James Baraz's Dharma Talks
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2009-07-02
You Never Know...
2009-06-25
Contentment
2009-06-11
Reflections on our Deepest Truths
2009-06-05
Faith and Confidence
2009-06-04
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), ...
2009-05-28
The Storytelling Monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri
2009-05-21
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-Tsan (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), ...
2009-05-14
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), ...
2009-04-30
The Bamboo Acrobats
2009-04-16
Confidence
2009-04-09
“Am I Good Enough?”
2009-03-26
Kind Awareness
2009-03-19
Interested Awareness
2009-03-12
Relaxed Awareness
2009-03-05
Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot
2009-02-20
Faith In The Dharma
2009-02-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness
2009-02-10
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2009-02-04
The Grace Of Suffering
2009-01-29
"Letting In The Love"
2009-01-22
Barack Obama's Inauguration In The Context Of Dharma Practice
2009-01-12
Learning To Open To Experience
2009-01-08
Emotional Awareness
2008-12-18
James' Son, Adam's, First Dharma Talk
2008-12-03
Getting Unhooked
2008-11-20
Anapanasti
2008-11-13
Making A Difference Together: Deepening Sangha Bonds
2008-11-06
Change
2008-10-23
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #9: Dedication Of Merit
2008-10-13
Samsara -The Wheel Of Birth And Death
2008-09-18
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #7: Enthusiasm, Zeal Or Heroic Perseverance
2008-09-11
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #6: Working With Anger
2008-09-04
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #5: Not Causing Harm, Gathering Virtue, And Benefiting ...
2008-08-28
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 4: Using Our Intelligence
2008-08-14
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 3: What Are We Committing To?
2008-08-07
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 2: Preparing The Ground
2008-07-31
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 1: Benefits Of Bodhicitta
2008-07-03
Why Do Intensive Retreat Practice?
2008-06-23
Beyond Belief
2008-06-16
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2008-06-09
Faith And Devotion
2008-06-02
The Power Of Intention
2008-05-22
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 10: The Ease Of ...
2008-05-15
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 9: The Mystery Of ...
2008-05-07
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 8: How Compassion Awakens ...
2008-05-01
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 7: Lovingkindness Toward Ourselves
2008-04-24
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 6: Letting Go
2008-04-10
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 4: Gratitude
2008-03-27
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 3: Opening To Suffering
2008-03-20
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness
2008-03-13
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 1: Intention
2008-03-06
I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out!
2008-02-14
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien
2008-02-07
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Dhammadharo
2008-01-31
Buddhist Master Series: U Ba Khin
2008-01-24
Buddhist Master Series: Mogok Sayadaw
2008-01-10
Buddhist Master Series: Taungpulu Sayadaw
2007-12-13
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Naeb
2007-12-07
Devotional Practice
2007-11-29
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Buddhadasa
2007-11-15
Buddhist Master Series: Sunlun Sayadaw
2007-11-08
Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing
2007-11-01
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Chah
2007-07-19
"Calling All Bodhisattvas"
2007-07-16
Forgiveness
2007-07-12
Reflections On Power
2007-07-05
Reflections On Sexuality
2007-06-28
Reflections On Money
2007-02-13
Spiritual Passion
2007-02-08
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2006-09-26
Awakening Joy
2006-09-23
Tronsforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-09-16
The Power Of Intention
2006-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-09-09
Beyond The Judging Mind
2006-07-19
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2006-07-15
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-03-27
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-02-27
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2006-02-22
Happiness - part 3: Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-02-14
Happiness - part 2: Opening To Suffering As Well As To Joy
2006-02-08
Happiness - part 1: Wise Effort And Wholesome States
2005-09-05
Aligning Our Life With The Dharma
2005-09-04
The Power Of Intention
2005-07-11
Forgiveness: The Doorway To An Open Heart
2005-05-25
Wise Effort
2005-04-24
Wise Intention (Sutta On The Two Kinds Of Thought)
2005-04-22
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2005-02-21
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation: The Purification Process
2005-02-16
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2005-02-12
Gladness Of The Wholesome - Awakening Joy
2005-02-05
The Comparing Mind
2004-11-20
Saturday Night Closing Session
2004-11-19
The Power Of Mindfulness
2004-04-26
Practice As A Path To Happiness
2004-02-25
Awakening To Joy - part 2
2004-02-20
Awakening To Joy - part 1
2004-02-15
Inclining Our Mind Towards Freedom: The Power Of Intention
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2003-08-28
What Is Mindfulness
2003-02-19
Passion For Practice
2003-02-10
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2002-02-16
Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice
2002-02-12
Reporting To The Mother Ship: Wonder, Awe, Interest, Investigation
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2001-10-27
Letting Go Of Knowing
2001-07-18
After The Honeymoon, The Marriage: Plateaus In Practice
2001-05-26
Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas
2001-03-29
Refinement Of Mind - part 2
2001-03-22
Refinement Of Mind - part 1
2001-03-08
The Retreat Experience: Why Intensive Practice?
