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Dharma Talks
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2010-03-07 Awakening 51:45
Kittisaro
Meeting ourselves. Limitations of success and sense pleasure. The great reversal. The Buddha's journey. Knowing pleasure, pain, and beyond. Return to the original brightness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-01-27 Presence and Aliveness I & II 1:11:54
Tara Brach
These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-01-20 Presence and Aliveness I & II 1:10:34
Tara Brach
These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-01-13 Awakening to the Sacred 65:03
Tara Brach
The tendency to think "life should be different" and to try to control experience removes us from the wisdom and compassion that naturally gives rise to healing and transformation. We learn to trust the power of our heart and awareness by meeting both the pain and beauty of this life with sacred presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-01-11 Part 1: The Arc of Metta Part 2: What Compassion Isn't 64:31
Heather Martin
Part 1: How differences in this practice work for different people. Part 2: Compassion is doing nothing more than tenderly holding whatever pain arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2009-12-22 Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom 44:55
John Travis
The talk explores the aspects of practice of collecting the mind, intuitive insight, non-separation of a single taste, and ordinariness, through sharing stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-21 Practicing with Darkness (and Light) at the Winter Solstice 55:46
Donald Rothberg
The winter solstice in our culture sometimes is close to busy and even frenzied times, yet in most cultures has been a time of deepening, stillness, and silence, like the earth. We explore four ways to practice with the darkness of the time: 1) Through stopping and stilling our habituated minds; 2) Through opening to the unknown; 3) Trhough being with what is painful or difficult; 4) Through allowing the light and the creative to emerge from darkness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-05 We Are That Song 18:37
Ayya Medhanandi
Our suffering may feel too great or the mountain look too high. But we are resilient and we have it in us to do this work, to walk this path – if we can give up thoughts of self-cherishing and feel compassion for ourselves and for all beings. The fruit of this work is a treasure to be gained even in the smallest instant of awareness. With radical patience, just make peace with one moment of painful feeling. Then offer up the pain or misery. From the ashes of suffering, we turn inward to the clarity of the mind. Stay fully present in awareness, listening to that silence. Such a song comes – the pure sound of this awareness. That's what we are. We are that song.
Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)

2009-11-18 The Cure for Pain Is in the Pain 65:58
Howard Cohn
Working with the difficult mental states, especially the 5 hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-16 Embracing Our Humanness 53:06
Mark Coleman
How do we open our hearts to the fullness of ourselves, our pain, and the whole human experience...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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