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Dharma Talks
2025-03-14 Furcht und Schrecken 42:27
Renate Seifarth
In Anlehnung an die Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung Nr. 4 wird erläutert, was dem Buddha Mut gab, in der Zurückgezogenheit an wilden Orten zu praktizieren. Im zweiten Teil der Lehrrede sucht der Buddha gezielt Orte auf, um Furcht und Schrecken in sich zu erleben und beschreibt wie er mit ihnen praktiziert und sie innerlich überwindet.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-14 Reflections, Instructions and light Guidance : Generosity as a Complex Weaving of Relations. 49:57
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-13 talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity 28:04
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-13 Practicing Karuna (Compassion) 1:41:21
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-13 Practicing Karuna (Compassion) 1:41:21
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-13 The Aggregate of Perception: Sañña (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:03
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-13 Reflections : Meeting Life with Curiosity and Openness. Allowing the Heart to "De-densify". 41:05
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-13 Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty 1:11:50
Dawn Neal
Introduction to Metta (lovingkindness) - Week Four Homework: Daily meditation: Offer kindness/goodwill to an easy being (or benefactor) & self, then someone or some part of you that you find difficult. Please practice 20 minutes or more a day. Remember, it is always okay to return to a being that is easy. It can also be very skillful to switch to mindfulness. Integrating mindfulness into metta practice can increase wisdom. This can be done by noticing what is and isn’t metta, without judging –or buying into–other emotions or experiences. In daily life, notice when Metta is present and when it isn’t. What are conditions that help it arise? Decrease? Appreciating the wish for metta, being interested in it, attending to it, helps to strengthen it.
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-03-13 Dharma Reflection - The Two Benefits 18:32
Devon Hase
Teachings on the Queen Mallika sutta and how doing metta for ourselves naturally translates to metta for everybody.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-13 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Choiceless Attention 59:12
Tempel Smith
There is a style of mindfulness practice where we lightly attending a central, familiar anchor of attention, such as the breath or scanning the body, and then intentionally choose to watch our minds move through its habits and its nature. In this style of mindfulness practice we can watch our attention move through our six sense doors of stimulation. With this style of meditation we can directly see the dharma nature of our mind. With this style of practice we have to be careful we not lose attentiveness, which can be a shadow side of choiceless attention. We want to keep learning and discovering the dharma, and not space out into half committed mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

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