2001-02-24
Spiritual Passion: The Iddhipadas (Bases Of Power)
2001-02-20
The Comparing Mind
2001-01-01
Learning To Love Yourself: A Bodhisattva Act
2000-03-23
Losing It: How Being Humbled Can Lead To True Humility
2000-02-26
Questions And Answers
2000-02-25
A Path With Heart
2000-02-14
The Brahma Viharas
1999-12-15
Generosity As A Source Of Happiness
1999-11-27
Seeing Through Limiting Beliefs
1999-11-23
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
1999-11-01
Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness
1999-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
1999-09-05
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
1999-09-02
How Suffering Can Lead To Faith
1999-08-26
Truthfulness
1999-05-22
Wise Reflection And Practice In Daily Life
1999-01-01
Learning To Ride The Roller Coaster: Dealing With The Unexpected
1999-01-01
Refuge In The Sangha: Importance Of Like-Minded Friendship
1998-11-25
Balance Of Effort
1998-10-15
Right Thought: Creating An Inspiring Vision
1998-06-26
Intimate Relationship As Spiritual Practice
1998-06-19
Waves On The Oceans-Not Being Bothered By Thoughts
1997-04-08
Five Hindrances
1996-12-06
Nourishing Healthy Seeds: Compassion, Mudita And Equanimity
1996-11-14
Bothicitti
1996-11-07
Commitment In Practice
1996-04-18
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
1995-12-01
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
1995-11-27
Working With Thought
1995-04-22
Buddha's Advice On Working With Thoughts
1995-04-16
Path Of Purification
1995-01-02
Waking Up: Interesting Hobby Or Committed Vision
1994-04-20
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
1994-04-16
Balance Of Effort
1994-04-07
Four Noble Truths
1993-09-05
Fear As Practice
1993-07-30
Doing And Being
1993-07-24
What Am I Doing? Why Am I Doing It?
1993-04-21
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
1993-04-06
It's Okay (Equanimity)
1993-04-01
Investigation Of Truth
1993-03-25
Curiosity
1992-06-11
Devotion
1992-04-24
Expressing The Dharma
1992-04-09
Balance
1991-12-03
Creating Your Reality
1991-04-22
Strive On Lightly
1990-09-02
Personalizing The Dharma
1990-05-26
The Qualities Necessary For The Journey
1989-12-01
Clear Comprehension
1989-11-27
Brahma Viharas
1987-12-06
Practice As Purification
1987-11-25
Self-Image/Hindrances
1986-09-07
Interest
1986-09-07
Interest
1985-08-30
Feminine Aspects Of Practice
1985-04-21
Transitions
1985-04-19
Dana, Sila, Bhavana
1985-04-15
Growth Through Experience
1985-04-11
Practice & Skillful Action
1984-09-01
Flavors Of Experience
1984-09-01
Why We're Here
1984-08-01
Balance And Patience
1984-08-01
Forgiveness
1984-08-01
Course Closing
1983-06-09
Forgiveness
1975-01-01
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
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James Baraz
Trust is a big part of my teaching. I try to get out of the way, to trust that the Dharma knows how to speak through me, so I can say what is true and speak to the essence, clearly and simply.
I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.
The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.
2009-05-28
The Storytelling Monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri
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Affectionately known as “the Storytelling Monk,” Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri is a French-born Kriya Yoga teacher and founder of the Hariharananda Mission in the USA and in India, and the Ark of Love in South America. For the last sixteen years, he has traveled around the globe teaching Yoga, composing and chanting sacred chants, and providing education and shelter to poor children, widows, and senior citizens in India and South America.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley:
IMCB Regular Talks
2009-05-14
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 1.
46:34
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Tonight James begins a series on his favorite piece of dharma wisdom: Verses on the Faith Mind by Sengstan, otherwise known as the 3rd Zen Patriarch of China. This is one of the best treatises on the non-dual approach to practice. A few choice lines:
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
“To live in the realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.”
During this series, James reads through the text and discusses how we can apply it in our lives.
If you are interested in reading the actual text of this sutra Click Here.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley:
IMCB Regular Talks
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