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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2025-03-17
Compassion Instruction and Guidance
51:33
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Tempel Smith
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We need to explore how to find and develop true compassion which is a beautiful quality of opening our hearts to the suffering inside and outside ourselves. While there is pain in suffering we can actually grow to have a sweet heart of compassion when we know how to breath open heartedly in contact with pain and suffering. When we find true compassion we don't need to shrink back from what is difficult but rather use the commonalities of difficulties to feel warm and expanded.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-16
Q&A
43:58
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised. 00:36 Q1. Can you please clarify the difference between awareness and presence; 09:04 Q2 I became a monk but left due to overwhelming negative meditation experiences which are still continuing. Can you suggest something please? 15:24 Q3 In the evening I think I would like to get up early so there’s more time for practice; 19:42 Q4 I’ve been a Buddhist for 35 years but only recently have started to open up the heart. I’ve never been able to cry, only anger and depression. Since my mother died I cry a lot, even through the day. What can I do?22:43 Q5 I’m on two and a half solitary retreat. I use body practices but I am experiencing migraines. What can you suggest; 27:42 Q6 I live by myself after being asked to leave by house mates with no explanation. In my new place the neighbours pick fights with me and yell at my door. My previous housemates said I was psychotic. I am depressed. How do I not loose heart? 42:18 Q7 How can one embrace this human existence and remain unattached to any identity?
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Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
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2025-03-16
Dhammapraxis folgt zwei Strängen
45:50
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Renate Seifarth
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Dhammapraxis verfolgt zwei Stränge. Auf der einen Seite wollen wir lernen allen Erfahrungen gleichermaßen ohne Vorurteile, ohne Druck, ohne Reaktivität zu begegnen. Das wirkt erleichternd, wohltuend und löst unseren inneren Kampf auf. Auf der anderen Seite streben wir danach die Triebe, die als Habgier, Übelwollen, Verblendung, die als Fieber umschrieben werden, zu überwinden. Beide Stränge gilt es in unserer Praxis zu vereinen. Darauf weist insbesondere der vierte Bereich der Achtsamkeitsübung hin.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-15
The Process and Experience of "Streaming"
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Tempel Smith
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The Buddha wanted us to learn how to wakefully "stream", to realize we are forever and only a stream of mental and physical phenomena. We have no part internally or externally which is permanent, though in daily life we subjectively feel as if there is a lot of dependably permanent parts of life. With the deepening intimacy of mindfulness all there is is a flow and change. With patience we can learn to find liberation within the universal aspect of impermanence.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-14
Furcht und Schrecken
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Renate Seifarth
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In Anlehnung an die Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung Nr. 4 wird erläutert, was dem Buddha Mut gab, in der Zurückgezogenheit an wilden Orten zu praktizieren. Im zweiten Teil der Lehrrede sucht der Buddha gezielt Orte auf, um Furcht und Schrecken in sich zu erleben und beschreibt wie er mit ihnen praktiziert und sie innerlich überwindet.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-13
Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty
1:11:50
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Dawn Neal
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Introduction to Metta (lovingkindness) - Week Four Homework:
Daily meditation:
Offer kindness/goodwill to an easy being (or benefactor) & self, then someone or some part of you that you find difficult. Please practice 20 minutes or more a day. Remember, it is always okay to return to a being that is easy.
It can also be very skillful to switch to mindfulness.
Integrating mindfulness into metta practice can increase wisdom. This can be done by noticing what is and isn’t metta, without judging –or buying into–other emotions or experiences.
In daily life, notice when Metta is present and when it isn’t. What are conditions that help it arise? Decrease?
Appreciating the wish for metta, being interested in it, attending to it, helps to strengthen it.
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Insight Santa Cruz
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Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation
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2025-03-13
Instructions and Guided Meditation: Choiceless Attention
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Tempel Smith
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There is a style of mindfulness practice where we lightly attending a central, familiar anchor of attention, such as the breath or scanning the body, and then intentionally choose to watch our minds move through its habits and its nature. In this style of mindfulness practice we can watch our attention move through our six sense doors of stimulation. With this style of meditation we can directly see the dharma nature of our mind.
With this style of practice we have to be careful we not lose attentiveness, which can be a shadow side of choiceless attention. We want to keep learning and discovering the dharma, and not space out into half committed mindfulness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-13
Don't Know Mind: Letting Go of Conclusions
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James Baraz
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It's hard to keep up with all the disorienting changes we are processing each day. We can easily get lost in confusion trying to make sense of it all. As a result, we can draw conclusions based in despair and fear, thinking that we know where this is heading. We can find strength from Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn teaching: "Keep Don't Know Mind." In this "Don't Know Mind" we let go of knowing how things will turn out. This frees us from the tyranny of our mind-created stories and allows us to see many possibilities.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2025-03-11
The Peace Beyond
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Mark Nunberg
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The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Weekly Dharma Series
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2025-03-11
The Peace Beyond
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Mark Nunberg
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The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Weekly Dharma Series
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2025-03-11
Umgang mit leidbringenden Trieben, Teil 1
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Renate Seifarth
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Grundlage ist MN2. Der Buddha versteht unter Trieben die Befleckungen Habgier, Hass und Täuschung (lobha, dosa, moha). Er erklärt, was sie nährt und was sie schwächt. Sie zu überwinden, ist das höchste Ziel und führt zu Nibbana. Teil 1 bespricht wie die Triebe durch Sehen (Einsicht in die Unpersönlichkeit und Realisierung des Stromeintritts), Sinnenkontrolle und durch weisen Gebrauch von Dingen realisiert werden kann.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-09
Wozu achtsam sein?
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Renate Seifarth
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Der Buddha erklärt in der Lehrrede MN1, was einen Erwachten von einem Weltling unterscheidet. Der Unterschied besteht im wesentlichen aus drei Punkten. Ein Erwachter ist unmittelbar in Kontakt mit Erfahrung, ohne davon ausgehend in Konzepte zu verfallen, die ihn zu der Ansicht führen, dies ist Mein. Aufgrund dessen ergötzt er sich nicht an der Erfahrung. Dieses Ergötzen ist der Ursprung allen Leidens. Achtsamkeit ermöglicht das direkt unmittelbare Erfahren und kennzeichnet sich durch Akzeptanz, Interesse und Nicht-Identifikation. Gerade Letzteres braucht Sammlung als Stütze, vor allem einer Sammlung auf unaufgeregte Erfahrungen, so dass kein Ergötzen sich mit einschleicht.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-06
Intro to Lovingkindness class 3
1:20:52
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Dawn Neal
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Week Three Homework:
1. Daily meditation: 15-30 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced.
At least 2/3 to easy being or benefactor and self, then someone neutral.
Experiment with single words/short phrases or gestures to build stability/concentration
Always okay to return to where it’s easy, or switch to mindfulness.
2. Micro-practice: offer pulses of kindness, privately, to strangers or neutral persons in the course of each day
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Insight Santa Cruz
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Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation
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2025-03-06
Taking Sides in a World of Non-Duality
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James Baraz
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This talk explores the view that the wide and profound perspective of Non-Duality sees that everything belongs. One is not creating divisions between "good and bad" or "right and wrong". It is all part of the dance of life. However, in the relative level of reality these categories are real and shape our thoughts, reactions and actions.
The Buddha advises us to not be attached to views and opinions. How can we reconcile this paradox and live with this wise non-dual perspective while taking a courageous stand against the forces of greed, hatred delusion that are creating suffering?
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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