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Dharma Talks
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2024-11-27
Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness
24:12
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Tara Brach
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Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others.
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. - Thomas Merton
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-11-24
Inner Disarmament
20:40
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Harmlessness is the benevolent sister of compassion, a way of caring for ourselves by caring for each other – just as we care for each other by caring for ourselves. But how shall we secure this harmlessness within? Isn’t anger contagious? Virtue will reteach us how to stop the chaotic world from infecting us with toxic greed, anger and ignorance. Wisely reflecting, we heal the space of the mind with the powers of compassion, loving-kindness and peace. This, our inner disarmament, is the Buddha’s recipe for awakening.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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