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2017-01-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 1 (2017) 1:28:08

Mark Nunberg

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This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these seven wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress. Here are three study resources to use as you wish, including the passage that I read from last night:

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening (2017)

Attached Files:

Passage on the Scope of the Practice from Wings to Awakening, p. 161 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
The Buddha's Teachings on Mindfulness by Gil Fronsdal (Link)
The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening by Santikaro Bhikkhu (Link)

2017-01-09 Re-contextualising Mindfulness 54:32
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Sati in Buddhist Psychology, sati in Mind-development, Images of sati. Establishing the Fourfold Mindfulness: (satipaṭṭhāna) as map and as four channels of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-09 S’approcher des sens, abandonner les fabulations 39:25
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2017-01-09 Spirit Rock, Taking Refuge, Monday Night Dharma Talk 62:55
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2017-01-10 Contemplating Body – take two (kāyānupassanā) 42:02
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Involuntary and voluntary attention – attention vs. mindfulness – the notion of embodiment – pleasure and discomfort and the training of a deliberate attentional relationship. Followed by experiential exercise: Three dimensions of bodily awareness
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2017-01-10 Faith and Hope in a Changing World 13:43
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2017-01-10 "Cultivating Samadhi" 58:11
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Practices for cultivating appreciative fullness and collectiveness using the Jhana factors. Hindrances are also briefly explored
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2017-01-10 The Wisdom Guided Heart: The Safest Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Overview of meditation techniques and how they contribute to the development of wisdom and its expression as kindness.
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2017-01-11 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Buddhist Practice, and the Needs of Our Times 1: Bringing Wisdom and Love to All Parts of Our Lives 61:11
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We explore the shared heart of the approaches of Buddhist practice and of the life and work of Dr. King (playing a recording of Dr. King reading "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"), pointing to how their integration is crucial to respond to the needs of our times.
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2017-01-11 Reflexions on the role of hedonic tone and attention (vedanā) 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research