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2024-10-10 Infinte Love 41:41
Amita Schmidt
Our true nature is loving awareness, and this talk gives you practices to strengthen both awareness and love. Learn to move from "my" awareness to THE awareness in every day of your life.
2024-10-10 Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity 33:46
Donald Rothberg
After guidance on the basics of our practice--developing stability and concentration, and cultivating mindfulness--and a period of silent practice, there is additional guidance, related to the later dharma talk, on noticing any experiences of reactivity and on exploring moderate or greater experiences of pleasant or unpleasant.
2024-10-10 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: 10 Ways of Transforming Reactivity 61:30
Donald Rothberg
In the first part of the talk, we explore the Buddha's core teaching, "I teach dukkha and the end of dukkha." This teaching can be confusing as the Buddha gave at least four different meanings of "dukkha." We examine each of the four and find that only the last sense of dukkha as reactivity, developed in the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, makes sense of "the end of dukkha." We then look at ten ways of practicing with and transforming reactivity (see the attached file), discussing briefly each of the ten. The talk is followed by sharing, questions, and discussion.
Attached Files:
  • Ten Ways of Practicing with Reactivity by Donald Rothberg (Word File)
2024-10-15 Living with Integrity: Two Guardians of the World 31:58
Brian Lesage
2024-10-16 Seamless ~ Earth 'Speaking' to Earth Directly 55:07
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
2024-10-16 Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence 18:27
Tara Brach
When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.
2024-10-16 Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self 58:15
Tara Brach
The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing – the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being.
2024-10-17 "What, Me Worry?" 57:17
James Baraz
Alan Watts wrote a classic book The Wisdom of Insecurity. With the election in the States a few weeks away, dealing with significant uncertainty is on the minds of most everybody. Join us as we explore the topic of dealing with major uncertainty as Dharma practice together.
2024-10-20 Fire unbound 44:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta freed is warm and bright (Offered in Bethany, near Toronto.)
2024-10-21 Q&A 1:16:28
Ajahn Sucitto
00:29 Q1 Could you talk about working with distraction? 07:27 Q2 Karma and the end of karma. 27:48 Q3 What carries on [when we die]?What doesn’t carry on? 33:52 Q4 Could you recommend a book or a source that discusses this [the phases of transition]? 45:36 Q5 What is the difference between awareness and consciousness? 50:42 Q6 So when we say: ‘Be the knowing’, that is resting in awareness? 51:40 Q7 Could you speak about how you got on this path?
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