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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2021-02-03
Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath
23:47
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Tara Brach
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This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. The instructions are to rest in the breath, offering a relaxed, intimate intention. Other waves of sensation or emotion are included when they ask for attention as we cultivate an open and full mindful presence. Our freedom arises as we recognize the formless awareness that is our home, and the natural and ever-changing waves that live through us.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-02-03
Why We Practice: The Four Noble Truths
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Kate Munding
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As a foundation for all Buddhist communities, these teachings focus on the nature of and relief from suffering. Practice is aimed at recognizing suffering. Clinging is complex and related to how we experience pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensations. Effort and curiosity are needed to untangle this clinging process. Practitioner story and Q&A included.
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Assaya Sangha
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Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks
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2021-02-02
Anicca and Vedanā
46:46
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Nathan Glyde
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Exploring wisdom ways of looking to bring insight into our practice, where paying attention is the key. Seeing the inconstancy in all things opens the possibility for greater sensitivity. Seeing the rating of all things by the enjoyment or distress they might offer as just an opinion, rather than fact, opens the possibility of more ease and delight.
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Gaia House
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Relaxed, Open, Awake
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2021-01-29
Devotion and Discipline – Dhamma Protectors
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The 5 indriya are known as the Dhamma protectors. The complimentary qualities of devotion and discipline balance our approach to cultivation. Recommended is collecting oneself in body which provides leverage on restraining the thinking mind. Embodied intelligence – the inner, esoteric Dhamma – can then be accessed.
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Sacred Mountain Sangha
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2021-01-28
Anatta and Self-Forgiveness
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James Baraz
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Do you ever give yourself a hard time if you've made an embarrassing mistake or have done something you regret? This talk explores how we can truly forgive ourselves with a thorough understanding of the Buddha's teaching on the selfless nature of who we are, otherwise known as Anatta, the selfless nature of experience.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2021-01-28
Dhammavicaya - Head and Heart
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Ajahn Sucitto
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There is fundamental puñña – value – in just being human. But citta doesn’t know its value, it gets lost in dreams, worries, passions, opinions. Collect oneself where body, thought and heart come together and investigate – where does the suffering end, where does fulfillment come from? Return to the place of innate value, stability, composure and clarity.
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Cittaviveka
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2021-01-27
Spiritual Hope
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Tara Brach
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Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust in the openhearted awareness (bodhichitta) that is always and already within us. This talk explores how, as individuals and as a society, we can nourish spiritual hope, and create the grounds for healing and radical transformation (a favorite from the archives).
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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