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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2005-06-01
Unlearning Dualism
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Jose Reissig
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Dualism can be described as a polarity project. We polarize our options as desirable or undesirable, and lose interest in that which does not fall into either extreme. This duality provides a footing for clinging and for the birth of the I. Seeing through this charade helps us unlearn it.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2005-05-10
On the Street Where You Live
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Ayya Medhanandi
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When a river flows into the sea it acquires one taste, the taste of salt. As our meditation deepens, regardless of age, health, race, gender, culture or social status, delving into the mind, we discover one taste, that is the taste of truth. The world is full of suffering, not what we want it to be. And on the street where you live is your monastery, your garden, the thorns and the flowers, the compost and the field of cultivation – from feeling hopeless despair to the dawning moment when you understand the origin of suffering and the way to the Deathless. Letting go in the very marrow of the moment, spread peace and compassion in all directions – on the street where you live.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-05-01
Unlearning Me
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Jose Reissig
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As the Buddha showed, clinging gives birth to the I. The I, in turn, keeps puffing itself up by further clinging. When we understand that this generates nothing but suffering, we are ready to unlearn the I, that is the "Me."
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Philadelphia Meditation Center
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