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Dharma Talks
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2023-04-08
Right View on Meditation
27:03
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When virtue is straight one’s view is straight, you establish mindfulness, realizing that what you do, think and say has significance. Exercising attention, awareness and intention, we develop a sense of embodiment, stabilizing attention on it.
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Vimutti Buddhist Monestary
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Vimutti Retreat
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2023-04-07
Ursache von dukkha
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Renate Seifarth
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Über die Kräfte von Verlangen, Ablehnung und Unwissenheit. Ihr Auftreten ist natürlich und in gewisser Weise wichtig für unser ÜBerleben. Ohne ein tieferes Verstehen sind sie aber Ursache von Verstrickung und tiefem Leid. Sehen wir die Merkmale aller Dinge mit Einsicht, befreien wir uns von ihrer leidbringenden Kraft.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Waldhaus Osterkurs
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2023-04-06
Worum es sich in der Lehre des Buddha dreht
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Renate Seifarth
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Der Buddha spricht vier große Themen an, auch die vier Wahrheiten genannt. Im ersten Thema geht es darum, dukkha zu erkennen und zu verstehen. Dazu gehört auch zu verstehen, was unter dukkha verstanden wird. Weiter spricht er von einer Ursache des dukkha, die wir überwinden können. Gleichzeitig liegt hier die Ursache für weiteres dukkha. Diesen Kreislauf kann durchbrochen werden. Der Schwerpunkt im Vortrag liegt auf dukkha.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Waldhaus Osterkurs
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2023-04-05
Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World – Part 1
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Tara Brach
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This week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron’s newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It’s a powerful book that I highly recommend!
One of our deepest inquiries is how to find happiness and peace in an inherently insecure world. In these talks, we’ll explore the ways we habitually try to control our lives, and the practices of presence that allow us to cherish this living world and find freedom in the midst of change and loss.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-04-05
Entwicklung eines offenen Herzens
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Renate Seifarth
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Der Gegenpol zur Entwicklung von Weisheit liegt in der Entwicklung eines offenen Herzens. Dieses drückt sich aus in einer inneren Haltung liebender Güte, des Mitgefühls und der Mitfreude. Eine solche innere Haltung bzw. innere Absicht kann durch die Mettapraxis kultiviert werden. Die Betonung im Vortrag liegt auf Metta.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Waldhaus Osterkurs
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2023-04-05
Awakening and Habitual Tendencies 2
60:59
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to explore a theme coming out of Donald's recent month-long retreat, of how we can hold and work with the understanding that there is both a process of awakening, often seen as mostly gradual, and a typically everyday experience of our habitual tendencies, including our difficulties and challenges. We review and expand some of what we examined in the previous session, including looking more at how the Buddha understood the nature of samsara and nirvana, and at the seven practices suggested last week for navigating this area (available to be downloaded--see the previous week's talk). We then go somewhat further and deeper, pointing to further ways of practicing, such as inquiring into the sense of self found in different habitual tendencies, and developing a devotional attitude toward both our ordinary lives and our habitual tendencies, as making possible the awakening process. We also touch on Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives--that samsara and nirvana are not different (articulated by Nagarjuna), and that awakened awareness and habitual tendencies are not different (from Tibetan Dzogchen). These practices and perspectives help us to maintain confidence and faith in awakening in the midst of things!
