Dharma Talks
The following talks, most of which are by Ginger Clarkson, have been given at the weekly meditation sittings of Insight Meditation Houston. They are sorted by speaker and, in Ginger’s case, by series topics. New talks are added regularly.
By Ginger Clarkson
On Buddhist Principles
The Three Refuges
Foundations of Mindfulness
The Eightfold Path
Right Speech – 12/26/2016
Right Action and Right Livelihood – 1/9/2017
Right Effort – 1/16/2017
Right Concentration – 1/23/2017
Right Mindfulness – 1/30/2017
Right View
Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action-Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Concentration
Right Mindfulness
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present”
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 1 – 10/9/2017
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 2 – 10/30/2017
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 3 – 1/29/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 4 – 2/19/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 5 – 2/26/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 6 – 3/12/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 7
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 8: The Elegance of Imperfection – 6/18/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 9: The Gift of an Open Mind – 6/25/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 10 – The Gift of Authenticity – 7/16/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time like the Present” Chapter 11: Free to Dream – 7/30/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 12: Deliver Your Gifts – 8/20/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” Chapter 13: Freedom in Challenging Times – 8/27/2018
Jack Kornfield “No Time Like the Present” – Chapter 14: Live in Mystery – 10/15/2018
Awakening Joy
Awakening Joy 1
Awakening Joy 2
Awakening Joy 3
Awakening Joy 4
Awakening Joy 5
Awakening Joy 6
Awakening Joy 7
Awakening Joy 8
The Paramitas
1st Paramita – Generosity (2016)
2nd Paramita – Ethics (2016)
3rd Paramita – Patience (2016)
4th Paramita – Joyous Effort (2016)
5th Paramita – Concentration (2016)
6th Paramita – Wisdom (2016)
1st Paramita – Generosity
2nd Paramita – Ethics
3rd Paramita – Patience
4th Paramita – Joyous Effort
5th Paramita – Concentration
6th Paramita – Wisdom
Forgiveness
Forgiveness Part 1 – 3/13/2017
Forgiveness Part 2 – 3/20/2017
Forgiveness Part 3 – 3/27/2017
Forgiveness-1
Forgiveness-2
Forgiveness-3
Forgiveness-4
Brahmavihara Practices
Compassion for Self and Others – 7/8/2019
Metta as an Art – 6/10/2019
Metta after World AIDS Day 2018 – 12/3/2018
Mudita as Kindness – 10/1/2018
Equanimity – 7/2/2018
Mudita adapted from Noah Levine’s Against the Stream – 6/5/2018
Compassion Practice adapted from Noah Levine’s Against the Stream
Metta Practice – 1/8/2018
Equanimity & Thich Nhat Hanh – 12/11/2017
Equanimity with Updated Koshin Paley Ellison’s Words – 3/5/2018
Equanimity – adapting Jack Kornfield’s Imperfection Practice – 6/5/2017
Guided Gratitude Meditation from Jack Kornfield – 11/20/2017
Metta Practice
Compassion
Mudita
Mudita: Guided Practice
Equanimity
Kindfulness
Mudita as Altruistic Joy
Equanimity per Donald Rothberg
Mudita – The Great Ball of Merit
Compassion & Forgiveness
The Great Ball of Merit – Practicing Sympathetic Joy
Equanimity – Lila Wheeler’s MAC Retreat
Mudita as Altruistic Joy Practice – 2/6/2017
Equanimity Practice – 3/6/2017
Other Topics
Ajahn Chah
Tales of Courage
InterSangha Report
Words about a Silent Retreat
Identity
Kindness to Oneself
Identity and Faith
Identity and The Five Aggregates
Shared Compassion
Be a Light Unto Yourself
Wise Effort
Travel Dharma
Wise Priorities
Tara Brach’s “True Refuge”
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (1)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (2)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (3)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (4)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (5)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (6)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (7)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (8)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (9)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (10)
Tara Brach’s ‘True Refuge’ (11)
Shaila Catherine – Retreat, Books
A Retreat with Shaila Catherine
Faith as a Spiritual Faculty
Energy as a Spiritual Faculty
Concentration as a Spiritual Faculty Wisdom as a Spiritual Faculty
