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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2025-07-16
Insights Into Perception and Equanimity
56:57
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Walt Opie
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In the Honeyball Sutta (MN 18), it says, "What one perceives, that one thinks about. What one thinks about, that one mentally proliferates (or complicates)." And this mental proliferation often leads to "evil unwholesome states" which can cause harm and suffering. When we bring mindfulness to the subtle realm of perception, we start to see more clearly without adding anything extra. This is where equanimity comes in, allowing us to meet life with fewer preferences and with greater mental balance.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2025-07-11
Body Metta Awareness
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Devon Hase
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Reflections and Guided Meditation on Metta for the Body moving into boundless loving awareness.
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Various
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2025-07-07
Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path
66:51
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Donald Rothberg
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For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in much of Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further.
In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It’s outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines.
The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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