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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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2020-05-24 Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:15
Every momnet of mindfulness we are planting seeds of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion the basis of true happiness. This talk explores how that works and the bigger implication for our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online
2020-05-24 Sunday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:17
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online
2020-05-22 Friday Morning Dharmette and Instruction (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:13
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online
2020-05-21 Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein 64:29
James invited Gail Stark to join him as his guest. Gail shares what it was like to spend 10 months practicing the 10 Paramis or Perfections under Joseph Goldstein’s guidance. Her new book, Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein, is a wonderful exploration of what it means to truly bring practice into your daily life guided by Joseph Goldstein, the ultimate Dharma coach.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2020-05-21 5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:11
Meditation and Dharma practice can be understood as a natural process of developing five qualities starting with Faith/Trust and culminating in Wisdom. This talk describes how that process unfolds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online
2020-05-09 Loss, Grief and Death: Impermanence in Pandemic Times 56:25
The Buddha said to reflect each day on the facts of old age, sickness and death. He also said to to come to terms with the fact that everything and everyone near and dear to us will be separated from us. In these Covid-19 days our practice becomes letting go of what was and adjust to a new way of being. This practice of impermanence includes opening to loss, grief and death which is explored in this talk.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2020-04-30 Your Practice as a Gift to Others (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:49
Our own centeredness and kind awareness becomes one the greatest gifts we can offer others who are in distress. Without fixing or changing our compassionate presence is healing and a source of our own inner well-being, especially when we do't identify with being "the helper".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-04-29 Wednesday Morning Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:00
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-04-28 Finding Your Center (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:22
How can we find balance in the times of great distress? The process of first connecting with out experience, then holding what's here and finally accessing that place of peace and spacious awareness that can hold it all are discussed. Practices to help find our center are offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-04-17 The Profound Implications of Interconnectedness 41:44
"Talk for Pandemic Reality"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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