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Dharma Talks
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2008-03-14
Brahmavihara Retreat
12:39:57
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Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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The brahmaviharas are four mental states that the Buddha encouraged for the practice of meditation. They are loving -friendliness (metta), compassion, sympathetic joy (rejoicing in the happiness of others), and equanimity. Through these practices we develop a loving heart, concentration, self-acceptance, fearlessness and happiness. These practices also establish our fundamental connectedness to all life.
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Bhavana Society of West Virginia
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Brahmavihara Retreat
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2008-03-13
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 1: Intention
56:51
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James Baraz
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This is the first of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. I intend to explore these principles from a more traditional Buddhist perspective and show how they reveal Buddhadharma as a path of happiness. I’ll be suggesting techniques that can be practiced in daily life in addition to formal meditation.
This first week we’ll explore the theme of Intention. “Intending is karma,” said the Buddha. Through intention we create our reality. The clearer we are on our intention, the greater influence we have on the direction of our lives.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2008-03-08
Awakening
1:11:34
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Rob Burbea
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The Realization of Awakening is absolutely central to the Buddha's Teaching, and yet it has come to have so many different meanings, or none at all. What is our relationship to the idea of Enlightenment or Awakening? How does that affect our life and practice? Can we explore the views, assumptions and emotions surrounding it? And is a radical Awakening possible for us?
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Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
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2008-03-07
Death
63:39
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Rob Burbea
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A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
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Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
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