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Dharma Talks
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2022-08-21
Dukkha Without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology
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Rick Hanson,
William Edelglass
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| As the First Noble Truth, the Buddha pointed to dukkha: some experiences are painful; enjoyable experiences are impermanent; and all phenomena lack an enduring essence.
Dukkha is routinely (mis)translated as “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness” - but these are not inherent in it! The Buddha’s liberating teaching in his Second Noble Truth is that it is tanha - “craving” - which turns dukkha into suffering.
Biologically, we crave when we feel something is missing or wrong. So, in this conversation with Rick Hanson, we'll explore how to build up a sense of fullness and balance that’s hardwired into the nervous system, and grow the inner strengths that can meet our needs without craving . . . and face the challenges of life with an unshakable core of contentment, love, and inner peace. |
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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2022-07-27
A Guided Meditation Cultivating Equanimity and Compassion
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Donald Rothberg
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| After basic instructions in (1) settling and stabilizing attention, and (2) practicing mindfulness, there is 5-minute period of settling and stabilizing. Then there are several practice suggestions for cultivating equanimity, especially by noticing and exploring reactivity and any appearances of the "Eight Worldly Winds." After another 10 minutes or so, there is also guidance in two main ways of developing compassion, through opening in mindfulness to what is difficult or painful, and through a three-step self-compassion practice from Kristin Neff. |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2022-04-24
Tonglen Meditation
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Amita Schmidt
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| Tonglen is a guided meditation of Tibetan origin that is a reparative response to pain. It is a meditation that actually helps create connection in the midst of suffering. Tenzin Choedrak, during his time of torture, made a daily dedication, "May some human greatness be accomplished through this suffering." |
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Clintonville Sangha Ohio
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2022-04-17
Invite the Miraculous
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Ayya Medhanandi
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| In the face of horrific suffering, how can we abide in the ground of love, protected from every kind of pain? True path effort – inspired courage leaning on virtue – ardently works its way into the heart. Through the power of forgiveness, patient enough to love without blame, we touch the fount of compassion itself. We invite the miraculous. |
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2022-03-28
Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation | Monday Night
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Jack Kornfield
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| Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, fame and disrepute. These are the worldly winds that constantly change.
It's important to stop, take a pause, and feel that we are part of something so much greater than the individual life that we live. Our awareness is big enough to hold all of this, because we are awareness itself. |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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