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2021-03-10 32 Parts of the Body—Fat, Sweat, Blood, Pus, Phlegm, Bile 50:14
Bob Stahl
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace. This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
2021-03-10 Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening 19:51
Tara Brach
Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the poem “lost” by David Wagoner.
2021-03-10 The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 50:52
Tara Brach
Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true listening, and offer teachings and practices that can directly cultivate this invaluable capacity.
2021-03-12 Meditation and Dhamma Talk 1:33:07
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
Meditation on the 5 frequent reflections guided by Bhante Akāliko, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on AN 5.162, Getting Rid of Resentment
2021-03-13 Desperately Seeking Non-desperation 56:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The tendency to keep running out into concepts eventually results in overload, insecurity, anxiety, collapse. We’re desperately looking for sanity. The steadiness and fulfillment we seek is already here, in the non-conceptual intelligence of body and heart. Rather than going out, return to where body, mind and heart energy come together. In this presence our real home appears.
2021-03-15 One Year Hence day 1 -- The Mind and Faith 32:57
Kim Allen
A 5-day series in acknowledgement of one year of the pandemic. Each teaching includes a wisdom understanding and a heart quality.
2021-03-16 One Year Hence day 2 -- Impermanence, Death, and Equanimity 39:39
Kim Allen
Second of 5
2021-03-17 One Year Hence day 3 -- Views and Metta 34:33
Kim Allen
A week of wisdom and heart qualities to mark one year of the pandemic
2021-03-17 Renunciation in Lay Life 2 -- Mental Patterns 59:02
Kim Allen
Second of a 3-session class on Renunciation for Laypeople. Letting go of mental habits and patterns is the heart of renunciation practice.
2021-03-17 Guided Meditation – Filtering the Flood 52:55
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we practice viewing the stream of circumstance from the place of acknowledgement. Let the stream flow past without getting into the details. Centering practices of body, presence, ethics and heart strengthen the possibility to shift attention from the outflows to here.
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