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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2020-05-06
Hindrances in Daily Life or Deep Meditation
32:21
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Nathan Glyde
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Hindrances appear in daily life, on the 'cushion', and right into deep experiences: if there is an appearance there must be a hindrance in someway, pushing and pulling at life. How can we be approariate to what arises? Joyfully breaking the (so called) hindrances into 5, or 3, or just 1, is a way of looking at these fabricated experiences, that helps us approach them with skill, flexibility, and freedom, no matter where they arise.
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Gaia House
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Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
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2020-04-17
Insight and Resilience during Times of Crisis
43:16
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Oren Jay Sofer
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Every generation feels like the world is ending or changing dramatically. When the world comes crashing down, how do we stay grounded and not lose our inner compass? This talk, given online via the Boston Meditation Center, explores three practical aspects of the Buddhist path for handling uncertainty with resilience.
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2020-04-15
Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence
22:29
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Tara Brach
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Our experience includes a foreground of changing experience - sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts. In the background is an alert inner stillness, the awareness that is our true nature. This meditation guides us in opening to the moment-to-moment flow through our senses, and learning to relax back to inhabit the mystery and vastness of awake awareness.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-03-25
Meditation: Touching Peace
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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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2020-03-16
Well-being in the time of Coronavirus - COVID-19
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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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2020-03-11
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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2020-03-04
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes
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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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2020-03-02
Calm Clarity Compassion | Monday Night talk
1:10:51
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Jack Kornfield,
Paul Hawken
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How can we navigate through hard times? This is an excerpt of a talk Jack Kornfield gave with environmentalist Paul Hawken on March 2, 2020 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on how to stay grounded and steady as we navigate the spread of the Coronavirus and other challenges.
The need for the Dharma is stronger than ever. We can choose to live in our fears, confusion, and worries, or to stay in the essence of our practice, center ourselves, and be the ones that demonstrate patience, compassion, mindfulness, and mutual care.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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