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Dharma Talks
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2011-10-30
Breaking Free of Habits: Part 1
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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
1:25:21
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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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