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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2021-01-29
Devotion and Discipline – Dhamma Protectors
47:34
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The 5 indriya are known as the Dhamma protectors. The complimentary qualities of devotion and discipline balance our approach to cultivation. Recommended is collecting oneself in body which provides leverage on restraining the thinking mind. Embodied intelligence – the inner, esoteric Dhamma – can then be accessed.
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Sacred Mountain Sangha
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2021-01-28
Anatta and Self-Forgiveness
49:00
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James Baraz
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Do you ever give yourself a hard time if you've made an embarrassing mistake or have done something you regret? This talk explores how we can truly forgive ourselves with a thorough understanding of the Buddha's teaching on the selfless nature of who we are, otherwise known as Anatta, the selfless nature of experience.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2021-01-28
Dhammavicaya - Head and Heart
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Ajahn Sucitto
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There is fundamental puñña – value – in just being human. But citta doesn’t know its value, it gets lost in dreams, worries, passions, opinions. Collect oneself where body, thought and heart come together and investigate – where does the suffering end, where does fulfillment come from? Return to the place of innate value, stability, composure and clarity.
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Cittaviveka
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2021-01-27
Spiritual Hope
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Tara Brach
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Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust in the openhearted awareness (bodhichitta) that is always and already within us. This talk explores how, as individuals and as a society, we can nourish spiritual hope, and create the grounds for healing and radical transformation (a favorite from the archives).
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-01-25
Reconciliation | Monday Night talk
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Jack Kornfield
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Conflict is natural—we can be attached to our needs, desires, ideas and visions. Our brains are wired with a negativity bias to look for things that are threatening. But some other part of us knows there is another way. We need to pause and reflect for a moment. What is it that matters most? This vision is needed more than ever in the midst of our difficulties.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2021-01-25
Meditation: Reconciliation | Monday Night
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Jack Kornfield
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This meditation is a deep-hearted reflection, a possibility, a yearning, a vision. Even if we cannot or should not speak to the other, we can find the courage to hold reconciliation and goodwill in our own heart.To recite the intention of reconciliation is to willingly plant a seed of reconnection and love in our heart. As we repeat each phrase, we turn our intention to the possibility of restoring harmony where suffering has set us apart.
May our lives lead to wise, healthy, and courageous reconciliation.
Further reading: “The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace”
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2021-01-23
Leben in Verbundenheit
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Yuka Nakamura
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In des Sichtweise des Selbst erleben wir uns als getrennt von der Welt, abgeschnitten und einsam. Durch die Einsicht in die Verbundenheit und Bedingtheit erkennen wir hingegen, wie wir eingewoben sind in ein Gewebe von Ursachen und Wirkungen. Und indem wir die karmischen Gesetzmässigkeiten sehen, erkennen wir, wie unsere Entscheidungen und Handlungen Wirkungen auf uns selbst und andere haben.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2021-01-21
Freshen Up through Integrity and Resolution
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Being affected by hindrances is a natural hurdle in Dhamma practice. Meet them by cultivating and suffusing wholesome heart qualities through the body. Application of integrity and resolution as we practice encourages citta to grow up and learn from the difficulties.
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Cittaviveka
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2021-01-20
32 Parts of the Body—Large Intestines, Small Intestines, Stomach, Feces, Brain
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Bob Stahl
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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.
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2021-01-20
Practicing with Intentions 2: Developing Intentions and Vows to Guide Practice in One's Communities, Society, and World
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Donald Rothberg
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After a review of the January 6 session on practicing with intentions in individual formal and daily life practice, and on Inauguration Day, we explore practicing in more community, social, and collective settings. In this context, we point to the importance of combining i"inner" and "outer" practice, and to two possible inspirations: (1)the figure of the bodhisattva who combines awakening and helping others, and (2) the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a kind of bodhisattva. On this basis, there is a short period in which those present are asked to write their own intentions and/or vows to guide their responses to the current needs and crises of our world. Some share their writing!
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Attached Files:
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Practicing with Intentions 2
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2021-01-19
Speech from the Heart
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Kim Allen
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From where does speech originate? How does our speech feed back to affect our own heart (in addition to other people)? These are worthy investigations in Buddhist practice. Speech ties back to the three unwholesome roots of greed, hatred, and delusion, as well as the three wholesome roots of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion. Our choices in this realm have a major impact.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2021-01-10
Our Training in Cultivating Metta: An Overview
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Donald Rothberg
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Practicing metta is an ancient vocation in which we incline toward metta, toward a warm, expansive friendliness, each moment. In doing so, we also come to see what gets in the way of metta. A metta retreat offers us a focused period of training, helping us then to bring our metta more into our formal practice, our daily lives, and a world deeply in need of metta.
Yet there are challenges in metta practice. We also identify a number of these challenges, and how responses to the challenges point to some of the fundamental ways that training in metta transforms us.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Metta Retreat
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