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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2020-06-30
Cultivating Patience
45:06
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Shaila Catherine
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| Shaila Catherine discusses the importance of patience in our practice. This talk explores benefits, opportunities, and challenges that we experience when cultivating this often under appreciated virtue of patience. |
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2020-06-23
Training in Opposites
36:46
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Kim Allen
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| This talk focuses on a style of practice that could be called “training in opposites.” We deliberately engage contrasting functions of the mind in order to broaden and stretch, or opposing viewpoints in order to hone our understanding. |
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Tuesday Talks
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2020-02-11
The Seven Factors of Awakening
1:24:10
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| The Seven Factors of Awakening offer an effective framework for cultivating the mind, overcoming the hindrances, and balancing the energetic and calming forces that develop through meditation. When these seven factors are well developed, the mind is ripe for awakening. This series will explore each factor to reveal its importance, function, and role in the process of awakening. |
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2020-02-11
Mindfulness
35:38
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Shaila Catherine
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| Mindfulness (Sati in Pali) is a whole-hearted observation of the present moment with a quality of mind free of desire/aversion. It forms the basis for cultivating all the Awakening Factors. |
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The Seven Factors of Awakening
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2020-02-11
Investigation
48:30
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Kim Allen
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| What is meant by investigation (damma vicaya in Pali) and how do we prepare ourselves to undertake it. |
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The Seven Factors of Awakening
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2020-02-04
Suffering and Its End
46:32
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Shaila Catherine
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| In this talk, Shaila Catherine addresses the great teaching of the Buddha known as the four noble truths: 1) suffering, 2) the cause of suffering is craving, 3) the end of suffering, and 4) the path leading to the end of suffering. Shaila Catherine explores each of the four truths through inspiring sutta references and daily life examples that show how we can live our daily lives from the perspective of liberating wisdom. Rather than engage in endless philosophical speculations or become attached to views and opinions, the Buddha taught a practical path based on the recognition of the fundamental unsatisfactory characteristic of experience. When we recognize dukkha (suffering), we can realize the end of dukkha (suffering). |
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Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths
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2020-02-04
Mindfulness of the Body: A Guided Meditation with Sequential Touch Sensations
25:16
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Shaila Catherine
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| In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a practice of mindfulness of the body by observing a sequence of touch sensations. This meditation guides practitioners to gradually move attention through a series of bodily locations where the feet, buttocks, hands, lips, and eye lids touch. At each location we pause to experience the present sensations that are known at that place of touching. After exploring touch points, we broader the field of attention to the whole body sitting. By alternating the focus of attention between precise and clear points of contact, and broad, restful, receptive awareness of the whole body, the meditator nurtures a clear bright balanced mind that can meet the present moment as it is. |
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Featured Guided Meditations
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2020-02-02
Guided Body Scan
28:35
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Sharon Allen
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| Sharon Allen guides the listener through a body scan meditation to bring a gentle clear attention to the body from head to toe. The body scan practice is not just a practice for beginning meditators, or as a stress-reduction tool. It serves as a key foundational practice for all meditators who are earnest about following the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and strengthening mindfulness of the body. |
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Featured Guided Meditations
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2020-01-28
Practicing the Path
36:54
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Carla Brennan
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| Do the actions we perform lead us to liberation or continued suffering? |
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Tuesday Talks
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Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths
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