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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2012-09-12
The Freedom of Yes
1:24:10
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Tara Brach
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How do we accept ourselves or others when our actions are causing harm? Does acceptance mean passivity? Does it undermine our efforts towards change? This talk responds to these questions with a simple, illuminating and challenging principle about genuine transformation: Acceptance is the prerequisite of true healing and awakening. Only when we've paused to recognize and allow this moment's experience to be fully as it is, can we respond from our intelligence and compassion to prevent future suffering.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2012-09-11
Fundamentals of the Dharma: Love of Honesty
4:35
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Rodney Smith
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We cannot talk about the fundamentals of Dharma without mentioning honesty. All we have to do is meet a truly honest person to know that honesty is infectious. We sense that it must take courage to live with honesty and integrity, but what it really takes is a love of the truth. Honesty in Dharma practice is simply the love of what is true. It is behind all of our inquiry and Dharma investigation. "What is going on here?" is the soul searching question that opens the doors of the heart. We release our deceptions for two reasons: first, it is painful to deceive, and second, we have a profound urge to know the true causes and motivations for our defensiveness. That urge, when properly honed, will be our vehicle for the completion of the spiritual journey.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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Fundamentals of the Dharma
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2012-09-05
Trance of the Unreal Other
1:22:49
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Tara Brach
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We are conditioned to perceive people as unreal others- two dimensional characters who lack sentience, vulnerability and goodness. This is often most insidious when we filter people through demeaning culturally driven stereotypes. This talk explores the suffering of living in a trance that separates us from others, and how our practices of mindfulness and compassion enable us to experience what Thoreau calls the "miracle" of seeing through another's eyes, if only for a moment.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2012-08-22
Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves
1:21:27
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Tara Brach
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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2012-08-21
Fundamentals of the Dharma: Surrender
2:00
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Rodney Smith
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Surrender is not something we decide to do. It is what is left after we have tried every way to avoid or surmount a problem. Surrendering is releasing your guard and allowing the experience into you without protection or defense, and therefore it is an activity of faith. Mostly we try to adapt our way through a difficulty, changing strategies according to the results, but surrender is not another response to a problem, it's the ending of time, distance, and separation from the problem itself.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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In
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Fundamentals of the Dharma
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2012-08-19
Patience
39:25
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the parami (or "virtue" or "perfection") of patience, including its nature and the nature of impatience, exemplars of patience, the connection of patience with other virtues (particularly wisdom and equanimity), and how to practice to develop patience.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2012-08-16
Silent Illumination
60:41
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Will Kabat-Zinn
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In this talk, Will Kabat-Zinn explores the deeper meaning of the first five lines of the poem, "Guidepost of Silent Illumination" by Zen Master Hongzhi:
Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.
When you reflect it you become vast, where you embody it you are spiritually uplifted.
Spiritually solitary and shining, inner illumination restores wonder,
Dew in the moonlight, a river of stars, snow-covered pines, clouds enveloping the peak.
In darkness it is most bright, while hidden all the more manifest.
~ translated by Taigen Dan Leighton
The entire poem can be found on the web.
One source.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2012-08-15
Part 1: 1000 Serious Moves
1:26:15
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Tara Brach
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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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