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2020-04-29
Meditation: Vipassana - Seeing Life As It Is
27:36
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Tara Brach
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This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear and open presence. Enjoy a bit longer meditation with several quiet pauses.
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2020-04-29
Sheltering In Love (Part 6): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 2)
51:05
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Tara Brach
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The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to all of life. These two talks look at the epidemic of loneliness predating the pandemic, and how loneliness is exacerbated in our current global crisis for those living alone, and for those feeling disconnected to themselves and others. We then explore how a courageous practice of compassionate presence - with our inner life, and in relationships - can turn the energy of loneliness into a current of healing and freedom.
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2020-04-30
talk: seclusion, sangha, samvega (spiritual urgency)
17:16
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Jill Shepherd
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A short talk exploring how taking refuge in sangha even while we're in seclusion, can strengthen samvega or spiritual urgency.
Closes with an invitation to explore in small groups, what's been learned in response to the Covid-19 situation and how it might deepen our dharma practice.
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2020-05-01
On the Cross of Our Illusions: A Guided Dying Meditation and Reflections
42:36
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Ayya Medhanandi
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To simulate the natural process of death is to experience the impermanence of the five aggregates and a pure awareness that knows the inherent emptiness of things as they truly are. Dying is a potent doorway for liberation of mind and the best death we can die is shattering the ego. Then we can let go of fear once and for all. This guided meditation was given during a death and dying retreat in an Australian church in 2004.
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