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Retreat Dharma Talks
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2006-02-05
The Ten Reflections - part 1
54:03
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Sally Armstrong
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This is the first of a 3 part series on this Sutta: "Ten subjects for frequent recollection," that help to align our intention to our spiritual practice and to bring on retreat. Themes include renunciation, working with habits and ethical conduct.
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2006-02-07
Habits Of Mind
55:00
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Carol Wilson
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This talk describes the habits of mind that create suffering and the purifying power of mindfulness.
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2006-02-13
Speed
64:57
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Diana Winston
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How speed and busyness manifest themselves in our culture, daily life, and meditation practice. How to work with them, too.
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2006-02-24
Karma Of The Mind
7:35:30
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The Buddha's teachings on Karma provide a necessary foundation for understanding how meditation works to develop tranquility and insight.
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2006-02-27
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
61:52
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James Baraz
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The joy of letting go includes restraint expressed as sitting with integrity as well as letting go of stories, expectation & experiences. This letting go is not a sacrifice but rather releasing the burden of holding onto the things that cause us suffering.
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2006-03-20
Forgiveness
54:18
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Marie Mannschatz
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The process of forgiveness is a main ingredient of metta practice. How to practice forgiveness.
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2006-03-21
What Is Faith?
51:13
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Narayan Helen Liebenson
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Faith is not magical but grows in the light of understanding and experience. Faith enables us to embrace the obstacles and imperfections our life brings.
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2006-03-24
Choice And Its Fallacy
49:13
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Jose Reissig
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Choice has been acclaimed by our culture as the key to happiness. However, our picking and choosing frenzy does little to allay our dissatisfaction. Rather, this frenzy becomes a tool for the ego. The talk examines alternative ways of finding happiness.
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2006-03-25
The Lure Of The Frames Of Reference
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Jose Reissig
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Most of what comes our way (time, history, ideas, etc.) tends to be used as raw material for building mental frames of reference. While these mental structures bring a simulacrum of stability to our lives, in the end they are most unhelpful because we tend to cling to them. We'd do well to hold them loosely.
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2006-03-26
Going Where Frames Of Reference Can't Go
36:31
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Jose Reissig
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The most serious drawback of our frames of reference is that we end up imagining that they offer a comprehensive description of reality, and this keeps us from going beyond them. This talk is an invitation to go beyond.
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2006-04-03
In And Out Of Egypt
56:41
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Sylvia Boorstein
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Practice as restorer of wisdom of the mind when it's disturbed by afflictive emotion. An analogy is made to "Egypt" in the Exodus story as narrowness of mind--we go in and out of Egypt many times a day.
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2006-04-09
The History of Buddhism in India - Part 1
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Guy Armstrong
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This talk recaps some key elements in the development of Buddhism in India from the death of the Buddha through the splits that occurred in the early schools of what could be called classical or Nikaya Buddhism. It highlights some of the philosophical issues that caused the divisions.
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2006-04-10
The History of Buddhism in India - Part 2
64:28
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Guy Armstrong
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This talk discusses the development of Buddhism in India beginning with the origins of the Mahayana school around 100 BC and continuing through Nagarjuna, the Yogacara school, Vajrayana, and the beginnings of Dzogchen. As in part 1, the philosophical differences are highlighted.
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2006-04-12
Practicing Rigpa - Part 2
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Guy Armstrong
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The talk explores different methods for the technique of looking in dzogchen practice as taught by Tsoknyi Rinpoche. It also describes some meditation states that might be mistaken for rigpa (near relatives).
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2006-04-22
Opening, Suffusing, Releasing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A lot of suffering is related to a particular mode of doing, an involuntary overwhelming doing. Through mediation we cultivate a different way. By shifting the mind to presence, mind opens to a subtler aspect of doing on the feeling, subjective level – suffusing. We come out of the grip of how we usually attend. This is release.
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2006-04-23
Dhamma Wings
7:47
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Practice means we keep trying to purify the mind and strengthen our commitment to the precepts. There is no failure – we just begin again and again until we find our Dhamma wings. A short talk given during a Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) retreat in Toronto.
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2006-04-29
Appropriate Attention
69:12
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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According to the Buddha, appropriate attention is the most important mental factor for attaining Awakening. So what does he mean by attention, and what kind of attention is appropriate? How do the factors of appropriate attention apply to our meditation practice, how do they apply to our lives?
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