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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2016-09-20
Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 1
1:27:18
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Mark Nunberg
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What is Mindfulness Practice?
Mindfulness is the practice of opening to and accepting life just as it is - a constantly changing, conditioned process. To begin, we must make the necessary effort to calm the mind and body. Without this first step our intention to be present is often overwhelmed by our habits of reactivity and struggle - trying to fix or control the conditions of the moment. To calm the mind and body we practice connecting and sustaining our attention to ordinary experience in each moment; for example, the sensations of the breath coming and going or the sensations of lifting and placing each foot as we walk. This simple and clear patient knowing is at the heart of mindfulness practice.
Tranquility arises by training the attention to return to the present moment experience over and over again. This training is directed by an understanding heart that appreciates that no matter how difficult it appears to be, our practice is to recognize what is happening and to gently return the attention to the conditions as they are in the moment. It is our persistent effort that calms the mind, energizes our practice and leads to insight. We can use ordinary experience, such as the breath, as a refuge - a place to keep coming back to. Over time, this capacity to be present becomes a great friend and allows us to relate to all experience with greater clarity, trust and acceptance. The ability to abide with the flow of experience creates the context for insight to arise. Wisdom, compassion and peace of equanimity are the fruit of these deepening insights.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Course - Introduction to Mindfulness
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Attached Files:
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One Approach to Mindfulness Meditation
by Mark Nunberg
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Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Week One: Why Meditate?
by Mark Nunberg
(Google Doc)
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The Practice of Generosity at Common Ground Meditation Center
(Google Doc)
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2016-09-19
Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 1
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Mark Nunberg
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This first part of the course is emphasizing the actual experience of sense gratification. In other words, we are learning how to be interested, intimate and discerning as the sensitive heart connects with the reality of this world of sensuality. Are we willing to meet this sense world honestly, with real interest in order to better understand the experience of gratification?
Here are some reflections for week two in preparation for small group discussions:
What have you learned in specifically observing, being intimate with experiences of gratification of sense experience.
How have you experienced happiness in the past? How much of this happiness has been related to the gratification of desire?
Reflect on the experiences of gratification and disappointment. What is the ongoing effect of these past successes and failures on your life?
Honestly map out those places in your life where you see enchantment with sense experience. For example, desires that seem to promise real lasting happiness for oneself.
Below are Study Materials for Week 1 and Week 2:
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
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Attached Files:
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Dhamma - A Gradual Training
by Access to Insight
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Buddha's discourse (sutta MN 13) The Great Mass of Stress
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Buddhist Sexual Ethics by Winton Higgins with a Rejoinder by Ajahn Brahmavamso, Ajahn Nanadhammo,
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Worldly Happiness / Buddhist Happiness: What the Buddha really taught by Mu Soeng, Parabola
(Google Doc)
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Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
(Google Doc)
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2016-09-18
Bigger Perspective Meditation
12:45
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Amita Schmidt
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Are you stuck in worry, a thought, or a problem? This guided meditation can help give you a new perspective on your thoughts and your life. It is calming, spacious and insightful.
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Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
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2016-09-18
Wholeness
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Amita Schmidt
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Wholeness. Part 2 of "No Part Left Out.: Creating and building wholeness in yourself in every day.
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Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
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2016-09-17
No Part Left Out
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Amita Schmidt
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This talk looks at how all parts of your psychology can lead to wholeness. Meeting all of yourself with compassion and connection creates awakening. When Nun Izuimi Shikibu (974-0134 AD) became enlightened she reflected on this experience; "I knew myself completely; no part left out."
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Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
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No Part Left Out
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2016-09-15
The Wellspring of Citta
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Ajahn Sucitto
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(Begins with 30 min guided meditation)
With self view there is a tendency to meet experience with pre-formed responses of who I am, why they are, and what's needed. Orienting around citta allows a more natural and spontaneous response, one where empathy and preciousness are infused in intentions and actions.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-15
The Floods of Contact
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Contact is not a small matter - it can trigger a flood of perceptions and unskillful responses. These triggers can be found and unplugged through a practice of grounded embodiment and skillful attention and engagement.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-14
Freude
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Renate Seifarth
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Freude gehört zu den Faktoren des Erwachens. Wir wollen sie nähren. Welche Quellen der Freude können wir in unserer Praxis und unserem Leben entdecken und nähren? Welche Quellen der Freude sind verlässlicher in einer sich ständig ändernden Welt?
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Buddha-Haus
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2016-09-14
Calming the Body with Breathing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In and out breathing has the potential to smooth out and calm the body's energy field. Use the thinking mind to point to and stay with the energy of the breath. The affective sense (citta) will respond by becoming more settled and bright. Unifying the mind, body and citta in this way is the samadhi process.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-13
Natural Intelligence of the Body
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Tune into the natural intelligence of the body, starting with the hands, allowing them to "find" and "know" each other. In walking, notice how natural walking is more circular, like walking in a space bubble. Find the body's natural expression when walking within that bubble.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-13
The Stilling of Sankhara
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Sankhara can be thought of as programs, the root program resulting in the fundamental subject-object division. In meditation there can be a re-programming, a still g of sankhara, making way for a more peaceful and pure state of being.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-11
Inner Family of Lovingkindness Meditation
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Amita Schmidt
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Develop lovingkindness from the inside out using eye contact with loved ones to rewire your nervous system. This meditation is designed to create a greater sense of connection, lovingkindness and inner family.
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Insight Meditation of Cleveland
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2016-09-10
Fear and Fearlessness
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Amita Schmidt
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Fearlessness is a deep spiritual practice. This talk offers some tools and reflections on increasing your inner strength and fearlessness during these difficult times
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Insight Meditation of Cleveland
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2016-09-10
Ground, Balance and Wholeness
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guided Sitting Meditation: (Guidance begins at 10 min, and then again at 25 min) Ask the body to align and find balance, then allow it to happen through vitality versus will power. Look for wholeness with regards to physical pain: rather than splitting into a 'me' who has a stiff shoulder – can it be included?
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London Insight Meditation
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Guided by Nature
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