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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2014-06-07
The Bricks and Mortar of Forgiveness
11:29
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Ayya Medhanandi
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A short reflection on forgiveness - what we can do when we just can't forgive. How do we deal with difficult past relationships when forgiveness seems impossible? Examining our expectations in relationship and our capacity to forgive when others have let us down - without judgment of anyone including ourselves - we start to open into compassion. Let's give ourselves and others a second chance.
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Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
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2014-06-04
Paradox of Dharma
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Eugene Cash
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Things are not what they seem Nor are they otherwise - Buddha
This talk explored the role and dynamic of paradox in Buddhist teaching and practice. We looked at the paradox inherent in the experience of the three characteristics -- anicca (impermanence), dukkha (suffering) and anatta (self and not self). As we relax with the paradoxical experience the three characteristics become portals to awakening.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Aging as Spiritual Opportunity
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2014-06-03
Silent Thunder
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The Dhamma is deep, subtle yet powerful enough to teach us how to stop, how to listen, how to see the truth of things. For what we thought we knew, we may have not really understood. So how can we transcend our social, cultural, psychological, and environmental conditioning? By uprooting greed, ill-will, and ignorance, the mind sees the truth of impermanence, suffering and emptiness. Like silent thunder, it grows pure, fearless, awake, and free.
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Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
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2014-05-28
Humility
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Tara Brach
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In Buddhism and most faiths, humility - feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others - is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our conditioning and culture reinforce a swing from ego-inflation (self-importance, feeling special, better than others) to ego-deflation (feeling unworthy). We then look at how a wise and kind attention opens us to who we are beyond these confining egoic states, and enables us to live with humility and grace.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2014-05-27
Mindfulness Sacred or Secular?
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave this concluding talk in a guest speaker series that was organized to stimulate critical inquiry about mindfulness and how the teachings about mindfulness are manifesting in western cultures. This talk presents critical thinking, reflection, and discussion as integral elements of Buddhist practice. It refers to the early Buddhist custom of reciting teachings, sharing the Dhamma, and inviting correction and criticism about how the Dhamma was presented and taught. As mindfulness practices become mainstreamed, and applied in corporations and therapeutic contexts, some concern arises that the deep and liberating teachings of emptiness might be ignored as non-Buddhists, and sometimes non-practitioners, assert their own definitions of mindfulness in the media. This brief talk concludes with reflection questions about:
1. the meaning and definition of mindfulness—how is mindfulness different from attention?
2. how are ethics taught in Buddhist and secular applications of mindfulness?
3. how are secular interests affecting the development of western lay Buddhism?
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks
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