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2020-04-11
What is Metta?
46:40
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Zohar Lavie
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| Talk in Hebrew, about how experience is fabricated. Particularly by the way of relating of 'firing the second arrow' of 'dukkha' towards what is difficult, and how we can find a more appropriate and liberating response via a 'metta' way of relating. |
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Sangha Seva
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Metta and Emptiness - Online
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2020-04-10
Opening Talk - Metta and Emptiness
39:19
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Nathan Glyde
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| Introducing the main concept of this retreat: sankhara-fabrication. In particular the insight that experience is 'made up' from an object in attention and an atmosphere of attention. The latter we could call the way of relating, or way of looking (as Rob Burbea teaches it). We can pay attention to different objects, and that affects expereince. We can also develop ('bhavana' = cultivate) other atmospheres or modes of attending. |
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Sangha Seva
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Metta and Emptiness - Online
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2020-04-08
Sheltering in Love - Part 3
45:48
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Tara Brach
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| During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life.
These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world. |
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-04-01
Sheltering In Love (Part 2)
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Tara Brach
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| During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life.
These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world. |
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-25
Meditation: Touching Peace
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Tara Brach
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| This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go. The meditation ends with a beautiful verse from poet Philip Booth. |
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-25
Sheltering In Love (Part 1)
45:58
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Tara Brach
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| During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world. |
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2020-03-19
A Powerful Lens to Meet a Pandemic
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Nathan Glyde
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| There is always a way of looking or way of relating to life operating when we are perceiving. When we understand that we can adjust this, we find a profound level of freedom. What is the most freeing lens to bring to how we look at this pandemic? And what does that mean (as a transferable skill) when we bring freeing ways of looking to the totality of our experience? |
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Sangha Seva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-16
Well-being in the time of Coronavirus - COVID-19
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Nathan Glyde
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| A guided meditation offering mettā (well-wishing) towards those working the frontlines of health care and social care, those whose bodies are affected by the virus or disease themselves, and those taking precautions (like being in isolation). Opening our hearts and minds to all those affected, and beyond to all beings everywhere, can help reduce our stress and allow us to be more available to support.
Includes a brief introduction: skip first 3 mins to get to the beginning of guided meditation. May all beings be cared for and well in heart-mind and body. |
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Sangha Seva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-14
Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 1
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Zohar Lavie
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| We are living through an unusual period. As coronavirus spreads, much of what we take for granted is being shaken.
There is uncertainty and fear around us, and also within us.
How can Dharma teachings and practices support us?
How can we deepen understanding and compassion in the midst of it all?
This talk offers reflections on possibilities that are available to us, including practices that we can engage with, lean into, and cultivate. |
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Sangha Seva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-11
Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Eugene Cash
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| Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.' |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Monthlong
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2020-03-11
Desire and Addiction (Part 2 of 3): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
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Tara Brach
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| As part of the collective response to the Coronavirus—taking care of each other—Tara has cancelled her live class and recorded this from her home.
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. |
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