Category: Dharma Talks

This talk was given to the Biweekly Online Dharma Group of Chan Dharma Community on March 19, 2021.

This talk was given to the Biweekly Online Dharma Group of Chan Dharma Community on March 5, 2021.

This talk was given at the Biweekly Online Dharma Practice for Chan Dharma Community on February 19, 2021.

This talk was given at the Biweekly Online Dharma Practice of Chan Dharma Community on February 5, 2021.

This talk was given virtually at the Chan Meditation Center on December 6, 2020.

This talk was given to the Yale Buddhist Sangha on November 15, 2020.

This talk and practice session was given at the Rubin Museum on August 17, 2020 via Zoom.  Rebecca spoke on the theme of “Awakening” before guiding the group through a session of meditation.  In this talk, she spoke about what we are awakening to in the midst of our life and how wisdom and compassion is an integral part of our awakening.

Rebecca was invited to share her teachings at the San Francisco Zen Center on August 5, 2020.  Because of the pandemic, she gave her talk to the sangha via Zoom instead.  She was asked to share the stories of her practice with her late teacher Chan Master Sheng Yen with the sangha who wished to learn more about his style of teaching.

This talk was given at the Vancouver Chan Meditation Center via Zoom on August 1, 2020.  Drawing on The Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, Rebecca explained how the key teachings in the Dharma articulated here as the eight realizations of Mahasattvas can guide us in the cultivation of wisdom and compassion amidst rapid transformations in our world.

On May 22, Rebecca was interviewed by Deborah Eden Tull as part of the Mindfulness and Meditation Summit on how to cultivate unconditional kindness to ourselves and others in challenging times.

Session description: In these challenging times, stress, anxiety and fear can unsettle our mind, rendering us more susceptible to falling into our unhelpful habits. Using our meditative practice, we can cultivate unconditional kindness to ourselves by observing the subtle and implicit conditions we have set in order to deserve love and kindness and learning to let go of these conditions. As we unlearn the habit of harshness toward ourselves, we develop greater capacity for kindness to our loved ones and others.

This interview is part of the Mindfulness and Meditation Summit, a free online event where you can return to joy, foster courage and share compassion through the power of mindful awareness. For more information, please visit https://mindfulnessmeditationsummit.com/. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.