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2021-07-16
Fabricated for Freedom
61:11
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Nathan Glyde
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| Concerning ways to deepen, widen, and extend our practice, retreat, and awakening. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence. |
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SanghaSeva
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Bright Mind, Open Heart
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2021-07-16
Day 6 Instructions: Not Self
1:12:27
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Nathan Glyde
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| Bringing a way of looking that sees all that we can know as not belonging to the self, or being who we are. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence. |
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SanghaSeva
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Bright Mind, Open Heart
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2021-07-15
Accessing Your Triggers for Insight
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James Baraz
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| Have you ever had a profound meditation experience and tried with frustration to recreate it?This is a common experience for many practitioners. Just as trauma can be triggered in our body and mind, the same is possible with positive experiences that we've gone through. This talk explores how this works and how we can access those profound moments and the wisdom that they've awakened in us. |
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2021-07-15
Day 5 Instructions: Unsatisfactory
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Nathan Glyde
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| Bringing a way of looking that sees all phenomena as not peaceful, all modes that hold them in attention as not freeing, to engender a deeper letting in, be, go. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence. |
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SanghaSeva
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Bright Mind, Open Heart
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2021-07-14
Reliably Unreliable
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Nathan Glyde
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| Bringing dukkha (unreliable/unsatisfactory) as a way of looking brings freedom from dukkha. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence. |
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SanghaSeva
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Bright Mind, Open Heart
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2021-07-11
Sensitivity to Energy Over Time
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Nathan Glyde
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| An exploration of energy, effort, and sustaining our intentions through the hindrances and obstacles on the path. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence. |
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SanghaSeva
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Bright Mind, Open Heart
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2021-07-07
Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: Practicing with Reactivity
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Donald Rothberg
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| We begin with a review of last week's opening exploration of deepening daily life practice, naming some of the challenges of daily life practice, some initial ways of deepening such practice, and the centrality for such practice of mindfulness of the body. We then, for the rest of the session, explore how we can practice with reactivity when it arises, in its two forms--grasping after the pleasant and pushing away what is taken as unpleasant. We ground such practice in the Buddha's teaching in the model of Dependent Origination of the sequence from contact to feeling-tone to wanting (or not wanting) to grasping (or pushing away). We then point to a number of ways of practicing with reactivity and some of the complexities of such practice, particularly the ways in which reactivity can be enmeshed with discernment. A discussion follows! |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2021-07-03
Empowerment of Investigating
1:19:56
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Nathan Glyde
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| 4th exploration of the bases of success: prior ones are in the: Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021 'retreat album'. This final one explores vīmaṁsa the skilful analysis of experience to develop deeper well-being and freedom on the path of practice. Each exploration stands alone, as well as being part of a series. |
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - Jul 2021
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2021-06-30
Deepening Daily Life Practice 1
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Donald Rothberg
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| In an important sense, daily life practice is central and vital; it is where we live! Yet at times in the non-monastic Insight Meditation approach as it's developed in the West, such practice has been somewhat marginalized, with retreat practice and formal meditation practice at the center. We explore first the challenging context of daily life practice for many Western practitioners, including not just such a lack of sustained emphasis on daily life practice, but also the challenges of living in what is often a very busy, "mental" culture and society. We then look at a number of ways to bring more awareness into daily life, inviting the listener to see what one or two ways of practicing might be emphasized in the next period of time. We give a more in-depth focus on one very central way of bringing more awareness into daily life--developing mindfulness of the body. We offer a number of different practices that support such mindfulness of the body. |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2021-06-24
Innate Nobility
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The world that consciousness presents us as existing within is divided into self and other; this is a source of suffering. Authentic relatedness is needed to realize that there is no fundamental self or other. So we need to establish a relationship with the uncertainty of this that’s harmonious. Stop the topic, experience the energy. If we meet suffering not in terms of me and you, but with awareness of agitated energies, then lovingkindness, compassion and patience naturally arise. The tangle of fear and insecurity that imprisons us dissolves. The citta returns to its innate nobility. |
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Cittaviveka
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2021-06-23
Guided Meditation – Staying Present with Experience
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| There are 2 qualities of citta: it is affected and it is knowing, aware. With cultivation, awareness can become much more apparent and encompassing while the affective sense can steady, calm and subside into something still. The process is to go through the body. As the body eases, citta settles and collects into itself – samādhi. Happy, easeful, refreshed. |
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Cittaviveka
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2021-06-19
Where the Flame of Truth Burns Bright
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Ayya Medhanandi
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| Dhamma is like mother, father, guardian, the Truth that we can rest in. So rest in the purity of one moment. Offering to listen, what is the message we receive? In the silence of the mind, what do we hear? If there is no silence we listen more intently and dive more deeply. Where there is no past, no future, nothing to run away from, nothing to run towards, we stop to truly listen. And we see. This is pure presence - the gift of our attention. With the compass of the mind, open to the Dhamma. No where do we find any solid essence to call a self, a me, a mine. This is the most sacred knowing. |
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2021-06-17
Restraining the Outflows
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| All the world rests on very simple human emotions – fear, anxiety, loneliness, gratification. We run out because of them, or build walls to protect ourselves from them. Practice with restraint, keep coming back to here, now, knowing, it’s like this. Don’t run out, just return, and the outflows fade on their own. |
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Cittaviveka
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2021-06-14
Summer Solstice | Monday Night Talk
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Jack Kornfield
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| Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning. The sun is something for us to pay attention to, something we often take for granted. Notice the way the gift of sunlight streams behind everything—it feeds the plants we eat. We can be grateful for sunlight and trees, for people we love, for moments of goodness, and for the breath within our breast. And as our gratitude grows, we may discover a happiness without cause. |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2021-06-13
Stop Running and Your Real Home Appears
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The tendency to keep running out into concepts eventually results in overload, insecurity, anxiety, collapse. We’re desperately looking for sanity. The steadiness and fulfillment we seek is already here, in the non-conceptual intelligence of body and heart. Rather than going out, return to where body, mind and heart energy come together. In this presence our real home appears. |
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Cittaviveka
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2021-06-12
Showing Up (Vīrya)
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Nathan Glyde
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| Vīrya appears second in the list known as the Four Bases of Success. Some translate it as perseverance: the willingness to keep showing up. So essential in our practice, in our lives, and in our times. A practice and dharma talk on this theme, offered in Gaia Houses Online Dharma Hall. |
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021
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