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2012-05-02 Karma 57:28
Joseph Goldstein
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How Can We Be Happy In Our Lives?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-04-07 The Preciousness of Life 63:51
Howard Cohn
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All about the Tibetan teaching on the four reminders: preciousness of life, impermanence, karma, and the defects of samsara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-03-11 Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening 59:40
Heather Sundberg
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A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-26 Patterns of Becoming 5: the End of Karma 57:38
Guy Armstrong
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The fifth and last in a series of talks discusses the troublesome patterns of mind and volitional action that we identify as self, and how we can step out of them with the tools of dharma practice. The Buddha said that one who is fully awake has found an end to karma, and end to compulsive formations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-21 Patterns of Becoming 4: Karma and Rebirth 64:42
Guy Armstrong
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This fourth in a series pf talks on the formation of self explores how volitional actions, known as karma, occur in repetitive patterns and lead to lawful consequences in this life and even in a future life through rebirth. once we understand them, we can use these patterns to shape our lives in the direction of happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-08 This Precious Opportunity 63:24
James Baraz
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Suffering can lead to contraction and more suffering or can be a catalyst for awakening. Just why and how some people have the good karma to hear the Dharma and practice is a mysterious blessing and precious opportunity. This talk explores the different temperaments that fuel practice, known as the Four Iddhipadas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2011-11-13 Right View & Kamma 64:16
Ajahn Yatiko
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A talk given on Wise View and Karma at Spirit Rock's monastic daylong in November 2011 with senior teachers from Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery. The focus of this day is an exploration of mundane and transcendent right view and how skillful action and lifestyle support meditation practice and the development of insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-10-16 Karma and the End of Karma 64:24
Guy Armstrong
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This talk covers four key areas of the Buddha’s teachings on karma: action, results of action, relation to not-self, and the end of karma. Publishable online for the general public
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-09-21 The Power Of Intention 62:59
James Baraz
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Intention is the basis of all karma. It is also a key aspect of dharma practice, both in moment to moment experience as well as our aspiration, vision that fuels our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-05-21 Habits, Action and Personality 46:13
Shaila Catherine
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Underlying tendencies (toward greed, hate, and delusion) fuel habits that obstruct our freedom. Tendencies toward irritation, anger, craving, and ignorance may arise in times of stress when our mindfulness is weak, and they distort our perception of things. But tendencies arise in both luxurious and modest environments, in situations of comfort as well as pain. How we relate to experience reinforces patterns and conditioning. Greed, hate, and delusion are causes for the arising of kamma (karma). The simile of the two darts describes the difference between simply enduring bodily feelings of pain, and proliferating reactions of anger and aversion that add suffering to our pain. This talk explores the primary tendencies of sensual desire, anger, and ignorance, and shows how we can free the mind from their influence in our everyday life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life

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