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After decades of practice and teaching, what inspires me are those moments when I can see the habitual as if it were for the first time. If such moments occur while I'm giving a talk, then the teacher in me can hear its own words imbued with the freshness imparted by those who truly listen -- the multiple aspects of myself being part of the audience as well. Thanks for your participation in the process.
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2017-04-23 Finding Our True Home 38:46
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The problem with our habitual search for our home is that we restrict it to the outer world, bypassing our inner being.
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2016-09-18 Life Unfabricated 37:14
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Habitually we stage our life as if it were a theatrical production. How about, instead, just being with life as it unfolds?
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2016-04-10 The Answer is Equanimity 29:04
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The appropriate response to the conflicts that come our way is equanimity, rather than adding fuel to the fire by rushing to take sides. Equanimity also requires that we let the conflicts touch our heart while we defuse them. It is surely not indifference.
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2015-09-20 Being With Life, Not Just Dealing With It. 33:34
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Sure, we need to do both. The problem is that the dealing usually takes over, leaving no room for intimacy with the world, and with ourselves.
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2015-03-22 Abiding in Emptiness 34:00
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Dropping our self-centeredness is a requirement for becoming partners with the world. And true partnership requires also that we, eventually, dismantle our sense of inhabiting a separate life.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat
2015-03-21 Seeing the World Afresh 21:50
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Our practice is meant to capture the flow of the real. The practice of "choiceless awareness" is most helpful for that.
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2015-03-20 The Compulsion to Compartmentalize 26:19
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We tend to deal with the world by fragmenting it and stowing each fragment into a separate compartment of our mind. In so doing, we distance ourselves from the flow of life.
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2014-10-26 The Gift of Diversity 39:29
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To truly join the world, we need to both appreciate and contribute to its diversity.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-10-25 Dismantling Our Addiction to What Is Not 38:59
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Too often we live inside tunnels we construct to avoid being with the real. Let us get out of the tunnels and join the world.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-10-24 The Unadorned Awareness of What Is 42:06
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An invitation to experience life through our direct connection with our five senses and through their reverberations in our hearts and minds.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

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