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Dharma Talks
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2022-09-07
Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1
54:33
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Tara Brach
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This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent on others changing; and how to engage with another person when both are dedicated to mindful communication. We also extend our exploration to societal conflict. The talks are accompanied by reflections and meditations that can directly enhance your capacity to respond to conflict from the most wise and caring part of your being.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2022-09-07
Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 3: Practicing in the Social Realm
67:22
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Donald Rothberg
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In this third of three talks on "Dukkha and the End of Dukkha," perhaps the core teaching of the Buddha, we first review what was covered in the first two talks, starting with examining the multiple meanings of dukkha in the Buddha's teaching and the fact that most meanings of dukkha don't help us make sense of "the end of dukkha." Only a sense of dukkha as reactivity, as taught in the Two Arrows and in Dependent Origination suggest what the end of dukkha means. We then review ways of practicing with reactivity in individual practice, and in our relationships. On this basis, we then go further exploring the nature of reactivity in the larger social context, whether in individuals' reactivity or in various forms of institutionalized reactivity. We then look at two ways of practicing, first exploring our various forms of social conditioning, typically linked with reactivity, and then looking at how nonreactivity in Buddhist practice maps very closely onto the traditions of nonviolence from Gandhi, King, and others. This is followed by discussion, in which we in part look at some of the complexities and challenges of this approach.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Attached Files:
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Slides on Nonviolent Movements
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2022-09-04
Ending Suffering
34:51
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Hugh Byrne
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The Buddha said, "I teach one thing, suffering and its end." His first and central teaching on the Four Noble Truths provides us with an understanding of suffering and its origins in craving/clinging; and how it’s possible to end suffering by abandoning clinging and the path to follow to end suffering in our lives—the Noble Eightfold Path. We can bring this teaching to bear on any moment or experience of our life and find freedom from suffering.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2022-09-03
Vergänglichkeit - eine mächtige Lehrerin
53:57
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Yuka Nakamura
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Vergänglichkeit/Sterblichkeit ist ein zentrales Thema im Dharma. Sie ist eine existentielle Tatsache, die uns herausfordern kann und die wir oft vermeiden oder abwehren. In der Praxis wollen wir die vergängliche Natur aller bedingten Phänomene kontemplieren und Einsicht darin gewinnen. Diese Einsicht lässt uns die Kostbarkeit der Dinge erkennen und liebevoll mit anderen Menschen umgehen. Darüber hinaus spornt sie uns zur Dharmapraxis an, erzeugt spirituelle Dringlichkeit und führt den Geist zur Befreiung von Anhaftung.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2022-09-03
Chanting, Guided meditation, Dhamma talk on the Dvayatānupassanāsutta
1:27:46
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Bhante Sujato
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Chanting. Guided meditation focused on pairs of contrasting ideas to encourage contemplation on wholesome and unwholesome qualities in the mind. Dhamma talk on the Dvayatānupassanāsutta from Sutta Nipāta 3.12 (Contemplating Pairs). Detailed analysis of this sutta of contrasting pairs with correlation to dependent origination; of which one pair aspect leads to the origination of suffering, and the other pair aspect leads to the cessation of suffering. Brief discussion on the history, organization, and grouping of numbers in the suttas.
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Lokanta Vihara
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Attached Files:
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Snp 3.12 (Contemplating Pairs)
by suttacentral.net
(Link)
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The Numbered Discourses: things that are useful every day
by Bhante Sujato
(Link)
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