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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2016-04-30
AM Puja: Kalyanamitta
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The conditions and support for continued cultivation and practice outside of the retreat setting can be met through kalyanamitta (spiritual friendship). This wise association reflects what is true, good and beautiful so citta can continue to come forth.
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Padmasambhava Peace Institute
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Body, Heart and Mind: Embodying Citta
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2016-04-29
Proliferation of Planning
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave this talk on planning tendencies of the mind. Papanca is a Pali term that means proliferation. A lot of our planning is not preparation for action. Rather, it's a form of dukkha: chronic planning may be a manifestation of anxiety, restlessness, worry, or obsessive thinking about "who I will be." Planning is fuel for self-becoming, self-grasping; restless planning perpetuates the fantasy of a future we think we can control or predict, but such future may never happen. Instead of habitually indulging in planning tendencies, we can train our attention to be mindful of life as it actually unfolds. We can thus learn to calm fantasies that distract the mind, let go of expectations, and gradually strengthen concentration to be more fully present. We can also curb the tendency to become lost in imagined scenarios of hope and fear about life's events.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2016-04-28
Four Chants
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Greg Scharf
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Four Chants by Greg Scharf & Liz Fitzgerald. 1) An Invitation To The Devas, 2) Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali, 3) Karaniya Metta Sutta in English, 4) Buddham Vande - (a simple repeating chant of reverence for the triple gem)
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Insight Retreat Center
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2016-04-27
Listening with an Awake Heart
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Tara Brach
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True listening both nurtures and expresses evolving consciousness. This talk explores our ego-based conditioning to have an agenda or defendedness that prevents deep listening, and the strategies that evolve our capacity to listen fully to ourselves and others. When our listening is openhearted and full, it enables deep understanding and connectedness, and provides a transformative healing space for those who receive our listening attention.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-04-24
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice
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James Baraz
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This daylong includes general talks on the theme of cultivating equanimity into your dharma practice. In addition to the talks and discussion, I offer the following practices with instructions that can be used to incline the mind toward equanimity (edited to remove lengthy periods of silence during the guided meditations):
Practice #1 - Seeing things as they are
Practice #2 - Looking through the lens of impermanence
Practice #3 - Looking through the lens of vedana
(feeling tone; 2nd foundation of mindfulness)
Practice #4 - Equanimity with Big Mind meditation
Practice #5 - Equanimty using traditional Brahma Viharas phrases
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-04-21
Daily Life Jhana
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Ajahn Sucitto
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People often have the idea that one practices “concentration” to achieve “special meditative states of mind” called jhana, but Ajahn Sucitto points out that in fact jhana is a daily life practice of absorbing into the wholesomeness of nature that leads to the embodiment of samadhi – a unified state of the heart. This talk was offered on April 21, 2016 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.
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Abhayagiri Monastery
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