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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2018-08-01
Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1
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Tara Brach
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Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2018-08-01
Hearing the Call
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Oren Jay Sofer
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What inspires us to take up spiritual practice? This talk explores the process of hearing the call to something deeper in life.
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Springboard Meditation Sangha (St. Francis Renewal Center)
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The Way of Insight
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2018-08-01
Six Ways of Practicing with Difficulties and Challenges
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Donald Rothberg
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One of the glories of our practice is the capacity to respond skillfully, with wisdom and compassion, to difficult, challenging, and/or painful experiences. In this talk and discussion, we explore six ways to practice skillfully with difficulties, focusing more in 1-5 on “inner" practices: (1) Stay connected with core teachings and perspectives, particularly about working with reactivity; (2) develop mindfulness in these situations, which helps us with non-reactivity and knowing what is happening; (3) have a few ways to come back to balance and non-reactivity after one is reactive, lost, stuck, or overwhelmed; (4) take the difficult situation as an opportunity to go more deeply, potentially uprooting some of the roots of reactivity and habitual tendencies; (5) continue to cultivate awakened qualities, helping us to shift our center of gravity from reactivity to responsiveness; and (6) cultivate ways of responding more skillfully in “outer” ways, including speech and interactions.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2018-07-25
The Practice of Inclusivity
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto describes how our external and internal worlds come to be built upon exclusion. He encourages us to give up the exhausting endeavor of excluding the uncomfortable and to meet the suffering of the 1st Noble Truth instead. Suffering is met and released through embodied presence with all that arises.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2018-07-23
Disenchantment and dispassion --> Knowledge and vision of liberation
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Nikki Mirghafori
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This talk discusses the last conditional links described in the Kimatthiya Sutta (“What Purpose?”) (Anguttara Nikaya 10.1), where the Buddha teaches Ananda that wholesome ethical behavior leads to non-regret, which leads to gladness, .... ultimately leading to liberation. The penultimate stage of the list is Nibbida virāgo, which are often translated as disenchantment and dispassion (thought "free of enchantment and free of fire of passion" is a more appropriate translation, as discussed in the talk). The list in the sutta, as well as the talk, end with a brief discussion of knowledge and vision of liberation (Vimutti ñāna dassana), which is synonymous with nibbana.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
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2018-07-22
22 The Comfort Place Is Here
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The end of retreat provides the occasion to experience endings and separation. Check the tendency to rush into the future, the desire to get out of the uncomfortable and move towards the comfort zone. These boundaries of entering something unknown are important places to pause and notice what’s happening. The comfort place is here, don’t leave it. Feel the disturbances, and meet them with mindful and loving acceptance.
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Madison Insight Meditation Group
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Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart
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2018-07-21
20 Wisdom: Detox for the Heart
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Ajahn Sucitto
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One of the roles of wisdom is to continually check the toxic influences and open to what is here naturally. The unconditioned can be found through wise reflection and handling of the uncertain and unresolvable nature of conditioned experience. When we no longer resist it or feel agitated by it, the mind is released. The mind released shines in its own luminosity and that radiance gives the heart back its strength.
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Madison Insight Meditation Group
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Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart
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