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Dharma Talks
2024-10-06 Quatre qualités du coeur 33:15
Pascal Auclair
Quelques mots sur la joie, la compassion, l’équanimité et la bienveillance et une pratique guidée sur quelques unes d’entre elles.
True North Insight Présence et silence au cœur de la nature

2024-09-28 Balancing Equanimity and Compassion 33:57
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2024-09-27 Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature 43:53
Mark Coleman
The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-18 Waking up from Bias: A Conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta 55:15
Tara Brach
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-09-11 What is Love Asking from Us? A Conversation between Tara Brach & Gabor Maté 61:04
Tara Brach
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-09-06 Lovingkindness and Compassion Practice - Meditation 42:55
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2024-09-06 Lovingkindness and Compassion Practice - Talk 47:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2024-08-23 The Intersection of Compassion and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:31
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2024-08-19 Compassion with Land as Dharma Teacher 38:52
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-14 The Shared Heart of Spiritual Teachings and Practices 60:03
Donald Rothberg
The Dalai Lama has said, “My religion is kindness," suggesting that the core of spirituality is both beyond any particular religion and does not require religion. We explore, in a similar way, how the basics of Buddhist teachings and practices-- related to ethics, kindness and compassion, wisdom, and touching nibbana--can be understood and expressed in ordinary, everyday language and at its heart is both shared by other spiritual traditions and potentially beyond any particular tradition. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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