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The greatest gift is the gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
2008-02-27
Growing Goodness
60:16
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Sally Armstrong
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Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat
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2008-02-19
Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death
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Shaila Catherine
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We are all vulnerable to aging, illness, and death. Everything born will eventually die. How can we contemplate death in a way that brings us to realize the deathless liberation of mind? How can we go beyond birth and death by facing the reality of our existence? Reflecting on death is one traditional way to contemplate the nature of the body. These meditations include contemplating the decaying corpse, body contemplations, noticing that our friends and loved ones perish. We are all friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks
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2008-02-13
The Ethics of Sunyata
1:31:39
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John Peacock
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This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
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Gaia House
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Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)
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2008-02-12
Seclusion
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Carol Wilson
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Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat
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2008-02-12
The Birth of a Bodhisattva
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Rob Burbea
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This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
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Gaia House
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Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)
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2008-02-10
Love and the Emptiness of Things
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Rob Burbea
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This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
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Gaia House
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Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)
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