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Dharma Talks
2015-07-29 Better Than, Equal to, or Less Than: Comparing Ourselves to Others (The Buddha's Teachings on Conceit or Mana) 47:32
Rebecca Bradshaw
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-07-29 The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachment and Addiction 49:13
Tara Brach
In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm of Hungry Ghosts. This talk explores the attachments and addictions that so many of us struggle with, and the teachings and practices that can liberate us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-07-29 Departure Talk 45:52
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-29 A Way Out of No Way 52:11
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-07-29 Peace is Possible in this Very Everyday Life 64:23
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-07-29 Reflection - The contemplative craft-Attitude vs. technique - Review of the toolbox. 41:41
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-28 How Conduct Bears Fruit: Training in Not Killing 37:52
Shaila Catherine
This is the second talk in a speaker series titled Ethics, Action, and the Five Precepts. This talk by Shaila Catherine explores kamma (karma) and the training precept to refrain from killing. The Abhidhamma presents a detailed analysis of both wholesome and unwholesome mental states to explain how some actions lead to suffering, and other actions lead to happiness. The conditions that surround an action, the intentions that instigate it, and the reflective understanding of potential consequences will influence the intensity of the patterns that affect our options. If you find that you have killed a living being, perhaps an insect, notice your mental state. Was hatred or greed present? Learn what happens in the mind to enable killing, and what happens in the mind when you refrain from violence. The act of restraint is a particularly potent action. When virtue (sila) is pure, reflections on the abstention from harming can be a source of joy. The potency of wholesome restraint can be increased by reinforcing it with the wisdom that understands the causes and end of suffering—right view of the path.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Ethics, Action, and the Five Precepts

2015-07-28 Keeping One's Center 36:44
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-07-28 Disentangling Self-2 45:36
Akincano Marc Weber
Synopsis of last night - reasons for reification through attentional habits, perceptual habits and language.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-27 Disentangling Self-1 67:49
Akincano Marc Weber
Background of Teaching on anattatā - dimensions of impersonality - psychological models of self and possible confusions
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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