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Dharma Talks
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2010-01-31
Guided Meditation on Head hair, Body Hairs, Nails, Teeth, Skin
34:46
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Bob Stahl
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This is a guided meditation on the 32 Parts of the Body beginning with Head hair, Body Hairs, Nails, Teeth, Skin. The practice involves reciting the parts verbally and then mentally and to know the color, shape, location, direction, delimitation, as well as the definition and function of each part.
The methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can help the meditator understand the true nature of the body and no self.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat
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2010-01-31
Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness
1:35:22
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-30
Concepts, Views, Reality
1:26:49
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-28
A Wise Relationship To Practice
1:17:55
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-26
Anatta
1:45:45
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John Peacock
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-23
Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics
55:14
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-21
An Introduction to Emptiness
1:12:21
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2010-01-21
Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers)
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2010)
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2009-12-05
Why Do We Have To Be Human?
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Meditation is a renewable resource. “Why do we have to be human? O not because happiness exists – but because being in this Dharma realm means so much.” Our spiritual work reveals how we must hold the mind – as refuge, safety, and protection from harm. This is the basis for true happiness. We pay attention to what is impermanent and thereby discover deeper treasure, knowing Reality, the truest renewable resource. With the ego disabled from consciousness, we transcend beyond the bonds and blindness of our human existence.
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The Dharma Centre
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2009-11-10
Meditation for Life
47:11
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Martine Batchelor
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Meditation is not an idea of getting to a mystical state but of helping us to release. It is not an exotic practice but it is more like eating, brushing our teeth - it is a way to nourish ourselves and to open and finally to let go.
It is a lifelong journey where we learn to let go and stop grasping as we become aware of our life in each moment, accept each moment as it is.
Meditation can help us to be more in the world, by being here and now we can be skillful and respond to whatever happens in the present.
We develop clarity, we see the changing nature of things. When we are engulfed by feelings we can step back and say ‘how long will this last?’ We do not have to feed the feelings, we just need to be with them and watch them as they change.
We can bring creative awareness to everything that we do and use it to be fully where we are, to be in our relationships in our life.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2009-10-21
Behind the Mask
49:00
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Tara Brach
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The development of a mask or persona based on our activities and roles is a natural way the ego tries to protect and enhance itself. Yet unless we wake up from our identification with the mask, we are unable to discover the truth and wholeness of what we are. This talk investigates how our masks manifest and the process of wise attention that can free us from a limiting sense of separate self. Includes a guided meditation.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2009-10-12
Mindfulness of the Body.
56:42
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Sally Armstrong
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Though the heart of our meditation practice is to understand and free the mind, much of our experience is known through the body, so our relationship to the body is extremely important. Learning how to work skillfully with both pleasant and painful experiences is essential in meditation, and developing a wise attitude to the body that appreciates it yet doesn’t identify with it as me or mine is a great support to the deepening of practice.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Two-Month Retreat
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2009-10-05
Impermanence
61:16
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Guy Armstrong
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A lot of understanding can come from reflecting on the way impermanence shows itself in our lives both outwardly and inwardly, including our vulnerability to aging and death. But even more penetrating insight comes to the mind that has become still through meditation. Through this way of seeing, the truth of impermanence sinks into our bones and the wisdom of non-clinging becomes very obvious.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Two-Month Retreat
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2009-10-02
Wisdom, Calm and Insight
36:46
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we want to penetrate the depths of mind, to get the roots of our habits, attitudes, beliefs. We go through the body because it’s easier to discern as an object than mind. Steadying and calming the body energies, wisdom builds up, begins to know cause and effect, what leads to clarity, what leads to release.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-09-30
Attention, Intention, Energy and Awareness
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Two factors play a part in the way the mind operates – attention and intention. Both are conditioned, and both carry energy. Attention limits the span of awareness, intention defines the quality of it. A lot of the problems in meditation can be resolved through attention, intention and bringing the right kind of energy to them.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-07-28
My Enemy, My Teacher
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Winnie Nazarko
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When we attempt to extend metta (loving-kindness) to difficult people, things get interesting. In order to expand our capacity to love, we must strengthen our motivation to do so and work with obstacles which may arise. Through reflecting on the value of metta in our families and communities, we find the courage to undertake this spiritual challenges. Includes guided meditation.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Insight Meditation
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2009-07-12
Guide Meditation on Breathing
46:45
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Keep in mind, attention is on breathing rather than a breath – a process, not a specific thing. Making use of vitakka-vicara, linger and pick up the quality of breath-energy as it moves through. Hold the form, keep the inquiry, remain in the present moment. What is the breathing now?
