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2024-11-11
Gathering Spiritual Resources in this moment.
43:58
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Kate Munding
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This is a time of gathering spiritual resources. To gather the wisdom and clarity that exists within. It's a time to tap into knowledge and strength that exists externally. Tonight will be an evening of self-compassion and an opening towards more clarity of how to meet this moment in time. Whether you are feeling energized to meet the greed, hate, and delusion that is so empowered right now, or you feel numb, tired, and defeated, this evening will guide you.
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2024-11-13
Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness
19:38
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Tara Brach
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Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.
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2024-11-13
The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD
54:00
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Tara Brach
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This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current times.
This was initially recorded live for those in Kristin’s membership community and includes several question/responses. For more information about Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion Community, click the link here.
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2024-11-16
Am I Doing Enough in My Practice?
50:41
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Ayya Santussika
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This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on November 16, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - DHAMMA TALK
28:21 - Q&A
47:16 - Upasika Program Information
49:00 - Plans for lay community led Saturday sessions while the Ayyas are away
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2024-11-17
We Are the Mandala
24:06
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Pure present moment awareness reveals what we are not; and thereby, what we truly are. Investigate and question all thoughts you see circling in the mind – fearful or fanciful, liked or not. Know their clever disguises: impermanence everywhere! Not what we are, but empty, ephemeral in nature, they orbit like space debris – crowding the heart mandala of consciousness. Let go and rejoice when states of wanting, judgement, restlessness, fear, unhappiness and all the many faces of 'self' dissolve in the silence of pure awareness. This is true refuge – here and now. All else withers in the furnace of eternity.
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2024-11-20
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly
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Tara Brach
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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.
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2024-11-20
The Honesty Challenge – Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World
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Tara Brach
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Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives. We close with a quote by Danna Faulds from her book:
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