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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2016-03-14
Life is Your Teacher
47:32
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Martin Aylward
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Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
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Gaia House
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Your Life is Your Teacher
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2016-03-12
Boundless compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity
61:42
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Gregory Kramer
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Receiving with compassion what is difficult / receiving joy / experiencing mutual equanimity. Guided meditation on the boundless with Open for the first 14:15 minutes. " there is an aspect of Open that is establishing the field of awareness that is the atmosophere in which Metta arises."
Four part contemplation, first two separate speaker, last one the entire group
1. "Observe the opening of awareness to every cell of the vody, naming what it is like. This awareness is inclusive and spacious."
Contemplate something in your life that is difficult, feeling your heart vibrating with the pain". " Be present to the pain waith compassion for this being, the compassionate response".
"Listener, how was it like to receive this?"
2. Now the gift of our practice is to touch joy, something positive, wholesome, uplifting. Let it infuse you, vibrate within you."
Listener, touch the experience of hearing about joy.
3." Whatever experience that might be present of mutual or sympathetic equanimity,where the heart balances together."
4. "What is manifesting now? Resting perhaps in the shared human experience of the whole of it; the hurt, the joy the boundless."
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Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere)
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Insight Dialogue Retreat
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2016-03-12
Three kinds of Dukkha
21:44
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Gregory Kramer
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Dyad with separate speakers for the first two contemplations
1. straight-forward suffering. The pain can be proliferated and held up and at this micro-level flips into Dukka-dukka
2.the dukka of impermanence, that comes with the instability of things and our responses
" Give attention to the quality of receiving."
" What is it like to be speaking of this pain of impermanence....; to be hearing it?"
3.the suffering associated waith constructions and the constructing mind
"Those images that come and haunt the mind."
"That ongoing tumult of the body-mind responding to its own fabrications."
"Can we get off the bus?"
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Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere)
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Insight Dialogue Retreat
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2016-03-01
Recollection of Heavens
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave the sixth talk in a series on Recollective Meditations. This talk explores the practice of devanusatti — contemplating the good qualities that lead to happiness in this life and future lives. This practice emphasizes five specific qualities: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, and wisdom. One first reflects on the superior qualities of the devas, and then contemplates those same qualities within oneself. By contemplating the success of celestial beings, we might realize that success is also possible for us. This practice can inspire us to develop those beautiful qualities of heart and mind.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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In
collection:
Recollective Meditations
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2016-03-01
Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 8 - The Seven Factors of Awakening
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Mark Nunberg
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Tonight we will review the Buddha's teaching on the Seven Factors of Awakening. There are the inherent qualities of mind that when recognized and developed in balance with each other inevitably lead onward to awakening. They include mindfulness, investigation, energy/persistence, joy, tranquility, concentration/steadiness and equanimity. Joseph Goldstein calls these factors, "The sap that runs through the Buddha's tree of liberation; a powerful healing medicine that we must actually develop in our own minds."
In the Buddhist tradition, it is thought that just to be reminded of these inherent qualities, to bring them to mind, is considered to be deeply healing and protecting. Are we willing to learn to recognize them, and learn how to feed or strengthen these aspects of the mind.
Here is a link to the Ahara Sutta, a discourse of the Buddha's where he describes how to strengthen and weaken the factors of awakening This discourse also describes how to feed and weaken the five hindrances
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
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Attached Files:
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Ahara Sutta
by Thanissaro Bikkhu
(PDF)
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Seven Factors of Awakening
by Insight Meditation Center
(Link)
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2016-02-27
The Path of Transformation 1
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Kim Allen
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In this day of Dhamma reflection and practice, we will look at teachings from the early discourses of the Buddha on the topic of the transformation that occurs through Buddhist practice. In particular we will read and discuss the Angulimala Sutta (MN 86), in which a murderer becomes enlightened, and the Paссa Sutta (AN 8.2), which lists eight conditions for acquiring wisdom.
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2016-02-27
The Path of Transformation 2
1:34:45
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Kim Allen
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In this day of Dhamma reflection and practice, we will look at teachings from the early discourses of the Buddha on the topic of the transformation that occurs through Buddhist practice. In particular we will read and discuss the Angulimala Sutta (MN 86), in which a murderer becomes enlightened, and the Paссa Sutta (AN 8.2), which lists eight conditions for acquiring wisdom.
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2016-02-25
Mindfulness and Compassion: Protecting Oneself and Others
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Shaila Catherine
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This is the 4th talk in a 5-part speaker series titled "Balanced Practice." Shaila Catherine explores the compassion of protecting others and the wisdom of protecting oneself through the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness guards the mind and protects the mind from sliding into actions based upon unwholesome tendencies. Mindfulness also protects us from the unmindful actions that could easily cause harm. Mindfulness has a capacity of naturally drawing everything into balance, so the mind progresses with a balance of effort and ease, of tranquility and investigation, and of calm concentrated state and engaged state.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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In
collection:
Balanced Practice
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2016-02-24
The three kinds of Wholesome Intention: Sankappa, Aditthana, Cetana
54:57
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Sally Armstrong
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This talk is about the similarities and subtle differences of the 3 kinds of intention: Cetana (...intention, purpose, objective, agenda, goal, target, etc.),
Sankappa (right thought and intent, avoiding unwholesome mind states, cultivating wholesome, etc.) and Aditthana (decision, resolution, self-determination, will and resolution, etc.)
All three types are important resources as we train our heart/minds through intensive practice and in our day to day lives.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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February Month-long
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