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Dharma Talks
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2010-06-30
Mindfulness and Speech Practice
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Donald Rothberg
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(Recording not available)
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We continue exploring the nature of speech practice, following last night's introduction, focusing on five kinds of mindfulness practice that supports speech practice. Following an overview of mindfulness, we examine (1) connecting inner and outer attention in the midst of speech, (2) the importance for speech practice of mindfulness of the body, (3) mindfulness based on following the ethical speech principles, (4) NVC interpreted as a refinement of mindfulness practice,and (5) mindfulness of the thoughts and emotions.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Mindfulness, Wise Speech, and Compassionate Communication
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2010-06-30
Mindfulness and Speech Practice
54:52
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue exploring the nature of speech practice, following last night's introduction, focusing on five kinds of mindfulness practice that supports speech practice. Following an overview of mindfulness, we examine (1) connecting inner and outer attention in the midst of speech, (2) the importance for speech practice of mindfulness of the body, (3) mindfulness based on following the ethical speech principles, (4) NVC interpreted as a refinement of mindfulness practice,and (5) mindfulness of the thoughts and emotions.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Mindfulness, Wise Speech, and Compassionate Communication
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2010-05-12
Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind"
1:20:19
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Tara Brach
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While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the ways we get hooked, and offer a deep, mindful attention to the energies of craving and clinging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2010-04-07
Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life
58:42
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Donald Rothberg
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We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2010-01-19
The Satipatthana Sutta
37:55:23
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Rodney Smith
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The Satipatthana sutta is the fundamental teaching by the Buddha, revered by all Buddhist traditions, on the application of mindfulness. Mindulness is the the basic teaching that connects the isolated individual to his/her internal and external environments. Through a steady integration of mindfulness our unconscious tendencies become conscious, and we discover a preexisting awareness and interconnectedness to life that changes everything. The four applications of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects), as well as the underlying principles behind it, are explored thoroughly through talks, discussions, dyads, and homework.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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2010-01-08
Mindful of the Climate of the Heart
26:51
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Sylvia Boorstein
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This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Metta Retreat
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