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Dharma Talks
2018-07-05 Meditation Instructions 38:33
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2018-07-05 Morning Instructions: Practicing with the Internal Dimension of Ethics on Retreat 29:21
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-04 Meditation: Blessings of Love 11:27
Tara Brach
A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable tender place within us that longs to feel loved, and call on loving presence to bless us. By imagining and allowing ourselves to receive love, our hearts become open and filled with light. We then bring that inner loving presence fully alive as we offer blessings to other beings. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken our heart. “…being loved into being more who we are is a moment of blessing. What is a blessing? A blessing is a reminder or homecoming into more realness – more love. We’re blessed when we remember.” “Part of what keeps us from realness – in that small self identity – is the avoiding of what’s here.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-04 Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World 45:58
Tara Brach
Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk looks at the way we run from “lady death” and the blessings of opening our arms and heart. If we can embrace the whole of our nature with unconditional presence – including the inevitability of change and loss–we discover deep wisdom and enduring love. (a favorite from the archives) May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing it and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. — from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-04 Dealing with Desire and Attachment 57:37
Ariya B. Baumann
The nature of desire and attachment is stickiness. Unless the mind directly experiences and understands this unsatisfactory nature, it is not inclined to let go. Presenting also other approaches to deal with desire and attachment.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-07-04 Wholesome ethical behavior --> non-regret --> gladness --> .... --> liberation 57:56
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk discusses the first two conditional links described in the Kimatthiya Sutta (“What Purpose?”) (Anguttara Nikaya 10.1), where the Buddha teaches Ananda that wholesome ethical behavior leads to non-regret, which leads to gladness, .... ultimately leading to liberation. Parallels to Upanisa Sutta and Cetana Sutta are discussed.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-04 Meditation Instructions - Body and Breath 17:19
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2018-07-04 Ethical Practice 2: Ten Ways of Deepening the Practice of Non-Harming 66:07
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-03 What Matters? 50:47
Yanai Postelnik
What Matters?
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2018-07-03 The Benefits of Walking Meditation 64:38
Ariya B. Baumann
The practice of walking meditation is not to underestimate. The benefits are numerous not only on the physical and mental level but also in facilitating deep liberating insights into the three general characteristics and the deathless.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

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