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-07-11
Having Fun (Skillfully)
36:40
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The experience of having fun, enjoyment, is an energy. The problem comes when we locate it externally, then attach to it, self-orient around it. A skilful person knows how to cultivate pleasure in themselves. Practise with meditation. Find out what blocks it and what encourages it. The Buddha taught pleasure as a way to awakening.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-07-11
Walk Back to Center
18:31
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In whatever activity we engage in, meditation through the postures is a matter of returning to presence – to that awareness which can know. With walking, don’t do the walking, meditate the walking. Maintain a core presence that doesn’t participate and doesn’t shut anything out. Meet everything with openness and alertness, like a mother welcoming her children.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-06-09
Equanimity
41:43
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Shaila Catherine
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This talk explores equanimity as the fourth of the four qualities called Brahma Viharas. Previous talks in this series addressed loving kindness, compassion, and appreciative joy. Equanimity allows us to remain present and awake with the fact of things—equally close to the things we like and the things we dislike. It is important to develop equanimity in two arenas: 1) in response to pleasant and painful feelings, and 2) regarding the future results of our actions. Equanimity develops in meditation and in life. We can use unexpected events that we cannot control to develop this quality. Our job is not to judge our experiences, but to be present and respond wisely. Equanimity is a beautiful mental factor that can feel like freedom, but if "I" and "mine" still operate, there is still work to be done. Many suggestions are offered for cultivating equanimity.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Four Brahma Viharas
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Four Brahma Viharas,
The Ten Paramis
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2009-05-21
Realizing the Nature of Mind
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Rob Burbea
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Through practice we can glimpse a sense of the nature of awareness as something ever present and awesomely vast, and this sense can be cultivated as a profound resource for freedom and peace in our lives. But eventually we must see even beyond this to know the ultimate nature of the mind - empty, completely groundless, and dependently-arisen - a seeing which brings an even deeper freedom. This talk explores some of the ways this realization might be encouraged and developed in meditation.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2009-05-20
Three Gifts That Serve Freedom
56:43
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Tara Brach
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There are three spiritual capacities that are essential for our freedom. The first, forgiveness, is the releasing of stories that this self, or another, is bad. It is an opening of the heart to include all parts of our own being and this world. The second, inner fire, is the energy of devotion to what most matters to us. The third, looking within to realize what we are, reveals the truth of reality itself. This talk uses an ancient Indian teaching tale and guided meditations to explore these core elements of spiritual liberation.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2009-05-12
Factors That Support and Hinder Concentration
58:22
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Sally Armstrong
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Any time we practice mindfulness and wise attention, we are weakening the impact of the hindrances, and strengthening what are known as the five jhanic factors: meditative qualities that support the continuity and deepening of our meditation. Each of the jhanic factors actually balances and acts as an antidote to one of the hindrances. This talk looks at how to strengthen the jhanic factors, and use them skillfully as antidotes to the hindrances.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Concentration Retreat
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2009-04-21
Mind is the Core
47:36
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Mind (citta) as the Buddha’s focus of investigation.
As both the cause of suffering and the means to its cessation
The Buddha points to two states or tendencies of mind
Akusala - unwholesome, unskillful
Kusala - wholesome, skillful, beneficial
Suffering follows the unwholesome mind, Happiness follows the wholesome mind like a shadow that never departs.
Our task, step by step, is to train the mind and supplant the unwholesome state with the wholesome states.
Greed, hatred and Delusion are the root causes for the unwholesome mind.
We must cultivate the factors that are the cause for the wholesome mind at three levels.
Coarse - Actions, bodily or verbal. We use the five precepts to prevent unwholesome tendencies at this level. Obsessive, compulsive patterns - Thoughts, emotions. We use meditation, deep samadhi directed to an object, to see the arising of these tendencies and still the mind. Underlying tendencies, attachments - the remaining defilements We use wisdom, insight, to investigate the body and mind and see their impermanence and stop the clinging to a false self to uproot these final tendencies. This is liberation.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2009-04-01
Awakening Through Conflict
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Tara Brach
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The wisdom of the Buddha can guide us not only in discovering inner freedom, but in healing that which divides us from each other. While conflict is inevitable--we are wired toward flight and flight when our needs are not met--it is possible to have our patterns of interpersonal reactivity be the very grounds for awakening. This talk draws on the work of Non Violent Comunications (Marshal Rosenberg) and explores how mindful communications are an interpersonal meditation that gives rise to compassion and understanding.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2009-03-27
Unsupporting Consciousness
24:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we can come to recognize what the mind leans upon and why – and how everything it leans on falls apart. The most stable and secure abiding is unsupported consciousness – the removal of all props – ‘this is peaceful, this is sublime.’ It leads to cessation, a place of rest.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-03-26
Kind Awareness
54:44
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James Baraz
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This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness.
What does a kind awareness mean? How can we meet each moment—including moments of fear or physical discomfort—with this attitude? This is a key issue for deepening our practice.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2009-03-21
Volition and The Rut of i am
46:09
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Generally, mind becomes tangled with concerns for the future, planning, wanting things to be completed, finished. But nothing is solid or definite; it’s never quite right. This is the First Noble Truth. In meditation we take attention off the topic to how am I handling the topic: how am I affected, does this lead to more suffering or less? Open, soften, let it travel through.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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