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James Baraz's Dharma Talks
James Baraz
I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.
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2023-10-19 Current Crisis in Israel and Gaza 1:33:07
with James Baraz, Stephen Fulder
Israeli Dharma Teacher Stephen Fulder joins James and shares about the current crisis in Israel and Gaza
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-10-05 The Buddha's Teaching on Not getting Caught in Negative Tendencies 50:17
The Sabbāsava Sutta "All the Taints" (Majjhima Nikaya #2). The Buddha teaches seven methods for restraining and abandoning the "taints", the fundamental defilements that keep us in suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-09-04 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:40:58
with Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, James Baraz, Terry Vandiver, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-09-03 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:05
The Buddha said our suffering is caused by three activities of mind: greed, hatred, and delusion. And he said that the source of all happiness is rooted in their opposites: non-greed, non-hatred, non-delusion. This talk explains how our practice transforms that suffering into the true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-09-01 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:13
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-08-31 Beyond the Comparing Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:09
We have a deeply ingrained tendency to compare ourselves with others or with an idealized standard that is bound to create suffering in the mind. The Buddha called this tendency mana "the conceit of I am." When we through see through our identification with experience we open to a freedom beyond the comparing mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-08-31 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:14:53
with Howard Cohn, James Baraz, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-08-30 Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:25:38
with Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, James Baraz, Terry Vandiver, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat
2023-08-24 Showing Up as a Joyful Responsibility 43:12
This moment in time is calling us to contribute what we can to bring more consciousness into the world. But rather than acting from anger or despair I believe the key is to come from love and even joy. One of my teachers calls this our "joyful responsibility."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2023-06-22 Unhooking Yourself from Suffering 44:49
A practice to shift from being caught in a suffering state to remembering that freedom is just a moment away. This is a way to change the channel from being lost in an unwholesome state to opening to a wholesome state.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

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