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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2025-10-11
Ordinary Love
40:20
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Devon Hase
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In this evening talk, devon hase reflects on metta as a simple act of caring — the willingness to stay close to our own experience, even when it feels plain or uncertain. Through stories of early practice, pilgrimage, and everyday kindness, she shows how love reveals itself in ordinary moments, asking nothing special of us beyond our presence.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Remembering Each Other Always (LB1C25)
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2025-10-09
Navigating the Truth of Suffering
44:34
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James Baraz
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Suffering is the Buddha's 1st Noble Truth. Sometimes it can feel like it's all too much, especially in these days of extreme unpredictability. Legitimate reactions of anger, confusion and discouragement can lead to feeling of hopelessness or resigned acceptance. How can we use the practice to not only skillfully hold those feelings, but to transform them into wholesome uplifting responses such as courage, trust and compassionate action?
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2025-10-07
Dukkha in the Wider World: What Contributes to Engagement?
31:57
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Victor von der Heyde
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Overview of the last 12 months, Conditions that help engagement:
1. contentment and appreciation; Dr Luke Kemp, his study on civilizational collapse and the value of happiness; contentment and burnout;
2. Anger as being pivotal, types of anger; recent world changes related to anger; tempus nullius; risks and care in relation to anger; Aristotle on the value of anger; Mahakala as a helpful image;
3. An inclusive way of looking; Mother Theresa and one’s family circle; Analyo Bhikkhu and the question of what can one do;
4. Equanimity: perspective of John Gray on the myth of progress in the field of ethics and politics - with examples; Philip Blom on a view of homo sapiens and the comedy of homo sapiens seeing itself as the ruler of nature;
5. A sense of duty and the soulful quality that can come with that;
6. Stories and images: Ursula Le Guin and the Ones who Walk Away from Omelas - with an interpretation; James Hillman and Michael Ventura; Kuan Yin as an image and how she is seen by some in a large Buddhist charity.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-06
Imaginal Practice 3
20:48
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Victor von der Heyde
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Julie Nelson and the romantic belief in knowledge from a perspective-free viewpoint; the interaction of eros, heart-mind-soul and the conceptual framework; the characteristic of soulfulness; Jack Kornfield on an approach to images in psychedelic experience: how that differs from imaginal practice; working with characteristics that may not be present; other characteristics: the lattice, grace, trust, reverence, humility, values, beauty, duty, fulness of intention, participation; imaginal views of oneself; WH Auden and Henry Corbin; caution on talking about images with others; the six devas on Lantau Island, what they represent, and how they could be related to.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-06
A steady plane in a see-saw world
44:09
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-10-05
Imaginal Practice 2
27:54
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Victor von der Heyde
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Unlimited possibilities for images with a range of examples, including God and gods, wild images, images based on people, the sense of being called, image with no figure, embodying an image, felt sense and image of spirit of place; putting aside questions about the reality status of images; Eucharistic imagination; fully and partially imaginal images; Iain McGilchrist on left brain right brain, and the world not being given before it’s experienced;
Rob Burbea’s list of elements or characteristics and the characteristics: two-ness, unfathomable quality, participation, loving and being loved; different orientations of imaginal and insight practices.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-05
Goodwill is food for the heart
45:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-10-04
Imaginal Practice 1
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Victor von der Heyde
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Ways of looking as a foundation; terms in imaginal practice; figures and presences; callings; example of very simple image; autonomy; cautions for working with images; types of image; spirits in the Pali Canon; dismissive attitudes; assumptions based on knowing what is measurable; views on the reality status of imaginal and the material world; relationship to an image or a presence; wide spectrum of images; Henry Corbin and a sense of the divine in an image; risks.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-04
Praxis freudvoll im Leben fortsetzen
35:47
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Renate Seifarth
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Nach dem Retreat gilt es die Praxis fortzusetzen. Das besteht im wesentlichen darin, "Böses" zu unterlassen, "Gutes" zu tun und Herz und Geist von Gier, Hass und Unwissenheit zu läutern. Dies wollen wir freudvoll tun. Dazu können wir das Glück kontemplieren einen Weg zum inneren Frieden begegnet zu sein, ihn als etwas Wertvolles erkannt zu haben und uns auf den Weg gemacht haben. Unterstützen tun uns weiter Gleichgesinnte auf dem Weg. Sich mit ihnen anfreunden, hilft ungemein, wobei wir nicht zu viel von ihnen erwarten sollten.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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2025-10-03
Geduld und dulden lernen - khanti
43:38
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Renate Seifarth
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In der Sutta über die Bambusakrobaten überlegen die beiden Artisten, wie sie unbeschadet ihre Kunststücke zeigen können. Sie sind gegensätzlicher Ansicht. Achte ich besser auch mich oder achte ich auf den anderen? Der erläutert der Buddha anschließend, warum beide Recht haben. Achten auf sich selbst bedeutet Achtsamkeit zu kultivieren. Dadurch achtet man auch auf den anderen. Guduld, Gewaltlosigkeit, Liebe und Teilnahme zu entwickeln, bedeutet auf den anderen zu blicken, wovon man selbst ebenfalls profitiert. Geduld ist ein wesentliches Element. Geduld öffnet Raum und Zeit für Entwicklung. Zu Geduld gehört aber auch etwas Schwieriges dulden zu können. Dadurch wird Reaktivität verhindert.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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2025-10-02
Mitgefühl leben
38:40
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Renate Seifarth
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Wer achtet auf wen? In einer Sutta diskutieren Bambusakrobaten darüber wie sie vorgehen sollen, um unbeschadet ihre Kunststücke zu zeigen. Für den Buddha ist es eine Gelegenheit darzulegen, dass sowohl das achten auf sich selbst wie das achten auf den anderen wichtig ist. Ersteres wird durch die Praxis der vier Grundlagen der Achtsamkeit erreicht, während das Achten auf den anderen in der Praxis von Geduld, Gewaltlosigkeit, Liebe und Teilnahme besteht.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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2025-10-02
Clock Time, Heart Time, Deep Time:
Songs, poems, reflections on navigating our relationship to time
54:05
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Betsy Rose
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Singer ,Songwriter, Dharma Teacher, Betsy Rose shares some songs, poems and reflections on navigating our relationship to time. How many of us are experiencing time as a vanishing “commodity?” The speed and amount of digital inputs (email, activist alerts, webinars, headlines and more..) threaten to overwhelm us. Feeling pressured, squeezed, and overloaded can be a familiar experience. This talk explores practices and choices that can help restore a sense of spaciousness and wise view to the mysterious construct we call “time.”
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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OD Course | White & Awakening (CJ1N24)
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2025-10-01
Die acht weltlichen Winde
41:43
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Renate Seifarth
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Dukkha ist Teil der Welt. Dazu gehören die acht weltlichen Winde, Gewinn und Verlust, Ehre und Verleumdung, Lob und Tadel, Freude und Leid. Sie wehen um alle, aber Personen, die in rechter Weise die Wechselhaftigkeit aller Phänomene erkannt haben, werden von den Winden nicht erschüttert.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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2025-10-01
Effort means using energy wisely
46:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-09-30
Mitgefühl
51:08
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Renate Seifarth
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Mitgefühl ist die Antwort des offenen Herzens auf Leiden. Hierin finden wir und geben wir Trost. Im Vortrag geht es um die Bedeutung von Mitgefühl und aus welchen Bedingungen heraus sie entsteht. Als Praxis entwickeln wir Mitgefühl in alle Richtungen, gegenüber allen Wesen. Dabei überwinden wir viele Hindernisse in uns wie Ärger und Angst.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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