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Dharma Talks
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2011-06-23
Guided Meditations of the Divine Abodes - Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekkha)
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Ajahn Jotipalo,
Amma Thanasanti,
Gail Iverson,
Mark Nunberg,
Merra Young,
Patrice Koelsch,
Rebecca Bradshaw,
Santikaro
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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2011-04-09
Nuclear Free
25:57
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We have a nuclear reactor within us and a nuclear accident may be taking place inside right now. It’s urgent for us to understand how to heal and free ourselves from this toxicity, and from every form of violence. Meditate, live wisely, and practice kindness. Begin to reconcile the contamination in our minds with compassion, serenity and joy. What a magnificent offering of peace for our troubled world.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2011-02-23
When We are Lost
1:19:30
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Tara Brach
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It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also our capacity to recognize our trance and choose presence. This talk explores how the practice of pausing and arriving in the aliveness of our senses opens us to our natural compassion and wisdom, and enables us to experience the great mystery we are part of.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2010-12-15
Seeing Beyond the Veil
1:15:45
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Tara Brach
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The source of our suffering is that we become identified with egoic roles and defenses that separate us from the truth of what we are. This talk explores some of the constricting identities that we take on, and the process of compassionate presence that reconnects us with our natural vitality, openheartedness and wisdom. We then enlarge our focus to seeing past the veil that obscures the sacred presence that shines through all beings.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2010-10-05
Recollection of the Buddha-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice
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Shaila Catherine
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The Triple Gem: The Awakening Recollection of the Buddha. This is the first installment in a three part series on the three jewels or three refuges. This talk introduces the practice of recollecting the worthy qualities of the Buddha and meditating on his virtues. Contemplation of the Buddha, Buddhanusati, enhances joy, inspiration, and confidence in the possibility of liberation. This talk tells the story of the Buddha's enlightenment, his struggle for knowledge and attainments, development of integrity and right speech, blossoming of his remarkable teaching abilities, great compassion, full understanding of mind and matter (nama-rupa), knowledge of the world, unsurpassed concentration, and pure conduct. The example of the Buddha's achievements can serve as an inspiration for us today.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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In
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Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice
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2010-09-23
Stealth Bodhisattvas
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Amita Schmidt
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Bodhisattvas are compassionate beings who transmute the suffering of the world. Here are some tools and reflections on how to be a Stealth Bodhisattva in your work and your life.
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Yellow Springs Dharma Center
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2010-09-08
Equanimity
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Tara Brach
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Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clearly what is happening within and around us, and respond with wisdom, creativity and compassion. This talk looks at our habits of reacting, and the ways we can come home to equinimity in the midst of life's challenges.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2010-08-15
The Practice of Compassion (Karuna)
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Gina Sharpe
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This is the fourth and final session of the "Metta and Compassion" daylong. It includes a guided karuna meditation, some explanation, question-and-answer with both Gina Sharpe and Sharon Salzberg, and closes with a sharing of the merit.
This day focuses on the development of lovingkindness and compassion, both for ourselves and for others. These qualities of the heart diminish fear and isolation, and further our understanding of interconnectedness. Through meditation practice, dialogue, and discourse, we will explore these qualities together. Suitable for both beginning and more experienced meditators.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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Metta and Compassion with Sharon Salzberg and Gina Sharpe
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2010-04-07
Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life
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Donald Rothberg
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We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2009-12-15
Take Heart
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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.
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Dharmagiri
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2009-12-05
We Are That Song
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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.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)
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2009-12-04
Out of This World
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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.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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