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2026-09-23
Exploring Anatta: Non-Self
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Tim Geil
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Anatta, or non-self, is a core teaching of the Buddha, and yet can be confusing and bewildering. Sometimes the sense of self loves trying to get rid of itself, all the while maintaining itself on subtle levels. Yet, anatta is our true nature, and we release and relax into non-separation and unity. Qualities of compassion and the heart often support this understanding more than our intellect. This talk will explore anatta from a practical and experiential perspective.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2026-09-23
Dankbarkeit als Resultat und Praxis
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Renate Seifarth
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Einsicht führt uns zu einer inneren Freiheit. Sobald wir sie erleben, entsteht ein tiefes Gefühl der Dankbarkeit für den Weg. Andererseits ist Dankbarkeit eine herzöffnende Qualität, die viele Tugenden nach sich zieht. Sie können wir kultivieren.
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Buddha-Haus
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Vipassana und Metta
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2026-09-22
Ursachen von dukkha
45:29
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Renate Seifarth
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Die Ursachen von Leiden, dukkha, sind manigfach. Zum einen werden Formen des Verlangens und des Ablehnens, die Triebe, die Ausflüsse - asavas - genannt. Zum anderen die Unwissenheit, die Täuschung über das Wesen aller Personen und Erscheinungen. Unsere falschen Annahmen und unser greifendes Verhalten führt zu Verstrickung und Leid. Unsere Aufgabe besteht darin, die Täuschung zu durchschauen und unsere Triebe lenken zu können oder loslassen zu können.
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Buddha-Haus
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Vipassana und Metta
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2026-09-21
Liebe als Antwort auf Leiden
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Renate Seifarth
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Dukkha ist Teil der Welt. Es braucht eine Antwort darauf. Weisheit bringt uns Gelassenheit, Liebe - metta - und Mitgefühl - karuna - spenden Trost. Weisheit und Metta gehören wie zwei Seiten einer Münzen untrennbar zu unserer Praxis der inneren Befreiung. Lieben wird gehindert durch Erwartungen. Weisheit befreit uns von solchen.
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Buddha-Haus
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Vipassana und Metta
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2026-09-20
Warum wir meditieren und was uns daran hindert
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Renate Seifarth
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Meditation, Retreat kann weit von unserem Leben entfernt erscheinen. Doch hier können wir wichtige Fragen klären wie, was will ich, wie will ich leben. Achtsamkeit enthüllt wo wir stehen, die Lehre des Buddha verspricht eine Freiheit und Herzensöffenheit, in die wir uns hinein entwickeln können. Trotz aller guten Absichten sind wir dennoch immer wieder konfrontiert mit Hindernissen. Sie zu erkennen, ist notwendig, um mit ihnen umgehen zu lernen.
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Buddha-Haus
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Vipassana und Metta
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2026-09-19
Was praktizieren bedeutet
45:40
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Renate Seifarth
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Praktizieren bedeutet die erste Wahrheit des Buddhas, die Gegebenheit von dukkha, zu verstehen. Dukkha zieht Reaktivitäten nach sich, die weiteres Leid verursachen. Wir kreisen so endlos in dukkha, angeheizt durch die Reaktionen von Verlangen oder Abwehr, je nachdem ob das, was ist, angenehm oder unangenehm ist. Getrieben ist die Reaktivität von Täuschung, einer tief integrierten Verzerrung des Wahrgenommenen. Diese wollen erkennen, denn dann erkennen wir eine Möglichkeit, wie wir dem, was geschieht, in einer Weise begegnen können, die nicht zu weiterem Leiden, sondern zu Frieden führt.
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Buddha-Haus
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Vipassana und Metta
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2026-09-16
Practicing the Wise Speech Guideline of Truthfulness: Four Dimensions of Practice 2
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Donald Rothberg
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We review the importance of giving attention to ethical practice, and how it has often been marginalized in Western Buddhism, with meditation typically being at the center (as is evident in speaking of “meditation centers” and “meditation groups”). Wise Speech, as one of the three aspects of ethical practice named in the Noble Eightfold Path, is particularly important in contemporary Western practice; we can have an opportunity for many hours a day of spiritual practice if we bring Wise Speech practice into our lives!
