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Dharma Talks in English
2017-02-11 Morning instruction 53:57
Leslie Booker
Booker offers a posture clinic and basic sitting instructions for retreatants on body retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Weekend

2017-02-10 Dharma Practice as a Path to Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:38
James Baraz
The Buddha said that cultivating wholesome states creates the conditions for awakening. He further said that when a wholesome state is here to maintain and increase that state. But how can we do that without it increasing attachment? This talk explores why the Buddha was called The Happy One and how to see this path not only as an end to suffering but as a deepening of true well-being on and off the cushion,
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-10 Open to Impact - Awakening the Human Heart 42:29
Leela Sarti
"wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We must look a long time before we can see." - Henry David Thoreau. The willingness and capacity to feel vulnerable and respond to oneself with kindness is a sacred gateway to being a true human being and to live this earthly life with dignity and depth of being. The practice of meditation is to behold oneself.
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

2017-02-10 Came to Believe 1:52:17
Kevin Griffin
Dharma & Recovery drop-in class on the 2nd Friday of each month from 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-10 In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self 1:34:34
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-09 Joy 3 -- Joy in the Path and Practice 37:27
Kim Allen
Part 3 of a 3-part series on different types of Joy
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-02-09 "Anger and Hate...but here comes Kwan Yin" 58:16
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-02-09 Opening Talk for Wholehearted Living Retreat 65:41
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

2017-02-09 'The Holy Life' (Part 3) 1:20:00
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-09 Dharma Talk on “Restlessness" from the Ten Fetters (samyojana) -- Co Teach with Amana Brembry -- EBMC POC Sangha 1:41:09
Noliwe Alexander
East Bay Meditation Center

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