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2014-10-14 Many Kinds of Thoughts 41:01
Shaila Catherine
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This talk was given by Shaila Catherine as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." Mindful of the thinking process, we explore how thoughts function in our lives. Unwholesome mental patterns can reinforce obsessive desires, identification, rigid opinions, and attachment to belief systems. What patterns are most common for you—planning, rumination, fantasy, rehearsing, daydreaming, judging, comparing, fixing, instructing? We observe the types of thoughts that arise, and reflect on whether those thoughts support our values and purpose. We learn to let go of unskillful thoughts and then focus our attention so that we use the mind skillfully. Buddhist tradition identifies three sources for proliferating thought: craving, conceit, and views. By examining the sources of conceptual proliferation, we can curb the wandering tendencies of mind.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-10-12 Transforming Fear Into Freedom 61:44
Bhante Buddharakkhita
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Through mindfulness and wisdom (understanding) we can transform fear into freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-12 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2 69:28
Thanissara, Ayya Anandabodhi, Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Susie Harrington
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Thanissara with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni and Susie Harrington. In this conversation, Susie Harrington mentioned two sources: Kerry Nelson’s offering of online workshops at A Place for Peace as well as Vinit Allen’s Sustainable World Sourcebook. Both offer ways to engage individually but also at the community level.Rev angel Kyodo williams mentioned the site What Is Missing? from Maya Lin offering an interactive experience of all that has been and continues to be lost to which you can add your own accounting.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-06 Investigating Mindfulness itself 59:44
Andrea Fella
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-06 Guided Meditation on the Factors of Awakening 38:58
Gregory Kramer
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After practicing dhammanupassana in Insight Dialogue, attending to the first four factors of sati (mindfulness), investigation of phenomena, energy and joy, this 40 minutes guided meditation takes us, in silence, through these four and onwards to the three calming factors of tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
Gaia House :  Insight Dialogue and Bhava - Becoming and Identification

2014-10-05 Mindfulness: A Reverent Attention to Being 62:49
Michele McDonald
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True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding

2014-10-05 Mindfulness and Climate Action 5:46:13
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This series of five conversations with dharma teachers was held October 5 through November 3, 2014.
Attached Files:
  • Mindfulness and Climate Action Background Paper by Kritee Kanko and Lou Leonard (PDF)
In collections: Engaged Buddhism, One Earth Sangha

2014-10-05 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1 1:13:52
Thanissara, Jack Kornfield, Ruth King, Tara Brach
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Thanissara with Tara Brach, Ruth King and Jack Kornfield.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-03 Speaking the Truth in Meditation. Listening Deeply 44:49
Gregory Kramer
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In meditation, the truth is the truth of experience. To speak the truth, mindfulness is essential; its the only way experience can be known. This talk tracks the act of speaking from the wordless beginnings, through the tension behind the urge to speak (even innocuous speech), an onto the physical act. When the thread of sati is maintained, there is a natural authenticity, a coherence between experience and its symbolization in words. The deep of Listen Deeply is likewise traced, with mindfulness and concentration making possible a continuity of awareness. When such listening and speaking meet, the mind-to-mind transmission is of a different order from ordinary speech.
Gaia House :  Insight Dialogue and Bhava - Becoming and Identification

2014-09-29 The 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapana-sati Sutta) 61:04
Tempel Smith
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

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