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2009-04-22 Part 2 - Intention and Spiritual Freedom 1:17:19
Tara Brach
While we can't change the past, it is our intention in this present moment that determines the unfolding of happiness and freedom in our life. When unconscious, our intentions are often shaped by craving and aversion. These two talks explore how we can become mindful of intention, and realize the depth and purity of our innate aspiration toward awakening and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-04-22 Understanding the Generous Intention 55:41
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-04-22 Metta for the Emotional Body 28:12
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers #3

2009-04-22 Cultivating Equanimity, pt I 56:00
Donald Rothberg
coming soon
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-04-22 Impermanence 61:19
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers #3

2009-04-22 No Self 66:40
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2009-04-21 Intro to Mindfulness Week 3 1:29:23
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-04-21 Mind is the Core 47:36
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Mind (citta) as the Buddha’s focus of investigation. As both the cause of suffering and the means to its cessation The Buddha points to two states or tendencies of mind Akusala - unwholesome, unskillful Kusala - wholesome, skillful, beneficial Suffering follows the unwholesome mind, Happiness follows the wholesome mind like a shadow that never departs. Our task, step by step, is to train the mind and supplant the unwholesome state with the wholesome states. Greed, hatred and Delusion are the root causes for the unwholesome mind. We must cultivate the factors that are the cause for the wholesome mind at three levels. Coarse - Actions, bodily or verbal. We use the five precepts to prevent unwholesome tendencies at this level. Obsessive, compulsive patterns - Thoughts, emotions. We use meditation, deep samadhi directed to an object, to see the arising of these tendencies and still the mind. Underlying tendencies, attachments - the remaining defilements We use wisdom, insight, to investigate the body and mind and see their impermanence and stop the clinging to a false self to uproot these final tendencies. This is liberation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2009-04-20 Life At The Edge 50:40
Myoshin Kelley
Moving out of the comfort zone and exploring challenges
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-04-20 Burma Night (Part 2) 32:13
Jack Kornfield
Burma Slide Show and Choir
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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