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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Tuesday Talks—2012
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2012-01-01 (366 days)
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2012-01-10
Spiritual Friendships
33:20
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Kim Allen
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Kalyana mitta, or spiritual friendship, is a foundation of the Buddhist path. Through examining a number of suttas related to friendship, we gain an understanding of the important qualities and ways of relating to wise friends.
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2012-02-14
What Must Be Known
34:58
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Shaila Catherine
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What do we need to know, understand, investigate, and realize through our meditation practice? In the Anguttara Nikaya. VI, 63, the Buddha described six things that should be known in six ways. The six things to be known include desires, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma (actions of body speech and mind), and suffering. Each can be known through their presence, conditioned origin, diversity, outcome, cessation, and way to cessation. This talk explores the structure and details of this brief sutta teaching, and proposes a practical approach to investigating the mind and our relationship with life.
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In
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Buddhist Perspectives on Right View
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2012-02-21
Danger of Fixation
36:05
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Shaila Catherine
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How does suffering manifest in attachment to views? This talk explores right view and addresses the danger of attaching to a position, philosophy, belief, or opinion. Primary sources are the teachings from the Middle Length discourses numbers 72 and 74. Recognizing the dangers of attachment and clinging to beliefs and opinions, we directly investigate what can be known in the mind and body. This is a pragmatic path of mindful awareness that results in actions that are immediately liberating.
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Buddhist Perspectives on Right View
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2012-05-08
Dynamics of Emotion
44:27
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Shaila Catherine
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Meditation can reveal the dynamic process of emotional life. In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores relationships between mind and body, between thoughts and emotions, and between present moment experience and concepts. Emotions are not avoided in meditation, instead we engage in a balanced and wise investigation of emotions and see their changing, impermanent, and empty nature. Transformative insight into impermanence may come through understanding the functioning of mental states, without worry about difficult emotions such as anger, grief, or fear. We will learn to respond, act, and speak with wisdom as we learn to open to the full range of emotional life.
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Meditation and the Emotional Landscape
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2012-07-17
Clarifying the Mind
47:51
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Kim Allen
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The Buddha likened the Five Hindrances to impurities and disturbances in a pool of water. In this talk, we examine the grosser and finer manifestations of each hindrance, down to subtle levels.
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2012-07-31
The Liberating Path
29:32
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Shaila Catherine
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This talk explores the Nobel Eightfold Path and the Three Trainings of virtue (sila), concentration (samadhi), and wisdom (panna). We look at how the trainings lead directly to liberation.
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2012-09-25
Facing Our Biggest Fears
41:06
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Ayya Santussika
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This talk explores an ancient Tibetan method to confront your fear and turn it into an ally. She reviews the method from Lama Tsultrim book "Feeding your demons" in the context of the first three of the four noble truths.
search words: four noble truths, feeding your demons, fear, anxiety, gratitude, change your brain
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