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2003-11-05 Friendship 33:17
Arinna Weisman
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The Buddha said sangha and spiritual friendship is the holy life. This practice involves learning to experience our own beauty and Buddha nature, and through this, the beauty of others.
2003-11-05 The Eightfold Path and Daily Life 58:03
Donald Rothberg
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2003-11-08 Breathing In And Out 64:15
Ajahn Sucitto
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2003-11-09 Using All Experience As The Path 59:42
Carol Wilson
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looking at our willingness to use everything that comes our way as part of our spiritual practice
2003-11-11 Morality 48:07
Arinna Weisman
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We have a tendency to see the world through success-failure, enemy-friend, good-bad. It is also possible to hold, with love, the ambiguity of life and our own ambivalence. Without splitting, we are able to live within the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha’s teachings.
2003-11-11 The Laws of Karma 59:14
Joseph Goldstein
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2003-11-12 Embracing Paradox - The Middle Way 44:05
Donald Rothberg
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2003-11-12 Compassion 1:41:38
Joseph Goldstein
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2003-11-12 Compassion 42:59
Steve Armstrong
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2003-11-13 Learning 46:32
Rodney Smith
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Reflect on how generosity is related to equality. When you offer a gift to someone you perceive as unequal is that generosity or pity? Feel the difference between these two forms of giving. How does the heart feel and how does the mind hold the offering in a generous act and in pity? When you perceive someone as a human being regardless of their present condition you can only perceive them as equal. When you give to the less fortunate, you are lost in the pain of the circumstances. The generous heart feels that pain but gives to the human being. This week find several occasions to give something away to someone less privileged. Before you do, release the projections and allow equality to surface. One person giving to another. Look the person in the eye when you hand them the gift. Let your heart meet theirs. Feel the humility of true generosity. Feel the joy of release. Notice the qualitative difference between giving with humility and the self-importance of "helping the disadvantaged."
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