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Dharma Talks
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2020-03-25
Meditation: Touching Peace
22:51
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Tara Brach
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This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go. The meditation ends with a beautiful verse from poet Philip Booth.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-25
Sheltering In Love (Part 1)
45:58
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Tara Brach
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During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-20
Nibbāna – The Taste of Freedom
46:09
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Is it possible that the obstructions we meet are our fiercest teachers? We encounter the places where construction is no longer possible. It’s the last place we want to go, but if we can cultivate skillful means to linger there, we can taste nibbāna in this very life.
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Cittaviveka
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2020-03-19
A Powerful Lens to Meet a Pandemic
39:40
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Nathan Glyde
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There is always a way of looking or way of relating to life operating when we are perceiving. When we understand that we can adjust this, we find a profound level of freedom. What is the most freeing lens to bring to how we look at this pandemic? And what does that mean (as a transferable skill) when we bring freeing ways of looking to the totality of our experience?
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SanghaSeva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-16
Well-being in the time of Coronavirus - COVID-19
35:24
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Nathan Glyde
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A guided meditation offering mettā (well-wishing) towards those working the frontlines of health care and social care, those whose bodies are affected by the virus or disease themselves, and those taking precautions (like being in isolation). Opening our hearts and minds to all those affected, and beyond to all beings everywhere, can help reduce our stress and allow us to be more available to support.
Includes a brief introduction: skip first 3 mins to get to the beginning of guided meditation. May all beings be cared for and well in heart-mind and body.
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SanghaSeva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-14
Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 1
31:38
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Zohar Lavie
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We are living through an unusual period. As coronavirus spreads, much of what we take for granted is being shaken.
There is uncertainty and fear around us, and also within us.
How can Dharma teachings and practices support us?
How can we deepen understanding and compassion in the midst of it all?
This talk offers reflections on possibilities that are available to us, including practices that we can engage with, lean into, and cultivate.
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SanghaSeva
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A Response to Coronavirus
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2020-03-11
Desire and Addiction (Part 2 of 3): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
41:30
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Tara Brach
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As part of the collective response to the Coronavirus—taking care of each other—Tara has cancelled her live class and recorded this from her home.
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-11
Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
60:35
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Eugene Cash
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Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.'
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Monthlong
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2020-03-06
Perfection and Christ's Blessing
4:30
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Rob Burbea
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This short reflection was offered by Rob some weeks before he died. While someone might choose to listen to this as a ‘stand alone’ offering, it really belongs in and forms a part of the ‘Soulmaking Dharma’ body of teachings and will best make soulful sense to a listener who has some practice understanding of the foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma.
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Gaia House
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Vajra Music
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2020-03-05
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5)
12:51
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Rob Burbea
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The five talks in this series were recorded by Rob at his home.
Being preliminary practices for Soulmaking Dharma, the exercises offered in these talks can be worked with before a student engages the full scope of the Soulmaking teachings. However, some of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended and contextualised once a student already has some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of A Soulmaking Dharma.
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Gaia House
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Vajra Music
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2020-03-04
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes
20:12
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Tara Brach
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When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings.
“What happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-04
From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 16: Working with Our Psychological Conditioning 3
62:28
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Donald Rothberg
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We begin by pointing to how combining traditional Buddhist training with transforming psychological and social conditioning and unresolved material suggests the contours of a contemporary path of awakening. We then identify some of the main areas of the contemporary “shadow,” of unconscious, unresolved conditioning and developmental wounds, such as anger, fear, death, shame, conflict, trauma, grief, sexuality, and so on. We then give a “map” of four stages in the transformation of the shadow (particularly in a meditative context), starting with finding ways to access the shadow, then learning to be with and explore the shadow, then transforming the shadow, and then integrating the shadow work with daily life.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2020-03-04
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4)
1:59:41
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Rob Burbea
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The five talks in this series were recorded by Rob at his home.
Being preliminary practices for Soulmaking Dharma, the exercises offered in these talks can be worked with before a student engages the full scope of the Soulmaking teachings. However, some of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended and contextualised once a student already has some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of A Soulmaking Dharma.
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Gaia House
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Vajra Music
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2020-03-03
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 3)
1:21:36
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Rob Burbea
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The five talks in this series were recorded by Rob at his home.
Being preliminary practices for Soulmaking Dharma, the exercises offered in these talks can be worked with before a student engages the full scope of the Soulmaking teachings. However, some of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended and contextualised once a student already has some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of A Soulmaking Dharma.
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Gaia House
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Vajra Music
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