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The greatest gift is the
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2024-07-13
The Crux of Delusion
1:10:44
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Ayya Santussika
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At 55 minutes, a participant offered some comments but asked that their audio be removed. Ayya's answer remains.
Here is a summary of what the participant said:
They reflected on Ajahn Anan's teaching of developing the Paramis over lifetimes to be ready to fully receive / understand the Dhamma and fully let go.
They go on to express surprise, and some frustration, that they can be so inspired by Dhamma one evening and then so lost in anger the next morning.
They also share that this session with the KBV community and the teachings instantly took them back out of the anger.
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2024-07-10
Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
19:59
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Tara Brach
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The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world.
“Resting with the breath as a raft might rest and move with the waves…” ~ Tara
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-07-10
Guided Meditation: Landing in the Breath and Soundscape
56:49
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Matthew Brensilver
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These recordings are available publicly from a retreat held in person at Big Bear Retreat Center. Learn more about the center and upcoming offerings for retreats in nature, gathered in community.
bigbearretreatcenter.org/upcoming-retreats/
Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self
Matthew Brensilver
July 9 - 13, 2024
Co-sponsored by Insight Retreat Center (IRC) and Big Bear Retreat Center
In this silent retreat, we explore how mindfulness supports the healing of the self.
Many of the Buddhist teachings help us to tend to painful memory, old pains and the habits that compound suffering. As we become more gentle and loving towards experience, the self becomes less and less of a preoccupation. The more completely we accept ourselves, the easier it becomes to forget the self and rest in an awareness unencumbered by self-consciousness.
This retreat includes sitting and walking meditation instructions, and dharma talks.
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Big Bear Retreat Center
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Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self
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2024-07-08
Connecting Wisdom and the Awakened Heart
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Donald Rothberg
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A central way to describe our practice is to say that we aim to touch and deepen in wisdom and in the awakened heart (particularly through cultivating the “divine abodes”: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity), and to live and act increasingly from wisdom and the awakened heart. This is like the well-known image of the teachings and practices being like the bird with two wings—wisdom and compassion (the latter signifying the different qualities of the awakened heart). In the talk, we cover five areas exploring particularly how we connect wisdom and the awakened heart: (1) the aspiration to grow in wisdom and the awakened heart and the nature of wisdom and the awakened heart; (2) our social conditioning (including gender conditioning) about wisdom and the heart and how they can be separate in our lives or one or both may be relatively undeveloped; (3) some ways that they seem separate even in Buddhist teachings and practices, particularly in how metta has sometimes been understood; (4) how to have from different teachings of the Buddha a deeper sense of wisdom and the awakened heart as connected and integrated; and (5) how we might integrate the two in our practices, particularly focusing on the practices we explored in the guided meditation. The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday Night Live with Donald Rothberg
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2024-07-06
Sticking to the Plan to Improvise
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Nathan Glyde
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How much we should be spontaneous, and how much more disciplined, feels to be a central question in the development of any skill, meditation included. What do we need more of? How should we go about it? What do we really want? This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions.
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - July 2024
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2024-07-03
Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe
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Tara Brach
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In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-07-03
Toward Freedom and Awakening--Individually and as a Society: A Fourth of July Talk
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Donald Rothberg
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A day before the Fourth of July and two days after Canada Day, commemorating establishing Canada, we explore the possibility of connecting the vision of individual awakening and freedom and the vision of social freedom and justice. We look at the "shadows" of these visions, of how greed, hatred, and delusion, whether individual or collective, as well as other factors, stand in the way of realizing these visions. We point to the importance of staying connected to these two visions in difficult and challenging times, and of how they can be brought together. After the talk, we have a group discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2024-06-30
The Art of Harmlessness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We humans share this journey of birth, old age, sickness and death. Sometimes we succumb to fear or sorrow; sometimes we are exhausted or disoriented as if lost on a perilous path. Seeing this universality of suffering and knowing its causes, we ask: "What will set us free?" With the lens of refined moral aptitude, in silent witness, we stop to listen and directly know for ourselves the inner joy and peace of true harmlessness. Patiently, our noble guides of benevolent compassion and wise reflection steer the heart to its liberation – awakening to Unconditional Love.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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