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (1)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (2)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (3)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (4)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (5)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (6)
Shaila Catherine’s ‘Focused and Fearless’ (7)
Spring 2014
Gaia Consciousness
Reggie Ray’s ‘Touching Enlightenment’
Compassion for Immigrant Children
2015
Compassion in Action
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Second Foundation of Mindfulness
May Sarton’s At Seventy
Concentration: The Collected Nature of the Mind
Silence, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Community as Practice
Seeing All Beings as Your Teachers
Anger & Ignorance
Equanimity
Reflections about Wisdom
Buddha’s Mindfulness
2016
The Banyan Deer
The Abhidhamma, a Buddhist Map of the Mind Part 1
The Abhidhamma, a Buddhist Map of the Mind Part 2
Compassion in Dying
Karma
Dependent Origination
Spiritual Opening at Zen Sesshin Retreat, Won Dharma Center, NY
Wheel of Life
Excerpts & Experience from Jack Kornfield’s Labor Day Retreat
Gratitude
2017
Interbeing, a Buddhist principle of Thich Nhat Hanh – 7/24/2017
Howie Cohn Cenacle Retreat-1/27/17-1/29/17 Review – 5/22/2017
Andrea Castillo’s Intersangha Talk 2017 (edited by Ginger Clarkson) – 5/8/2017
Near Enemies – 1/2/2017
Generosity – 2/27/2017
Summary of InterSangha Meeting at Spirit Rock Meditation Center – 4/12/2017
The Heart of Compassion for Compassionate Houston Week – 4/24/2017
The Book of Joy Part 1 – 8/14/2017
The Book of Joy Part 2 – 8/22/2017
The Book of Joy Part 3 – 9/25/2017
Hurricane Harvey Stories, August, 2017 – 9/12/2017
Inter-Relations of 4 Sublime States, Adapted from Nyanaponika Thera – 11/6/2017
2018
When Loneliness is an Emergency by Jay Barush -12/28/2018
Metta & Rest – 4/18/2018
Creative Compassion, Compassion Houston Week – 4/23/2018
Reflections of Howie Cohn’s MAC Retreat: Compassionate Awareness is Your Best Friend – 4/30/2018
Living in Harmony – 12/17/2018
2019
Eight Worldly Winds – 2/25/2019
Five Spiritual Faculties: Faith – 6/24/2019
Radiating Compassion for Oneself into the World – 4/22/2019
Joseph Goldstein’s “Mindfulness”: Chapter 1 Ardency
Joseph Goldstein’s “Mindfulness”: Chapter 2 Clearly Knowing
Joseph Goldstein’s “Mindfulness”: Chapter 3 Gateway to Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein’s “Mindfulness”: Chapter 4: Concentration: The Collected Nature of the Mind – 4/29/2019
By Miriam Aponte
By Veronica Aristeguy
What’s Getting in they Way? – 6/19/2017
By Gabriel Clark
Drugs, Drag, and the Dharma – 2/20/2017
By Amira Gongora
Dharma Teachings in our ‘Mother’s Tongue’, the Romantic Language called Spanish – 6/26/2017
By Marilyn Jones
By Pamela Lewis
The Warm, Hard Facts About Gratitude – 11/13/2017
Savoring and Mindfulness
Mystical Experience
Self-Compassion
Ten Percent Happier
Compassion: Its Cultivation, Practice and Benefits
By Marvin Lummis
Sand Through the Fingertips: The Dharma Seal of Impermanence – 2/13/2017
Where is the I?: The Second of the Dharma Seals: Nonself or Anatta – 7/17/2017
Dukkha, All Things Suffering – 10/23/2017
By Cindy Merrill
Insight into Physician Assisted Dying – 4/17/2017
By Stanley Merrill
Notes from Howie Cohn Retreat 2019 – 5/1/2019
Notes from Search Inside Yourself – 12/10/2018
Overview of “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program” by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach – 9/24/2018
Limiting Beliefs – 7/31/2017
American Mindfulness Approaches
Experiencing Our Own Noble Truths
Quotes, Parables, Poems
Howie Cohn’s Question
By Lisa Murphy
Awareness of Breath and Body Sensations: Notes from Week One of the Power of Awareness: A 7-week Online Mindfulness Training to Cultivate Clarity, Compassion, & Well-being with jack Kornfield & Tara Brach – 8/13/2018
Spiritual Friends: Awaken Together – 2/12/2018
By Thuyet Nguyen
My Mother’s Life: A Story of Love & Hope – 11/19/2018
Introduction: The Eight Realizations
The First Realization
The Second Realization
The Sixth Realization
The Third and Seventh Realizations
The Third and Seventh Realizations: Part II – Voluntary Simplicity
The Eight Realizations: A Summary
Forgiveness Makes Life Whole
By Mark Ryan
A Glimpse at Mysticism
Holotropic Breathwork and Vipassana Meditation
Hosting His Holiness
Zorba the Monk
By Satya Shepherd
Cultivating True and Lasting Happiness
Equanimity in the Face of Our Own Reactivity