min
Eugene Cash: Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to…
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58 min
Eugene Cash: Buddhism and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the Normalcy of Death in Buddhism. Looking at the many ways Buddhism understands death: Death of the body; The life and death of each mome…
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51 min
Eugene Cash: Energy and Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on cultivating viriya and piti on the path. How to balance and empower the awakening factors.
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52 min
Eugene Cash: Awakening to Suffering and its End (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to land in present moment with both sukkah and dukkah. How being here leads to letting go, freedom, and ' the sure hearts release'. Freedom…
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33 min
Eugene Cash: The Parami of Patience
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience, constancy is a…
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59 min
Eugene Cash: Paradox of Life and Death
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature.…
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55 min
Eugene Cash: Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindi…
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48 min
Eugene Cash: Normalcy of Life and Death
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fr…
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40 min
Eugene Cash: The World of Fear and the Practice of Fearlessness
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) When you experience your fear you become fearless. All other fears merge with that fear. If you fear that fear, then you will become fe…
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1 h 16
Eugene Cash: Memorial Day Metta - Dharma Talk
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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34 min
Eugene Cash: Memorial Day Metta
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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36 min
Eugene Cash: Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life;…
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51 min
Eugene Cash: The Art of Realizing Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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 B…
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49 min
Eugene Cash: Simplicity, Awareness, Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How Relaxing into the Simplicity of Awareness brings an Intimate experience of the Knowing of Aliveness.
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54 min
Eugene Cash: Maranasati 2024 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating our mortality personally as well as learning how Buddhism utilizes Mindfulness of Death as a gateway to Awakening. The Advice to Anath…
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33 min
Eugene Cash: Right Effort: In Meditation, in Relationship & in the World
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment... the effo…
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1 h 04
Eugene Cash: Right Effort in Meditation Retreat: 24/7 Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discovering how Right Effort leads to being present, awakening and realizing the Truth of the Dharma. We explored different currents of Rt. Effort:…
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28 min
Eugene Cash: Upekkhā: Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Upekkhā (Equanimity) is a Brahma Vihara, one of the ten Pāramīs, and one of the Seven Factors of Awakening
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29 min
Eugene Cash: SFI Sunday Nights
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
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53 min
Eugene Cash: Precious Human Birth– Becoming Human in Each Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What makes humans precious? The magic, mystery & wonder embodied consciousness that is characterized by the Oneness of Birth-and-Death, & the parado…