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Dharma Talks
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2026-08-12
Guided Meditation: Reviewing Our Foundational Meditative Practices
35:43
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Donald Rothberg
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Connected with the talk giving a contemporary map of our practices, we review four foundational practices: (1) developing concentration (samadhi); (2) cultivating general mindfulness, (3) cultivating mindfulness of pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, and being mindful of any ensuing reactivity (grasping after the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant in relatively unconscious, automatic, and habitual ways); and (4) a heart practice developing kindness, compassion, or other heart qualities. The guided meditation is followed by a brief period of discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-08-09
Intellect to Essence
39:16
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Amita Schmidt
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This talk looks at how to shift from our addiction to the ego/intellect channel, to true nature/essence. The talk includes reflections and practices for creating more aware presence, calm, and connection in your life. Essence is who we truly are, so let's live it together.
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Clintonville Sangha Ohio
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2026-08-09
Knowing the mood of the mind
30:40
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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Staying with the theme of "Humility", and I making/My making, "Ahankara/Mimankara", Ajahn Viradhammo urges us to train to notice when this I making and my making is occurring, and to use the "mood of the mind", as a guide to knowing this.
When we notice that the mood of the mind, is an object, not the subject, the foreground, not the background awareness, we can then rest in the background, and see things "as they are". Resting in awareness, letting the moods pass, and not making a self of the mood.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-08-08
I Will Not Abandon Myself
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Devon Hase
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What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores adhiṭṭhāna—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2026-08-08
I Will Not Abandon Myself
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Devon Hase
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What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores *adhiṭṭhāna*—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
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Refuge of Belonging
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