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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2004-05-03
Enjoying The Fruits Of Meditation
53:07
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Jack Kornfield
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How to recognize, embody and enjoy the fruits of spiritual life. How to allow joy, trust, steadiness, wisdom, well being and compassion to blossom in our body and heart. How to enjoy them and let them fill our life.
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2004-10-23
Faith
55:12
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Kamala Masters
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The Buddha likened faith to a seed, an intention, to grow in the direction of wisdom and compassion, to venture beyond what is known. The seed sends down roots which take in nourishment to grow the seed. The roots are likened to virtuous activity. From there, sprouts grow, blossom and bear the fruits of serenity and insight.
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2004-10-28
Equanimity
60:28
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Kamala Masters
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Equanimity is resting the mind before it falls into extremes of reactivity. The spacious, calm balance of equanimity can contain both the joys and sorrows of life— supporting mindfulness and the opening to deeper wisdom when we open to “how it is.” Moment to moment, equanimity leads to a great respect and to alignment with the truths that liberate.
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2007-01-03
What Comes Next In Our Wild, Precious Lives? - part 1
57:24
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Donald Rothberg
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In our lives we often ask: "What comes next?" in my practice, in my life. We may feel stuck, or energized but not know how to manifest concretely in our lives. We explore the nature of our wold unfolding and some practical ways to tune into "what wants to come next?"
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2007-01-17
The Dharma And Martin Luther King, Jr
52:39
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Donald Rothberg
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At this time of King’s birthday, we use the Vietnamese Buddhist recent understanding of three core areas of the Dharma- wisdom, compassion and courage with each we examine both the teachings of the Buddha and the life and work of King, playing several of his talks.
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2007-01-31
Mindfulness And Papanca - part 2
57:37
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Donald Rothberg
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We focus, in this record of two talks, on the nature of Papanca or “conceptual proliferation” its roots in compulsive craving and aversion, and a number of different ways to work skillfully with Papanca.
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2007-03-14
Transforming Judgment - part 1
53:55
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Donald Rothberg
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Working with judgments is a kind of “royal road” of transformation, taking us into our deep and often unconscious views, sense of self and pain. We look at the importance of this work, and the speaker tells personal stories illustrating four ways of working with judgments: 1. mindfulness 2. seeing core patterns of mind and heart 3. metta, compassion, joy – using heart practices, and 4. deep inquiry.
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2007-03-21
Transforming Judgment - part 2
47:28
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Donald Rothberg
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We review some of the main themes of transforming judgments – the nature of judgments and four main ways of working with judgments, using mindfulness, inquiry, and heart practices. We add some exploration of the cultural dimension of judgments and how to combine inner work on judgments with outer response and how to combine inner work on judgments with outer response.
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2007-03-28
Developing Energy In Our Practice: Wise Effort - part 1
46:42
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Donald Rothberg
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Developing energy and effort in our practice is crucial. In its mature form, effort becomes “effortless” but on the way, we need to support our practice’s energy both generally and moment-to-moment. We look at the traditional teaching of the four “wise efforts,” adding some contemporary metaphors, especially drawn from Kayakins.
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2007-04-16
Dharma God
47:52
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Kevin Griffin
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Exploring Buddhadasa's teaching on "God", using the Twelve Step connection.
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2007-04-23
Responding To Violence
56:21
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Nina Wise
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How do we respond to violence? What is the root of violence? How do we address our self-loathing? Metta, Karuna, Sangha.
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2007-05-02
Right Livelihood And Vocation
55:33
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Donald Rothberg
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Right livelihood, one of the factors of the Eightfold Path, is primarily focused on the ethical qualities of our work. We explore this factor, as well as the related sense of vocation or calling – to have one’s life and work express one’s gifts while contributing and providing a path to universal Dharma.
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