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Dharma Talks
2025-02-12 Fierce Tenderness 46:42
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-02-12 The 8 Fold Path as a Practice for Living our Lives 54:44
Jean Esther
A General Over View of the 8 fold Path with particular emphasis on Ethical Conduct (Sila) in relation to others in our world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-12 Cultivating Wise Speech: Its Importance in the Path of Everyday Awakening 63:33
Donald Rothberg
Wise speech is an integral part of the traditional Buddhist path of awakening and a powerful way to energize our daily life practice, but is often underdeveloped in Western Buddhist practice. We’ll look in a very practical way at three aspects of wise speech: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) becoming more mindful of and skillful with thoughts and emotions occurring during communication. For each of the foundations, a number of ways of practicing are offered. The talk is followed by discussion.
Insight San Diego

2025-02-12 Patient relationship is the Sangha vehicle 46:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2025-02-12 Awakening in a World in Turmoil 2: Seeing the World with Dharma Eyes 65:07
Donald Rothberg
How do we see the world, especially and social world, from the perspective of awakening--with, we might say, "dharma eyes"? We explore this question in a time of great turmoil and concern in the world, particularly in the U.S. We start with several passages coming from an awakened mind and heart, including a passage from the Metta Sutta--how would one then look at the larger world? We explore how the Buddha himself looked at the world and social structures, particularly in terms of caste and gender. From our practice seeing greed, hatred, and delusion in ourselves, we learn how to see these qualities in others, and in the world. From our ethical training, we learn how to see when we are not following the ethical guidelines and when others are not, including on a larger social level. We also see how we can understand some of the larger social issues, particularly related to the climate crisis, racism, and gender, in terms of greed (especially), hatred, and delusion. We close, in this context, first with a pointing to ways of responding, using Joanna Macy's model of three ways that the "Great Turning" occurs, and then with a poem.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-12 Guided Meditation: Exploring Feeling-Tone and Reactivity 0:00
Donald Rothberg
(Recording not available) 
After guidance in developing concentration and mindfulness, we practice in silence. Then there is guidance related to mindfulness of the feeling-tone (the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), particularly the pleasant or the unpleasant (and whether there is reactivity, grasping after the pleasant and pushing away in some way the unpleasant), related to the theme of the talk given after the meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-11 Three Characteristics 51:55
Chas DiCapua
Descriptions of the three characteristics and the role they play in the Buddha's path to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-11 Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 60:23
Jean Esther
When we begin to see the arising and passing of thought as not me, not my, and not mine, there is room loosen the grip of grasping and aversion. We can begin to see thought truly as one of the six sense doors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 46:21
Jean Esther
We expand or awareness of our interconnectedness as humans when we practice Metta for both the "Neutral Person" and the "Difficult Person". Sometimes the Difficult Person can be ourselves. The end of this Guided Practice offers a compassion practice for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 Une nouvelle relation aux choses 63:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Retraite au centre Mudita en Suisse

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