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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2023-02-28
Hilfreiche Mittel in der Praxis
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Renate Seifarth
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In der Praxis stehen uns die Mittel Rituale, Reflexionen und verschiedene Formen der Meditation zur Verfügung. Sie stellen verschiedene Mittel dar, die uns helfen können, wenn wir sie verstehen. Da ist zum das Ritual der Zuflucht und der Verbeugung, da sind die Reflexionen über die kostbare Situation dem Dhamma begegnet zu sein und in einem Retreat sein zu können. Und für die Entwicklung verschiedener Geistesqualitäten stehen unterschiedliche Meditationsformen zur Verfügung. Darauf wird nur kurz eingegangen.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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3-Wochen Vipassana und Metta
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2023-02-27
Der mittlere Weg
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Renate Seifarth
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Der mittlere Weg enthält mehrere Metaphern, die für uns in der Praxis wichtige Hinweise enthalten. Zum einen ist da das Bild eines "Weges", zum anderen der Begriff "mittlerer". Der Bedeutung dieser Metaphern wird nachgegangen über die gebräuchliche Aussage hinaus, frei von Genusssucht und Selbstkasteiung zu sein. Ein tieferes Verständnis kann hilfreich sein, die vielen scheinbaren Gegensätze in der Lehre Buddhas zu vereinen.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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2023-02-26
The Shape of Spiritual Life
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Pamela Weiss
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This talk explores what leads us to spiritual practice and how spiritual life unfolds, drawing on the quote from the 8th century Chan Master, Ch’ing Yuan:
"When I first began to practice, mountains were mountains and waters were waters.
After I had practiced for some time, mountains were no longer mountains and waters were no longer waters.
When I reached final peace, once again mountains were mountains and waters were waters.”
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
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SFI Sunday Nights
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2023-02-22
Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath
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Tara Brach
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Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate presence with our natural breathing. With breath as our home base, we practice returning again and again when the mind becomes distracted. As presence grows, we can let the breath be in the foreground, and include whatever waves of life come and go. This brings a quiet mind, and a peaceful, happy heart.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-02-22
Cultivating Metta 3: Integrating Metta and Clear Seeing
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Donald Rothberg
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In this talk of a series of talks on developing metta or lovingkindness, we look at the question of how we connect and integrate metta with our development of clear seeing, with our mindfulness and wisdom. This is an important question, particularly given that most Western practitioners of insight meditation have separate practices in which they develop metta, on the one hand, and mindfulness and wisdom, on the other. Are they integrated? How?
In the talk, we explore: (1) related strong cultural tendencies to separate mind and emotions, as in, for example, science, and much education; (2) how in the basic teachings of the Buddha, there seem to be separate practices; (3) how, both in the teachings of the Buddha and in later Buddhist traditions (as well as in other traditions), there is often a deeper vision of the unity of the awakened heart and mind; and (4) how we can practice to integrate metta, mindfulness, wisdom, and awareness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2023-02-22
Guided Meditation: Connecting Metta (Lovingkindness), Mindfulness, and Awareness
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Donald Rothberg
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We start with a short period of metta or some other heart practice, noticing how mindfulness brings us back to the practice when we are distracted. Then there is a longer period of mindfulness, hopefully infused some with metta, in the spirit of Sylvia Boorstein's wonderful invitation: “May I meet this moment fully. May I meet this moment as a friend.” We then have a second sequence of relatively brief metta practice followed by a longer period of mindfulness practice. The last part of the session is a guided practice of radiating metta, moving toward an integration of metta and a boundless awareness.
b. Let it infuse mindfulness: Sylvia’s phrase. See how this is.
c. Check periodically. Maybe do 2-3 minutes of metta.
d. Radiating metta exploring a loving awareness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2023-02-20
Forgiveness Practice Supporting Insight
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Ajahn Achalo
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From an online retreat at Wat Marp Jan | Day-3 Afternoon All questions précised 34:28 Q1 Regarding metta, do we keep repeating and radiating out the metta until we achieve concentration? 36:29 Q2 When your mind is not pure, how effective is that loving kindness to others? How pure do we have to be to spread metta? 38:48 Q3 When I meet difficult persons, it seems very difficult to generate loving kindness Online questions read out: 43:03 Q4 How can I know if I have really forgiven myself? 44:34 Q5 Can you please elaborate on using gestures to forgive ourselves 46:28 Q6 In metta practice, may we include teachers who have passed away, as well as beings in nibanna? 47:40 Q7 Is it OK to meditate using metta for a little while and then anapanasati for 40-45 minutes and finish with Buddha anussati? 48:08 Q8 I am a busy wife and mother and I feel angry with myself when I cannot find the time to cultivate. How can I find the balance?
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Anandagiri Forest Monastery
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