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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2008-03-08
Awakening
1:11:34
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Rob Burbea
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The Realization of Awakening is absolutely central to the Buddha's Teaching, and yet it has come to have so many different meanings, or none at all. What is our relationship to the idea of Enlightenment or Awakening? How does that affect our life and practice? Can we explore the views, assumptions and emotions surrounding it? And is a radical Awakening possible for us?
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Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
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2008-03-07
Death
63:39
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Rob Burbea
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A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
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Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
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2008-03-06
I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out!
56:08
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James Baraz
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Mindfulness practice helps us see clearly how we’re creating suffering for ourselves with our insecurities, self-judgments, judgments of others or other conditioned reactions. But often seeing these isn’t enough to release their hold on us. In fact, sometimes it’s more frustrating to see them but still feel as stuck as ever. We’ll explore how to work with this predicament wisely so we 1) don’t have to be at the mercy of our lofty ideals of good practice can use some simple but effective methods for moving to a greater place of well-being.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2008-03-01
On Happiness
45:15
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Martin Aylward
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We all seek happiness, but what are we actually seeking? This talk explores a deepening understanding of the conditions for happiness, and the struggle inherent in our searching for it. Martin points to our deepenng capacity for recognizing and resting with what the Buddha referred to as 'a path of happiness, leading to the highest happiness, which is peace'.
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Gaia House
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Tranquility Insight and Awakening
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2008-02-27
Growing Goodness
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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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