Amita Schmidt's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
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      Amita Schmidt is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on trauma and meditation. She was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society from 2000-2006.  She is the author of "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master." She also has practiced with Adyashanti, a teacher of non-dual awareness.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2017-07-16
            100% Heart Capacity 
    
        2019-04-07
            Amita's Personal Dharma Story of Healing Trauma 
    
        2017-07-13
            Anti-Fragile Dharma  
    
        2024-09-28
            Anxiety and Depression Basic Tools for Meditators 
    
        2023-09-24
            Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Dharma 
    
        2022-08-10
            Ask Your Heart Meditation 
    
        2022-01-09
            Awakening Now 
    
        2009-08-02
            Awakening/Enlightenment 
    
        2022-11-13
            Awareness of Awareness and Dissolving into Being 
    
        2020-11-07
            Basic Meditation Instructions 
    
        2008-08-01
            Beginning Metta 
    
        2023-01-29
            Below the Waves Meditation 
    
        2022-08-10
            Beyond Death Meditation 
    
        2016-09-18
            Bigger Perspective Meditation 
    
        2022-04-21
            Collapsing Into the Now 
    
        2025-02-23
            Connect and Soothe Your Parts during Difficult Times 
    
        2021-10-23
            Death/Letting Go Meditation 
    
        2021-03-27
            Deathbed Goal Challenge 
    
        2023-09-24
            Debilitating Self Doubt 
    
        2020-11-08
            Depression and Negative Thinking Loops 
    
        2019-10-18
            Depression, Anxiety, and The Four Noble Truths 
    
        2018-04-18
            Dreamcatchers 
    
        2018-11-02
            Embodying Quiet 
    
        2019-10-20
            Emptiness Practices for Depression and Anxiety: Part 2 
    
        2020-11-08
            Environmental Change and the Dharma 
    
        2021-03-28
            Equanimity Meditation 
    
        2021-10-17
            Expansion Meditation 
    
        2016-09-10
            Fear and Fearlessness 
    
        2020-11-07
            Finding a True Refuge during Traumatic Times 
    
        2021-01-24
            FIrst Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma. 
    
        2019-10-19
            Forgiveness Meditation 
    
        2024-10-10
            Infinte Love 
    
        2016-09-11
            Inner Family of Lovingkindness Meditation 
    
        2024-06-20
            Interview about Dipa Ma 
    
        2021-01-24
            Introduction First Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma 
    
        2022-12-17
            Kuan Yin Compassion Meditation 
    
        2022-11-13
            Listen to all thoughts like a birdsong. All thoughts are just sounds. 
    
        2011-07-30
            Metta For Benefactor And Self 
    
        2011-07-28
            Mindfulness As Affectionate Awareness 
    
        2011-07-24
            Mindfulness for Anxiety and Trauma 
    
        2007-09-08
            Mindfulness of Depression 
    
        2008-08-02
            Mindfulness Of Mind 
    
        2001-01-24
            Miracles 
    
        2018-11-02
            Monkey Mind Strategies 
    
        2016-09-17
            No Part Left Out 
    
        2022-12-22
            Outside the Storm: A Meditation for working with Strong Emotions 
    
        2018-11-03
            Paradoxes in Practice 
    
        2019-10-19
            Practices for Depression and Anxiety:  Part 1 
    
        2023-01-29
            Q and A: meditation and memory, sadness in practice, dementia, and chronic illn… 
    
        2024-10-06
            Q and A: The gift of Listening to Suffering. 
    
        2022-01-09
            Question and Answers in New Year 2022 Retreat 
    
        2017-07-13
            Question How did Trauma affect your meditation Practice? 
    
        2017-07-13
            Question What if I can't do Lovingkindness/Metta practice? 
    
        2018-10-28
            Questions and Answers on Trauma, Love, and Rawness 
    
        2021-03-29
            Questions and Answers The Cauldron of Emotions 
    
        2019-01-01
            Reset Your Nervous System Meditation 
    
        2020-11-07
            Resetting during Difficult Times and Circumstances 
    
        2025-06-08
            Resting in Essence 
    
        2022-11-13
            Self Forgiveness Meditation 
    
        2010-08-03
            Spiritual Fitness 
    
        2022-11-13
            Spiritual Resilience and Dharma Micro-Dosing 
    
        2025-02-23
            Spiritual Solidarity 
    
        2004-12-01
            Spiritual Urgency - Samvega 
    
        2010-09-23
            Stealth Bodhisattvas 
    
        2021-10-22
            Stillpoint Meditation 
    
        2007-03-23
            Sustainable Love 
    
        2018-10-13
            Take the One Seat 
    
        2025-02-23
            The Audacity of Joy 
    
        2021-03-27
            The Cauldron of Emotions 
    
        2002-01-10
            The Dharma of Alzheimers Disease 
    
        2021-10-17
            The Dharma of Difficult Emotions 
    
        2021-10-24
            The Fire of Change 
    
        2019-06-13
            The Gifts of Dipa Ma 
    
        2011-08-06
            The I that is We 
    
        2016-09-17
            The Lap of the Buddha Meditation 
    
        2023-05-26
            The No Self Strategy of the Buddha 
    
        2022-04-24
            The One Unchanging Thing 
    
        2024-10-08
            The Root Cause of Suffering 
    
        2022-04-24
            Tonglen Meditation 
    
        2018-11-03
            Twelve Steps and Dharma 
    
        2023-01-29
            Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections 
    
        2016-09-18
            Wholeness 
    
        2022-01-09
            Wise Older Self Meditation (Short Version) 
    
        2022-01-09
            Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version 
    
        2022-12-24
            Working with Thinking as a "Part" 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2001-01-14
            IMS Staff Retreat 2001 
    
        2004-11-05
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2007-03-18
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2008-07-30
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2009-07-29
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2010-07-28
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2011-07-27
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2016-09-17
            No Part Left Out 
    
        2018-04-08
            The Connected Heart 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
         
        
            
  
         
     
 
    
        
    
	
        
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
                
                    
    
      
      
        
           
  2020-11-07 
  Finding a True Refuge during Traumatic Times
 
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      During times of trauma, it's important to learn how to find a true refuge within you heart and mind. This talk will help you find some ways to do this. The talk was part of a zoom retreat with video clips and handouts, can see the video version at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAbMCLtfsQ&list=PLRGY6UiIOqoB-qwIQX53J-Bb5RH7T9FIs&index=2&t=6s
      
    
  
  
      
          
            
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  Resetting during Difficult Times and Circumstances
 
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      This is the introduction to a retreat on Finding a True Refuge During Times of Trauma. This introduction is about helping your nervous system reset in the pandemic or during any difficult time. It was part of zoom retreat with a film clip so if you want to see the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlA1_m33BQ4&list=PLRGY6UiIOqoB-qwIQX53J-Bb5RH7T9FIs&index=1
      
    
  
  
      
          
            
            	Mariposa Sangha