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Dharma Talks
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2019-10-17
Mount Everest
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Ayya Medhanandi
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As the witness of suffering, we gain new eyes to see. A doorway to knowing non-duality opens – there is no 'you', no 'me'. We are in the realm of no separation in one moment – gone beyond opinions, beyond wanting, beyond our pains and brokenness, and our enslavement to all that drives us. Can we see them as empty and powerless apart from the power we give them? Emptying the mind's rubbish each day, every moment that we can – enough to see, to intuitively know unconditional love – we ascend the Everest within to behold the jewel of the heart’s Himalaya.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2019-10-16
Belonging to Each Other – Part 2 of 3
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Tara Brach
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Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to our own body, heart and spirit, and to all beings. Together the talks offer a natural and powerful progression of lovingkindness or metta reflections, that when practiced regularly can open us to the peace, joy and freedom of trusting our mutual belonging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-16
RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation
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Tara Brach
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When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance – the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. Using the acronym RAIN, this practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing the other with a more open and clear heart. By awakening from the trance of blame, we are able to respond with intelligence and care to the unmet needs that underlie all conflict.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-12
Integrity Leads to Awakening
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With reference to AN10:61, this teaching reviews the nutriments that result in ignorance, and the nutriments that result in true knowledge and liberation. For the latter, it starts with a person of integrity, with kalyanamitta. We all model something to each other. Cultivating purity of mind, thought, intention, speech, action is then not only for our welfare, but for the welfare of others.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery
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2019-10-11
Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom-Q+A
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Alexis Santos
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Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. These timeless qualities are essential for meeting the challenges of our current world and in helping us live a skillful life. This evening talk will start out with a guided meditation followed by a dharma talk on how to cultivate these essential qualities.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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NYI Regular Talks
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2019-10-09
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
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Tara Brach
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This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-09
Belonging to Each Other – Part 1
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Tara Brach
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Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These two talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to our own body, heart and spirit, and to all beings. Together the talks offer a natural and powerful progression of lovingkindness or metta reflections, that when practiced regularly can open us to the peace, joy and freedom of trusting our mutual belonging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-09
Beginning Again--Listening for Our Deeper Aspirations
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Donald Rothberg
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On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, when it is said that the veils of ignorance are lessened, we explore ways to “begin again,” both in the moment and more generally,--to re-align our lives, guided also by Buddhist resources and by poets, sages, and activists. Through guided reflections, we examine (1) ways in which we are “off the mark,” in which we need re-alignment; (2) what we wish to let go of and/or forgive; and (3) our deeper aspirations for the next period of time.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2019-10-08
Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness
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Martin Aylward
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Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
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2019-10-07
Forest Awareness
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With reference to MN19, this teaching addresses the two kinds of thought – ones that lead to my welfare, the welfare of others and the welfare of both, and ones that don’t. But rather than giving attention to the particular thoughts, encouragement is given to tune into the underlying mind stream. Get the feel of it. This requires holistic attention – for one to be alert, sensitive and receptive.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery
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2019-10-05
Walking in the Dark
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Ajahn Sucitto
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How can we turn from being an enemy to the planet? By turning off our “head-light” and turning on our “heart-light”. As humans we are uniquely positioned to produce morality, compassion and wisdom in this dark time of climate crisis. May we meet this opportunity heartfully, the way the Buddha described, trembling with compassion for the welfare of all living beings. May we open to the darkness, let it touch us deeply and wake us to a different way of seeing things.
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Extinction Rebellion Brighton
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2019-10-05
Brahmavihara Teil 3: Gleichmut entwickeln
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Renate Seifarth
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Gleichmut ist die letzte der Brahmavihara. Der Vortrag betrachtet wie sie im Rahmen der Brahmavihara entwickelt wird, in welchem Zusammenhang sie mit den anderen drei Brahmavihara steht und welche Bedeutung Gleichmut in unserem Leben hat.
Andererseits ist Gleichmut auch das Ergebnis von Weisheit, die wir durch Einsichten in der Vipassana-Praxis gewinnen. Und so schließt sich der Kreis der beiden Methoden.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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6 Tage Metta Retreat
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2019-10-04
Putting it All Together: Integration of the Eightfold Path
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Ajahn Karunadhammo
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This is a lightly guided, mostly silent meditation from the Friday night practice offered by Ajahn Karunadhammo.
“Many of us approach Buddhist practice believing that the point is to learn mindfulness meditation. Yet there's so much more to understand and practice. The eight factors, or the eightfold path, allow for a complete and fully integrated program, leading toward liberation.”
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2019-10-04
Putting it All Together: Integration of the Eightfold Path
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Ajahn Karunadhammo
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Starting with chanting, this is the talk from the Friday night practice offered by Ajahn Karunadhammo.
“Many of us approach Buddhist practice believing that the point is to learn mindfulness meditation. Yet there's so much more to understand and practice. The eight factors, or the eightfold path, allow for a complete and fully integrated program, leading toward liberation.”
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2019-10-03
Holding Grief Through Connection
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James Baraz
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Whether the climate crisis, some other social issue or personal loss, sharing our pain by connecting with another helps us hold and process our grief. By opening the heart we can transform our feeling of isolation into one of shared humanity. This talk ends with a guided experiential dyad exercise adapting Joanna Macy’s "Learning to See Each Other" meditation from Coming Back to Life.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-10-03
Die Kraft der Geduld
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Renate Seifarth
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Gleichmut ist die letzte der Brahmavihara. Der Vortrag betrachtet wie sie im Rahmen der Brahmavihara entwickelt wird, in welchem Zusammenhang sie mit den anderen drei Brahmavihara steht und welche Bedeutung Gleichmut in unserem Leben hat.
Andererseits ist Gleichmut auch das Ergebnis von Weisheit, die wir durch Einsichten in der Vipassana-Praxis gewinnen. Und so schließt sich der Kreis der beiden Methoden.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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6 Tage Metta Retreat
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2019-10-02
Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart
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Tara Brach
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Our beliefs and understandings about reality directly impact our moment to moment experience of living. If we believe we will never change, that blocks the transformation that brings happiness and freedom. If we trust our spiritual unfolding and are open to possibility, that guides our attention and behaviors in ways that evolve us. This talk explores how to nurture mature, spiritual hope—hope that is sourced in trusting our intrinsic goodness, and our capacity for deepening love and wisdom.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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