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2023-04-04
Weisheit durch Achtsamkeit
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Renate Seifarth
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Weisheit ist große Klugheit, die auf Lebenserfahrung und Einsicht in die Zusammenhänge ruht. Der bewusste Zugang zu unserer Erfahrung auf allen Ebenen des Körpers und Geistes mittels Achtsamkeit und Sammlung führt zu einer solchen Weisheit. Dies ist das Ziel der Vipassana-Praxis.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Waldhaus Osterkurs
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2023-03-30
Reflective Meditations - Utilizing the Thinking Mind
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Ajahn Achalo
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A talk and Q&A at Wat Marp Jan on the occasion of Ajahn Anan's birthday. Q&A starts: 35:18 Q1 May I know how can one start to train patient endurance? If one does not have any virtue, [does it mean] one cannot practice patient endurance? 39:48 Q2 Virtues mean high moral standards. How can one develop virtues? 43:33 Q3 How can I start to integrate meditation practice in my daily life when I feel I am still a slave to my cravings and often fall into their control and indulge in them? 46:50 Q4 How can I apply metta to myself and others and really mean it, when it comes to practicing in the sangha community. There is a difficult member in the sangha and saying may he or she be well is not working at least in my case it seems. Any advice please? 55:12 Q5 How do we train to rejoice in others' good fortune when we are having a bad time in our life? 57:52 Q6 What is your advice on doubt regarding which tradition to follow? 1:01:39 Q7 You spoke about developing equanimity [towards dukkha]. How can we practice this if the dukkha is overwhelming and we just want to escape the pain? 1:04:36 Q8 If I am unable to control my craving for food, does it mean I do not have virtue? I find myself gobbling down food and then it is never enough. I always tell myself it will be the last time but the cycle repeats tomorrow. 1:07:12 Q9 Could you give more detail about how to make an aspiration for one's next life? [example given]
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Wat Marp Jan
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2023-03-29
The Importance of Cultivating Right Intention
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Tuere Sala
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Intention is present in every experience, response or action. Cultivating Right Intention in the context of contemporary society can often seem self-indulgent. The constant demands of being a householder can also over shadow intention and make it harder to recognize the expectations, assumptions, desires, beliefs, and/or energy (in other words- the intentions) behind our actions. Intention is part of the unconditional and thus, a necessary aspect of awakening.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2023-03-29
Awakening and Habitual Tendencies 1
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Donald Rothberg
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Donald shares some of the main themes of his experiences from a four-week retreat that finished four days before the talk. The talk focuses on one of the themes from the retreat--how there is an awakening process and yet how there remain habitual tendencies and times of greed, hatred, and delusion. How do we understand the relationship between seeing our "true nature" to be love and wisdom, and the fact that habitual tendencies appear frequently?
We explore this theme in a few ways. We look at some of the understandings and stories in different religious traditions of something like this dynamic: How can there be "evil" when there is an all-powerful and all-good God? What accounts for this dichotomy? How are nirvana and samsara related? What guidelines and suggestions help us to practice so as to hold the aspiration to awaken and keep practicing with the acknowledgement of our habitual tendencies? Seven practice suggestions are given (see the attached file).
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Attached Files:
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Seven Suggestions for Practice: Awakening Amidst Habitual Tendencies
by Donald Rothberg
(Word File)
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2023-03-27
The Three Refuges - Understanding Dhamma - Week 3 - Talk
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Mark Nunberg
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Please join in for this four week course examining the traditional three refuges as the central practice of clarifying and strengthening one’s spiritual aspiration and intuition about the path. Without this ongoing deepening of understanding regarding the means and ends of our spiritual practice we tend to pick and choose what we like from the many choices that exist today. The Buddhist practice of taking refuge as a conscious intentional act goes against the stream of our habit energies. Taking refuge as an ongoing practice is how we keep what is most important in mind as we practice meditation and navigate our busy days. The Three Refuges exist to strengthen our allegiance with intimacy and clear comprehension of the way things are, allowing for a wiser, more compassionate and creative engagement with our lives.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Buddhist Studies - The Three Refuges
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2023-03-27
The Three Refuges - Understanding Dhamma - Week 3 - Meditation
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Mark Nunberg
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Please join in for this four week course examining the traditional three refuges as the central practice of clarifying and strengthening one’s spiritual aspiration and intuition about the path. Without this ongoing deepening of understanding regarding the means and ends of our spiritual practice we tend to pick and choose what we like from the many choices that exist today. The Buddhist practice of taking refuge as a conscious intentional act goes against the stream of our habit energies. Taking refuge as an ongoing practice is how we keep what is most important in mind as we practice meditation and navigate our busy days. The Three Refuges exist to strengthen our allegiance with intimacy and clear comprehension of the way things are, allowing for a wiser, more compassionate and creative engagement with our lives.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Buddhist Studies - The Three Refuges
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2023-03-27
My Religion is Kindness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Joy comes softly. First, we plow through the labyrinth of our emotional compost. We know anguish, selfishness, and all their truant cousins. Then we learn skillful ways to let go. Dying to the ‘self’, the heart is purified. Even despair and the darkest energies vanish in the presence of a happiness that is beyond ownership. There is no ‘one’ to hold on, die, or awaken, but the heart is compassionate, free, and at peace with all things.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2023-03-23
Awareness and inquiry
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Using a retreat for internal strengthening / cleaning, starts with an inventory of where we are and what's happening. It's a deep caring for oneself and one's experience. (Offered at ATBA.)
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Vimutti Buddhist Monestary
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2023-03-23
The Shift of Practice from “Doing” to “Being”
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James Baraz
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While it’s true that it takes effort to come back to the present moment each time the mind wanders, the most profound practice is when we let go of all effort and simply rest in the awareness that’s always here. This shift from “doing” to the complete relaxation of “non-doing” or simply “Being” is what the Tibetans call the deep and subtle practice of “Non-Meditation”.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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