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Dharma Talks
2008-03-23 The four Vows 52:07
Martine Batchelor
What is it that we dedicate and aspire to when we enter the path of practice? An exploration of compassion, afflictions, learning and awakening.
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-14 Brahmavihara Retreat 12:39:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
The brahmaviharas are four mental states that the Buddha encouraged for the practice of meditation. They are loving -friendliness (metta), compassion, sympathetic joy (rejoicing in the happiness of others), and equanimity. Through these practices we develop a loving heart, concentration, self-acceptance, fearlessness and happiness. These practices also establish our fundamental connectedness to all life.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Brahmavihara Retreat

2008-03-13 Compassion 51:43
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discussed compassion as a Brahmavihara practice and the cultivation of compassion in our vipassana practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-07 Death 63:39
Rob Burbea
A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
Gaia House A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-14 Compassion And Appreciative Joy 59:30
Mark Coleman
What is the experience of compassion, how does it arise, what are it’s obstacles. This talk also discusses the Bhrama Vihara of mudita, appreciative joy and how we cultivate this rare and beautiful quality of gladness and celebrating the joys of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 The Ethics of Sunyata 1:31:39
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-12 The Birth of a Bodhisattva 1:13:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-10 Love and the Emptiness of Things 1:30:39
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

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