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Dharma Talks
2024-09-07 The Three Characteristics: Anicca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:58
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Doorway to Freedom and Peace: The Three Characteristics

2024-09-07 Fabrications of Mind – a Refuge? 58:51
Pascal Auclair
Instructions and stories and mind creations followed by meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2024-09-06 The Three Characteristics: Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:35:31
Erin Treat
This talk explores the paradox of being somebody and being nobody through the Buddha's teaching of anatta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Doorway to Freedom and Peace: The Three Characteristics

2024-09-06 Lessening suffering 54:21
Pascal Auclair
Ways mindfulness can help lessen afflictive emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2024-09-06 Feeling tone – cracking the code of reality. Learning about "vedana" pleasant, unpleasant, neutral our habitual reactivity to each, and practices to be free. 59:14
Anushka Fernandopulle
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2024-09-05 Opening Night (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:35:03
Erin Treat, Louije Kim, Monica Magtoto, Pamela Weiss
Includes a dharma talk by Pamela Weiss entitled The Three Characteristics: Dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Doorway to Freedom and Peace: The Three Characteristics

2024-09-05 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: Transforming Suffering and Reactivity 58:58
Donald Rothberg
The Buddha suggested the core of his teaching in one short sentence: "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the cessation of dukkha.” We explore this teaching in several ways. We see how the Buddha had multiple ways of talking about dukkha, with only, I suggest, the understanding of dukkha as reactivity, making sense of what the end of dukkha means. Dukkha as reactivity is explicated especially in two teachings, the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination. We look at the meaning of reactivity and how it manifests in our experience. We also see how reactivity can often be enmeshed with insight, such it makes sense to speak of transforming reactivity rather than simply suppressing it. We then explore five ways of practicing with reactivity. The talk is followed by discussion.
Insight Meditation Tucson

2024-09-05 Guided Meditation: Exploring Reactivity and the Feeling-Tones of Pleasant or Unpleasant 34:51
Donald Rothberg
After settling our attention through concentration and/or mindfulness, there are further instructions in noticing any reactivity (involving grasping or pushing away in a more automatic way at the levels of mind, body, or emotions), then in attending to the feeling-tone (especially a moderate or a little greater sense of pleasant or unpleasant), and lastly in recalling an experience of reactivity in the last few days and exploring it with mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Tucson

2024-09-05 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Big Mind 54:48
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Practices of the Heart

2024-09-05 Relating to strong emotions 60:24
Pascal Auclair
A talk, a guided meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

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