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2020-09-16 Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 6: Wise Speech 3: Practicing with Difficult Speech Situations 68:21
Donald Rothberg
After reviewing three foundations of Wise Speech--the four ethical guidelines for skillful speech, presence and mindfulness during speech, and the practice of empathy--we explore, on the basis of these foundations, how to be skillful during difficult or challenging situations of speech and communication, whether involving two individuals, a group, or a larger society. We identify eight perspectives, practices, and capacities that support skillful speech during such difficult situations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-08-19 Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 4: The Foundations of Wise Speech 1: Cultivating Empathy 66:30
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief review of the three previous talks on deepening practice during the pandemic (and other crises), including clarifying three broad areas of practice: Formal meditation practice, daily life practice, and work, service, and/or activism as practice. In this session, we explore the foundations of Wise Speech as practice, mentioning three foundations. The first two include (1) the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha regarding skillful speech, and (2) developing presence and mindfulness during speech (including listening). We focus most of the time on the third foundation of cultivating empathic connection with another, clarifying the difference between empathy and compassion, giving some of the findings of studies in neuroscience about empathy, and examining what blocks empathy. We then work with a simple (yet powerful) empathy practice of tuning into (1) emotions, and (2) what matters, and move into a period of discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-06-27 Overview of 'The Work' 22:34
Ayya Santacitta
The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness & the 4 Vipallasa ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-27 Earth Element - Internally and Externally 49:27
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-09 The Four Foundations Are a Complete Support (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 12:17
Ayya Dhammadīpā
Contemplation of dhammas, 7 factors of awakening, bringing all the foundations of mindfulness to bear on the Path
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The First Free Women - Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-05-23 Wondrous Feeling 42:58
Ayya Dhammadīpā
Exploring how mindfulness and investigation of feeling tone is woven into many frameworks of practice given by the Buddha - the 5 aggregates, the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the 12 fold chain of causation, the 4 Noble Truths.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-04-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Protecting Ourselves and Others 30:08
Ajahn Sucitto
By protecting ourselves we protect others. When we protect our own hearts from defensiveness, blame, hostility and stress, we also protect others. We train ourselves through the 4 foundations of mindfulness. *Sutta reference is SN47:19.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-03-11 Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:35
Eugene Cash
Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.'
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2020-02-11 Cultivation 52:16
Winnie Nazarko
The idea of cultivation (Bhavana) is the key to Buddhism. This talk relates this concept to the development of the four foundations of mindfulness, especially the first.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2020

2019-10-08 Introduction To The Anapanasati Sutta 35:45
Kittisaro
Mindfulness of breathing, 16 steps, four tetrads, Fulfilling the four foundations of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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