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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2016-04-20
Love is Always Loving You
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Tara Brach
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Love is Always Loving You – This talk draws on Christian mystic Henri Nouwen’s book Return of the Prodigal Son. We explore the primary ways we leave home – leave presence, connection, beingness – and the pathways of deep attention and love that enable our return. The emphasis is on “letting in love” as a key and often missing element in practices that heal and free our hearts. Through the talk there are several reflections that lead to receiving the blessings of love and discovering that we are the source of that loving.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-04-14
Sacred Activism Part 4: Holding a Vision
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James Baraz
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Besides learning how to work with various emotions and reactions that come up in response to various events, it's important to hold an inspiring vision of possibilities so that we are motivated to work toward that desired outcome. Dharma concepts such as Clear Comprehension of Purpose can be applied to help us create an inspiring vision. Joanna Macy's Active Hope and Andrew Harvey's outline of current positive developments that give one hope are included.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-04-14
Seven Factors of Awakening
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Ayya Sobhana,
Chris Clifford,
Daniel Bowling,
Fa Jun,
Janetti Marotta,
Margaret Gainer,
Misha Merrill,
Oren Jay Sofer,
Sean Oakes,
Shaila Catherine,
Sharon Allen
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These seven qualities offer an effective framework for cultivating the mind, overcoming the hindrances, and balancing the energetic and calming forces that develop in meditation. When cultivated and balanced, the mind is ripe for awakening. This series will explore each factor to reveal its importance, function, and role in the process of awakening.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2016-04-13
Meditation - Vipassana - Practice of Seeing Clearly
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Tara Brach
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Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath - or some other sensory anchor - and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention - sensations, emotions, sounds - meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-04-12
Thus Have I Heard
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Andrea Fella,
Diana Clark,
Kim Allen,
Nona Olivia,
Sean Oakes,
Shaila Catherine,
Tony Bernhard
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The Pali Canon includes over 5,000 discourses that document conversations and encounters that occurred during forty years of the Buddha's ministry. Over the centuries, certain teachings have risen to the surface with popularity and come to characterize our impression of what the Buddha taught. However, the vast collection of source material reaches beyond these well known teachings. For this speaker series, IMSB has invited teachers to focus on teachings that have been largely neglected by contemporary Buddhist groups. Each talk will share a lesser-known teaching, event, or instruction that will enrich our comprehension of what the Buddha taught. We will discover whether broadening our source material reinforces the dominant view of Buddhist practice or paints a different picture of meditation and the path of liberation.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2016-04-10
The Answer is Equanimity
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Jose Reissig
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The appropriate response to the conflicts that come our way is equanimity, rather than adding fuel to the fire by rushing to take sides. Equanimity also requires that we let the conflicts touch our heart while we defuse them. It is surely not indifference.
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Rhinebeck Sitting Group
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Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat
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2016-04-08
Equanimity and Kamma
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Sally Armstrong
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There are two main aspects to equanimity as a Brahma Vihara: first, a balanced, spacious mind, which is a mental factor we can know and cultivate. Secondly, an understanding of the nature of reality, known in Buddhist teachings as the dhamma, or truth, which is expressed here in the teachings on kamma (karma in Sanskrit.) Kamma simply means action, and refers to the universal laws of cause and effect and conditionality. In this teaching, the Buddha highlighted the importance of intentions in our actions. We come to understand that our lives are shaped by our choices, and the importance of bringing mindfulness and wisdom to our choices and intentions. We also should be aware that, even with good intentions, our actions can have harmful impacts, especially as we live, work and practice in communities with people with different cultural, racial, economic, gender identifications, sexual orientations, or other diverse experiences.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Equanimity: Seeing with Quiet Eyes
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2016-04-06
Patience and Equanimity
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Sally Armstrong
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Patience and equanimity are two of the paramis - 10 perfections that we develop in our practice on the path to awakening. Ledi Sayadaw says that “Patience and equanimity are the mainstay for the perfections. Only when one has set oneself up in these two can one expect to fulfill the rest." These 2 qualities are intertwined and support each other: if we are patient, we are developing equanimity, and vice versa. Both are necessary for our meditation practice and bring peace and calm into our minds and hearts.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Equanimity: Seeing with Quiet Eyes
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2016-04-04
Mindfulness and Metta
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Sally Armstrong
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Equanimity is central to the Buddha's teachings and practices, and so underlies and supports both mindfulness and metta (loving-kindness). For Samma Sati, Right Mindfulness, to develop, equanimity needs to function to keep us connected with experiences even when they are difficult or challenging, to deepen insight into the true nature of reality. In metta practice, equanimity keeps the heart open when conditions are not ideal for kindness - and they are often not ideal!
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Equanimity: Seeing with Quiet Eyes
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