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2012-03-25 Riding the Eight Worldly Winds 60:35
Heather Sundberg
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"Pleasure/Pain; Gain/Loss; Praise/Blame; Fame/Disrepute". Talk offers equanimity wisdom teachings and practical tools for "riding the eight worldly winds."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-24 The Tender Heart of Compassion 30:46
Mark Coleman
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Human life requires much tenderness and vulnerability to work with inevitable pain and suffering - the practice of compassion is a wonderful vehicle for this orientation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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

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