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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2015-03-25
Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 - Forgiveness
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Tara Brach
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This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2015-03-24
Contentment
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Jason Murphy
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This talk was given as part of the series "Eight Great Thoughts" (Anguttara Nikaya 8:30). Can we be at ease with whatever the situation is, whether it is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral? In this day and age of discontentment, effort put into this practice gives us hope of realizing contentment. We can realize contentment one breath at a time. We have the power to shape our minds. We have the ability to feel and know suffering and be liberated from it. And it is up to us to do the practice, for one who is content is free from greed, anger and delusion.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Eight Great Thoughts
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2015-03-24
Thinning the Self - Practicing with Anatta (Not-Self)
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Donald Rothberg
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After some reflections on some of the reasons why anatta (not-self) can be confusing, we explore especially how to practice with anatta: (1) opening to a sense of flow increasingly without a sense of self; (2) exploring the many ways in which there is a "thick" sense of self, both appearing in experience and sometimes hidden to immediate experience; (3) further meditative ways to "thin" the self; and (4) ways of thinning, especially as our practice deepens, the "meditative self."
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight 1 Month Retreat
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2015-03-22
Abiding in Emptiness
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Jose Reissig
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Dropping our self-centeredness is a requirement for becoming partners with the world. And true partnership requires also that we, eventually, dismantle our sense of inhabiting a separate life.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat
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