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October 9, 2018How To Feel Safe, Content & Connected
We have 3 overarching needs. Needs that help us be safe by avoiding harms, help us be content by rewards and help us be connected by attaching to others.
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July 24, 2018“Me Too” In Popular Mindfulness Communities
See how the “Me Too” movement in Popular Mindfulness communities had spread. Get a better understanding of power through the stories of the victims.
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Addiction
February 18, 2018Sex, Violence And The State Of Grace
Ajahn Amaro explains about spiritual discipline in fighting addiction. How sex, violence and the state of grace are intricately related.
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Addiction
February 18, 2018From Difficulties To Freedom
In this audible, Ajahn chants Buddhist teaching. It seemingly paves the way to freedom from a life bound of hatred and difficulty.
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February 18, 2018Fear of Public Speaking
Our perceptions are unreliable, subjective and impermanent. Ajahn teaches how different audience perceive, and why public speaking is terrifying.
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February 18, 2018My Life As A Monk
Ajahn shares about his life as a monk. His first contact with meditation in the Buddhist practice, and how that eventually lead him to monastic life.
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February 18, 2018The Force of Harmony
Ajahn explains each of us has a force to contribute to the environment. To do good and let go of the bad ways. And eventually, create harmony in the world.
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Anxiety
February 18, 2018The Place of Acceptance
Ajahn distinguishes loving kindness from liking and fundamental acceptance. We need to free the heart from restrictions as it’s the place of acceptance.
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February 18, 2018Happiness of Renunciation
A monastic life with renunciation of many things may not be perceived as a happy life. But Ajahn teaches that happiness does need to be simple.
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February 18, 2018On Death – Questions and Answers
This audible is a recording of the questions and answers about the topic of death. Ajahn gives answers in the Dharma practice.
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February 18, 2018The Past Is A Closed Book, The Future Is A Complete Mystery
Ajahn explains Buddhist teaching how to live in the present, in the now. That the past is a closed book, and the future is a complete mystery.
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February 18, 2018Who Are You, Wanderer?
Jack Kornfield explains that our life is just but a moment of our journey. Who are we? We just wander striving to know our purpose.
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February 18, 2018Poetry, Beauty And Art
In mindfulness, attention is inclusive of appreciating poetry, beauty, and art. Jack Kornfield explains that they are all integrated into our existence.
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February 18, 2018Awareness And Intimacy
In this mindfulness talk, Jack Kornfield discusses how to navigate intimacy as we develop greater mindfulness and self-awareness.
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February 18, 2018Teachers And Cults
Jack Kornfield talks about teachers and cults. He expounds the importance of independence or spirituality and truth; in order not to fall astray into cults.
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February 18, 2018Karma and Intention
Gil talks about intention and karma. Part of the core of mindfulness is the appreciation of the present moment with intentions causing the choices we make.
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February 18, 2018Big Flower Small Flower
Gil Fronsdal talks about Acharias- women who have become gurus of the Buddhism teachings. He said the path of the Buddha leads to liberation.
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February 18, 2018Seven Factors of Awakening
Gil Fronsdal talks about the seven factors of awakening. They are mindfulness, investigation, energy or engagement, joy, calmness, concentration, and equanimity.
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January 30, 2018Nature of Awareness
Guy Armstrong talks about the nature of awareness; mindfulness and consciousness being different properties. What about the word awareness?
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January 30, 2018Metta: Near and Far Enemies
The practice of Metta is an exploration. How Metta is relevant in the unfolding of the Dharma? How the heart responds as we identify loving kindness.
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January 30, 2018Keys To A Long Retreat
“Refrain from violence and work to end hatred” is a good way to reflect on during the long retreat. Attitude and simple living are the keys.
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January 30, 2018Working with Difficult Emotions by Caroline Jones
Guy Armstrong discusses about the sufferings brought about by the emotional pain. Sadness, grief, all other difficult emotions, how you work with it.
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January 30, 2018Karma and the End of Karma
Guy talks about Karma and the End of Karma. Why is it important to teach Karma? It is the science of happiness according to Buddhist teachings.
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January 29, 2018Working With Fear
The topic of working with fear shows the liberating power of the Dharma. Guy Armstrong says fear has haunted human development, but it can be uprooted.
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January 29, 2018Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Guy Armstrong discusses the 7 factors of enlightenment. These are mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, calm, concentration and equanimity.
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January 29, 2018Unentangled Knowing
Guy Armstrong says “unentangled” means preventing the tangling from happening. So unentangled knowing is the kind that prevents tangling from happening.
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January 29, 2018The Power of Lovingkindness
The practice of Metta makes the heart more responsive. You’ll be surprised you don’t even need to learn Metta in order to show the power of loving kindness.
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January 29, 2018The Attitude In Awareness
Relax, observe, and allow. These 3 are the guidelines for the proper attitude in awareness meditation. Guy teaches to strike the balance in so-doing.
