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Dharma Talks in English
2018-01-17 Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness 20:44
Tara Brach
We begin with listening and then bring a receptive attention to experience the life of the body. We then open the attention to the whole field of sensations and sound, and rest in the openness and presence that includes all the changing currents of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-17 Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us – Part 1 46:54
Tara Brach
A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves. These two talks explore how we subscribe to societal myths and beliefs that perpetuate this “bad othering,” and “bad selfing.” They then guide us in bring a healing attention that can reveal the goodness that lives through all beings, and our innate connectedness. A core teaching is, “the boundary to who we include in our hearts is the boundary to our freedom.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-17 Wise Intention 52:01
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-01-17 Not Knowing But Keeping Going 2: Cultivating "Not Knowing" in Mindfulness Practice, Listening to Others, and in Periods of Transition and Difficulty, including the "Dark Night" 63:06
Donald Rothberg
We review and expand several perspectives on the relationship between knowing and "not knowing" (or openness) and three core practices of not knowing: (1) in mindfulness practice; (2) in listening to others (and oneself); and (3) in challenging transitional phases of one's life, when significant concerns in one's life are not resolved or clear. In the context of the third type of practice, we explore the "Dark Night," first named by the Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591), which may be briefer or longer, in terms of some of its dynamics and some suggestions on how to work with it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-01-15 Kusala 10:29
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-01-15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 26:57
Brian Lesage
This talk is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-01-15 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:51:03
Sylvia Boorstein, Matthew Brensilver
with assistants Carol Cano and Victoria Cary
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Every Moment: A Retreat in Mindfulness, Metta and Morality

2018-01-15 Eightfold Path Program - Wise Action part 2 26:35
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-01-14 Eightfold Path Program - Wise Action part 3 31:59
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-01-14 Day 2: Evening Practice Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:35:05
Sylvia Boorstein, Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Every Moment: A Retreat in Mindfulness, Metta and Morality

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