Welcome to Religica's Interfaith Sharing & Speaker Series
2024-2025: How Do Stories Lead Us?
What stories matter for our lives today? And how do stories guide communities and individuals into a future that is still emerging? In this Interfaith Speaker Series, we gathered with gifted storytellers to explore these questions together.
Our guests included celebrated author Sherman Alexie and Jill LaPointe, Senior Director of the Indigenous People’s Institute at Seattle University, in a conversation moderated by CEIE Staff Fellow, Diane Tomhave.
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2024-2025: Restoring the Community of Creation
Restoring the Community of Creation celebrated the Feast of St. Francis through gathering to explore ways of restoring deep connection with the earth with lectures and embodied practices. This series presented Mary DeJong, founder of Waymarkers, and Ray Williams, Managing Director of Black Farms Collective.
2022-2024: Dharma Talks – View Recordings Below
April 4, 2024
Venerable Thubten Chodron speaks on the beauty of rebirth and the relationship between the body and the mind.
February 1, 2024
Dr. Bonnie Duran speaks on meditation and historical trauma.
December 7, 2023
Ajahn Nisabho from Clear Mountain Monastery speaks on How Dharma Practice Brings Inner Peace and Wisdom.
April 21, 2023
Zen Master Jeong Ji/Anita Feng of Blue Heron Zen Community speaks on “Calling the Earth to Witness.”
February 3, 2023
Venerable Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni speaks on “The Relief Found in Practicing the Teachings of the Buddha.”
October 21, 2022
Reverend Taijo Imanaka of Seattle Koyasan Buddhist Temple speaks on “A Shingon Temple Responds to Present Day Challenges: War and the Precept of Not-Killing.”
About Dharma Talks
In this podcast, Steve Wilhelm introduces the Dharma Talk Series. Steve has been engaged in Buddhist practice since 1987. He has studied and practiced in the Tibetan and Vipassana traditions, and has taught dharma at Eastside Insight Meditation since 2000, and more recently at Seattle Insight Meditation Society. He also edits Northwest Dharma Association website, an online publication, and serves on the boards of Clear Mountain Monastery and the Tibetan Nuns Project. He is also a member of the CEIE Advisory Council. He speaks here with CEIE Director Dr. Michael Reid Trice.
Dharma is a form of teaching and brings multiple meanings from many traditions. In the podcast near the bottom of this page, Steve Wilhelm invites us to consider Dharma in the Buddhist traditions as instructions for awakening, as paths to practice toward awakening, and as a means of aligning ourselves to reality around us. This year we will hear three speakers who teach us about attachment, suffering, and our limits and freedoms, and more.
All speakers come from traditions in Buddha Dharma that are unique from, yet clearly resonant with, one another. Wilhelm responds to the question: “Why do we need a Dharma talk series this year?” To listen and learn about past Dharma Talks and teachers, scroll down below.
