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2013-09-14 Practicing in Times of Big Changes 34:50
Ayya Santacitta
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Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Hartford Street Zen Center)
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-08-27 Dependent Origination: Grasping and Clinging 57:24
Rodney Smith
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When the energy of self-formation moves through desire to clinging, there is a dramatic change in intensity. The grasping feels like a compelling need of the organism. We may feel that we must have this experience in order for life to be worthwhile, and we are usually willing to do whatever is needed to obtain it. The energy is very tightly bound to the sense of survival. The Buddha grouped the areas of clinging in four broad categories: (1) pleasurable experiences, (2) views and opinions, (3) rites and rituals, and (4) belief in self. When we see the ferocity of our need to procure and defend our right for pleasure, our personal and political opinions, the indoctrinated beliefs in our religious views and practices, and the obstinate way we defend our self-image, we begin to understand the entrenched positions our egoic state stands upon.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-07-30 The Dharma Of Global Climate Change 60:01
Chas DiCapua
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How our dharma practice can turn this difficult situation onto an opportunity for practice and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-30 Dependent Origination: Feelings 57:27
Rodney Smith
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Each feeling tone has a body posture and pose that reveals its occurrence. As pleasant feelings emerge and shape themselves into a psychic force, the body starts literally leaning into the experience with expectations. This can be noticed as a hurried pace, and a forward leaning tilt. Aversion is just the opposite. The avoidance occurs as a kind of backpedaling, a leaning away and tilting back in contraction or a sudden change in direction. Delusion is harder to pin down but is spacey, airy, and glazed over, often only tangentially connected to the earth. Delusion has lost the ground of its experience and because of that is usually more difficult to notice physically. There is of course the vertical stance that is upright and open to whatever comes that the homework is meant to address.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-07-12 Learning from Climate Change 42:00
Ayya Santacitta
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Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-06-27 Sila and Climate Change 1:20:05
Sayadaw Vivekananda
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Mountain Hermitage :  Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-06-07 Cultivation of Insight 61:04
Ajahn Sucitto
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The development of insight comes from feeling experience as it arises. Detachment, dispassion and relinquishment enable the allowing of phenomena, witnessing of change, and letting go of making it personal. We’re able to be truly present and in touch with what’s happening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Evening Talk; Day 1 - Grow in the Master's Way 32:19
Ayya Medhanandi
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All conditions of this world have the nature to change: the earth, weather, governments, work, health, leisure, family, friendships and so forth. We observe these variations and consider the most critical change of all. It promises the greatest blessing – but first we must plow the interior field of goodness that yields our heart's deliverance. Faithfully, patiently, as we clear away the dust in the mind, the hindrances of greed, ill-will, fear and delusion fall away, and we abide in the clarity, serenity, and joy of the Dhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-25 Change Your Mind Retreat 62:24
Mary Grace Orr
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Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-18 Equanimity with Things As They Are 63:13
James Baraz
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The quality of equanimity is a significant factor in coming to terms with impermanence and its manifestations: agin, illness and death. Learning to find balance with regard to the reality of change is explored
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

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