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Dharma Talks
2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- #5 - Feeding the hungry heart relaxes self-ing 68:42
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 Natural Law 37:44
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- #1 Present moment awareness of endings and beginings 17:51
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally #2 The two truths: Futility and fullness 28:50
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 Recognizing Unawareness 58:38
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-16 NYI People of Color Sit with Gina Sharpe & Larry Yang 1:13:39
Gina Sharpe
This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center POC Sangha Evening

2013-12-16 Two ways to Free the Mind... 62:08
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-12-17 Dependent Origination: Review 46:52
Rodney Smith
If we review where the exploration of Dependent Origination has brought us over the course of this series of talks, we will notice four perceptional shifts that Dependent Origination has encouraged. The first is that through Dependent Origination we perceive there are an infinite number of influences on every event and that existence itself arises from multiple factors, and therefore there is no separate existences. Everything is tied together through the web of relationship. But Dependent Origination moves it even further by its second perceptual shift in which it shows how the web of somethingness was generated by the mind from nothing. Out of nothing, form arises and becomes the world of connected relationships with "me" arising within it. The "how did that happen," is explained by Dependent Origination, as the links build upon themselves to reveal a world of appearances that have no inherent substance. The third perceptual change from Dependent Origination is a variation of the second in which the world arises directly from "my" projections. In essence the world does not have a fundamental existence of its own. It is dependent upon "me" and what I know, for it to be. The fourth shift is the acknowledgment of struggle that is inherent in the arising of form from formlessness. We are birthed from that struggle and ultimately must grow old and die because of it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-12-17 Who is Skeptical? 47:20
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-12-18 What is Binding You? 38:09
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

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