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Retreat Dharma Talks
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2024-09-14
Toward a Refuge of Belonging
33:25
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Devon Hase
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In this talk, devon offers reflections on the importance of refuge in the Buddhist tradition and how deepening into refuge opens us to a stable sense of belonging, as well as building metta parami, the cultivation of love on the path.
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2024-09-15
True Refuge: Finding Our Way Home
36:46
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Pamela Weiss
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True refuge is not a place or destination. It is a radical shift in attitude and orientation-from me to we, from reactivity to response-ability and from fear to love.
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2024-09-18
Cittānupassanā - Die Kontemplation des Herzgeistes
57:54
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Yuka Nakamura
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Cittānupassanā, die Kontemplation des Herzgeistes, ist ein wichtiger Teil der Vipassanā-Praxis und das dritte der vier Satipatthanas. Es geht um die Achtsamkeit auf den Zustand des Cittas, die uns erkennen lässt, welche Emotionen, Stimmungen und Kräfte jeweils präsent sind, und wie gefangen oder rein und gesammelt der Geist ist. Der Vortrag geht auf die Schwierigkeiten ein, die das Wahrnehmen von Emotionen erschweren können und zeigt praktische Wege auf, um mit diesen umzugehen.
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2024-09-18
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind
25:05
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Tara Brach
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Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention – and including the background sounds. Not pushing away anything – a very open and relaxed, receptive attention.
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2024-09-18
Waking up from Bias: A Conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta
55:15
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Tara Brach
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Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, author and teacher Anurag Gupta offers his wise perspectives and invites Tara to share some of what she has learned in navigating this terrain. We explore how to come into a healing relationship with unhealthy thoughts; forgiving ourselves for bias (it’s impersonal); the inner freedom that arises from releasing bias; and how to awaken compassion and deep respect for those we have habitually dehumanized. The interview closes with Tara leading a brief reflection on undoing bias.
Anu’s recent book is: Breaking Bias – Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From – and the Science-backed Method to Unravel Them – 2024. Also available on Anu’s website at: https://www.bemorewithanu.com.
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2024-09-19
Love Serve Remember
49:23
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James Baraz
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The title of the evening is "Love, Serve, Remember". On October 13th, Spirit Rock hosts a special event Celebrating Ram Dass: Love Serve, Remember with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das and others. Those three words were the instructions Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass' guru gave to him: "Love Everyone, Serve Everyone, and Remember God."
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2024-09-20
Leave Your Shoes at the Door
18:04
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Let faith be our foundation for a mindfulness that never tires of examining how we are within us. We may eat well, dress well, and look good but what is the real state of the mind? Day by day, finding safety in virtue, aware of the right qualities that direct, protect, and teach us to root out unworthy habits, let us harvest the profound joy and goodness of this life. It’s not how much we work or gain but how well we honour the noble Dhamma as servants of selflessness and human kindness.
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2024-09-20
Citta als Absicht und Gestaltungskraft unseres Lebens.
60:47
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Yuka Nakamura
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Citta - unser Herzgeist - hat neben seiner empfindsamen, rezeptiven Seite auch eine aktive, gestaltende Seite. Jede Absicht, die wir formen und in Gedanken, Worten oder Taten umsetzen, hat eine Wirkung und trägt zu unserem Glück oder Leiden bei. Von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, dass wir lernen, zwischen heilsamen und unheilsamen Absichten zu unterscheiden und bewusst die heilsamen Absichten und Geisteszustände zu kultivieren. Geistesschulung bedeutet, dass wir unheilsame Gewohnheitstendenzen nicht weiter füttern und stattdessen heilsame Tendenzen stärken. Dadurch formen wir uns selbst und unser Leben.
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