The Buddha’s four guidelines for Wise Speech were truthfulness, helpfulness, care and kindness, and appropriateness (especially good timing). We focus, in this second talk on the first guideline of truthfulness, on how we understand and practice being truthful in our relational and social lives, with reference also to how truthfulness is understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. We see how truthfulness is crucial in communities and societies, what the consequences are of a lack of truthfulness, and how one dimension of our Wise Speech practice is helping to develop more truthfulness in our communities and societies. The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-09-11
Right effort: Cultivating the skillful abandoning the unskillful
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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The theme of this Sunday talk: Right effort, cultivating the skillful, and abandoning the unskillful.
Luang Por reflects on right effort, and effort as a skill, rather than wholesome and un-wholesome, as it is sometimes referred to.
Everything that arises, is natural, even a "murderous impulse". But whether we follow and cultivate it, is what is important. When the skillful is cultivated, we experience benefit for ourselves, and others, when the unskillful is followed and cultivated, it leads to harm, for ourselves and others. The practice of right effort then, lies, in first recognising fully, and discerning what is arising, and secondly, knowing how to follow the skillful, and abandon the unskillful.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-09-09
Practicing the Wise Speech Guideline of Truthfulness: Four Dimensions of Practice 1
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Donald Rothberg
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The Buddha taught four guidelines for Wise Speech (as a core aspect of ethical practice): truthfulness, helpfulness, care and kindness, and appropriateness (especially good timing). We explore the first guideline, partly in connection with the other three guidelines, in four dimensions of practice. First and most basically, we explore how we practice with truthfulness in our individual practice with others. Secondly, we look at how truthfulness is also a central ethical guideline in our communities, organizations, and societies, making possible trust and safety; yet often this guideline is not followed. Thirdly, we look at our contemporary society in terms of truthfulness and the lack of truthfulness. Fourthly, we ask how we might respond, as part of our ethical practice, to develop more truthfulness in the society: What can help? The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-09-06
The Four Noble Truths
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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The theme of this Sunday talk, the Four Noble truths. Buddhist traditions may vary in many ways, but the one common teaching in each one is this one.
Is there a wellbeing that is not relative to situations? That remains unchanged. This was the Buddha's realisation. And the core of the teaching above.
It allows one to take responsibility for ones discontent.To really understand how things work.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-09-03
Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: The Core Teaching of the Buddha
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Donald Rothberg
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The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the cessation of dukkha.” We explore this core teaching as it is expressed in the Four Noble Truths and the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, including ways that it can be confusing. We suggest ways to understand and implement this teaching both in formal meditation and in everyday life. (See document 328 below, on "Four Meanings of Dukkha, and Contact to Grasping in the Dependent Origination Model.")
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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Attached Files:
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Four Meanings of Dukkha, Contact to Grasping in the Dependent Origination Model
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2026-09-01
Befriending the Thinking Mind
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Marjolein Janssen
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We often have the idea that thoughts are our enemy during meditation. If only we could get rid of all those thoughts, then we would be good meditators. But actually, this is a misconception, since thinking is part of being a human being. In this talk we learn how to befriend the thinking mind, so it can be a companion, instead of an enemy.
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Insight Meditation Community of Richmond
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2026-08-23
Witnessing experience
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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The theme of this Sunday talk, is witnessing experience as it is. The awakened mind, does not demand anything be different to what it is, in the moment free of judgement. The theme that this builds upon, is "Santitikko"- Something that can be verified for oneself. If we can see suffering for what it is, as its is now, in the moment, we get out of it a little easier. So the practice becomes one of Witnessing the way it is now, first. Action can follow later if necessary.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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