David Komito
Talks on Buddhist Philosophy and Practice

• Go to Dharma talks at Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center
• Go to Dharma Talks at the Finding the Path to Liberation Buddhist Center
• Go to Dharma Talks at Zen Centers

Dharma Talks at
Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center

• Book Talk: Becoming Vajrasattva by Lama Yeshe
  • Session 1: January 7, 2023, video
  • Session 2: January 14, 2023, video
  • Session 3: January 28, 2023, video
• Book Talk: How Things Exist by Lama Zopa RInpoche
  • Session 1: November 5, 2022, video
  • Session 2: November 12, 2022, video
  • Session 3: November 19, 2022, video
• Book Talk: The Wheel of Life by the Dalai Lama
  • Session 1, September 3, 2022, video
  • Session 2, September 10, 2022, video
  • Session 3, September 17, 2022, video
• Book Talk: Stages of Meditation by The Dalai Lama and Kamalashila
  • Session 1, July 2, 2022, video
  • Session 2, July 16, 2022, video
  • Session 3, July 23, 2022, video
  • Session 4, July 30, 2022, video
• Book Talk: Life, Death and After Death by Lama Yeshe
• Session 1, May 7, 2022, video
• Session 2, May 14, 2022, video
  
• Session 3, May 21, 2022, video
• Session 4, May 28, 2022, video
• Book Talk: Essence of the Heart Sutra by The Dalai Lama
  • Session 1, March 5, 2022, video
  • Session 2, March 12, 2022, video
  • Session 3, March 19, 2022, video
  • Session 4, March 26, 2022, video
• Book Talk: The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe
  • Session 1, February 12, 2022, video
  • Session 2, February 19, 2022, video
  • Session 3, February 26, 2022, video
• Book Talk: Making lIfe Meaningful by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  • Session 1, January 1, 2022, video
  • Session 2, January 8, 2022, video
  • Session 3, January 15, 2022, video
  • Session 4, January 22, 2022, video
• The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra
  • Session 1, September 11, 2021, audio, video
  • Session 2, September 18, 2021, audio, video
  • Session 3, September 25, 2021, audio, video
  • Session 4, October 9, 2021, audio, video
  • Session 5, November 6, 2021, audio, video
• Optimism, Altruism and Environmentalism
  • Session 1, June 6, 2020, audio
  • Session 2, June 13, 2020, audio
• Metaphor and Myth in Vajrayana and Zen, March 7, 2020, audio
• Vajrayana and Madhyamaka
  • Session 1, December 7, 2019, audio
  • Session 2, December 14, 2019, audio
  • Session 3, January 11, 2020, audio

Dharma Talks at the
Finding the Path to Liberation Buddhist Center

• Kayla leads the group chanting the Green Tara Sadhana
• The Lama - Commenting on Passages in How to Practice by the Dalai Lama, November 8, 2015

• The Heart Sutra 5 - Go to the Source, August 17, 2014
• Samsara, Nirvana and Silence, July 20
• The Heart Sutra 4 - Wisdom of Emptiness, June 15
• The Heart Sutra 3 - Sitting Together, May 18
• The Heart Sutra 2 - Meditative Absorption, May 4
• The Heart Sutra 1 - Removing Obscurations, April 20, 2014

• Interdependence 2 - Shariputra and Meditation on Consciousness, October 6, 2013
• Interdependence 1 - The 6th Zen Patriarch, September 15
  • Kayla Komito on How to Make a Water Offering, September 15
• Heart Sutra: Two Kinds of Nirvana, July 7
• Human Potential, June 2
• The Child of the Buddhas, May 19
• On Meeting the Bodhisattva, May 5
• What gets reborn? April 30
• In preparation for attending the Dalai Lama's teachings in Portland, members of the group may find it helpful to listen to any of these recordings from previous meetings.
• Taking Death, Inbetween and Rebirth into the Path, Part 1, Part 2, April 21
• Wholeness and Perfection on the Spiritual Path 1, April 7
  • Discussion
• Karma, Interdependence and Environment, March 17
• Cultivating Eco-awareness: Reciprocity, March 3
  • Discussion
• Buddhism and Environmentalism: Elders
  • Joanna Macy, February 3
  • Stephanie Kaza, January 20
• Mindfulness of the Divine Identity and Mindfulness of the View, January 6, 2013
  

