Winnie Nazarko's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Winnie Nazarko: Wise Effort

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of the Wise Effort step of the 8 Fold Path, how it fits into the Buddha's teachings, and examples of how to specifically apply it.

Winnie Nazarko: The Buddha's Path

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores various points of the Buddha's schema as they relate to a practice at a concentration retreat.

Winnie Nazarko: Dependent Origination: Identifying the Place of Power

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talks describes the Buddha's realization that all things arise and pass away because of causes and conditions. He saw specifically how suffering/dukkha came to be. Once he understood the causes of the arising of suffering, he was able to "reverse engineer" the process, and see how suffering could be brought to an end. He specifically pointed to the vedana (feeling tone) of experience as a specific arising to relate to wisely. On a larger scale, his teachings on the 8 Fold Path to end the clinging which causes dukkha to arise.

Winnie Nazarko: Practicing the 8-Fold Path on Retreat

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how retreatants practice the whole of the 8-Fold Path while on a 3-month retreat

Joseph Goldstein, Winnie Nazarko: Joseph's Responses to Three Month Yogis Written Questions

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)