Tuesday Talks - a New Feature

This is the first of our new series of monthly talks that we are having at the West Wight Sangha. As our meetings are shorter than those at the Newport Soto Zen group the talks are perforce also shorter.

I'm featuring the first talk here on our Home page but in future they will be posted directly to our main Audio page along with the regular talks from the zen groups meetings.


This talk is What About Karma by David Loy and is just under 30 minutes long.



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iPhone App for Dharma Seed

The good folk over at Dharma Seed have produced an iPhone App so that you can now access your favourite Dharma speakers on the move.

This app is freely available and is intended to extend the reach of the extensive Dharma Seed talk archive. It is available in the iPhone app store.

Listen to talks over Wi-Fi or a 3G connection.
View recent talks.
View talks by teacher.
View teacher information.

See recently played talks.
Search for talks by keyword.
Supports iPhone 3GS and greater as well as iPod Touch 3rd Generation and greater.

Get your app HERE .................

Talks by Ayya Khema

Since initial writing this post Ayya Khema's talks have been uploaded to Dharma Seed. All 474 talks are available at this link Ayya Khema Talks.

I have just come across a site selling audio tapes of talks by Ayya Khema. The price is $8 per tape including P&P but as this is a U.S. site I have no idea how that works for the rest of us. The site lists over 400 talks and if you would like a taster, one given at Gaia House in Devon, is in Mp3 format and can be downloaded for free.

Ayya Khema is one of my favourite Buddhist writers and I had some part in providing Mp3 talks of hers for the kalyanamitta site which is run by Bo Schafers the webmaster for the Buddhist Society of Western Australia site (right up there as one of my fave sites). So for anyone on the Island who is interested, I can provide 46 of Ayya Khema's talks on disc (if you don't have my contact details leave a note in the Comments below).

The other day I went along to the Newport Soto Zen group and, as usual, I took along a MP3 Dharma talk from our collection, it was "Impermanence" by Leigh Brasington. This talk went down extremely well with everyone so much so that they all wanted to hear it again at a future meeting! It's a really good take on the teachings, especially the first two Noble Truths, so I've decided to provide a streamed version on the Dharma Studies - RESOURCES page under the Audio section for "The First Noble Truth".

(It's really nice to do a post that's not about Tibet)