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Dharma Talks
2014-08-27 Loving Truth - The Power of Investigation 1:19:21
Tara Brach
A key element in spiritual awakening is wise and compassionate investigation. This talk explores how investigation and inquiry (the use of questions) serves emotional healing, intimacy with others and the deepest realization of who we are.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-20 Practicing with Challenges 4 - Working with Conflict 60:11
Donald Rothberg
We explore a more relational way of practicing with challenges, looking at practicing with conflict. We examine some of the personal and cultural conditioning about conflict, as well as ways to bring wisdom, empathy, compassion and skillful action into conflicts, whether inner, interpersonal or social. Conflict is defined more neutrally and simply as a difference in objectives, goals or values.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:

2014-08-19 Compassion 40:52
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom and Compassion

2014-08-14 Train for Nibbana 29:03
Ayya Medhanandi
On the path to freedom, every moment in every life situation is an opportunity for training the mind. We plant seeds of virtue, watering them with renunciation, respect, contentment, generosity and valiant effort. We clear the cobwebs of lifetimes from the mind with wisdom and mindfulness guarding us from the eight worldly winds, while forgiveness, love and compassion hasten the heart's awakening to Nibbana.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-08-08 Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 45:46
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Loving kindness with equanimity and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-08-04 Mindfulness and Compassion 47:58
Jenny Wilks
Mindfulness is not only for ones own benefit, but is also practiced externally, to cultivate compassion for others.
Gaia House Mindfulness and Awakening

2014-07-29 Wise Speech and Wise Acrtion 43:25
Chas DiCapua
How these two path factors fit in with the Buddha's teaching on liberation, and how to create a wise and compassionate approach to the practing of them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2014-07-22 The Rebellious Path of Freedom from Habits of Mind 42:49
Jason Murphy
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." Vipassana takes our untrained mind as a starting point -- with its unruliness, hindrances, clinging and aversion -- and gives it a clear and systematic way of developing awareness. With practice, this awareness of what's happening within us and around us in any given moment is the key to not being a slave to our thoughts. It also teaches us to rebel against, or turn away from, our mind's tendencies towards greed, hatred and delusion; and instead, to incline our mind towards openness, freedom from attachment, freedom from suffering, loving-kindness, compassion, wisdom, and equanimity. This is the liberating power of awareness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-07-01 Roles, Relationships, and Awakening 38:16
Shaila Catherine
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." We live in a world that requires a diversity of relationships. How do you choose your friends? What kind of relationships support or stunt your spiritual growth? How do you relate to life, and to love? We can bring wisdom and mindfulness to our interactive lives, to the roles that we perform, to our intimate sexual relationships, and our friendships; we practice both in solitude and in community. Harmony, generosity, and joy are developed through noble friendship. Relationships can challenge us to work with the tendencies of our own minds, clarify our precepts, develop compassion, learn to let go, and nurture the path of awakening. Deep friendship is considered to be the precursor of right view. A good friend encourages the best in us and supports our development of the noble eight fold path.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-06-25 The Power of Compassion 53:40
Mark Coleman
Turning towards the pain of ourselves and the world with a curious open heart is the seed for compassion to arise which brings healing and integration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

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