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2026-09-06
The Four Noble Truths
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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The theme of this Sunday talk, the Four Noble truths. Buddhist traditions may vary in many ways, but the one common teaching in each one is this one.
Is there a wellbeing that is not relative to situations? That remains unchanged. This was the Buddha's realisation. And the core of the teaching above.
It allows one to take responsibility for ones discontent.To really understand how things work.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-09-03
Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: The Core Teaching of the Buddha
51:00
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Donald Rothberg
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The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the cessation of dukkha.” We explore this core teaching as it is expressed in the Four Noble Truths and the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, including ways that it can be confusing. We suggest ways to understand and implement this teaching both in formal meditation and in everyday life. (See document 328 below, on "Four Meanings of Dukkha, and Contact to Grasping in the Dependent Origination Model.")
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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Attached Files:
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Four Meanings of Dukkha, Contact to Grasping in the Dependent Origination Model
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2026-09-01
Befriending the Thinking Mind
20:13
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Marjolein Janssen
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We often have the idea that thoughts are our enemy during meditation. If only we could get rid of all those thoughts, then we would be good meditators. But actually, this is a misconception, since thinking is part of being a human being. In this talk we learn how to befriend the thinking mind, so it can be a companion, instead of an enemy.
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Insight Meditation Community of Richmond
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2026-08-27
Talk: Insight and Mettā
69:30
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Yahel Avigur
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In the insight teachings, the Buddha offers radical ways of reducing suffering by relaxing the perceptions that give rise to and sustain it. Bringing these perspectives together with mettā practice offers a powerful complementarity, allowing both insight and loving-kindness to deepen and support one another.
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Vrážné Zen Center
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Heart of Mettā
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2026-08-26
Talk - relaxing the inner critic
68:57
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Yahel Avigur
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One of the tendencies that my teacher, Rob Burbea, would point to again and again, encouraging us to soften or even overcome it completely, is the movement of the inner critic. A negative regard towards ourselves is a very common habit of mind. And, as a habit of mind, it is something we can come to understand, relax, and eventually overcome. In this talk, we take time to look the inner critic “in the eye,” exploring how the mind sustains it, and how very different ways of relating to ourselves can be cultivated.
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Vrážné Zen Center
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Heart of Mettā
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2026-08-26
Third Instructions: Mettā Towards a Neutral Person
60:09
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Yahel Avigur
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Cultivating kindness towards people we don’t know allows our mettā to become more all-encompassing, so that it can become a genuine foundation for our hearts and lives. Along the way, we reflect on what we all share as human beings, allowing this understanding to shape our perception and soften some of the fabricated and often unhelpful lines of separation between ourselves and others.
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Vrážné Zen Center
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Heart of Mettā
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2026-08-25
Talk: The Life of the Heart: Emotions and Mind States in Mettā Practice
64:17
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Yahel Avigur
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Mettā practice involves and supports our whole being, including the full range of what may be alive in our hearts. In this talk, we explore ways of relating skilfully and wholeheartedly to our emotional life, developing greater sensitivity, understanding, and capacity to work with the movements of the heart. Like the retreat as a whole, this talk draws on suggestions offered by Rob Burbea in his 2011 retreat, “The Lovingkindness Retreat”.
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Vrážné Zen Center
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Heart of Mettā
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2026-08-24
Talk: Samādhi in Mettā Practice
46:51
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Yahel Avigur
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In this talk, we explore the place of samādhi—the quality of gathering and harmonising the heart and mind—in mettā practice. We learn how to support its development, allowing both the meditative experience and the quality of mettā to deepen and refine.
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Vrážné Zen Center
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Heart of Mettā
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2026-08-23
Witnessing experience
30:56
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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The theme of this Sunday talk, is witnessing experience as it is. The awakened mind, does not demand anything be different to what it is, in the moment free of judgement. The theme that this builds upon, is "Santitikko"- Something that can be verified for oneself. If we can see suffering for what it is, as its is now, in the moment, we get out of it a little easier. So the practice becomes one of Witnessing the way it is now, first. Action can follow later if necessary.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-08-20
Peace and Stillness: On Passaddhi and Equanimity
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Devon Hase
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A talk on tranquility as its own awakening factor, not a lesser cousin of joy or concentration. We look at how calm arises naturally out of a happy mind that knows how to let go, what it actually feels like in the body, and how it matures into the absorption of samadhi and, further still, into a stillness governed by equanimity rather than effort.
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