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Dharma Talks
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2019-10-16
RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation
14:38
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Tara Brach
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When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance – the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. Using the acronym RAIN, this practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing the other with a more open and clear heart. By awakening from the trance of blame, we are able to respond with intelligence and care to the unmet needs that underlie all conflict.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-11
Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom-Q+A
41:03
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Alexis Santos
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Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. These timeless qualities are essential for meeting the challenges of our current world and in helping us live a skillful life. This evening talk will start out with a guided meditation followed by a dharma talk on how to cultivate these essential qualities.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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NYI Regular Talks
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2019-10-09
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
21:16
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Tara Brach
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This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-04
Putting it All Together: Integration of the Eightfold Path
41:06
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Ajahn Karunadhammo
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This is a lightly guided, mostly silent meditation from the Friday night practice offered by Ajahn Karunadhammo.
“Many of us approach Buddhist practice believing that the point is to learn mindfulness meditation. Yet there's so much more to understand and practice. The eight factors, or the eightfold path, allow for a complete and fully integrated program, leading toward liberation.”
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2019-10-04
Putting it All Together: Integration of the Eightfold Path
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Ajahn Karunadhammo
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Starting with chanting, this is the talk from the Friday night practice offered by Ajahn Karunadhammo.
“Many of us approach Buddhist practice believing that the point is to learn mindfulness meditation. Yet there's so much more to understand and practice. The eight factors, or the eightfold path, allow for a complete and fully integrated program, leading toward liberation.”
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2019-10-03
Holding Grief Through Connection
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James Baraz
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Whether the climate crisis, some other social issue or personal loss, sharing our pain by connecting with another helps us hold and process our grief. By opening the heart we can transform our feeling of isolation into one of shared humanity. This talk ends with a guided experiential dyad exercise adapting Joanna Macy’s "Learning to See Each Other" meditation from Coming Back to Life.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-09-25
The True Promise of Mindfulness
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Mark Coleman
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In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world.
In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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NYI Regular Talks
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2019-09-25
The True Promise of Mindfulness-guided meditation
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Mark Coleman
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In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world.
In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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NYI Regular Talks
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2019-09-15
Metta
41:38
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Renate Seifarth
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Die Entwicklung eines grundlegenden Wohlwollens und Mitgefühls gilt als zweiter Flügel in der Praxis. Die Metta-Meditation ist ein Weg diese Haltung zu entwickeln. Es wird auf die Bedeutung hingewiesen und warum die Praxis eine innere Haltung in uns verankern kann
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Buddha-Haus
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Sieben Tage Vipassana und Metta
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2019-09-11
Practicing with Conflict 3
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Donald Rothberg
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We review what we’ve explored so far about practicing with conflict, including our conditioning and stereotypes about conflict (typically with views of conflict as negative), ways to bring our meditation practice into working with the “inner” states (emotions, thoughts, bodily states) that arise with conflict, and the “both-and” or “win-win” perspective on approaching conflict. We then bring in a further important resource—empathic understanding of another—outlining a simple way to “practice” empathy. We then work with an exercise bringing empathy to someone with whom one is in conflict. Then we discuss all of this.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2019-09-04
Befriending Irene
58:29
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Tara Brach
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While Tara is away, this talk is from 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit us with fury. Dorian is now leaving its destruction behind, just as we work with our stormy weather within.
Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom–the mindfulness and compassion–that free you. This talk explores how the habit of being reactive causes us suffering and the ways these tools of meditation can be applied to the inner weather systems that most challenge us.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-09-04
Meditation: The Blessings of Love
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Tara Brach
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A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable tender place within us that longs to feel loved, and call on loving presence to bless us. By imagining and allowing ourselves to receive love, our hearts become open and filled with light. We then bring that inner loving presence fully alive as we offer blessings to other beings. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken our heart.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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