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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2022-11-19
A Way of Benevolence
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The Buddha guides us on a way of benevolence, worthy of our praise, worthy of our attention, and worthy of our devotion. It extinguishes the fire of delusion in the mind to kindle the fire of awakening. No 'one' awakens but the heart heals naturally by touching Truth. Freed from the shackles of ignorance, it knows the emptiness that is full and the fullness that is empty – complete peace with all things exactly as they are.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society (Galilee Centre)
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A Way of Benevolence: Freedom from Fear,
Peace and Wise Compassion
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2022-11-18
A Path of Prudent Happiness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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How blessed we are to walk this path of awakening into the vast frontier of the mind. We discover unimaginable treasures using our inheritance from the Buddha and directing ourselves with the compass of compassionate wisdom. This walk is internal, silent, hidden. We are learning to actually see with new eyes – clear and far-sighted – but well-attuned to our penetrating task of exploration and discernment. What has felt painful and fearsome really holds powerful antidotes to pain and fear. What we most valued pales when compared to the joys of pure awareness, and of knowing and sharing the true gifts of our humanity.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society (Galilee Centre)
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A Way of Benevolence: Freedom from Fear,
Peace and Wise Compassion
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2022-11-18
Give Up the Cloud
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Ayya Medhanandi
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When the mind is completely silent, we experience the peace and happiness of pure awareness. This far surpasses any worldly promise of impermanent gains or pleasures. Instead, through wise intuitive insight, we enter into a blessed interior seclusion. Metaphorically speaking, not a shred of love exists in the cloud where we trust storing all our important digital data. Yet with our pure awareness, we see what can never be seen in the cloud. Where else but within does the Buddha guide us to know our true nature? Giving up all self-preoccupation for unconditional love, we know the heart’s true freedom.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2022-11-17
Confidence and Humility: It's Not about Me
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James Baraz
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The Buddhist writer Wei Wu Wei wrote: "True humility is the absence of anyone to be proud." We are often humbled by life. How we handle it can either lead to defeat or profound growth. We explore how being humbled can deepen our capacity to open to all of our experience and strengthen our confidence and trust as we align ourselves with something greater than ourselves.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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