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2024-08-14
Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
46:19
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Tara Brach
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Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
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2024-08-17
How Do We Get the Mind to Settle?
57:54
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Ayya Santussika
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This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 17, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION
16:26 - DHAMMA TALK
43:45 - Q&A
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2024-08-21
Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves
25:59
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Tara Brach
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By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on.
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2024-08-21
Basic Trust – Part 1
57:39
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Tara Brach
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One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives).
“To love without holding back – to really sense with the wisdom, the reality, that it’s right here – to live from wholeness. We have this capacity.”
“Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty is living through you? How would your life be different if you trusted that spirit, love, awareness is what you are?”
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2024-08-28
Give Ear To Silence
16:56
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Listen to the interior silence with audacious selfless attention and see how pure awareness catapults us into a dynamic intuitive presence. We connect to the Dhamma without obstructions. Silence is formless, soundless, complete. We are witness to an emptiness beyond attachment where the burdens of identification have no footing. There is no 'one' to be in that – for when the intellect bows in faith to the heart, we abide in the loving presence of what is here and now. Ahh! but can we sustain it?
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2024-08-28
Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open
26:26
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Tara Brach
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This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention.
We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that’s here – our senses awake… wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, and open.
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