Discussing the major issues affecting the youth in Africa.
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A Contemporary Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation Community For Central Florida
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awaren ...
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allow ...
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Dharma Talks from Robert Beatty and the Portland Insight Meditation Community. PIMC is an experiment in American Buddhism. The purpose of PIMC is to improve the lives of participants, their families and the greater community through meditative practice and a lifestyle that supports liberation from suffering, the awakening of wisdom, and the manifestation of compassion.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Ajahn Amaro
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Evening puja with chanting followed by a dharma talkPor Ajahn Amaro
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Ayya Khemakā
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Ajahn Amaro
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Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Khemakā, Greg Scharf: Retreat Opening - reflections
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Ajahn Amaro
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Ajahn Amaro
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Mindfully contemplating the subjective experience of the Four Elements: Earth, Wind,Fire, and Water is mentioned in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse as part of the category “Mindfulness of the Body”. During the talk, Peter describes the characteristics of each Element, along with how they can be useful for interrupting internal “selfin…
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This guided meditation provides suggestions for contemplating what are called the Four Elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. These contemplations are embedded within the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse. Peter describes the subjective characteristics of each of the Elements and suggests different areas of the body to mindfully investigat…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha spoke of like-minded friendship as "the whole of the spiritual life." He encouraged us to take refuge in the Sangha.What makes community so powerful? Have you ever been part of a group that felt quite magical, where it was more than merely a collection of individual members? What are the ingredi…
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Short Moments, Many Times A Day
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Short Moments, Many Times a Day. In this meeting of our sangha, we learn a variety of ways to incorporate moments of meditation throughout the day. This is not a substitute for our daily sitting practice, but a way to extend that practice throughout our daily activities. The format of the session will veer from our usual practice, as we practice a …
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Right Mindfulness
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This week’s dharma talk explores the 7th step in the teaching of the Buddha called “The Noble Eightfold-Path.” This 7th step is Right Mindfulness. We will explore this key practice that has been described as the watch guard of the mind and an aid to recognize, prevent and release craving and clinging that causes suffering. We will also present an o…
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Right Effort
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This week’s dharma talk explores the 6th step in the teaching of the Buddha called “The Noble Eightfold-Path.” This 6th step takes us into the “discipline aggregate” of the eight steps. Here we learn how to cultivate beneficial qualities of mind and how to disarm unbeneficial qualities of mind. The talk this week was given by Lezlie Laws.…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Greg Scharf
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Moving from greed, hatred, and delusion to loving kindness and equanimityPor Rebecca Bradshaw
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Greg Scharf
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Radiating metta to all beingsPor Greg Scharf
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Rebecca Bradshaw
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Self-Compassion requires us to cultivate capacities of presence with difficulty, kindness, and awareness of common humanity. But this doesn't mean that it always must be tender and internal. Often, our self-compassion requires us to be action-oriented and courageous. Join Eve for a look at these two forms …
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discusses, helpful and unhelpful ways to make effort in our meditationPor Rebecca Bradshaw
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Por Dawn Scott
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) April 22 is Earth Day. How can we express our care and appreciation for life on this planet through meaningful action? I look forward to exploring this with you at our Thursday sangha.I hope you join us.Por James Baraz
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What derails us on and off to cushion? This talk is an invitation to investigation perfectionism, the vulnerability that lies beneath it and the power of practicing with the 10 paramis in daily life.Por Jean Esther
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding that we are all interconnected - offering loving kindness for a neutral person through the sense of a separate selfPor Jean Esther
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is the John Makransky - Tibetan metta practice of receiving metta from a benefactorPor Bonnie Duran
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) During mindfulness practice, we might anchor our awareness through a focus on breath or body. We can also become mindfully aware of vedena, or feeling tone: whether we experience something as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Becoming mindful of this mental function helps us interrupt our own reactivity, i…
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Right Livelihood As Right Lifestyle
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The traditional rendering of samma ajiva in english is Right Livelihood; during this talk, Peter revises this part of the Noble Eightfold Path as Right Lifestyle, as life is more complex and more stressful psychologically in contemporary American culture. He describes the demands of work, finances, societal conflict, physical well-being, and enviro…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories from Father Gregory Boyle, reflections on lovePor Devon Hase
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination, including chanting and stories. Description of how we get off the chain, dukkha and the end of dukkha.Por Devon Hase
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Introduction to paticcasamuppada and Jane Hirshfield's reflection on the human condition.Por Devon Hase
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This talk continues a thorough review of the Four Noble Truths, focusing on the second attribute of the Fourth Truth, within the Virtue Aggregate of the Noble Eightfold Path–Right Action. During the talk, Lili describes the characteristics of the Precepts, which are the ethical guidelines to be understood and acted upon to further the path of Awake…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on emptiness and the unfabricated.Por Devon Hase
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Mindfulness helps us see our minds. Neuroscience and our own observations make clear that the natural negativity bias is there, and can be overridden in favor of intentional practices that increase contentment. Join Eve to explore two of these practices - appreciating others ('mudita' in Pali) and apprecia…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Homage to Jane Hirshfield and reflections on how the path grows our equanimity, and also our humanityPor Devon Hase
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How equanimity helps us navigate life in retreat and in the worldPor Devon Hase
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Reviewing the Value of Virtue and Right Speech
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During this talk, Peter provides an overview of Sila, the Buddhist Virtue Aggregate, which is found within the Noble Eightfold Path, with an emphasis on the importance of mindfully recognizing the non-virtuous elements of contemporary cultural conditioning, which create disharmony and dysfunction with significant negative consequences for social co…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Most of the Buddha's disciples whose names we are familiar with, such as Ananda and Sariputta, are men. The Buddha also had women disciples who were wise and profound practitioners like Mahapajapati, the Buddha's aunt/foster mother, responsible for the establishment of the order of nuns or Patacara, revere…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)Por Rebecca Bradshaw
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Reviewing Right Intention
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This talk by Allie Vaknin continues an ongoing review of the Four Noble Truths, specifically focusing on a function of the Wisdom Aggregate of the Noble Eightfold Path, Right Intention. Allie describes different manifestations of Right Intention: Renunciation of unwholesomeness, Kindness, and Compassion. This recording includes several comments and…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Dalai Lama said “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” And the Buddha taught that the wholesome energies that support goodness are the stepping stones to freedom. Join Eve for a deeper look at appreciation for goodness, the ensuing increase of inner ease, and ways we …
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)Por Rebecca Bradshaw
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