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Sharon Salzberg's Dharma Talks

Sharon Salzberg

The most compelling part of my practice right now comes in the form of my writing. For a long time, I've focused my teaching and writing on lovingkindness. Now as I look more deeply into lovingkindness, I find that it actually rests on another foundation, the expression of faith.

Faith is the topic I am exploring most in teaching and writing. Today there is a tremendous upsurge of interest in a new kind of faith, based on a practice where people can experience a direct spirituality, one without rigid dogma or compulsory belief in a specific cosmology. This is a spirituality that rests on personal transformation.

Vipassana allows us to take a method of mind training and craft a way of life that is more compassionate, more ethical and more powerful than our unawakened lives. The Buddha's teachings give us an immediate experience of what we can do to change. Faith in the teachings means we align ourselves with a vision of our greatest possibilities. This is the heart of the practice.

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1992-01-27 Happiness 53:53	Download Listen
Discovering a deep and abiding unconventional happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Happiness And Joy

1985-11-27 Sustaining Practice-4 Reflections 43:24	Download Listen
contemplations on the preciousness of human birth, on suffering and on karma
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1997-11-11 The Buddha As A Historical Figure 56:08	Download Listen
This talk explores the life of a remarkable human being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: The Buddha And The Dharma

1995-02-10 Greed, Hatred, And Delusion 55:41	Download Listen
transforming our conditioning though the power of the practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-11-22 Sympathetic Joy 55:44	Download Listen
Paying attention to the obstacles that get in our way of feeling happiness for ourselves and others, and ways to overcome these.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-14 Mindfulness 54:46	Download Listen
peeling away the layers of myth, preconception and misunderstanding through mindfulness; the need for continuity of awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1986-11-20 Rapture 44:01	Download Listen
developing rapture through wise attention, care, and contemplations
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1984-03-11 Closing Talk - Metta 59:14	Download Listen
realizing the power of awareness, generosity, love, and truthfulness in one's life; ends with lovingkindness meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1984-10-25 Ten Paramis - part I 50:31	Download Listen
generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy/effort, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, equanimity, and metta/lovingkindness--the ten perfections which practice aims at cultivating
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 1984 Three Month Retreat

1984-10-27 Ten Paramis - part II 54:16	Download Listen
generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy/effort, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, equanimity, and metta/lovingkindness--the ten perfections which practice aims at cultivating
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 1984 Three Month Retreat

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