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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2008-03-07
Death
63:39
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Rob Burbea
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A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
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Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
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2008-02-19
Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death
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Shaila Catherine
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We are all vulnerable to aging, illness, and death. Everything born will eventually die. How can we contemplate death in a way that brings us to realize the deathless liberation of mind? How can we go beyond birth and death by facing the reality of our existence? Reflecting on death is one traditional way to contemplate the nature of the body. These meditations include contemplating the decaying corpse, body contemplations, noticing that our friends and loved ones perish. We are all friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks
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2007-06-01
Interpersonal desires and fears - the roles of tanha
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Gregory Kramer
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What activates the desires and fears we have when we come into contact with another? Meditation is about seeing things as they actually are, the operation of the heartmind intra and interpersonally. The mind will then incline towards what is wise. The heart is moved by contact with another. However there is pressure/tendencies of the mind to move into agitation and confusion on contact with others. What activates the fears and desires of interpersonal interaction?
Hunger (tanha) pressurises thoughts and feelings so that the mind doesn't settle. It is like fuel or an electric current for the system (personality) that is in place. All thoughts/actions/speech are conditioned by past habits and occurrences (sankhara conditions namarupa). Hunger/craving fuels/energises the system to generate more constructs along the same lines as previous ones. (These can be wise or unwise habits) There are three hungers: 1) Hunger for sense desires which includes social desires as well e.g. avoidance of loneliness which is like a death of the self. it might be seeking pleasure from others, seeking approval from parents, or in a Buddhist rebirth sense of driving from life to life. 2) Hunger to be seen, to become. 3) Hunger not to be seen e.g. interacting whilst performing a role, wearing a mask so the 'real you' is hidden, limiting contact with people, or having contact defined procedurally so it is blinkered - again a form of 'hiding'.
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Insight Dialogue Community (Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
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2007-03-11
The Threads of Your Life: Guided Death Meditation
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Ayya Medhanandi
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When you move towards what is fearful step by step with courage, it is possible to overcome the darkest moments breath by breath. Draw together all the threads of your life, and let each one go strand by strand. A guided meditation on death at a 10 day retreat, Galilee Centre, Arnprior, Ontario Canada.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2006-12-05
Compassion
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Jack Kornfield
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This talk was given on the theme of compassion in honor of Veterans' Day.
Compassion is the natural relationship of the heart to sorrow -- the
movement of the heart in sympathy with other beings and with one's self.
Relating to life with compassion allows us to move through this world of
birth and death, of joy and sorrow with wisdom and grace.
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2005-09-09
Death
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Coming to terms with the inevitability of your own death and the death of those you love. If you wait until the time of death in order to think about these things, it's a huge shock. This is one of the reasons the Buddha has you contemplate if before death.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-08-12
The Body
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Awareness filling the body is the foundation of your meditation. It provides a sense of solidity throughout the interactions of life, and ultimately is the means for encountering the Deathless.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-05-10
On the Street Where You Live
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Ayya Medhanandi
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When a river flows into the sea it acquires one taste, the taste of salt. As our meditation deepens, regardless of age, health, race, gender, culture or social status, delving into the mind, we discover one taste, that is the taste of truth. The world is full of suffering, not what we want it to be. And on the street where you live is your monastery, your garden, the thorns and the flowers, the compost and the field of cultivation – from feeling hopeless despair to the dawning moment when you understand the origin of suffering and the way to the Deathless. Letting go in the very marrow of the moment, spread peace and compassion in all directions – on the street where you live.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-02-03
Impermanence
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Guy Armstrong
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It's very helpful to reflect on the way we experience change in the course of our human life, including our own aging and death. But even more freeing is discovering the direct insight into the momentary arising and passing of all phenomena through our practice of mindful observation.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2003-12-10
Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom
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Ayya Medhanandi
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In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberated. Likewise, those who rightly love wisdom and contemplate death without fear see the emptiness and impermanence of all conditioned things. Realizing the futility of all clinging and the inevitability of death, our wisdom and faith in the Dhamma ripen and reveal the doors to the Deathless. This is the path of awakening.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2002-12-22
Desire for Enlightenment
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Shaila Catherine
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Desire is usually described as a hindrance to meditation, but to realize deathless liberation we must want to be free. A burning desire to awaken opens the heart and mind to a possibility of freedom otherwise not known. This talk examines the force of desire as both a form of craving that perpetuates suffering, and as a necessary and wholesome factor that supports the realization of nibbana (nirvana) and the end of suffering. We examine hindrances, pain, and obstacles from which we want to be free in order to realize unconditioned awakening. Working with desire has some risks, but it is a powerful force that encourages curiosity, investigation, and openness to possibility—the possibility of discovering a profound fearlessness, and enduring happiness, the possibility of enlightenment.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks
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2001-04-13
Living With The Reality Of Aging, Sickness And Death
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Ajahn Candasiri
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Our society emphasizes fitness, strength, youth, and vitality, and yet
the body runs its own course. We can do things to keep it strong and
healthy, but these types of measures are limited. We are blessed to
have the Buddhist teachings because they encourage us to come to terms
with aging, sickness and death -- fundamental truths of our existence.
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1998-11-15
The Way of the Mystic
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Ayya Medhanandi
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A reflection on the tale of Patacara’s meeting with the Buddha after the deaths of her sons, husband, and parents and how she attains equanimity in the face of great suffering. A talk given at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK, Death & Dying Retreat.
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Amaravati Monastery
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1998-07-04
Samvega
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Larry Rosenberg
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Reflection on aging, sickness and death can arouse more zeal to practice. (Four tapes - not available separately.)
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