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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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Insight Meditation February
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2009-02-01 (28 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2009-02-25
Compassion And Emptiness
61:22
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Carol Wilson
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| Emptiness and compassion are like two sides of the same coin -- they support and balance one another. How can we open to the beauty and suffering in this world; and how can we respond with wise intention? |
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2009-02-23
The Joy Of Mindfulness
51:40
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Sylvia Boorstein
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| Based on the concept that mindfulness cultivates insights which lead to wisdom to manifest as compassion that is experienced as joy, this talk is about 1) the joy of awakened physical awareness, 2) the joy of psychological clarity, 3) the joy of knowing universal truth, 4) the joy of service and 5) the joy of realizing the basic goodness of human beings. |
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2009-02-21
From Ignorance Come Impulses
62:16
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Guy Armstrong
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| The first two links of dependent origination say that ignorance gives rise to volitional formations or impulses. The talk describes succesive layers of obscurations that form from ignorance, to a belief in self, to afflictive emotions, to unskillful actions. The path undoes these layers by focusing, in order, on virtue, mediation, and wisdom, finally penetrating to nibbana. |
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2009-02-20
Faith In The Dharma
60:39
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James Baraz
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| Faith is one of the Five Spiritual faculties. This talk explores the elements of faith, sources of our faith and the ingredients we bring to deepen our trust and faith in the Dharma. |
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2009-02-18
Exploring Craving
62:24
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Carol Wilson
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| This talk encourages us to explore the gratification, danger and escape in our personal experience of clinging; with the intention to understand rather than to judge.
Meeting our experience with mindfulness/wisdom is the practice of non-clinging. |
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2009-02-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness
64:28
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James Baraz
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| One aspect of Wise Effort is maintaining and increasing wholesome states that have arisen. This is supported by being present for the wholesome state without clinging. How to integrate wholesome states such as sincere intention, gratitude, being compassionate with suffering, and others into our practice is explored. |
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2009-02-15
The Leaky Boat
57:21
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Sylvia Boorstein
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| About manifesting love and courage in the midst of knowing that all experience is impermanent, subject to suffering, and inextricably connected to everything else - as the path of freedom. |
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2009-02-13
The Joy Of Generosity
62:39
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Carol Wilson
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| The Buddha gave great importance to the quality of generosity, or dana. It can be seen as a supportive condition for the cultivation of the eightfold path. The inner intention of generosity purifies the heart/mind of greed - and it brings great joy! |
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