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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2011-10-30
Breaking Free of Habits: Part 1
60:28
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Martine Batchelor
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During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2011-10-30
Breaking Free of Habits: Part 2
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Martine Batchelor
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During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2011-10-27
Silence
56:59
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Leela Sarti
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Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translations, says Rumi. Beyond the experience of deficient, negative silence in our lives, when the mind and heart becomes quiet and at times completely still and clean, we are pointed directly to the truth of our being. In the silence of all things the grooves and tendencies of the habitual mind stand out in vivid colour. In silence there is a falling away of name, form and self.
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Gaia House
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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2011-10-26
Getting Down to Direct Experience III
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Donald Rothberg
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Building on the last two sessions, we explore three inter-related aspects of ignorance or confusion: 1. How we move away from direct experience, especially because of reactivity. 2. How we develop, personally and collectively, unconscious material;and 3. How we do not fully understand impermanence, the roots of suffering and the nature of the self. We suggest ways to practice with all three forms of ignorance.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2011-10-25
Awakening the Human Heart
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Leela Sarti
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To truly embrace the intensity of our longing and sorrow, our hopes and fears, to be present and open as we are impacted by our past, and to live with inner ground and freedom in the midst of the joys and sorrows of the world, what is is needed is a great heart, but a also a human heart. Do we know the true capacity of our heart?
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Gaia House
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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2011-10-23
The Path of Connectedness
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Jose Reissig
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In the process of relating to others, we often barricade ourselves behind some form of collective identity; be it our family, clan, race, nationality, religion, whatever. To truly connect we need to drop this we-ego ("wego") and allow ourselves to be vulnerable to love unconditional.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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The Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat
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2011-10-23
Spark of Awakening
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Leela Sarti
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All human endeavors take some effort, but what is a balanced effort and from what place of our being does it originate? We can train the mind to respond appropriately, to be balanced here and now, but it is never a fixed position. We know what being out of balance feels like. What supports the open ease and wholehearted capacity of inner balance? How can we step out of our own way, so the effort in practice becomes effortless?
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Gaia House
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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2011-10-22
Our Money or Our Life
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Jose Reissig
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The problem with money is that it takes us to a strange and separate world, where only the bottom-line counts. The wall separating this world from the rest of our life stretches out inside ourselves, and splits us in two. A wholesome life requires that we take down this inner wall.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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The Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat
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2011-10-16
Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources
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Bhikkhu Analayo
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"The aim of my presentation will be to investigate what mindfulness practice is about according to the early Buddhist discourses. These discourses have been preserved in the Pali Nikayas, in the Chinese Agamas, and at times also in Sanskrit fragments and sutra quotations preserved in Tibetan. From a historical viewpoint, these discourses represent the earliest layer of Buddhist textual material and thus take us back as close as possible to the original instructions delivered by the Buddha.
In these texts, we find two basic expositions:
1) the fourfold establishment of mindfulness taught in general;
2) the threefold establishment of mindfulness associated with the Buddha himself.
First, I will examine the fourfold establishment of mindfulness, based on the way it is depicted in the different extant versions of the Discourse on Mindfulness and the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing. Then, I will compare these to the threefold establishment of mindfulness. Through such comparison, I hope to arrive at key aspects of Buddhist mindfulness practice according to the earliest available textual sources at our disposition."
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Attached Files:
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Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources
by Bhikkhu Analayo
(PDF)
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2011-10-14
Bhikkhuni Pioneers
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Ayya Medhanandi offers a historical perspective on the bhikkhuni tradition as well as insights on how to live with compassion in the world. She describes how the monastic communal experience provides abundant opportunities for the exploration of personal and collective aspirations to fulfill the goals of the Eightfold Noble Path and end suffering.
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Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
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2011-10-12
Openess Merging Into The Deathless
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Different maps are given to track the trajectory from suffering to non-suffering. The themes are similar – finding resources to come into the present, meet what arises, not get stuck, know that no matter how pleasant or unpleasant this will pass – and we’re left with this openness. Trust the openness, where things end by themselves. This is the deathless.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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2011-10-10
Waking up from delusion
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Sally Armstrong
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We often hear about and experience the suffering caused by greed and aversion, yet delusion, the third of the kilesas, or torments of mind, is in some ways a more fundamental cause of suffering, because if we weren’t deluded, we wouldn’t believe that by grasping or pushing away we could avoid suffering. The challenge with delusion is its very definition is that we don’t it is operating. This talk examines the many ways that delusion manifests, so we can begin to bring more clarity and understanding to our experience.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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2011-10-10
Training The Mind In The Renunciant Form
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Training in renunciation helps us know that nothing belongs to us except for kamma. What’s important is knowing what is skillful and unskillful, and to keep setting aside what’s not skillful. Come to know when the mind is coming from purity or confusion. Faith is a support in the midst of confusion and overwhelm.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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