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Dharma Talks
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2019-08-15
The Truth of Suffering
56:32
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Kate Munding
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This week will conclude my series on the Three Truths of Existence, aka The Three Characteristics. So far we've explored the truth of impermanence and what it would be like to fully live from the understanding that all of nature, including us, is in constant flux. The last time I was there, we explored the second truth, not-self. We unpacked it's meaning and talked about how it fits with this spiritual path, as well as how it can inspire us in our day-to-day.
This week we'll continue the conversation by including the third truth, the truth of suffering. This will be a pointing out teaching to better understand how we feed our cycles of stress, unsatisfactoriness, and unhappiness. We'll also look at how we can untangle and even uproot the habits and patterns in our mind that support such unhappy living and nurture a more wise and peaceful way of being.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-08-15
A Gift from the Sea – Unbroken Paua Shell and Consummate Trust
42:15
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Ayya Medhanandi
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There are many skills and restorative qualities needed for us to grow in our spiritual work. Let us not underestimate the essential ingredient of mettā. This universal quality of love will unfailingly nurture the unfolding of the Noble Eightfold Path. It enhances our energy to persevere with courage, agility and joy so that the journey is sustainable and our trust becomes unwavering. We reach out more to others and support them in the good, while rejoicing that as we accomplish the Way, we draw close to the Buddha.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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2019-08-15
Dwell in Intrinsic Emptiness – The Liberating Quality of Loving-kindness
37:52
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Ayya Medhanandi
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What are the prerequisites and supports for walking such a path of awakening? Kindness and a loving forgiveness rank with those qualities that are foremost. They allow us to repair the seemingly unforgivable, to heal what we could not see or wish to see, to dwell in the real not in our concepts, and so to ascend with the strength gained from that groundwork. Try forgiveness first. Recovery opens the way home to healing, to Truth.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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2019-08-15
Don't Be Afraid, Mahanama – Lean Towards Nibbana
32:54
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The Buddha told Mahanama not to be afraid of the muddled mind, just to keep developing the qualities which incline the mind to Nibbana. This Dhamma is for one who is content. A mind unburdened can pacify itself and be calmed. A mind fortified by faith, virtue – in particular, the virtues dear to the noble ones – learning, generosity and wisdom, will go to distinction. But for mental peace we have to consider how to seclude the mind and what we are giving our consent to in daily life.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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2019-08-14
Part 2 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other”
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Tara Brach
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These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our world? The first talk looks at how we can use the practices of mindfulness and compassion to decondition our habits of self-blame and self-hatred, as well as the importance of helping each other defuse the trance of unworthiness. The second talk extends the use of these practices to situations where we’ve locked into external “bad othering.” These times need our deepened dedication to love: By intentionally arousing compassion for ourselves and others, we directly contribute to the evolution of consciousness in our world.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-08-14
Repair What Feels Broken – The Hardest Walk of All
37:45
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The path is a gradual one. Don’t go to the depths immediately. First develop the strength. Going slowly but deeply. Forgiveness, supported by patience endurance, acknowledging and seeing the breakage and repairing it regularly, repairing what has been broken or harmed, and freeing ourselves from the prison of our anger. How can we creatively counter the current of our addictions instead of gratifying it. If we do, we tap into the joy of the heart.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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2019-08-14
Right Intention
59:36
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Yuka Nakamura
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The Buddha emphasized intention as the key to happiness and peace. However, often we are not aware of the intentions behind our choices and actions. Based on the Dvedhāvitakka Sutta the talks discusses the unwholesome intentions of sensual desire, ill will and cruelty and the wholesome intentions of renunciation, lovingkindness and compassion. It also discusses central aspects of mental cultivation.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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14 day Karuna and Vipassana Meditation Retreat
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2019-08-14
Practicing with Conflict 1
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Donald Rothberg
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The world deeply needs a culture of skillful conflict transformation, informed by dharma practice. In such a culture, we would have individuals who combine inner capacities such as mindfulness, skill with difficult emotions, empathy and compassion, and equanimity, with perspectives on how to work with conflicts, whether inner, interpersonal, or social. In this talk, we look at some of the prevalent social conditioning around being with conflict, including tendencies to avoid conflict or act out when there are conflicts, and widespread tendencies to see conflicts dualistically and to project negative aspects onto “opponents.” In this context, Donald presents some images and reflections from his just-completed time of teaching and traveling for 3 1/2 weeks in Israel and the West Bank. He then focuses on some of the inner capacities important for being skillful with conflict, next time examining some of the perspectives on conflict that have come out of the fields of mediation, negotiation, and conflict transformation. There is also a time of discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Attached Files:
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Photos (from a PowerPoint presentation) connected with the talk, Practicing with Conflict 1
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2019-08-13
A Mystical Ladder - Patience, the Incinerator of Defilements
39:26
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We are ascending a mystical ladder which must be done so carefully and gradually. For a spiritual warrior, the path of practice is a gradual one. We are in a cloud of unknowing but patiently the cloud is emptied and we begin to see everything as impermanent. We know what is the path and what is not. This clarity will be for us a refuge. It is a natural unfolding through purification.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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2019-08-13
Breaking the Cycle of Harm – Patience and Friendship With the Lovely
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The insight into not-self requires a deeper seeing and understanding of reality. Virtue is our saving grace. It gives us the energy for enlightenment which we transform into right effort. Thus we are guided through the wilderness of the world to develop and sustain the heart like an ocean of peace. Patience works with Restraint, Renunciation and Resolve, and with a host of other wholesome qualities to take us beyond the cycle of harm; but we must also keep practising kindness and forgiveness.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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For Our Long Lasting Benefit
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