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Dharma Talks
2021-10-06 Realizing Your Deepest Desires 51:26
Tara Brach
This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake awareness and love. We explore ways to realize and open to our deepest desires when we are stuck in self-promotion, grasping and conflict, so that our aspiration becomes a compass of the heart that can guide us in living with wisdom and compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-10-06 Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go 22:00
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the present moment. We are training to become increasingly aware of the gap between thoughts, the space where the light of awareness shines through.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-10-06 Gathering allies for liberation 52:03
Ajahn Sucitto
As we practice, there can be an urge to get out of this world. Rather than follow that instinct, find a way to move through the world in a way that’s harmonious. By being heedful, lifting attention, disengaging and seeing the world clearly, there is the possibility to act rather than get swept up. The 5 indriya are our allies, protecting the heart as we put the teachings into practice in our lives.
Cittaviveka

2021-10-06 Dankbarkeit 45:28
Renate Seifarth
Wenn wir Metta für unsere Wohltäter üben, spüren wir eine große Dankbarkeit aufsteigen, die uns füllt und nährt. Eine kurze Reflexion während des Tages, was wir alles Schönes erfahren haben, führt uns den täglichen Reichtum vor Augen. Das braucht ein innehalten und Vieles nicht für selbstverständlich nehmen.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta Retreat

2021-10-06 The Seven Factors of Awakening 68:45
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the last two sessions that Donald has offered on traditional teachings about awakening and contemporary maps of the path of awakening, we explore the core teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening: mindfulness, investigation, resolve or energy, joy or rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. We look both individually at each of the seven, and also suggest a number of ways of practicing with this teaching, whether in a particular meditation session, in daily life, or over a sustained period of time. At the end, there is some discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-10-06 Guided Meditation: The Factors of Awakening 36:31
Donald Rothberg
A lightly guided meditation, linked with today's talk, inviting one or more of the Seven Factors of Awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-10-06 Karuna ~ Mitgefühl untergräbt unheilvolle Geisteszustände 56:33
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Klimakrise & Sinnstiftung 3/5
ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien

2021-10-05 Beyond the Story of Self 1:29:54
Howard Cohn
Recorded Zoom Session
Mission Dharma

2021-10-05 Dedicated Practitioners -- Disenchantment and Dispassion 47:33
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-10-04 The Nature of Awakening: Traditional and Contemporary Maps 1:11:48
Donald Rothberg
While much of our interest in practice may be focused on finding some degree of peace and understanding, or on making workable challenging states of body, mind, and heart, it's helpful to keep the vision of how practice aims at awakening (bodhi). In this talk, we explore how the Buddha understood awakening and the path to awakening, as well as perspectives on the lived experience of awakening from later Buddhist traditions. We then ask the question about whether a contemporary path of awakening simply follows the traditional path of awakening. We explore how it's important also to include as parts of the path of awakening teachings and practices that help us work with both more psychological material (such as connected with difficult early experiences, trauma, limiting beliefs, etc.) and with our social conditioning (such as around race, gender, sexuality, class, age, etc.), areas that may not be adequately transformed only with the resources of traditional paths of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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