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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2012-04-25
The World in Our Heart
1:24:54
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Tara Brach
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Some contemporary evolutionary theories track our development from survival of the fittest to group selection whereby we have the capacity for cooperation and empathy. This talk explores how our meditation practice of attending and befriending consciously facilitates the unfolding of our full evolutionary potential. The talk includes a guided meditation that helps us widen the circles of belonging to include all beings.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2012-04-22
Ignorance
54:00
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Caroline Jones
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This talk explores what is meant by ignorance (avijja) in the Buddha's teachings and suggests some ways of recognising and undermining its presence and activity in our life.
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Gaia House
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Work Retreat
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2012-04-17
Fundamentals of the Dharma: Sila
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Rodney Smith
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We usually approach ethical conduct (sila) from either righteousness (morality) or idealism (I must never harm any living thing!) but not often from stability and unification of heart. From the heart we just see what is appropriate to do and do it within the context of connection and nonharm. When we transgress we learn and move on and never expect anything miraculous or perfect in any way. We simply live within the fullness of our humanity, and that is enough.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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Fundamentals of the Dharma
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2012-04-09
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two)
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Stephen Batchelor
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Reflections on "an ordinary person's life," as understood in a passage by the 9th century Chan master Teshan. This idea is related to the Buddha's phenomenological analysis of human experience (the "all") into namarupa and consciousness, a vision of life where there is no transcendent awareness or consciousness "outside" ordinary experience, thereby revealing a common thread between the Pali Canon and early Chan.
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Gaia House
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Zen Retreat
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2012-04-08
A Wilderness Traveller
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Ayya Medhanandi
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All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2012-04-07
Life-Saving Treasure
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Ayya Medhanandi
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A reflection on the Upaddha Sutta (Half of the Holy Life) about the importance of good friends, companions, and comrades on the Eightfold Noble Path. Good friends encourage and share in developing seclusion of mind, dispassion towards the sense pleasures of the world, and, ultimately, the cessation of suffering that leads to a lasting freedom and peace.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2012-04-07
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One)
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Stephen Batchelor
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Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
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Gaia House
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Zen Retreat
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