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Dharma Talks
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2001-10-23
Awakening From The Trance
58:56
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Tara Brach
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The sense of being a "separate self" seems quite real and both filters and contracts our moment to moment experience of life. This talk investigates how the compelling show of separate self arises and how we can recognize and relax into our naturally radiant, compassionate and unconfined awareness.
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Sevenoaks Pathwork Center
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2001-08-12
The Invitation
48:53
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Sharda Rogell
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This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance
our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts
to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a
receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and
strength, and a deeper sense of connection
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2001-08-12
The Invitation
50:13
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Sharda Rogell
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An invitation to use adversaries to enhance our practice. This is the path to compassion. This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and strength, and a deeper sense of connection
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2001-07-27
Compassion
62:21
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Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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It takes so much compassion to be with the letting go we have to do to come into peace with the difficult truths of life. This talk explores ways we can cultivate compassion in our practice and in our lives.
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1999-11-10
Compassion - The Heartbeat Of The Buddha's Teaching
51:29
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Marcia Rose
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"May I, may you, may all beings be free from suffering." The Buddha's teachings and practices of cultivating a deep, expansive tenderness of heart, grounded in immeasurable impartiality--the heart of compassion--which transforms the way we relate to ourselves and to others. With the great strength and trust in our ability to bear witness to and face suffering, we are able to offer appropriate help in relationship to the pain, the anguish and the confusion of all beings, ourselves included.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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1999 Three Month Retreat
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1999-03-14
The Liberating News Of Impermanence
53:41
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Sylvia Boorstein
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Everything arises and passes away, like the breath. How to not be frightened by this or experience "existential angst" from inevitable loss in connection is often what brings us into practice. Liberation is in the heart that is wide enough to hold joy as well as the greatest pain of loss. In managing inevitable loss, we become kinder, softer, gentler and much more careful. To liberate "fixed point of view," we stay awake and attentive, always open for new insights to our stories about ourselves and others. Views change, bodies change, relationships change, but what does not change is the capacity of the heart to respond with compassion and lovingkindness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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1999-02-18
Finding Our Natural Compassion
51:25
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Myoshin Kelley
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Compassion is classically described as the quivering or trembling of the heart in response to suffering. Our habituated responses may be to deny or repress our suffering. As we learn to open to suffering with a balanced mind, we discover the natural responsiveness of the heart which brings us into a relationship of care and concern for the world we live in.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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1998-12-30
Awakening Through Shame
52:04
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Tara Brach
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Much of our suffering is due to a pervasive and often buried sense of core deficiency. This talk investigates the source of self-aversion, how it hides and the enormous healing and freedom that is possible when this life-binding experience of shame is brought into compassionate awareness.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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1998-11-22
Seeing In A New Way
55:25
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Sylvia Boorstein
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Vipassana means seeing things clearly. When we are overwhelmed, our view can become inhibited. Like a miracle, seeing from a different view allows us to see and do in a different way. All we need is one moment of clarity to feel freedom, and all else passes. Meditation is one revelation after another, leading one to see with more kindness and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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