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2021-11-22 Gratitude and Generosity Dharma Talk | Monday Night Talk 46:36
Jack Kornfield
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Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small. Gratitude is the confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. Gratitude does not envy or compare. Gratitude receives in wonder the myriad offerings of rain and sunlight, the care that supports every single life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-11-10 Mother Trees, Our Elders 43:25
Betsy Rose
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The Buddha famously taught that the Sangha is the most important aspect of “the Holy Life”. And Indigenous wisdom (and recent biology) teach us that natural systems are also a sangha, a web of connection, kept healthy by reciprocity and generosity. Betsy reflects on the dharma of the “Mother Trees”, and how elders (and youth) feed the life of our human ecosystem.
Assaya Sangha

2021-11-10 A Way of Living in Kindness - the Parami of Generosity 55:46
Jeanne Corrigal
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The parami are ten qualities of heart and mind that carry us in challenging times. This week we explored the parami of dana (generosity), and the way our individual acts of generosity become a way of living in kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2021-10-30 Gladdening The Heart 48:59
Tuere Sala
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At the start of a retreat, we are often troubled by expectations and habits. Gladding the mind is a gift we give ourselves. Practice around generosity, gratitude and metta can brighten the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Second 3-Week Insight Meditation Retreat

2021-10-19 Signs, distorted or uplifting 38:14
Ajahn Sucitto
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In cultivation we’re learning to experience things directly as they really are. We come to understand that we are moved and triggered by signs, not things. A lot of practice is about turning attention away from unskillful signs and cultivating skillful ones – cooperation, generosity, goodness. Then you’ve got something precious that takes you through difficult places and makes you feel comfortable when you’re in a bleak state.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat - Closing Group Practice

2021-10-08 Meditation on generosity, Dhamma talk on translation of the Sutta Nipata 1:27:55
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
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Meditation on generosity, guided by Bhante Akāliko. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on his translation of the Sutta Nipata. Story of Bāvari from the Pārāyanavagga (Snp 5): The Way to the Beyond.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-09-22 Refuge in Sangha 47:47
Leslie Booker
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Reflections on what it has meant to find true refuge, by experiencing the generosity of Sangha through grief, through isolation and through their wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding True Refuge: A retreat for LGBT*QI2 and GNC Communities.

2021-08-14 Kamma – Leaving Pain and Misery for a Divine Abiding 48:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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There is such a thing as good and evil and they give rise to fortunate or unfortunate consequences. Good and evil not as value judgments, but as particular energies that have consequences. The heart opens as a consequence of skillful energies, like generosity and love. This is the key to the celestial domains of the Sacred Cosmos, where gods are void of judgment and keen on Dhamma as a way to happiness.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  The Sacred Cosmos

2021-07-12 Dana, Sila, Bhavana- Dharma practice is 24/7 58:37
Bonnie Duran
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A brief description of Breath stroking and calming our heart with love…..and then a description of Ven. U Panditta’s teachings on Dana/Generosity, Sila/Ethical Conduct, and Bhavana/Mental Cultivation. Awakening is available in this very life!!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-07 Dedication of Merit 46:33
Kate Munding
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Dedication of Merit is a ritual found throughout the Buddhist community. This talk explores the deeper meaning and purpose of this practice. Merit is generated every time we sit down and the ritual of dedication reminds to connect outward to the world at large, to humans and the more than human world, in an act of generosity. Instructions for how to dedicate the merit is included, as well as a Q&A at the end.
Assaya Sangha :  Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

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