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Dharma Talks
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2002-04-08 Following The Pain Line 42:09
Rodney Smith
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The first step of spiritual maturity is to move into pain. Holding the pain without explanation or justification allows it to open into emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-02-27 Relationships As A Path Of Spiritual Awakening 42:36
Tara Brach
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Our human relationships give rise to pain and pleasure, fear, suffering and love. As we bring our experience into the light of mindful awareness, we awaken compassion and discover the truth of our connectedness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2002-01-23 Befriending Difficult Emotions 58:30
Tara Brach
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Often without realizing it, painful emotions, like fear or anger give rise to the conviction that "something is wrong". When instead we receive our inner weather with an acceptance and wise attention, we reconnect with our national compassion and wholeness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2001-08-12 The Invitation 48:53
Sharda Rogell
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This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and strength, and a deeper sense of connection

2001-08-12 The Invitation 50:13
Sharda Rogell
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An invitation to use adversaries to enhance our practice. This is the path to compassion. This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and strength, and a deeper sense of connection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-07-31 No Second Arrow 25:59
Jose Reissig
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Pain and loss are inevitable occurrences in our lives, but the self-torture that often follows--the "second arrow" we habitually shoot at ourselves--is entirely avoidable.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-27 The Eight Worldly Conditions 57:41
Guy Armstrong
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Our lives are always touched by the changing conditions of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, success and failure. How the meditator finds refuge in not clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - I 1:21:28
Tara Brach
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Week I - General Introduction Mindfulness of the body and concentration on the breath adding mindfulness of sensation while encouraging opening to pleasure and pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2000-11-01 Working with Pain 69:39
Ajahn Amaro
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2000-07-27 Dignity And Compassion 54:39
Michele McDonald
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Experiencing the dignity of relating to the pain of our world with compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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