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2005-06-01
Unlearning Dualism
37:59
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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
45:51
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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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2005-04-14
The Guests Come and Go
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Ayya Medhanandi
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“Being human is a guest house” wrote Rumi. Every day we greet new arrivals – joys, sorrows, hostilities and more; and moments of awareness too. We bow to the present moment and greet them all, be they thorns or unruly monsters like malice, shame, fear, anger or greed. Can we see them all just as they are, painful or pleasant – impermanent, not ours, not who we are? Can we let them come and go, and be grateful? Treat whatever passes through the heart as empty. After all, these are karmic messengers from beyond bearing unique spiritual gifts. For in their presence, we strengthen our practice. Wisely attentive, reflective, and aware, we are on the magnificent path of waking up.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-04-10
Reaching Out By Way Of The Inner
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Jose Reissig
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This talk explores what the Buddha meant when he said that the end of the world cannot be reached by walking, but can only be found in this fathom-long body.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2005-04-09
The Middle Way Is Not Halfway
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Jose Reissig
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The Buddha said that he taught the Middle Way. His Middle Way should not be understood as a compromise between extremes. Rather, he offers us a radical new way of dealing with the perceived polarities.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2005-04-08
New Beginnings
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Jose Reissig
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As we come to the end of the old and begin anew, is this "new beginning" just a gambit to circumvent a situation, or are we embarking in a genuine process of transformation? The practice provides invaluable support for the latter choice.
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Philadelphia Meditation Center
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