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2020-06-18 Racism and White Privilege - Part 3: Working with Guilt and Shame 52:18
James Baraz
The Buddha spoke of hiri and ottappa (Shame and Dread) as "The Guardians of the World." These are considered two wholesome states as they can prevent us from engaging in unskillful actions. But guilt and shame associated with internalized racism can paralyze us or put up walls of resistance. This is especially true if we take those feelings personally and blame ourselves for the cultural conditioning we're shaped by. How can we work skillfully with those natural and understandable reactions?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-06-18 Opening Session 46:37
Anushka Fernandopulle
This recording also includes Bonnie Duran
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness

2020-06-18 74 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44 19:54
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Dhammadina was a nun ans and arahat. Her former husband, Visakha, comes to ask her question on personhood/self, Noble Eightfold Path, concentration and habits/volitional formations
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-17 Meditation: Embodied Metta 19:35
Tara Brach
Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and openness of metta through our body, and then invites us to rest in the space of loving presence, as we open to whatever arises.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-17 Sustaining Our Caring 39:45
Tara Brach
All transformation arises out of love; it is the energy of caring about life that moves us toward inner, relational and societal healing. With a primary focus on our radically re-enlivened movement for racial justice and equity, this talk looks at ways of remembering what matters and consciously nourishing our care.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-17 Knowing the Dharma in the Body 45:26
Walt Opie
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-06-17 Inanna and The Fierce Feminine 62:51
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-17 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Public Talk: Guide to Unrestricted Awareness 1:15:59
Ajahn Sucitto
A good teacher (Acariya) encourages and pushes the mind of the disciple away from the changeable world presented by sense-consciousness, to the more fruitful reality that’s centred on Dhamma. In this talk, the principles of this are pointed out, and as exemplified by Ajahn Chah. This talk was offered on Ajahn
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-17 73 Bhumija Discourse 16:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-17 Guided Meditation -- Attitude of Metta 16:44
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

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