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Dharma Talks
2024-11-27 Gratitude: reflection, sharing, and practice discussion 52:08
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-11-27 Giving Thanks to Our Elder the Earth 54:44
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2024-11-27 Attention, pensées! 67:38
Pascal Auclair
Instructions, méditation guidée et Q&R
True North Insight Coeur vaste, esprit libre

2024-11-27 Two Ways That Our Practice Can Help with Understanding, and Developing Empathy with, Those with Different Views, after the US Election 63:28
Donald Rothberg
It's important for our teachings and practices to help orient us in relationship to all parts of our lives, including the larger social and political dimensions of our lives. In this session, we explore one core teaching and one central practice that together help us to respond skillfully to differences in political views. The teaching is that of dependent origination, particularly the sequence from contact to grasping. We see how the two forms of reactivity, grasping and pushing away (each potentially manifesting in many ways) result from pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tones, when there is a lack of mindfulness and background habitual tendencies. We can see how the underlying pain, for example, of many working-class people (economic pain; and the pain of feeling disregarded, left behind, and/or not respected), or the pain related to anxiety about changing gender roles, can, especially when manipulated by those in power who provide scapegoats, lead to reactivity. After presenting a model of empathy practice as crucial for bringing our practice to interacting with those with different views, we can also, through such practice, tune in with compassion to the underlying pain, and have a sense of the deep genuine needs, in our examples, for economic well-being, respect, and clarity around gender. We explore all of this in an exercise with the "empathy map," which is followed by discussion. (There were several files shared via screen sharing during the talk. These files can be accessed below and potentially downloaded, by clicking on the "Q" under "Documents," and looking for documents 229, 273, 274, and 275.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-11-27 Guided Meditation on Feeling-Tone, the Second Foundation of Mindfulness 40:14
Donald Rothberg
After setting the posture and tuning into intentions, we have a short period of settling, typically through the breath or some other anchor. Then there is guidance to tune into the feeling-tone, especially when there is a "moderate" level pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, noticing tendencies to move to wanting/not-wanting or grasping/pushing away--the two forms of reactivity. We can also, when there is reactivity, tune into the pleasant or unpleasant "beneath" the reactivity, finding, for example, some compassion when there is underlying pain. Near the end, we also explore being with all feeling-tones for a very short period of a few minutes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-11-26 Vipassana, ça secoue! 48:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coeur vaste, esprit libre

2024-11-26 La pleine conscience appliquée 1:11:02
Pascal Auclair
Instructions, méditation guidée et Q&R
True North Insight Coeur vaste, esprit libre

2024-11-25 Pourquoi la pleine conscience? 1:11:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coeur vaste, esprit libre

2024-11-25 Earthworm Practice in the Middle of It All 1:41:22
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-11-24 The Unfolding of Nibbana 60:07
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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