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2009-12-15 Take Heart 32:22
Kittisaro
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Balance within practice. A compassionate response. From is emptiness, emptiness is form. The gift of fearlessness. The way of generosity, kindness and integrity.
Dharmagiri

2009-12-11 Compassion 52:42
Christina Feldman
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  MBSR

2009-12-05 We Are That Song 18:37
Ayya Medhanandi
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Our suffering may feel too great or the mountain look too high. But we are resilient and we have it in us to do this work, to walk this path – if we can give up thoughts of self-cherishing and feel compassion for ourselves and for all beings. The fruit of this work is a treasure to be gained even in the smallest instant of awareness. With radical patience, just make peace with one moment of painful feeling. Then offer up the pain or misery. From the ashes of suffering, we turn inward to the clarity of the mind. Stay fully present in awareness, listening to that silence. Such a song comes – the pure sound of this awareness. That's what we are. We are that song.
Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)

2009-12-04 Out of This World 27:40
Ayya Medhanandi
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By deeply examining the mind as the Buddha taught, we see our stark human predicament, why we suffer and the real source of happiness. For he awakened to suffering’s end and the noble path to freedom. With immense gratitude for his teaching, we learn how we are caught grasping the world, compelled by its impingement and tormented ever after. We realize the ineffable vanquishing of that disease – when we stop giving vent to the wanting mind and live each moment from a pure compassionate and wise awareness. And so, quite apart from the world, we directly know here and now, within our own heart – the truest joy, the supreme peace of Nibbana.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2009-11-19 Opening the Doors of the Heart 56:04
Mary Grace Orr
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How can we open our hearts? This talk explores the practices of forgiveness and compassion, as well as that of gratitude. The Metta Sutta provides the background for this exploration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-18 Emptiness & Compassion Part IV 61:04
Donald Rothberg
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After a short account of emptiness and how we cultivate a deeper understanding of it in very practical ways, we explore the nature of compassion. We look at how it can be developed and what forms it can take, all the time pointing to how mature compassion invloves a deep sense of emptiness and interconnection (and vice versa).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-11 Compassion (Karuna) - Meditation 33:31
Mark Nunberg
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Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-11-11 Emptiness & Compassion III 64:01
Donald Rothberg
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We review the teachings on emptiness in the context of the broader teachings on the centrality of developing wisdom and compassion, expanding our examination of these teachings from last time. The last part of the session involving doing several exercises, partly explaining experience as a flowing "stream" (and seeing what obstructs the flow) and partly doing a series of four exercises with "ordinary objects" designed to take us out of our ordinary way of constructing things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-07 Joining Our Practice With Others 60:15
Winnie Nazarko
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We are deeply connected with others and experience their pain as well as own own. Learning to relate to out own difficulty strengthens our capacity for compassionate presence with others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-06 Awakening Buddhahood and Compassion 56:37
Martine Batchelor
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Explanation of de-grasping wisdom and compassion and meditative experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Study Retreat

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