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Dharma Talks
2002-12-22
Desire for Enlightenment
53:00
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Shaila Catherine
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Desire is usually described as a hindrance to meditation, but to realize deathless liberation we must want to be free. A burning desire to awaken opens the heart and mind to a possibility of freedom otherwise not known. This talk examines the force of desire as both a form of craving that perpetuates suffering, and as a necessary and wholesome factor that supports the realization of nibbana (nirvana) and the end of suffering. We examine hindrances, pain, and obstacles from which we want to be free in order to realize unconditioned awakening. Working with desire has some risks, but it is a powerful force that encourages curiosity, investigation, and openness to possibility—the possibility of discovering a profound fearlessness, and enduring happiness, the possibility of enlightenment. |
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks
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2002-12-13
I Just Wanted Some Toothpaste
38:18
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Birth, aging, death, pain, sorrow, lamentation are all dukkha.
There is pain and there is the way out of pain. That is the cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path. By sitting, accepting and letting go, we walk the Middle Way and follow the laws of Dhamma. |
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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