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2016-10-18 Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 1:32:08

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Course - Introduction to Mindfulness

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The Practices of the Divine Abodes: Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity by Mark Nunberg (Google Doc)

2016-10-14 Living with Loving Awareness 55:00
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the fusion of mindful-awareness and love and how the integrating of these essential qualities is essential in life and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-14 Day 3- Morning Instructions- Meditation Instructions-Mindfulness of Emotion 61:30
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Bringing Awareness to emotions and Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-13 Day 2- Morning Instructions- Embodied Awareness 58:32
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Mini-talk on the importance of cultivating an embodied mindful attention in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-12 Introduction to Mindfulness 1:10:34
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
The meditation instructions begin with an orientation to mindfulness and concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-11 Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 1:33:05

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Course - Introduction to Mindfulness

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Strategies for Working with Obstacles to Mindfulness by Mark Nunberg (Google Doc)

2016-10-10 Practicing with Views and Opinions, Cultivating Empathy 1:25:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the context of the current election campaign as well as the context of our daily lives, we explore how to understand and practice with our views, opinions, and interpretations. We first look at the nature of views, the Buddha’s teachings on views, and three main ways to practice with views, with particular attention to being mindful of reactivity (attachment and aversion) in relation to views. We then examine the nature of empathy and how to cultivate empathy in relationship to others (and ourselves), including those with different views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-10-10 Investigation of states 59:53
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk discusses what is meant by the "Enlightenment factor" investigation. How does one use mindfulness to "investigate"? How is this different from psychotherapy?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-10 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 4 56:14

Mark Nunberg

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Please take this week to more clearly discern the gratification & allure of sense experience and the drawbacks & limitations of sense experience. Remember, the practice is to collect honest data. The purification of view that the mind has toward sensuality does happen because we want to shift our view, rather, it happens because the data that the mind collects through being mindful overwhelms older views/beliefs about sensuality and allows for a newer, more refined, wiser view to arise in its place. One theme you might use for your small group sharing is, what if any data has this mind or heart, collected in the recent past that demonstrates the limitations and drawbacks of sense experience? Some Additional Readings for Week 4:

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality

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Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III 'Forty cartloads of timber.' by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
What You Take Home With You by Ajahn Sucitto (Google Doc)

2016-10-06 Second Noble Truth 40:09
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Shaila Catherine gave the second talk in the five-week series "Four Noble Truths." This talk explores the causes of suffering (in Pali dukkha), and explains how conditioned mental and sensory experiences are unsatisfactory and stressful. Craving causes suffering when our perceptions are accompanied by delight and lust. Practicing mindfulness reduces suffering, because when we are present we experience things as they actually are, and do not crave something different.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Four Noble Truths