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Gregory Kramer's Dharma Talks
Gregory Kramer
Gregory has been teaching meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue, offering retreats worldwide and authoring books including Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom and Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts.
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2011-09-30 Guided Meditation 29:24
Gaia House Insight Dialogue: The Four Noble Truths Come Home
2011-09-28 Opening Talk: The Sensitive Human Experience 48:23
Gaia House Insight Dialogue: The Four Noble Truths Come Home
2011-05-19 Relational Dharma 1:22:14
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center
2008-11-10 The relationality of the Buddha's teachings 42:06
Relational Dhamma
Insight Dialogue Community (Boston, MA)
2007-10-07 Insight Dialogue 57:59
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2007-06-01 Interpersonal desires and fears - the roles of tanha 33:02
What activates the desires and fears we have when we come into contact with another? Meditation is about seeing things as they actually are, the operation of the heartmind intra and interpersonally. The mind will then incline towards what is wise. The heart is moved by contact with another. However there is pressure/tendencies of the mind to move into agitation and confusion on contact with others. What activates the fears and desires of interpersonal interaction? Hunger (tanha) pressurises thoughts and feelings so that the mind doesn't settle. It is like fuel or an electric current for the system (personality) that is in place. All thoughts/actions/speech are conditioned by past habits and occurrences (sankhara conditions namarupa). Hunger/craving fuels/energises the system to generate more constructs along the same lines as previous ones. (These can be wise or unwise habits) There are three hungers: 1) Hunger for sense desires which includes social desires as well e.g. avoidance of loneliness which is like a death of the self. it might be seeking pleasure from others, seeking approval from parents, or in a Buddhist rebirth sense of driving from life to life. 2) Hunger to be seen, to become. 3) Hunger not to be seen e.g. interacting whilst performing a role, wearing a mask so the 'real you' is hidden, limiting contact with people, or having contact defined procedurally so it is blinkered - again a form of 'hiding'.
Insight Dialogue Community (Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
2003-02-19 Interpersonal Suffering and Interpersonal Meditation 1:50:24
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

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