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Dharma Talks
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1995-02-03
The Difficulties Of Loving Beings
57:28
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Sylvia Boorstein
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In this Dharma talk, given at a Metta Meditation residential retreat, Sylvia examines some of the key blocks we come up against that keep us from living in our true nature of joyful, loving, compassionate beings. Illustrating with stories, both poignant and humorous, she demonstrates that, our awareness to the contrary, we repeatedly fall away from living in our true nature, because we may forget who we really are. We may continue, for various reasons she discusses, to hold onto grievances that lock us into our own prisons of pain and suffering. It is through the liberating knowledge of meditation practice that we can free ourselves from this pattern. That is, in fact, the "edge" of this practice: that we can fall away into a sense of separateness, and that we are able to bring ourselves back to the truth of our oneness.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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1994-12-30
The Five Hindrances
60:34
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Guy Armstrong
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The five hindrances are difficult and painful forces in the mind, but also potential sources for greater freedom in our lives. We transform ourselves moment after moment not by getting rid of these energies but by learning to wake up within them.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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1994-10-19
Grasping
62:00
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Carol Wilson
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Seeing how preconceived ideas create conflict with ourselves, others and what is.
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1994-10-15
... One Way Or Another ...
53:09
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Steve Armstrong
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two subtle but far-reaching attachments are: 1. to the false beliefs that we are: As solely products of our past conditioning B. that we are in control of the present circumstances 2. the conceit within the comparing mind. our relationship to the present situation can be unhealthy or it can lead to happiness. wise attention chooses one way, not the other
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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1994-08-15
Scarcity Syndrome
42:14
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Jose Reissig
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We tend to assume that we are surrounded by scarcity; that there never is enough time, money, things, food, health, love or happiness to go around. This automatic assumption of scarcity is unwarranted. Its pervasiveness results from the fact that the "I" uses it to validate its wanting, and hence to further its own centrality.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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