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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2016-06-23
"Light brings out the darkness. Darkness brings out the light."
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James Baraz
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It seems that the interplay between ignorance and consciousness is an on-going dance--within ourselves, in our relationships and within our society. Understanding this dance can help us hold it all with greater equanimity.
(At the time of the talk James was under the impression that the UK vote in process would have the country remain in the EU. As it turned out the vote ended up the other way.)
This link below goes along with the theme for this week’s talk:
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-06-22
Reconnecting with our Lives - Healing from Dissociation
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Tara Brach
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Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natural for enduring certain situations, the ongoing habit of dissociation cuts us off from our full aliveness, creativity, and capacity for love. This talk explores the process by which we disconnect from our bodies and feelings - individually and collectively - and the practices that directly enable us to include the “unlived life" - the fear and shame, passion and loneliness - that we’ve pushed away. By including the raw energies we’ve been avoiding, we come home to a fullness that can embrace others and the whole of life.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-06-20
The Ambiguity of Self and World
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Martin Aylward
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We rely on a sense of certainty and familiarity with how things are, yet when we look closely our experience is uncertain and always presenting anew. Martin looks at the big reference points for our experience; Life, Death, Self and World, pointing to a liberating way of understanding and relating to them that is free of the narrowness of certainty.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in Stillness and Movement
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2016-06-19
Spaciously & Graciously
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Martin Aylward
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Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in Stillness and Movement
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2016-06-19
Spaciously and Graciously
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Martin Aylward
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Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in Stillness and Movement
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2016-06-17
The Art of Non Doing
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Martin Aylward
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In this introductory talk to the retreat, Martin invites us to practice by doing nothing, not in terms of the retreat format, but in the midst of all activity. He explores how we can speak, move and direct our attention and intention, from a place of profound rest, allowing and inviting everything to happen naturally.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in Stillness and Movement
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2016-06-16
Mindfulness of the Body
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave the second talk in a four-week series titled "Cultivating Mindfulness." Shaila explored a number of ways to practice mindfulness of the body according to the Buddhist teachings. These methods include (1) using the body as a way of grounding our attention in the present moment, (2) working with mindfulness of the breath as an aspect of the body, (3) working with sensory experiences, (4) reflecting upon death, (5) seeing the body in terms of the four elements (earth, fire, wind and water) and (6) observing the body as anatomical parts. Methods 5 and 6 allow us to view the body as material constructions. From this perspective we no longer conceive our body as "I" or "mine;" thereby, attachment and ignorance dissolve.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Cultivating Mindfulness
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