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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2019-12-22
It’s the Tone that Counts
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The habituated ways of the personality – craving to become good enough, burdened with self-criticism and fear – won’t bring about liberation. Citta, that which can be liberated, becomes available when the tone of our lives is warm, encouraging, compassionate. Relax the doing and tune into the receptive. The theme of practice is to feel comfortable.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Freedom of an "Open Heart"
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Kate Munding
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This talk explores some questions of an "open heart." Can we bring both into our awareness the question, "is it possible to open further?" Where it is a stretch to feel compassionate and unguarded, is forgiveness needed, is self-care and healing needed? Do we always recognize the easy-open freedom of a heart that is fully available and unhindered? Do we take those states and the people connected to those states for granted?
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-12-17
Death and the Poignancy of Life
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Matthew Brensilver
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William James said that death was the ‘worm at the core’ of the human condition that turns us all into ‘melancholy metaphysicians.’ A century later, awareness of mortality is documented to affect our thinking and emotional lives in powerful ways. It figures prominently in Buddhist practice.
In what ways does consciousness of death distorts our view and lead us away from wisdom and compassion? Alternatively, how can we open to the truth of finitude such that our heart is softened? Can we intuit the freedom or love that might be released were we more deeply at peace with our mortality?
In this evening program, we’ll consider the way death can harden or soften our heart – and how dharma practice might lead us to a life that feels complete. All are welcome.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2019-11-16
We Are Here To Forgive
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go, setting them free? Living harmlessly, fearless in the good and devoted to this radical healing, the face of enlightenment appears in the trenches of our own suffering.
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Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto
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SIMT Fall Monastic Retreat
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2019-10-16
RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation
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Tara Brach
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When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance – the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. Using the acronym RAIN, this practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing the other with a more open and clear heart. By awakening from the trance of blame, we are able to respond with intelligence and care to the unmet needs that underlie all conflict.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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