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Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

Eve is a long time student of the dharma. She began practicing Vipassana in the early 1990s, trained in mindfulness-based social action through the two-year Path of Engagement program at Spirit Rock. and is a certified meditation teacher through the Community Dharma Leader Program. Eve is also a performing artist and co-founded the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots(1993-2009). They were dubbed “Best Band with a Conscience” by the SF Bay Guardian, toured nationally, and released five CDs. In 2006 Eve

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44:33

Eve Decker: What is Renunciation in Buddhism and How...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2026/02/05

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Compassion - turning toward suffering with care and wise responsiveness - is a familiar tenet of Buddhism. Renunciation is also a central teaching. What does that mean for lay practitioners and how does it relate to compassion?

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32:46

Eve Decker: Talk on mindfulness, compassion and some...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/12/06

(Big Bear Retreat Center) The story of the Buddha's time from royalty to spiritual teacher and his emphasis on wisdom and compassion. The story of Ledi Sayadaw in Burma bringing mindfulness to lay people in response to colonialism.

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39:33

Eve Decker: The Heart Practice of Joy

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/12/05

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Talk begins by bringing in the concept of "backdraft" - how distress can seem temporarily worse when we apply self-compassion. Majority of talk is about the necessity of joy for resilience, and the practices of glimmers, knowing what you love & gratitude

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28:07

Eve Decker: Morning Instructions - Guided Mindfulness...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/12/05

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Our practice begins with lovingkindness phrases, moved to mindfulness, then equanimity and self-compassion

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47:00

Eve Decker: Self-Compassion

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/12/04

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Description of the components of self-compassion including Buddhist teachings, neuroscience, the 3 components of self-compassion, soothing touch and the self-compassion break

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33:40

Eve Decker: Lovingkindness Talk and Practice

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/12/03

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Description of metta, heart practices, metta sutta from the Buddha. Guided metta phrase practice

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44:02

Eve Decker: Mindfulness and Imagery:Two strategies...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/11/20

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught transcending (and not identifying with) the thinking mind through present moment awareness. He also taught about using the thinking mind skillfully to incline toward wholesome, well-being inducing states. These two bodies of practice are different but each crucial in their own way, and support each other. This talk looks at working with both mindfulness of the present moment and using imagery (a form of the thinking mind) to skillfully

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1:29:29

Eve Decker: Compassion: Wise Motivation and Wise Action

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/11/06

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept, and it's more than a feeling. It's an understanding, a motivation, and an ever-growing collection of pragmatic responses to distress that we have available internally for ourselves and others.

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1:29:29

Eve Decker: Compassion: Wise Motivation and Wise Action

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/11/06

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept, and it's more than a feeling. It's an understanding, a motivation, and an ever-growing collection of pragmatic responses to distress that we have available internally for ourselves and others.

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48:33

Eve Decker: Meeting Painful Mental/Emotional States...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/09/11

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha said that "Hatred will never end by hatred, by love alone will it end". He also taught that we can exacerbate our suffering with the stories and beliefs we have going on in our minds. The remedies he shared to cope with suffering fall under the umbrella terms 'wisdom' and 'compassion'. Join Eve for a look at some specific teachings and practices to help us work with painful mental/emotional states.

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48:42

Eve Decker: The Four Noble Truths

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/06/12

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk discusses the Four Noble Truths. The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct ways to end suffering. This intention applies as much today as it did in his time almost 2,600 years ago.

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45:48

Eve Decker: The Necessity of Compassion and a Story...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/05/08

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores the essential energy of Compassion, as illustrated by the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan Yin.

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43:11

Eve Decker: Sila: The Support of Integrity

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/05/01

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk includes reflections, practice, and a song pointing to the essential practices that support integrity. Known as "sila" in Pali, wise speech, action, and livelihood and the Five Things (precepts) both lead to and express awakening. Let's look at why and how.

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56:39

Eve Decker: For Earth Day: The Insight of...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/04/24

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Reflections and practices pointing to the important insight into interconnection. The realization of "anatta" - no separate self - is foundational to the Buddhist teachings. It becomes available with mindfulness practice and is a part of both our own awakening and our ability to courageously act on behalf of Earth and her inhabitants.

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53:25

Eve Decker: Our Own Calm is a Gift

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/03/27

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Called to engage with, and do what we can to alleviate, suffering in the world, it's essential that we include ourselves and our own suffering in our circle of care. If we don't, our own suffering will be added to the larger suffering. Habituating practices and tools for grounding and coming back to presence is wise action born from wise understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh said, "Everyone knows that peace has to begin with oneself, but not many people know how

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57:31

Eve Decker: Equanimity in These Times Pt 1

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/02/06

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk examines some frameworks and practices that can help us return to equanimity (a sense of balance in the midst of things as they are, from which wise response can more easily arise).

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1:51:29

Eve Decker: Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2025/01/15

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

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60:00

Eve Decker: Intention And songs in remembrance of...

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2024/12/26

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Join Eve for an evening of exploring the Buddha’s teaching on Intention - a powerful and potentially transformative mental energy that precedes action. Live at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave., Berkeley, and online (Zoom link below). We will also share some songs in remembrance of Alan Senauke, the Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center who passed away on Sunday December 22. Alan was a great Buddhist teacher, social activist, and

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55:27

Eve Decker: Cultivating Kindness for Inner Experience

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2024/12/19

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Join Eve for an exploration of holding all aspects of inner experience with curiosity and kindness. The practice of mindfulness invites us to ‘see things as they really are’ - not as we imagine them to be or wish them to be. This is usually a big challenge, especially in painful areas or the ones we try to avoid. The Buddhist teachings of lovingkindness invite a crucial deepening in our capacity to not only turn toward the difficult, but to begin to embrace

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44:57

Eve Decker: Self-Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Eve Decker"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2024/09/12

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short talk, practice, and songs.

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