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The greatest gift is the gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
2013-02-27
The Fires of Loss
60:52
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Tara Brach
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We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with loss. This talk describes the refuge of presence in the face of loss, and the gift of timeless love that arises as we make peace with the reality of this living, dying world. [NOTE: Tara was traveling this week, so offering a well-loved talk from 2010.]
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2013-02-23
Cultivating Wise Speech
62:30
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Donald Rothberg
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This is the first segment of a daylong on cultivating wise or "right" speech, including when there are difficult speech situations. There is a general introduction to speech and communication practice and an overview of the basic guidelines for speech given by the Buddha.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2013-02-19
Dependent Origination: Co-Dependent Arising (2)
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Rodney Smith
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As we move through the links of Dependent Origination, one of the key areas for exploration are the linkages of craving, clinging, and becoming. What starts out as a simple feeling of pleasantness suddenly erupts into a needy and tumultuous sense-of-self. Dependent Origination explains the causal factors and conditions that led to full addiction and the reaction that followed. D.O. shows us how we carry over the remembrance of previous encounters that sets us up for our current display. Once the present is colored with the past, we carry the momentum of the past into that current relationship. An object is no longer seen for what it is (always neutral) but for what it has become through memory. We then chase after our memory like a cat would chase his tail, believing that the object is the same as the memory.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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Dependent Origination
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