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The greatest gift is the gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
2011-06-12
Guided Meditation - Life and Death
39:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Death contemplation triggered the Buddha's search for the deathless. It is a recommended regular recollection that helps sieve the relative from the more profound. Guidance is given to contemplate various aspects of living and dying with questions for deeper reflection.
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Cittaviveka
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2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
40:24:32
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Ayya Anandabodhi,
Ayya Santacitta,
Ayya Santussika,
Bob Doppelt,
Catherine McGee,
Chas DiCapua,
David Loy,
Donald Rothberg,
Jack Kornfield,
James Baraz,
Joanna Macy,
Malcolm Margolin,
Margarita Loinaz,
Mark Coleman,
Nina Wise,
Paul Hawken,
Rob Burbea,
Sayadaw Vivekananda,
Tara Brach,
Thanissara,
Various,
Wes Nisker
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One Earth Sangha is oriented toward Buddhist and mindfulness practitioners seeking dharma, practices and community around care for the Earth. See their website here: One Earth Sangha
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2011-06-03
Opening Talk for Transforming Self, Transforming World
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David Loy
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Opening Talk for a retreat that explores the relationship between personal and social transformation. There are profound parallels between our individual predicament and our collective situation, and this retreat explores their nonduality. If the self is an insecure construct haunted by a sense of lack, we gain insight into our preoccupation with attachments such as money, fame, power and romance, and how the 'three poisons' (greed, ill will and delusion) have become institutionalised.
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Gaia House
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Transforming Self Transforming World
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2011-06-02
Deep Listening and Speech Practice in Challenging Situations
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Donald Rothberg
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The essence of speech practice in difficult situations is to find ways to stay connected, in one's inner experience and use of speech, to our awareness, love, and wisdom. We focus on a number of supports for such practice, including grounding and centering in the body, being open to difficulties as opportunities for learning, understanding the judgmental mind, and, especially, cultivating deep listening.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Mindfulness, Wise Speech, and Compassionate Communication
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2011-05-24
Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Worry
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Rodney Smith
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Worry attempts to protect us from every contingency. It becomes a pattern and view of life where I am the guardian and protector of my security. Worry is actually a process of self-affirmation because we keep affirming our power over what life brings forth. If I let down my guard, life would be chaotic and out of control, and therefore I need to worry to have everything turn out as I wish. Worry and planning elevates us to the status of a god while we are actually being controlled by fear.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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In
collection:
The Satipatthana Sutta
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2011-05-21
Habits, Action and Personality
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Shaila Catherine
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Underlying tendencies (toward greed, hate, and delusion) fuel habits that obstruct our freedom. Tendencies toward irritation, anger, craving, and ignorance may arise in times of stress when our mindfulness is weak, and they distort our perception of things. But tendencies arise in both luxurious and modest environments, in situations of comfort as well as pain. How we relate to experience reinforces patterns and conditioning. Greed, hate, and delusion are causes for the arising of kamma (karma). The simile of the two darts describes the difference between simply enduring bodily feelings of pain, and proliferating reactions of anger and aversion that add suffering to our pain. This talk explores the primary tendencies of sensual desire, anger, and ignorance, and shows how we can free the mind from their influence in our everyday life.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life
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