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The greatest gift is the gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
2020-09-03
The Buddha as a Social Activist.
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James Baraz
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Sometimes the teachings seem to suggest a life of withdrawing from the world. But the Buddha himself was an example of engagement and could even be called a political revolutionary. As we try to sort out how to apply the teachings, (including duties of a good ruler) to contemporary issues, it can help to see his teachings in that light.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2020-09-02
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness
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Tara Brach
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When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back into the awareness that is always, already here. We explore relaxing back through a body scan, and then with all our senses wide open. With practice we increasingly find our pathway home by relaxing the clench of doings, and resting in what is.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-09-02
Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety
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Tara Brach
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Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat. The gift is discovering an inner freedom in the midst of life, and the capacity to respond to what arises with love-in-action.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-08-31
talk: Right Livelihood
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Jill Shepherd
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Expanding the traditional understanding of Right Livelihood to include all aspects of how we live, including what we produce and what we consume
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Sydney Insight Meditators
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