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2024-09-19
Love Serve Remember
49:23
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James Baraz
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The title of the evening is "Love, Serve, Remember". On October 13th, Spirit Rock hosts a special event Celebrating Ram Dass: Love Serve, Remember with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das and others. Those three words were the instructions Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass' guru gave to him: "Love Everyone, Serve Everyone, and Remember God."
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-09-18
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind
25:05
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Tara Brach
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Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention – and including the background sounds. Not pushing away anything – a very open and relaxed, receptive attention.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-09-18
Waking up from Bias: A Conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta
55:15
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Tara Brach
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Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, author and teacher Anurag Gupta offers his wise perspectives and invites Tara to share some of what she has learned in navigating this terrain. We explore how to come into a healing relationship with unhealthy thoughts; forgiving ourselves for bias (it’s impersonal); the inner freedom that arises from releasing bias; and how to awaken compassion and deep respect for those we have habitually dehumanized. The interview closes with Tara leading a brief reflection on undoing bias.
Anu’s recent book is: Breaking Bias – Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From – and the Science-backed Method to Unravel Them – 2024. Also available on Anu’s website at: https://www.bemorewithanu.com.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-09-18
Cittānupassanā - Die Kontemplation des Herzgeistes
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Yuka Nakamura
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Cittānupassanā, die Kontemplation des Herzgeistes, ist ein wichtiger Teil der Vipassanā-Praxis und das dritte der vier Satipatthanas. Es geht um die Achtsamkeit auf den Zustand des Cittas, die uns erkennen lässt, welche Emotionen, Stimmungen und Kräfte jeweils präsent sind, und wie gefangen oder rein und gesammelt der Geist ist. Der Vortrag geht auf die Schwierigkeiten ein, die das Wahrnehmen von Emotionen erschweren können und zeigt praktische Wege auf, um mit diesen umzugehen.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2024-09-14
Toward a Refuge of Belonging
33:25
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Devon Hase
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In this talk, devon offers reflections on the importance of refuge in the Buddhist tradition and how deepening into refuge opens us to a stable sense of belonging, as well as building metta parami, the cultivation of love on the path.
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Refuge of Belonging
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2024-09-14
Don't Let the Mind Be Gloomy
60:23
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Ayya Santussika
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This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on September 14, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION
19:00 - DHAMMA TALK
38:49 - Q&A
At 49:22 a participant discusses not wanting to encounter certain people in their future lives and how they can put in the causes and conditions for this. Their audio was removed at their request, but Ayya's answer remains.
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2024-09-11
What is Love Asking from Us? A Conversation between Tara Brach & Gabor Maté
61:04
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Tara Brach
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In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path – the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings – they explore the importance of compassion and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and trauma experienced by the Palestinian and Israeli people.
This conversation is an invitation to examine our own spiritual practices and to consider how we can embody the Bodhisattva spirit in today’s world, breaking the silence and standing in solidarity with all who are suffering. It was offered as part of a series of conversations that accompany a poignant and heartbreaking film – “Where Olive Trees Weep” – about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. Access to the full program and the film is by donation – link here.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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