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Dharma Talks
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2022-12-19
Breath of the Earth Meditation | Monday Night
21:57
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Jack Kornfield
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Welcoming listeners into the gentle whisper of the breath, Jack helps us into a presence and ease beyond our anxieties, worries, and to-do lists. From this place of deep relaxation, he invites us into an easy-come, easy-go mentality with our thoughts and emotions.
"Your breath is the Earth breathing herself through you." – Jack Kornfield
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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 12/19/22.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2022-12-17
Giving Birth to Oneself
1:22:18
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Nathan Glyde
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A reflection on the activity of being reborn as the person we find ourselves to be, time and again, moment to moment, in this life (put aside for now past and future lives in different bodies). Furthermore, how any culture is reborn via the activity of the collective of indivduals that make it up. This reflection uses an exploration of the "many lives in one life" of the radically awake Baba Amte, as we come to the 108th anniversary of his birth. The possibilties of taking birth are endless and accessible right now: is this not the very path of the art of intentional cultivation, AKA meditation?
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2022
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2022-12-17
Taste the Mountain
28:08
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Rather than running away from suffering, we use it as the way to deliverance. Out of suffering, we draw beneficial mind states, especially compassion – not blaming our dukkha on any external or internal conditions but letting them go. If we are content with simple blessings, our gratitude consecrates the breath that we are breathing right now. We rest in awareness and experience the truth of the present moment – fleeting, flawed, formless and empty. In the stillness of now, we taste the mountain.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2022-12-17
Kuan Yin Compassion Meditation
9:01
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Amita Schmidt
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The first 3 minutes explains about Kuan Yin, and the practice of Compassion as a listening and bearing witness to suffering. Then there is a short and simple, 5 min Kuan Yin meditation, on listening with the ear of the heart.
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Clintonville Sangha Ohio
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2022-12-16
An Oasis of Freedom
20:15
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Learning to play an instrument, at first nothing good comes of it. The body is like an instrument. At first, it howls, it screams or cries. Then one day, that cry becomes a chant. So it is freeing the mind. We teach ourselves to walk the path. We fall and we get up again. In the darkest moment, we grow that tiny speck in the heart of not being afraid, not panicking, not being angry, not giving up. Practise freeing yourself so you can free everyone. Patiently keep digging. Trust. One day we will find gold.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2022-12-14
Talk: Practicing with Views and Beliefs 1
67:26
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Donald Rothberg
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Practicing with views, beliefs, opinions, and narratives is a central part of our practice (in relationship to ourselves, to others, and in the larger society and world) and was strongly emphasized in the teachings of the Buddha. In this talk, we explore how the Buddha taught on views, emphasizing four core teachings. We then inquire into what is particularly problematic in our relationship to views is the way that we potentially are reactive in relation to views--habitually grasping and pushing away with our views. We then suggest three foundational practices for working with views and beliefs. There is finally about a twenty-minute discussion period.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Attached Files:
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The Buddha on “Views: Four Texts
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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