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Dharma Talks
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2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg
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We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-15 The Heart Of Compassion 50:27
Mark Coleman
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Compassion is an essential quality on the path of life - how do we cultivate this, what gets in the way and how does the caring heart move in the world in openness to pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2011-12-31 Playing with Pain - Talk and Guided Meditation 33:10
Amma Thanasanti
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Shakti Vihara :  Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2011-12-15 Cultivating a Bodhisattva Heart 55:06
James Baraz
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We don’t have to wait to take Bodhisattva vows to practice the Bodhisattva attitude of being there for another’s suffering. In this talk we explore principles and practices to cultivate compassion—the heart of the Bodhisattva ideal—including 1) developing a caring heart towards those we may not feel an affinity and 2) holding the pain we feel at another’s suffering with wise discernment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2011-11-20 I Sit Here in Blessing 10:58
Ayya Medhanandi
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How can we care for ourselves and each other, using our formal meditation practice as a template for daily living? As we sit for meditation, mark an intuitive pathway through painful, burdensome mind states, teaching the mind to purify itself with every breath. Gradually, we overcome our sufferings. We glimpse the peace, happiness, clarity and freedom of heart that are within our reach.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2011-10-19 Transforming Anger through Understanding Pain 54:31
Mark Nunberg
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Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-10-09 Metta: Tenderness and Connection 61:11
Guy Armstrong
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The practice of lovingkindness makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows of life. It also reveals a deep sense of connection to all sentient existence that overcomes a painful sense of isolation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-08 Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith 21:36
Ajahn Sucitto
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Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Group Retreat

2011-09-09 Talk Three - Beyond Belief 48:20
Martin Aylward
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The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. This third talk explores how our ideas, beliefs and opinions obscure our true knowing of reality. Martin progresses through our views about life itself, unconsciously conditioned by both scientific and religious cultural myths, our views about and in relation to others, and our painful, evaluating views of ourselves. The encouragement is to examine our beliefs so as to make them transparent, to see life clearly, to recognize its freely unfolding process that cannot be defined by mere idea or view.
Gaia House :  Live and Let Go: Freedom From Clinging

2011-09-08 The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things 52:43
James Baraz
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The Buddha says: There are 4 ways of undertaking things. There is a way undertaking things that is pleasant now and ripens in the future as pain. There is a way undertaking things that is painful now and ripens in the future as pain. There is a way undertaking things that is painful now and ripens in the furter as pleasure. There is a way undertaking things that is pleansont now and ripens in the future as pleasure.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

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