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Dharma Talks
2015-10-15 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:33
James Baraz
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento
La shares their journey of acceptance and love through the practices and teachings of self-compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Compassion and the Law 1:27:20
Norman Fischer
A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Effective Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective Retreat

2015-10-05 Awakening the Heart - Practicing the "Divine Abodes" 43:40
Donald Rothberg, Heather Sundberg
The Divine Abodes of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity are the places of the awakened heart. Practicing to cultivate these four abodes helps us to access these wonderful and transformative qualities of the open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-04 Sustained by Sangha 24:24
Ayya Santussika
It is through taking action together that we wield power and experience relief, especially as we expand our notion of sangha beyond the usual boundaries, to all faiths, to all people taking action in accordance with our shared values of compassion, justice and peace. And we bring our own quintessential flavor, our Buddhist practice, our confidence in the Dharma and our commitment to face the way things actually are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Relating to Experience with Wisdom 32:16
Mark Coleman
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment-to-moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Intro to Mindfulness and Vipassana 44:41
Mark Coleman
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment to moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-23 Contemplations On Compassion 54:58
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind 59:30
Sally Armstrong
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. they then no longer dominate our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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