• Mindfulness of the Divine Identity, December 9, 2012
• Mindfulness of Altruism, November 11
• Overview of The Four Mindfulnesses - 2, September 23
• Text of Guru Yoga (pdf)
• Overview of The Four Mindfulnesses - 1, June 17
• Our text for the summer and the first part of the fall: The Four Mindfulnesses (pdf) by the 7th  Dalai Lama, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins.
• Three States of Consciousness and Four Mindfulnesses, June 3
• Reflections on the Dalai Lama's Teachings in Long Beach, May 6
• The Five Aggregates, Emptiness and Sky-like Mind, April 15
• Gathering Place and Holder, April 1
• Stages of the Path and the Nature of Mind, March 18
• Vajrasattva Practice 4: Inside and Outside, March 5
• Resource: The Dalai Lama's Message to the Global Buddhist Congregation
• Vajrasattva Practice 3: Circulating the Light, February 5, 2012

• Vajrasattva Practice 2, December 4, 2011
• Vajrasattva Practice 1, November 20
• Perception and Mental Images, November 6
• The "I", October 16
• Five Aggregates and mandala 1, October 2
  • Mapping the aggregates on the mandala palace [pdf]
• Five Aggregates and Sky-like Mind, September 18
• The 6th Zen Ancestor and the Two Truths, July 3
• Guru Yoga, June 19
• The 6th Zen Ancestor and the Flag, June 5
• That, May 22
• Big Mystery, Big Mind, May 8
• Emptiness and Nothingness, April 17
• Emptiness and Spaciousness, April 3
• Real Mirages, March 20
• Things and Persons, March 6
• The Perfections and Habits, February 20
• The Perfection of Cooking, February 6
• The Six Perfections 2, January 16
• The Six Perfections 1, January 2, 2011
  

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• Emptiness and projection, December 5, 2010
• We are like bubbles, November 21
• Preparing for Green Tara practice 2, October 17
• Preparing for Green Tara practice 1, October 3
• Patterns in Samsara 2, July 25
• Patterns in Samsara 1, July 18
• Everything is in this Moment, June 27
• Buddha Nature and the Taints, June 20
• Commentary on Tarab Tulku, paragraph 22, June 6
• The Enlightenment Image as Reflection, May 9
• Commentary on Tarab Tulku, paragraphs 13, 15, 16, 17, April 18
• Commentary on Tarab Tulku, paragraphs 5, 6, 7, April 4
• Commentary on Tarab Tulku, paragraphs 4 and 5, March 21
• Commentary on Tarab Tulku, paragraphs 1 and 2, March 7
• Essay: A Short Presentation of Different Natural States of Being by Tarab Tulku
• Vajrayana, February 14 [ Vajrasattva Mantra from visiblemantra.org ]
• Thusness, February 7
• Wisdom, January 17, 2010
  

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• Cyclic Existence, December 27, 2009
• The Teacher, December 6
• Is Buddhism a Religion?, November 15
• Questions about Meditation, November 1
• What Persists After Death?, October 4
• Pointing to the Moon, September 27, 2009
• Essay: The basics of Buddhism by David Komito

Dharma Talks at Zen Centers

Autonomy and Interdependence, Walla Walla Dharma Sangha, Walla Walla, WA, January 26, 2014

The Flapping Flag Koan, Case 29 from The Gateless Gate, San Francisco Zen Center (City Center), August 7, 2013

The Bodhisattva Vow, San Francisco Zen Center (Green Gulch Farm), August 5, 2013

Introduction to The Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness Seminar, San Francisco Zen Center (Green Gulch Farm), August 4, 2013

Practicing with Nagarjuna: San Francisco Zen Center (Green Gulch Farm), September 10, 2008.

Practicing with Nagarjuna: San Francisco Zen Center (City Center), August 24, 2006.

Everyday Emptiness: Practicing in the Zen Kitchen, a series of lectures at San Francisco Zen Center (Green Gulch Farm), January 11 through February 15, 1994.

• Lecture 1 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 2 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 3 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 4 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 5 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 6 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 7 and Community Discussion
• Lecture 8 and Community Discussion

Healing Imagery: Berkeley Zen Center, November 5, 1988.

All recordings copyright 1988 - 2022: David Ross Komito.

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