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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2023-05-17
Being with Daily Life Experience As "Sacred": Some Further Ways of Practicing
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Donald Rothberg
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After a guided meditation exploring the theme (also on Dharma Seed), we continue for a second week to examine how to support a sense of the ordinary aspects of daily life as being part of the process of awakening, as "sacred" or "sacramental," as connected moment-by-moment with our deeper values (and finding what language about this and what practices support us). We review the session from last time, with references to Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist contemplative practitioners who have articulated this sense of daily life practice, examining what gets in the way of this way of being with daily life (especially busyness, being lost in difficult emotions, and being cut off from the kind heart), and what supports it. Through stories and poetry, we then look in more depth at cultivating a sense of presence and even mystery in daily life, at how joy can open up this sense, and how it can be very helpful to support in different ways our understanding how the transformation of our wounds and difficulties can be seen as part of a "purification" process. In the discussion, we look more deeply into many of these themes.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2023-05-06
Unstuck in the Middle
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Nathan Glyde
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Finding a middle way between dukkha extremes. Includes a mention of https://media.ngly.de/intending-to-meditate-and-meditating-with-intent-74aad2387b8c as a way of exploring this theme in the whole of our life. Includes a guided meditation, talk, and discussion (in which only responses are recorded)
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - May 2023
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2023-04-16
Beyond Belief: Questioning Vedanā
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Nathan Glyde
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A guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and the answers (only) to some questions on the theme.
Vedanā is not an easy word to translate, (maybe Niceness Opinion gets close). Yet, it is a very subtle and significant teaching, about a very subtle and significant event-maker, that when followed through with, a subtle and significant freedom becomes available for us. In this practice session, we will uncover the subliminal happening of vedanā, drop our rigid belief in what it commands, and create unbelievable well-being through a more skilful way of relating to it, and to all life.
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2023
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2023-04-13
talk: pāramī of energy
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Jill Shepherd
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Exploring how energy needs to be guided by the previous pāramī, wisdom, to make sure that our energy is put to best use.
Individually and collectively, we tend to use the resource of our own energy in the same way that we relate to other resources:over-exploiting it, until we’re depleted, exhausted, on the verge of burn-out. A wise relationship to energy includes paying attention to how we renew, refresh and resource ourselves, so that energy is available when we most need it.
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Auckland Insight Meditation
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Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023
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2023-03-15
Compassion for All Living Beings
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Tara Brach
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We often talk of widening the circles of compassion. This talk explores the qualities of mature compassion, what blocks us from this embodied and inclusive caring, and how each of us can awaken a heart that responds to our world’s suffering.
This event was live-streamed and includes a talk, several guided reflections, and a Q&A session.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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