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2023-07-19 Allow Your State of Wonder to Stay Open, Without Always Trapping It into Meaning 46:30
Ayya Santacitta
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Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
2023-07-19 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:34
Tara Brach
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When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
2023-07-19 Intimacy with Life (Part 1) 54:23
Tara Brach
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Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
2023-07-19 Liberation Through Non-clinging 46:28
Greg Scharf
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2023-07-20 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 50:11
Kevin Griffin
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Kevin uses suttas from the Pali Canon to bring out the practical aspects of this teaching.
2023-07-20 The 4 Spiritual Centers and the 4 Instinctual Drives--The Moh Transpersonal Center and the Enlightenment Drive 1:25:12
Tina Rasmussen
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2023-07-21 Empowering Faith Nourishing Resolve 43:22
Ajahn Achalo
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In this talk, delivered at a retreat at Wat Marp Jan, Ajahn discusses the subject of cultivating, deepening Faith, and then applying the good energy that comes from this in useful ways. Learning how to apply a more consistent and diligent effort as a consequence of having deep conviction and confidence in both the goal and one's ability to realize it. A Thai version is here: https://youtu.be/0AxHwFX1yK4
2023-07-22 Happiness 1:23:18
Ayya Santussika
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2023-07-23 Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity 45:10
Donald Rothberg
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After an introduction of the teacher, there is a 30-minute guided meditation. We set the intention to track for moments of reactivity, and then have the first 10 minutes or so for settling. Then there are several lightly guided suggestions of ways to practice with reactivity, including noticing moderate or a little greater experiences of pleasant or unpleasant, and seeing whether we move to wanting and grasping, on the one hand, or not wanting or pushing away, on the other. At the end, there is guided practice on bringing up an experience of reactivity and exploring it especially with mindfulness and the wisdom of appropriate response. The meditation is followed by a dana talk.
2023-07-23 Talk: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 2 64:06
Donald Rothberg
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We start with a review and expansion of the main themes of the talk from two weeks ago, looking especially first at the possible confusion around the nature of "dukkha" (usually translated as "suffering"). We look at four meanings of dukkha in the teachings of the Buddha (the first of which is the most common meaning of dukkha as what is "painful"). Only the last sense of dukkha as reactivity (based on the teachings of the Two Arrows and of Dependent Origination) helps us make sense of what the "end of dukkha" means. We then give attention to a number of different ways of practicing to transform and "end" reactivity, followed by discussion with the community.
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