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2005-08-02 The Four Mind Changes 62:28
Joseph Goldstein
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-07-24 The Moral Equivalent of War 34:15
Ayya Medhanandi
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Though we feel powerless to effect change globally, we can purify the mind and restore trust, peace, and harmony in our own lives. Six special qualities of reconciliation help us nurture the balm of forgiveness. We learn to see how our suffering begins and how to stop the bombs in our own minds. Practising kindness and compassion, we let go hostility. We put down our weapons and enter the temple of the heart.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Buddhist Society of Victoria)

2005-03-31 Self and the Plane of Becoming 59:11
Ajahn Sucitto
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The larger plane of becoming is potent with tendencies that give rise to the person. This person becomes formed from our worries, fears, compulsions – it’s a restricted self. We practice widening into that larger citta realm and cultivating enlightenment factors to form around instead. This is how we take responsibility for what we put out into the world, and to change our kamma.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2005-03-14 Patience 47:39
Christina Feldman
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Patience enables us to remain steadfast in the face of adversity and change. One of the noble qualities of mind, patience is the forerunner of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-03-12 Ceasing of Self 47:22
Ajahn Sucitto
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The world is on fire with becoming. It’s not so deliberate or conscious, but an involuntary reflex. Hold the spacious openness rather than the objects, notice how things shift, change and pass through. It’s not actually oneself, it’s patterning. In Dhamma practice these patterns have to be exposed so they can be seen compassionately, spaciously, calmly and allowed to unfold and give their energy back into awareness.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2005-02-03 Impermanence 58:55
Guy Armstrong
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It's very helpful to reflect on the way we experience change in the course of our human life, including our own aging and death. But even more freeing is discovering the direct insight into the momentary arising and passing of all phenomena through our practice of mindful observation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-11 Transforming The World Through Metta 60:20
Sylvia Boorstein
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How keeping a resolutely loving heart is the ultimate self protection and has the potential for changing the world. Stories of people who coupled the practice of good will with working for social change -- Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Maha Ghosananda.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-04-08 The Rhythm Of Change 31:18
Narayan Helen Liebenson
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Life teaches us the lessons of impermanence in each moment. Understanding the lessons liberates our minds from clinging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-09-23 Finding Balance By Being Comfortable With Losing Balance 53:39
Michele McDonald
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Maintaining continuity of mindfulness in our moment-to-moment experience is a tightrope of continual re-balancing as life changes. Surrendering to this process strengthens wisdom and love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-08-15 Don't Take It Personally 52:25
Sharda Rogell
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Desire supported by ignorance leads to narrow self-interest. Desire nourished by wisdom has the potential to change the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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