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2020-12-13 The Art and Practice of Forgiveness 4:23:24
Phillip Moffitt, Noliwe Alexander
The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events. This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them in accountability without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down. Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret, and a mind that is calm and clear. The day will be held with periods of guided silent sitting and walking meditation practice, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, and a forgiveness ceremony, with opportunities to ask questions to the instructors.
2020-12-13 Q&A 37:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Can you comment on the other 3 foundations of mindfulness aside from body; is ‘heart-mind’ the translation for citta; is kamma self-perpetuating; please say more about tendency of untrained mind to outflow and how to reverse them; differentiate interdependency and toxic co-dependency in relationships; please explain mindful internally, externally, and both; please speak about how we can manage fear in this time of Corona virus; what is meant by ‘citta is released’; how do we work with aversion, like chemical sensitivity; what is the difference between citta as direct knowing and citta as learning; can you speak more about cleaning out the citta?
2020-12-14 Meditation: Breath Love In Breath Love Out | Monday Night Talk 24:18
Jack Kornfield
Meditation is an invitation in this moment’s practice to turn our attention to our body, heart and mind. Begin to pay attention to this mysterious human incarnation. Feel how your body is breathing itself… you don’t have to do anything. Add metta or lovingkindness to each breath. With each breath in, fill your body and being with lovingkindness for yourself. With each breath out, sense you are sending love out to the world.
2020-12-14 Q and A: Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk 26:36
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from 12-14-2020 Monday Night Dharma Talk Rekindle and Renew
2020-12-14 Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk 40:44
Jack Kornfield
Many of us discover we live partially in a dreamworld, cut off from our body and whole pieces of our life. Though we may sense our disconnection, we do not know exactly what is wrong. James Joyce captured this dilemma when he wrote of one character, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” Enlightenment must be lived here and now through this very body. In this body and mind we can discover the cause of suffering and the end of suffering. For awakening to be an opening into freedom in this very life, the body must be its ground.
2020-12-14 Cleaning Citta - New Moon Lunar Observance 51:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Purification of mind is not just spiritual jargon but necessary for happiness. No matter how gross or subtle, our speech, mental intentions and bodily actions affect us. Training and cleaning citta involves bringing uplifting qualities to mind and refraining from contracting to the unpleasant. This is how our kamma can begin to change.
2020-12-16 Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen 58:02
Yuka Nakamura
Wie entsteht unser Ich-Gefühl? Ein wichtiger Mechanismus ist unsere Tendenz, uns ständig mit anderen zu vergleichen und zu messen. Der Dünkel (mana), der dabei entsteht, also das Gefühl besser, schlechter als oder gleich wie andere zu sein, ist die Quelle von viel Leiden. Der Vortrag behandelt verschiedene Formen von Dünkel aufgrund von Geburt, Wissen, Schönheit u.a. und zeigt Wege auf, wie wir damit praktizieren können.
2020-12-17 meditation: breathing, then contemplating the benefits of sangha 27:02
Jill Shepherd
A guided meditation for the end of year, beginning with settling into the body breathing, then after some silence, reflecting on the year as it ends, attuning to and acknowledging any benefits that have come from practising together in community
2020-12-17 The Choice is Ours: Wise Relationship to Our Experience 49:07
James Baraz
These days have even more ups and downs than usual. For many it's both a time of sorrow and a time of joy. The mind can easily get caught in the difficulties when it's contracted by stress. But our Dharma practice shows us we have a choice how to wisely relate to our experience.
2020-12-18 Ermächtigung ~ Wie funktioniert das? 25:20
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
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