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2026-11-08
Equanimity: Its Nature as Both an Insight Practice and a Heart Practice, How to Develop It, and Its Relationship to Compassion
58:49
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Donald Rothberg
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The talk is framed in terms of compassion and equanimity being crucial qualities for our practice at the time of the polycrisis. After remembering some of the foundations of traditional practice, we review the nature of compassion, and how it develops in insight practice, and as a “heart practice” (one of the brahmavihara), both in more “inner” and more “outer” forms of practice. We then look at the main qualities of mature equanimity, including balance, evenness with what arises, unshakability, understanding, faith, responsiveness, and grounding in our deep nature. We also see how equanimity as a heart practice is deeply integrated with lovingkindness, compassion, and joy. The talk is followed by discussion, and then by the inviting of metta (lovingkindness) for others, closing intentions, and the dedication of merit.
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Marin Sangha
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2026-11-07
Family Harmony
35:46
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Ayya Santussika
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This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on November 7th , 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - Requesting a Discourse
01:24 - DHAMMA TALK
24:25 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
34:12 - Appreciation after the Discourse
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2026-11-04
Cultivating Unshakeable Peace
47:50
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Tuere Sala
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Unshakeable peace is not found in agreeable external conditions. It is cultivated as an internal ground. It is the resilience needed to fully show up in the world in the midst of agreeable and disagreeable external conditions. This talk will be an exploration into learning how to find and trust our internal peace.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2026-10-30
The Path Slopes Gently: Anupubbasikkhā and the Gradual Training
49:28
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Devon Hase
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The Buddha described awakening not as a leap to the summit but as a gradual training, one step laid down after another. Drawing on the image of walking (forest monks on tudong, pilgrims, and the cleared trails of these woods), this talk explores the anupubbasikkhā through generosity, ethics, meditation, and wisdom. With the Buddha’s teaching to Gaṇaka Moggallāna, the bird that carries only its wings, and poetry inspired by freedom, we reflect on how one thing lawfully leads to the next. We set up the conditions, and the dhamma does the rest. The arc of the path is long, but it bends toward freedom.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Two-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 26PT2
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2026-10-29
Intensive Silent Retreat Practice
46:03
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James Baraz
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It's always inspiring to support people through an intensive period of silent retreat. James knows many of you have already had that experience so you know how impactful it can be. He shares from his own experience guiding students for many years, how he sees the process of transformation and his understanding of how it works. The talk is followed by a discussion.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2026-10-28
Compassion, Equanimity, and a Contemporary Vision of Our Practice
52:40
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Donald Rothberg
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We begin with a general sense of how our practice is both grounded in tradition and responsive to the needs of our times, with reference to Thomas Merton’s similar perspective. Sharing images from his recent teaching and travels throughout the talk, Donald focuses initially on the traditional sense of three forms of training—in wisdom and discernment, meditation (especially concentration, insight, and heart practices), and ethical practice. We review the most central teaching of the Buddha, about dukkha (understood in its most important meaning as reactivity) and the end of dukkha, and point to practice as involving both deep inner work and skillful outward action, with the key in both contexts being “appropriate response.” We then examine the nature of compassion and how to be skillful in our response to the “pain of the world,” connecting compassion and the figure of the bodhisattva with equanimity.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-10-25
Finding Our Inner Refuge
44:10
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Ayya Anandabodhi
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Ayya Anandabodhi explains how taking refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha can be seen in light of taking refuge in the mind’s natural capacity for awareness, the teachings on impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self evident in our current bodies and minds, and the wisdom that motivates us to keep practicing in the face of hardship.
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Finding Refuge
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2026-10-20
Trust
61:02
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James Baraz
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With so many strategies and messages about how to practice, how do we know the "right" way to practice? The Buddha said ultimately you should "be a lamp onto yourself." This means to trusting the wisdom inside. How can we discern the wisdom voice from the voices rooted in fear and confusion? This talk includes the 5 strategies offered by the Buddha to work skillfully with distracting thoughts.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Two-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 26PT1
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2026-10-18
Come and See: The Beauty of the Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
50:10
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Devon Hase
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The second refuge invites us into intimacy with truth: something alive, immediate, and here for us whenever we remember to look. Using the ancient chant of the Dhamma’s qualities (here and now, timeless, inviting us to come and see, leading inward), this talk explores awareness as a refuge that can hold even chronic pain and old grief with both equanimity and compassion. Drawing on the suttas, Thai Forest masters, and poets like John O’Donohue and Ada Limón, we turn to kalyāṇa, the Pali word for the Dhamma as beautiful in the beginning, middle, and end. Beauty shows up in our practice, our actions, and our spiritual friendships, and it can become a companion and guide on the path home.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
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