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2011-10-06 The Wisdom of a Dhamma Lifestyle 61:41
Steve Armstrong
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Universal Beauty and Well Being

2011-10-06 Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 2 62:01
James Baraz
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This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Five wholesome states that support true well-being are investigated including practices that help us access them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-06 Understanding Sankhara 40:56
Tempel Smith
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A practical and wise exploration of ways in which our wanting things to be static and unchanging, especially with regard to our mental and emotional patterns, limits our lives and creates suffering. The evening ends with a discussion.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2011-10-07 Mindfulness Of The Body 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-07 Investigating Personality View 63:30
Carol Wilson
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The sense of self as personality view is a construct of mind that arises and poises like any other phenomena - and we can explore it with intent rather than fear it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-08 Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith 21:36
Ajahn Sucitto
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Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-08 It All Comes Back To Awareness 39:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-08 "Face The Will" 1:17:42
Sayadaw U Jagara
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Are we free? Can we be free? The five aggregates seen in the Samyutta, as empty, unsubstantial and ephemeral. (Anicca, Dukka, Anatta) To be or not to be: Let it be: Act without an agent.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-08 The Illusion Of Not Good Enough 66:51
Chas DiCapua
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How this particular form of self identify view comes into being. How it can be worked with, and how it can be a vehicle for awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-09 Rebel Dharma 34:12
Jason Murphy
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Insight Santa Cruz

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