Mary Grace Orr's Dharma Talks
Mary Grace Orr
Lately, my own practice is moving more and more into the monastic world. As I teach out of that nourishment, I find people hungry for the traditional, solid forms of the Dharma. I see people's lives changing when they engage in these forms. Certainly, as I deepen my own Sutta study, I find the traditional ideas so helpful it encourages me to delve further.
In this, I am learning how to ride the edge of a question, instead of reaching for answers. When I let the question hang there, as a living presence, its very aliveness stimulates movement toward an answer, an opening.
Some key factors imprint my teaching. The fact that I'm a purely Western-produced Dharma teacher, without the influence of Eastern traveling, and that I'm a middle-aged Western woman with a psychological background. Also, my years in a Christian practice now translate into my engagement with such ideas as embodiment: how do we take the practice and live it? What is practical in the Dharma, a sort of Buddhist Householder Hints.
From my perspective, the world is in serious trouble. We have separated ourselves from all other beings, and in the process do a lot that keeps us from being present. It is so urgent that we learn to be present and see what is true about our being here, that we live with kindness and compassion for all beings. Vipassana supports these intentions and helps us all heal, no matter what the eventual outcome may be.
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2011-09-26
32 Body Parts Meditation Group 4
2011-09-25
32 Parts of the Body Meditation, Group 2
2011-10-25
Acceptance Is Freedom
2007-10-01
Actualities
2009-05-22
Afraid So
2016-09-23
Afternoon Instructional Sit: Tears, Grease, Saliva, Mucous, Oil of Joints, Urine
2008-07-24
Aggregates
2007-11-08
Anger
2018-04-28
Animal Stories (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-11-12
Anniversary
2014-05-21
Annual Retreat
2014-05-21
Annual Retreat - The Importance of Suffering and Difficulty
2008-12-04
Befriending Oneself
2016-09-20
Beginning Mindfulness Instructions
2009-05-25
Bell
2008-05-15
Big Picture
2015-03-12
Brahma Vihara Day 12
2015-03-04
Brahma Vihara Day 4
2015-03-08
Brahma Vihara Day 8 Metta
2014-03-17
Brahma Vihara Practice
2014-03-14
Brahma Viharas
2014-03-22
Brahma Viharas
2010-01-14
Brahma Viharas
2009-03-05
Buddhism West
2009-05-24
Bugs Bowl
2013-05-05
Building The Foundation
2007-09-20
Busy
2013-05-25
Change Your Mind Retreat
2010-06-24
Concentration
2009-11-17
Curiosity, Confidence and Contentment
2018-04-29
Day 2: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-09-26
Day 3 Morning Instructions
2008-09-11
Diversity
2007-12-15
Don't Get Caught!
2011-10-04
Dukkha
2008-05-01
Eight Dharmas
2008-04-17
Eightfold Path
2011-09-26
Equanimity Practice
2015-05-11
Equipment for the Journey: The 5 Faculties
2011-11-08
Everyday Buddhism
2008-03-06
Faculties
2008-03-13
Faith
2010-08-26
Fear and Anxiety
2008-10-23
Fear Not
2008-10-01
Finding Refuge
2011-09-24
First Day Morning Instructions
2010-05-27
First Noble Truth
2020-04-12
Five Faculties (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-10-29
Five Subjects
2010-03-09
Following Faith to Liberation
2017-05-17
Following the Thread of the Heart
2009-12-10
Forgiveness
2010-01-21
Four Foundations
2013-05-22
Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2009-10-01
Four Noble Truths
2015-09-16
From Grumpiness to Gratitude
2011-06-02
Gratitude
2013-09-20
Guided "Big Sky" Meditation
2013-09-19
Guided Meditation - Part 5: Bile, Phelgm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, Fat
2019-09-19
Guided Meditation on Heart, Liver, Diaphragm, Spleen, Lungs (Retreat at Spirit …
2013-09-18
Guided Meditation on the 32 BodyParts: Part 4
2018-09-20
Guided Meditation, AM Day 3 - Heart, Liver , Diaphragm, Spleen, Lungs (Retreat…
2011-12-11
Guiding Teacher Transition
2000-02-28
Gumptional Grit
2010-07-26
Happiness
2009-01-08
Happiness
2016-05-06
Heart Surgery
2012-05-15
How Does the Heart Let Go?
