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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2022-04-25
Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart
55:26
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Jack Kornfield
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What kind of seeds are you planting and tending with your words and your deeds? Every seed watered can become something that changes the world. If you want to practice, take a walk and look at the buds on the trees in the spring. Each bud is an answer to despair or apathy. You start to sense you are part of something so much bigger. Feel the survival of thousands of years of ancestors in your bones supporting you.
“Though I do not believe a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”—Thoreau
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2022-04-24
The One Unchanging Thing
46:28
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Amita Schmidt
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In times of difficulty and change, it is important to orient to what doesn't change, what is deathless. This talk gives you some tools/reminders on how to access the one unchanging thing. The talk also offers ways to unhook from your story and the mind's constant narrative.
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Clintonville Sangha Ohio
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2022-03-28
Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation | Monday Night
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Jack Kornfield
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Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, fame and disrepute. These are the worldly winds that constantly change.
It's important to stop, take a pause, and feel that we are part of something so much greater than the individual life that we live. Our awareness is big enough to hold all of this, because we are awareness itself.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2022-02-20
The 3rd and 4th Foundations of Mindfulness
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Tempel Smith
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While the 3rd and fourth foundations of mindfulness can be taught as their own separate topics, it can be very useful to look at the language and instruction given in both of them together. In the 3rd foundation we rest mindfully in all cognitive and emotional states as they arise and pass with the courage not to change them. In the 4th foundation of mindfulness we use this deeper intimacy from the 3rd foundation to act most skillfully in how we let go of suffering states and welcome wholesome states.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
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2022-01-09
Question and Answers in New Year 2022 Retreat
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Amita Schmidt
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Questions about; 1) listening to the dharma 2) how to reset from difficult experiences 3)what exists after we die 4) facing environmental change 5)and using the momentum of the stress of these times to awaken.
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Insight Meditation of Cleveland
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2021-12-29
Guided Meditation Exploring Several Forms of Inquiry 1
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Donald Rothberg
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After some basic instructions in settling with an anchor, and on being with and seeing clearly what's predominant when somewhat settled, we can also explore several instructions for bringing inquiry (or investigation) into practice, through (1) asking what is present right now; (2) exploring with mindfulness an experience that has some duration, asking, "What's going on in the body? . . . What emotion is there and how does it change? . . . What's the narrative or storyline"; and (3) examining the memory of a challenging experience, and inquiring into what is present in re-living that experience.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2021-11-26
Bring your chaos home to be released
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The suttas can give us prompts for how to practice, but the agent is this embodied heart. It’s a process of calming and steadying shared between body and heart that reveals that stable constant presence beneath the activated energies. Withdrawing energy from the activations, just witnessing the changeability of phenomena, there is dispassion and releasing. Meeting energy, not feeding it, so it can be freed.
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Bodhi College
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Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)
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2021-11-26
Standing meditation - Unified energy
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Practicing in standing posture, it’s much easier to feel the whole body as an undivided object. Certain things then become apparent – an unbroken unity, an energy. Stay in your energy body as agitations well up, are received, and then dissolve – because they’re energy. This is the development of true insight, to know phenomena is changeable. Therefore one becomes dispassionate towards them.
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Bodhi College
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Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)
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2021-10-27
Interdependence vs. Codependence
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Betsy Rose
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The Buddha's teaching on "no separate, solid, permanent self" guides us toward our interbeing, as Thich Nhat Hanh names it. We are made of innumerable causes and conditions, and the "self" changes as those conditions change. This teaching is a valuable antidote to the illness of individualism that plagues many western societies, but for many women, it also has a "near enemy"-- codependence.
How do we, as women, embrace and live this truth while not allowing codependence to drag us into unhealthy dependencies, and relationships where we feel overly responsible for others happiness? This talk explores the balance between interconnection, and healthy boundaries and non-harming of oneself through sacrificial self-denial.
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Assaya Sangha
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