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2001-08-12 The Invitation 50:13
Sharda Rogell
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
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
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
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
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monastic Retreat

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

2000-07-19 Healing Our Hearts With Compassion 60:19
Kamala Masters
Developing the healing force of compassion helps us to open to the pain of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2000-04-29 The Blessing Of Awareness 58:49
Tara Brach
Relating to pain and pleasure with a wise and healing attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-11-10 Compassion - The Heartbeat Of The Buddha's Teaching 51:29
Marcia Rose
"May I, may you, may all beings be free from suffering." The Buddha's teachings and practices of cultivating a deep, expansive tenderness of heart, grounded in immeasurable impartiality--the heart of compassion--which transforms the way we relate to ourselves and to others. With the great strength and trust in our ability to bear witness to and face suffering, we are able to offer appropriate help in relationship to the pain, the anguish and the confusion of all beings, ourselves included.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 1999 Three Month Retreat

1999-09-13 Essential Dhamma #4: Four Noble Truths 60:44
Steve Armstrong
Dukkha: pain unsatisfactoriness, vulnerability; craving: the cause; nibbana: the cessation; morality, concentration and wisdom: the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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