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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2008-06-08
We Will Arrive - Beating a Path to Awakening
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Ayya Medhanandi
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How can we beat a path to awakening? Meditate and develop deep, wise insight, training like a spiritual athlete in this new millenium. Like forging a trail in dense forest, walk it again and again, courageously enduring difficulties to navigate beyond mental afflictions. Study the mind incisively and trust - we will arrive.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2008-06-06
At the Shrine of the Awakened - Unfathomable Love
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Ayya Medhanandi
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What is spiritual beauty? Kindness, forgiveness, unconditional love? Can we sustain a hallowed inner space that will not be degraded by unkind thoughts? When noble virtue protects the heart at its innermost core, we repair and train the mind to go beyond all brokenness. Relinquishing the burden of endless struggle, we harness awakened wisdom and compassion to free ourselves. We are a pure clear vessel of unfathomable love.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2008-06-04
Ecology of the Heart
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Our most valued renewable resource is the heart, the seat of awareness and our true refuge in what is worthy of refuge – the ancient virtue of the noble ones. Breath by breath, we embody pure presence, wisely seeing how suffering arises and understanding the Noble Truth of how it ends. With courage enough to face our fear, we cut the currents of negativity and we stop feeding them. This is our path to the ending of pain – the heart’s total release.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)
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Ecology of the Heart Retreat
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2008-05-26
Five Guidelines For Practicing With Conflict
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore five aspects of bringing our practice to conflicts - inner, interpersonal, group, or social:
1. At the heart of such practice is transforming reactivity and responding skillfully.
Also crucial are different ways of:
2. grounding and centering in the body,
3. resting in the heart,
4. maintaining a non-dual vision, and
5. continuing to be deeply engaged and acting without attachment to immediate outcomes, once we have acted responsively.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Path of Engagement
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2008-05-14
Self And Not Self III
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Donald Rothberg
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Transformation Beyond the Constricted Self
After a review of teachings about not-self, and an exploration of the ways that the self appears as an overlay on, or constriction of, the flow of experience, we look in this final talk at what si there when a constrictive self is absent: 1) individuality without identification, 2) awareness, 3) wmptiness of phenomena and self, and 4) compassion and responsiveness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2008-05-11
A Good Pair of Boots
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We must not underestimate the significance of dedicating ourselves to the five precepts. Such a commitment to virtue provides a moral and ethical basis for life that will ultimately lessen our suffering. We find ourselves embodying qualities of truthfulness, kindness and care for ourselves and others that touch a new level of inner happiness, one of the factors of enlightenment.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2008-05-10
A Little Renunciation
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Ayya Medhanandi
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How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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