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Dharma Talks
2011-12-10 Loving Kindness and Generosity 57:10
Kirsten Kratz
Power is not something we normally associate with qualities like loving-kindness and generosity. This talks explore how the cultivation of these beautiful qualities of mind and heart can foster strength, clarity, determination in our being and deepen wisdom and understanding.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Generosity - a Metta Retreat

2011-12-08 Seeing Beyond Appearances 47:44
James Baraz
Bay Area musician, composer and dharma student Ben Rivers speaks about what it’s like to live with severe disability from Parkinson's and Lyme diseases. He shares about his life as we explore seeing beyond appearances, relating to someone who seems different as not so different, with their own unique gifts and challenges.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2011-12-08 Life Dharma 4 26:49
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-12-07 The Power of Mind Through Concentration 35:16
Sharda Rogell
We can actively engage in our healing & transformation by gathering skilful and wise intentions and consciously directing them. In this way we strengthen the creative potential of our mind. We can consciously direct our wise and skilful intentions in order to actively engage in our healing and transformation. In this way, we reinforce and strengthen the creative potential of our mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Qigong and Meditation: Healing and Awakening

2011-12-07 The Backward Step 1:18:03
Tara Brach
Our habit is to think we are on our way someplace else, and that our happiness is to be found outside ourselves. Yet realization becomes possible when we take the backward step into the formless dimension of our own being. This talk explores the two pathways that awaken us from our stories of self and reveal the love and awareness that is our true nature. (video available)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-12-07 Realizing Cessation of Stress 56:48
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-07 Mindfulness and Metta 61:41
Donald Rothberg
We continue to look at how mindfulness can be understood in the larger context of connection with ethics, wisdom, and the awakened heart. Here we explore how mindfulness and metta can be sometimes seen as separate, but how both practices point to a mature integration-loving awareness, mindful caring, the mindful and wise heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-12-06 Working with the Hindrances 42:44
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2011-12-05 Clinging to Self 58:49
Mark Coleman
What is the self, how is it constructed - Who do you take yourself to be. This talk explains how to examine the nature of self - the attachment to self image/identity & how a mindful relationship to it can bring much clarity & peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-12-03 Nothing is Outside the Heart 57:15
Thanissara
The three motivations for practice, and reflections on compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Being Dharma

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