2013-09-19
How To Have An Enlarged Heart
2008-09-04
Human
2009-03-12
Impermanence
2011-03-17
ImpermanenceTsunami
2010-10-07
Importance of Practice
2019-09-22
Insight Santa Cruz's 30th Anniversary Commemoration
2016-09-22
Instructional Practice: Heart, Liver, Diaphragm, Spleen, Lung
2016-09-24
Instructional Practice: Mindfulness
2008-11-06
Instructions
2010-05-28
Instructions
2010-05-30
Instructions
2010-05-31
Instructions
2009-01-22
Intention
2011-03-22
Karma
2014-03-20
Knowing Freedom
2010-03-16
Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are
2011-02-17
Letting Go
2009-06-25
Letting Go
2010-06-03
Liberative Dependent Origination
2010-06-10
Liberative Dependent Origination
2011-11-10
Life Dharma 1
2011-11-15
Life Dharma 1 Short
2011-11-17
Life Dharma 2
2011-11-17
Life Dharma 2 Short
2011-12-01
Life Dharma 3
2011-11-29
Life Dharma 3 Short
2011-12-08
Life Dharma 4
2011-12-10
Life Dharma Daylong 1
2011-12-10
Life Dharma Daylong 2
2011-12-10
Life Dharma Daylong 3
2008-03-20
Lists
2015-01-29
Living Your Practice
2011-03-03
Lovingkindness
2010-04-22
Lovingkindness
2018-09-22
Luminous Web (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-03
Maintaining Our Direction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-03-19
Many Ways
2008-02-14
Meaning
2010-05-28
Meditation Instructions
2010-05-31
Meditation Instructions
2019-09-20
Meditation on Tears, Grease, Saliva, Mucus, Oil of the Joints, Urine (Retreat a…
2011-09-27
Meditation on the last group (6th) of the 32 Parts of the Body
2015-01-27
Meeting Our Suffering
2010-12-10
Melting the Judgmental Heart
2009-02-05
Merit
2010-02-25
Metta
2015-03-07
Metta Revisted
2007-12-06
Mindfulness
2009-09-27
Mindfulness Body
2009-05-28
Missing
2011-09-27
Morning Instructions
2011-09-29
Morning Instructions
2015-03-02
Morning Instructions Day 2
2015-03-08
Morning Instructions Day 8 Back to Basics Foundations 103
2011-04-05
Nature of Self
2011-05-19
No Self: the Heart's Joy
2000-10-19
Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go, No One to Be
2016-05-26
Nowhere to Go
2009-05-07
Ocean
1999-01-16
On Being Nobody
2009-11-19
Opening the Doors of the Heart
2012-05-19
Opening The Heart To Mystery
2015-05-16
Opening to Life
2015-09-19
Opening to Life
2016-09-24
Path of Gratitude
2010-05-20
Path to Joy
2012-03-22
Please Don't Know
2008-02-28
Power
2013-09-15
Practice As Though Your Hair Was on Fire
2011-05-24
Questions
2008-11-06
Questions
2018-09-21
Questions & Answers, 2nd part / AM Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-09-24
Refuge from the Fires
2009-08-15
Refuge: The Three Cs
2011-09-08
Refuges Precepts
2007-11-01
Relationship
2008-05-08
Renunciation
2008-08-07
Rest the Mind
2007-05-25
Retreat
2007-05-28
Retreat
2008-05-26
Retreat
2011-05-28
Retreat Day 3
2012-03-15
Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart
2008-01-10
Sea Turtle
2000-02-21
Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2008-11-13
Seven Treasures
2008-12-13
Six Places To Rest The Mind
2013-09-17
Stepping Out of Our Stories
2011-09-29
Still Seeking Refuge: 6 Places to Rest the Mind and Heart
2007-10-02
Suffering
2010-07-22
Tastes of Liberation
2009-09-20
Tearing Down House
2009-08-19
Tearing Down the House
2009-09-26
Tearing Down the House
2018-09-21
Tears, Grease, Saliva, Mucus, Oil of the Joints, Urine (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-11-03
Tending the garden of the heart and mind
2011-09-25
Tending the Garden of the Heart and Mind
2008-10-03
The Burdensome Practice Of Judging
2015-03-01
The Four Noble Truths: Food for the journey
2016-05-03
The Four Thoughts That Change the Mind
2010-03-23
The Freedom of Truth
2000-02-15
The Origin of Suffering
2010-12-08
The Surprise of Unfolding
2020-04-17
The Wholeness of Being (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-12-16
The Wise & Fearless Heart
2012-03-08
The Wise and Fearless Heart
2010-07-01
Things As They Are
2007-04-20
Training The Heart
2010-04-29
Transcendent
2009-07-16
Travel
2011-05-05
Treasures
2019-09-18
Trust in Our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-05-14
Truths
2019-09-21
Unbearable Wholeness of Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-12-14
Unburdening Ourselves for the Journey
2014-03-27
Waking Up is a Full Time Job
2008-09-25
Watch Your Mind
2012-03-02
What has become clear to you since last we met?
2015-03-11
What is Going On?
2016-09-21
What's Your Itinerary? Where are You Going?
2014-03-13
When the Mind is Still
2017-05-20
When the Sun Rises; Waking Up
2011-06-28
Wings 4 Foundations
2011-06-30
Wings 4 Foundations
2011-08-18
Wings Conclusion
2011-08-11
Wings Five Strengths
2011-08-16
Wings Five Strengths
2011-07-05
Wings Four Wise Efforts
2011-06-21
Wings Intro
2011-06-23
Wings Intro
2007-11-29
Wings of Awakening
2011-07-26
Wings Seven Factors Enlightenment
2011-07-28
Wings Seven Factors Enlightenment
2008-02-21
Wise Effort
2008-04-24
Wise Speech
2011-10-11
Wise Speech
2014-03-06
You Are Not Alone
