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Yuka Nakamura's Dharma Talks in English
Yuka Nakamura
Yuka Nakamura has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1993 in the Theravada, Dzogchen and Zen traditions, and has been trained as a teacher by Fred von Allmen. Living in Switzerland, she teaches meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
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2023-07-14 Morning instructions: mindfulness of feeling tone 52:34
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with Akincano Marc Weber, Yuka Nakamura
Introduction to Vedana – the feeling tones - and a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2023-07-13 Calming the thinking mind 59:05
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Thoughts often carry the mind away from the present moment. This talk invites you to explore the nature of thoughts and offers five methods to still the distracted mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2023-07-12 Morning instructions 48:57
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Settling in and gathering the mind. Mindfulness of body and breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-12-10 The Capacity to Forgive 51:29
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Gaia House :  The Capacity to Forgive
2021-02-21 Mudita - The Joyful Heart 50:41
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Mudita means appreciative or sympathetic joy and is the third of the four Brahmaviharas, the boundless qualities of the heart and mind. It stands for our ability to appreciate and delight in what is good and beautiful in our own being and in the world. It inspires and uplifts the heart and purifies it from unwholesome states.
Bodhi College
2020-09-25 Evening Practice 56:03
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Dharma Talk: Dancing Between Self and Not Self. One of the discoveries that can open up to us is the discovery that there is not just one, true self, but the arising of many different selves at different times, depending on context, depending on mindstates. We understand the relational and dependent nature of self. This is the middle way between the views of eternalism and annihilationism.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-09-23 Evening Practice 69:23
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Dharma Talk: How is our sense of self being created? One major way is our tendency to constantly compare and measure ourselves against others. The conceit (mana) that arises, that is, the feeling of being better than, worse than, or the same as others, is the source of much suffering. The talk discusses different forms of conceit based on birth, knowledge, beauty, etc., and shows ways in which we can practice with it skilfully.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-05-23 Bringing Metta to Life 49:44
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How can we practise Metta - benevolence - in the midst of our life? Metta can express itself in many ways, as generosity, ethics and kind speech, but also in the way we perceive people, appreciating what is good, and the world, seeing the non-separation and interconnectedness and living from this understanding.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  Ascenscion Online Retreat
2020-02-25 Satipatthāna - The Discourse of Establishing Mindfulness 31:41
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The Satipatthāna Sutta is one of the most famous discourses in the Pali Canon that has informed the practice of Vipassana meditation and mindfulness meditation. The talks give an overview of the whole sutta.
Bodhi College :  Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness
2020-01-15 Instructions of choiceless attention and awareness of awareness 53:53
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

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