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Kirsten Kratz's Dharma Talks
Kirsten Kratz
Kirsten Kratz has practiced Buddhist meditation in Asia and the West since 1993. She started teaching in 2006 and since 2015 she has been ‘teacher in residence’ supporting those on personal retreat at Gaia House. Her love and understanding of Dharma has been strongly influenced by, among others, the teachings of her friend and teacher colleague, Rob Burbea. One of her particular passions is exploring how wisdom teachings can foster appropriate responses to the challenges of our time, and Kirsten sees her involvement in activism as an important expression of her practice. Kirsten is co-initiator of the “Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement” (DANCE) and supporting teacher of Freely Given Retreats.
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2020-09-26 Afternoon Practice 40:16
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Practicing with intention, humility and lightness, and as a way of relating to life. Cultivating practices that soften the Citta (heart-mind) and that have a relational quality. Lessening the delusion of separation.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-26 Morning Meditation 41:45
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Aligning with our intention for the day, connecting to the part of us that may yearn to contribute to our own healing and the healing of the collective, sensing into our interdependence and relationality, choosing which practice we would like to play with e.g. relating to our body, or playing with the width of our awareness.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-25 Afternoon Practice 35:43
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Guided Meditation: A meditative contemplation to support lessening the sense of self.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-25 Morning Practice 35:26
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Exploring the tools that can enable us to have a more poetic and creative relationship to self. Looking at how the sense of self can be held lightly and skilfully, or tightly and unskilfully, within different contexts in our lives.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-24 Evening Practice 65:30
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Dharma Talk: Looking at our existence and 'fabrication' of self through the teachings on the five aggregates (khandas).
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-24 Afternoon Practice 43:21
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How the human mind appropriates and takes ownership of experience, and how any form of this is a type of clinging, which leads to dissatisfaction and stress. Looking at how we can reduce clinging through playing with different ways of seeing that support dis-identification.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-24 Morning Meditation 42:08
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Holding our practice as an act of compassion to ourselves and others, resting into the bodily experience, meeting life with kindness. Being sensitive to the 'senses of self' arising in relationship to practice in this way
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-23 Morning Practice 1:10:14
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Investigating our ways of perceiving self, to develop compassion and wisdom. How to relate to self at different times and in different ways, for our own benefit and for the benefit of all.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-22 Evening Practice 54:25
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An introduction to what will be explored on the retreat: looking at ways how we may construct the self; exploring how we can open up limiting 'senses of self' and reduce the suffering they bring, by using the Buddhist teachings on ‘not self' as liberating ways of seeing; experiencing the poetry and dance of 'self' that is beyond any fixed definition.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-05-21 Evening Reflections 38:11
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Gaia House :  The Courage to Belong

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