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2017-10-10 Guided Meditation On Metta 61:26
Bhante Buddharakkhita
How to radiate Metta for a difficult person.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-09 Buddhist Practice, Nonviolent Action, and the Nonviolent Peaceforce (with Tiffany Easthom) 1:22:16
Donald Rothberg
Donald Rothberg first gives an account of the connection between the core of Buddhist practice and the nonviolent traditions of Gandhi and King. He then poses the common critique of nonviolence—that it doesn’t work with dictators, authoritarian governments, and situations of pervasive violence, that “it wouldn’t work with Hitler,” while telling some stories of actual highly effective nonviolent resistance against the Nazis. Tiffany Easthom, the Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization working to protect civilians and foster dialogue in situations of violence, then gives an extended account of the organization’s work, with a PowerPoint presentation (attached pdf file available at this site). She covers both the basic principles and strategies of the organization and a number of accounts of its work in various countries where there is violence, ranging from South Sudan to Syria to Myanmar.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Attached Files:
  • Presentation Slides PDF File by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2017-10-09 Understanding Our Defensiveness - Part 1 62:09
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Understanding our defensiveness and how to mindfully work with difficult emotions - can lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-09 Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges - Week 5 1:30:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges

2017-10-09 Learning to Skillfully Navigate the Judgemental Mind 26:46
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the judging mind.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2017-10-09 The Extraordinary Power Of Contemplating Impermanence. 35:25
Kittisaro
Evan a finger snap of developing the perception of impermanence. "Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is unknown, and now is the knowing"
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-10-08 Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:20
Eugene Cash
How contemplating and practicing with our mortality brings forward human maturity and allows us to appreciate this precious human life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-08 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 4 - Talk 57:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-10-08 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 4 - Meditation 30:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-10-08 Third foundation of mindfulness 59:49
Sally Armstrong
In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of the mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by these states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion, and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice both the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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