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2023-02-08 Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly 18:12
Tara Brach
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
2023-02-08 The RAIN of Forgiveness 56:17
Tara Brach
The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and free our hearts.
2023-02-09 Living Kindness 56:03
Kevin Griffin
Kevin Griffin explores the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's words on Loving-Kindness. How can we actually live this teaching in an embodied way? Kevin's new book is Living Kindness: Metta Practice for the Whole of Our Lives. From Publisher’s Weekly: “The lucid analysis of Buddhist texts and the jargon-free examination of metta make this an ideal primer on a core element of Buddhist thought and practice."
2023-02-10 The Practice of Forgiveness 40:00
Ajahn Achalo
2023-02-10 Forgiveness 45:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Balancing effort and purifying kamma. Learn to be with what is uncomfortable, including personal mistakes. Cultivating the noble heart requires forgiveness. (at ATBA in Auckland)
2023-02-11 The Challenge of Ill Will 1:23:16
Ayya Santussika
2023-02-13 For the Love of Nature 1:36:02
Mark Coleman
2023-02-15 Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness 17:42
Tara Brach
This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness.
2023-02-15 Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence 53:59
Tara Brach
When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.
2023-02-16 Tranquility and Insight Retreat: Wise Effort- Aligning Wisdom and Presence 40:33
Shelly Graf
Retreat talk: Wise Effort_Aligning Wisdom and Presence
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