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Dharma Talks
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2020-07-22
Love and Fear During Times of War: An Interview with Lama Rod Owens
49:38
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Tara Brach
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The world is having a difficult moment. Each day we learn of a different conflict or crisis, which threatens the lives of so may people. It is easy to live with a lot of fear right now and it is even easier to react out of that fear was well. When we react out of fear we tend to create much more harm in the world.
This is a time of darkness and war and fear lies at the heart of much of the violence we are experiencing. How do we befriend our fear and offer it permission to teach us how to move through it into a state of freedom? How do we use our fear to connect to the fear so many other people are experiencing? Ultimately, how do we begin to love what is unlovable, especially our fear?
During their time together, Tara and Lama Rod call on the teachings of Buddhadharma as well as their own intrinsic wisdom to lean into fear with love.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-07-22
Deepening Our Daily Life Practice in the Pandemic 2
67:09
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Donald Rothberg
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We begin with a brief review of the previous week's talk and discussion, in which we explored a number of ways to deepen (1) our formal practice; (2) our informal (daily life) practice; and (3) our service, work, and/or activism as practice. This exploration points to a broadened sense of practice.
We then examine in some depth three inter-related foundational areas for deepening practice in all three areas: (1) developing mindfulness of the body; (2) working to transform reactivity (here as a translation of "dukkha"), including as it manifests in challenging or difficult experiences; and (3) pausing and setting intentions. Our discussion particularly goes into being skillful with challenging experiences.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2020-07-19
The Pervasiveness of Citta
8:19
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When citta is released from its obstructions, its nature is to saturate clarity and well-being into whatever it comes into contact with. It’s not something you do, it’s something that happens when the unskillful and stressful are released.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-19
Q&A
67:04
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Clarifying what is citta; what is felt sense; focusing as an alternative to meditation; is citta the same as self; stuck energy in neck and head; causes and conditions and personal responsibility; unbinding vs. education of citta; how to accept our history; advice for approach to conflict; working with separation and loss; how to practice with space around myself; anatta
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-19
Cultivating Tolerant and Kindly Space
38:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The theme of restraint in Dhamma practice helps keep energy collected rather than running out. This moderating of saṇkhārā is how one begins to turn away from the aggregates, from the assumptions and habitual grasping that cause suffering. A more flexible and beautiful state becomes available to meet what arises.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-19
Accepting without Adopting
5:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Exploring the experience of transitioning between postures, notice the space and what arises within it. What counts is not what arises but how your awareness responds without resisting, contracting or adopting.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-19
Listening Space
10:22
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Embarrassing and unwanted moods and perceptions can arise and pass through space. They don’t get stuck by the reactions of the personality. We practice to sense space around the body so that we can eventually generate space around mental content.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-19
Handling Difficult Feeling
48:26
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The unawakened citta always reacts and tries to interpret what’s happening. Rather than interpret experience, notice the stress building up. Hover over the difficult feeling and equanimity, compassion, goodwill gradually comes in.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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2020-07-18
Q&A
41:50
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Working with feeling foggy in meditation; firmness and openness in walking meditation; relationship between emotions and bodily tension; working with doubt; releasing energy through hands, feet and head; cultivating generosity triggers constriction.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unrestricted Awareness
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