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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
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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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2026-10-18
Come and See: The Beauty of the Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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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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2026-10-15
Whatever Arises, Ceases: Impermanence from Stardust to This Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Devon Hase
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At the moment of his awakening, Kondañña saw that whatever arises also passes away. This talk explores impermanence at three scales: the vast span of geologic and cosmic time, the arc of our own aging and mortality, and the moment-to-moment flicker of experience. Drawing on the suttas, poetry, and stories from practice, we look at how assuming permanence shapes our lives, and how seeing through it can open into awe, gratitude, and the freedom of letting go.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
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2026-10-15
The Hidden Intelligence of Anger
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Amma Thanasanti
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A talk on The Hidden Intelligence of Anger - What is your anger trying to tell you? Anger may look like one thing, but it can arise from very different conditions. Anger rooted in violated boundaries is communicating something different from anger arising from grief, fear, shame, attachment wounds, injustice, or the frustration of not getting what we want. Because the conditions are different, each calls for a different response—and each can open into a different possibility for freedom. Rather than simply managing anger, expressing it, or trying to let it go, this talk explores what becomes possible when we learn to listen more precisely. What is this anger responding to? What is it protecting? What is it asking us to understand? Through meditation, teaching, and inquiry, we’ll explore anger as a doorway into greater discernment, choice, and freedom.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2026-10-13
Guided Meditation - Devanussati, Recollecting Heavenly Beings
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Ajahn Achalo
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Devanussati is one of the reflective meditations taught and encouraged by The Buddha. As it can give a foundation of brightness and stability suitable for the further developing of insight. The practice is suitable for those who have faith in, or who are open to the traditional Buddhist world-view/cosmology. This guided meditation is an introduction to the practice.
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Anandagiri Forest Monastery
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2026-10-10
Equanimity: The Ground of Wise Action
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Devon Hase
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In this Dharma talk, devon hase explores equanimity not as indifference or withdrawal, but as a source of clarity, compassion, and courageous engagement with the world. Drawing on stories from Joseph Goldstein, Mingyur Rinpoche, and other beloved teachers, she invites us to discover the unshakable center from which wise action becomes possible.
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Refuge of Belonging
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2026-10-09
Vertrauen, eine der spirituellen Kräfte auf unserem Weg
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Renate Seifarth
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Buddha nennt fünf Kräfte, die uns auf dem Weg unterstützen. Eine davon ist Vertrauen. Doch nicht jedes Vertrauen, jeder Glaube ist hilfreich. Wir alle glauben an etwas, aber ist das, worauf wir bisher setzen, hilfreich. Wir überprüfen, worin wir unser Vertrauen bisher legen und setzen es neu in die Kräfte, die zu Erwachen führen, vor allem in unsere eigene Möglichkeit des Erwachens, in Dhamma als der Weg und direkte Erkenntnis und in Sangha, wo wir Unterstützung finden.
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Waldhaus am Laacher See
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Vipassana und Karuna
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