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Dharma Talks
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2016-04-14
Seven Factors of Awakening
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Ayya Sobhana,
Chris Clifford,
Daniel Bowling,
Fa Jun,
Janetti Marotta,
Margaret Gainer,
Misha Merrill,
Oren Jay Sofer,
Sean Oakes,
Shaila Catherine,
Sharon Allen
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These seven qualities offer an effective framework for cultivating the mind, overcoming the hindrances, and balancing the energetic and calming forces that develop in meditation. When cultivated and balanced, the mind is ripe for awakening. This series will explore each factor to reveal its importance, function, and role in the process of awakening.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2016-04-13
Meditation - Vipassana - Practice of Seeing Clearly
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Tara Brach
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Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath - or some other sensory anchor - and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention - sensations, emotions, sounds - meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-04-12
Thus Have I Heard
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Andrea Fella,
Diana Clark,
Kim Allen,
Nona Olivia,
Sean Oakes,
Shaila Catherine,
Tony Bernhard
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The Pali Canon includes over 5,000 discourses that document conversations and encounters that occurred during forty years of the Buddha's ministry. Over the centuries, certain teachings have risen to the surface with popularity and come to characterize our impression of what the Buddha taught. However, the vast collection of source material reaches beyond these well known teachings. For this speaker series, IMSB has invited teachers to focus on teachings that have been largely neglected by contemporary Buddhist groups. Each talk will share a lesser-known teaching, event, or instruction that will enrich our comprehension of what the Buddha taught. We will discover whether broadening our source material reinforces the dominant view of Buddhist practice or paints a different picture of meditation and the path of liberation.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2016-04-06
Patience and Equanimity
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Sally Armstrong
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Patience and equanimity are two of the paramis - 10 perfections that we develop in our practice on the path to awakening. Ledi Sayadaw says that “Patience and equanimity are the mainstay for the perfections. Only when one has set oneself up in these two can one expect to fulfill the rest." These 2 qualities are intertwined and support each other: if we are patient, we are developing equanimity, and vice versa. Both are necessary for our meditation practice and bring peace and calm into our minds and hearts.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Equanimity: Seeing with Quiet Eyes
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2016-03-12
Boundless compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity
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Gregory Kramer
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Receiving with compassion what is difficult / receiving joy / experiencing mutual equanimity. Guided meditation on the boundless with Open for the first 14:15 minutes. " there is an aspect of Open that is establishing the field of awareness that is the atmosophere in which Metta arises."
Four part contemplation, first two separate speaker, last one the entire group
1. "Observe the opening of awareness to every cell of the vody, naming what it is like. This awareness is inclusive and spacious."
Contemplate something in your life that is difficult, feeling your heart vibrating with the pain". " Be present to the pain waith compassion for this being, the compassionate response".
"Listener, how was it like to receive this?"
2. Now the gift of our practice is to touch joy, something positive, wholesome, uplifting. Let it infuse you, vibrate within you."
Listener, touch the experience of hearing about joy.
3." Whatever experience that might be present of mutual or sympathetic equanimity,where the heart balances together."
4. "What is manifesting now? Resting perhaps in the shared human experience of the whole of it; the hurt, the joy the boundless."
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Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere)
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Insight Dialogue Retreat
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2016-03-01
Recollection of Heavens
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave the sixth talk in a series on Recollective Meditations. This talk explores the practice of devanusatti — contemplating the good qualities that lead to happiness in this life and future lives. This practice emphasizes five specific qualities: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, and wisdom. One first reflects on the superior qualities of the devas, and then contemplates those same qualities within oneself. By contemplating the success of celestial beings, we might realize that success is also possible for us. This practice can inspire us to develop those beautiful qualities of heart and mind.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Recollective Meditations
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2016-02-23
Recollection of the Sangha
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Shaila Catherine
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Shaila Catherine gave the fifth talk in a series on Recollective Meditations. This talk describes the recollection of the Sangha, reflecting on the virtues of a community of practitioners at various stages of awakening. This reflection uplifts the mind and reinforces those virtues, which in turn leads to the Path of awakening. When one recollects the Sangha, one's mind is not obsessed by greed, hate, and delusion. In addition, when we are temporarily discouraged in our practice, when we reflect on the Sangha, we can connect with a group of people who have been practicing the Path of awakening for centuries.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Recollective Meditations
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2016-02-22
Karma
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Marcia Rose
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The teaching, relevancy and understanding of Karma, which is one of Buddhism's central themes, is really quite accessible and even quite ordinary. It's not something to be believed in, but rather it is to be understood as we come to see and know it in operation. Karma is 'action' or 'deed'. In the context of the Dharma it is defined as
"action based on intention". This talk explores how through clarifying and purifying our intentions via mindfulness based Buddhist meditation practice we can free ourself from the actions that repeatedly throw is into suffering……free ourself
from repeatedly being re-born into the realm of suffering.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2016-02-18
On the Cushion and In the World
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Kim Allen
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This is the third talk in a 5-part speaker series titled "Balanced Practice". Kim Allen speaks about practice on the meditation cushion and in the world. In the Pali tradition, training in behavior, view, and intention precedes meditation. Hence the transition between the two worlds flows naturally. In the West, we tend to go straight to meditation, and hence ask, "How can I bring cushion practice into the world?" As we balance our practice, we discover how cushion practice can enhance our activities in the wider world and vice versa.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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collection:
Balanced Practice
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2016-02-17
The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2
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Tara Brach
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In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2016-02-10
The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1
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Tara Brach
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In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening.
"True inquiry doesn't land on an answer. It opens to a mystery that's meant to be lived."
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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