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January 15, 2018Undoing Mental Knots
Anam Thubten explains that we all have the desire to be free from a troubled existence. And undoing of mental knots is central to Buddhist teaching.
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January 15, 2018Impulse To Freedom
Anam Thubten urges us to find out about the thought of our impulse to freedom. A spiritual impulse which is a deep longing bigger than any other desires.
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January 15, 2018What Is Your Original Face?
Anam Thubten leads us further in our longing to self-discovery. How awakening our consciousness reveals our original face.
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January 15, 2018Go Inside and Ask: What Do I Want Most?
Anam Thubten gives insight about self-discovery. To ask what do I want most. That what we know ‘everybody wants happiness’ is not really entirely true.
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January 15, 2018Surrendering to Life
Many people try to find the answer to the suffering of human life. In parallel, the entire Buddha’s teaching deals about human suffering.
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January 15, 2018Loving Humanity and Melting the Ice
Anam Thubten teaches us to turn our attention into the world, to look into our heart. To love humanity and tells us to connect.
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January 15, 2018Relaxing the Mind
If you can change your mind, you can change a lot of things in your life. Anam Thubten teaches to relax the mind in finding unconditional happiness.
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January 15, 2018Melting Into Love
Anam Thubten urges us to melt into love. Our mind is like water. Its nature is to flow and pristine, however, it is usually frozen due to anger or fear.
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January 15, 2018Sacred Fertilizer
Sacred Fertilizer- sometimes we need a powerful dose of challenges, tribulations, crisis such as loss of loved ones or unbearable feelings to awaken.
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January 15, 2018The Magic of Awareness – Talk
Anam Thubten talks about the gift of awareness and the hindrance of the ego. How this awareness can do magic in our unfolding.
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January 15, 2018Embracing Each Moment – Talk
Anam Thubten talks about how embracing each moment ‘as it is’ leads to concentration and worry-free living vis a vis dwelling to past.
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January 15, 2018No Self, No Problem
Anam Thubten talks about No Self No Problem. No self is an old concept in the Buddhist sutras. To Anam, we are no singular entity but more of multi-dimensional, if we look deep into our consciousness.
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December 19, 2017Wise Effort
Marcia Rose talks about the 3rd factor of enlightenment: wise effort. Wise effort is so intricate to energy, i.e., ever present in every mental activity.
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December 19, 2017Guided Meditation on Patience by Marcia Rose
Listen to Guided Meditation on Patience by Marcia Rose. With patience being the most important and necessary quality with mindfulness insight.
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December 19, 2017Generosity
Marcia Rose talks about the seamless circle of the paramies of generosity. Paramies are the accumulated forces of purity within the heart and mind.
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December 19, 2017Introduction to Seeing Drawing
Marcia Rose gives an exercise: introduction to seeing drawing as a form of meditative activity. “When we start to draw we begin to see.”
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December 19, 2017Introduction to Drawing Yourself
Marcia Rose introduces the “drawing yourself” exercise. First is to draw a part of yourself, either the hand or the foot.
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December 19, 2017Poem Reading with Marcia Rose
Marcia Rose reflects on the Monet Poem: Monet refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller. And another, Shoveling Snow With Buddha – Poem by Billy Collins.
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December 18, 2017Investigating Aversion and Anger
We don’t need to judge ourselves for being angry. In meditation practice, we see it and investigate it aversion or anger as suffering.
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December 18, 2017Many Kinds of Thoughts
Shaila Catherine talks about Many Kinds of Thoughts. A liberated one will think what he wishes to and will not be controlled or seduced by various whims.
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December 18, 2017Deep Peace
We all hunger for inner peace. Simple meditation practices can bring about a great depth of peace. Shaila guides you to look for deep peace within.
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December 18, 2017Buddhism in Brief
There are 3 great vehicles of Buddhism. Vajrayana is the form we find in Mongolia and Tibet; the Mahayana is the form we find in China, Korea or Japan.
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December 18, 2017Mindfulness of the Body
Shaila Catherine leads a guided meditation with an emphasis on the mindfulness of the body. The body is a wonderful resource for bringing our attention to the present moment.
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December 18, 2017Listening Deeply
Kate Munding talks about the 5 precepts- a commitment to non-harming. Learn how listening deeply with compassion is a form of wise speech.
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December 18, 2017Resting the Mind
Kate Munding talks about the natural tendency of resting the mind. That sometimes it’s not to feel bad about and that it’s part of being human.
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December 18, 2017The Role of Motivation and Intention
“Everything rests on the tip of one’s motivation.” Kate Munding urges us to think if we truly live our lives as though it were true. Its role and intention.
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December 18, 2017The Dharma of True Friendship
Kate Munding shares a story about how the Buddha advised on friendship; also shared her own story about the friendships she had when only a few were good.
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December 18, 2017The Earth and the Buddha
The Buddha’s teachings are considered to be a path to freedom in the heart and the mind. And the earth represents delusions and illusions of life.
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December 18, 2017This Precious Human Life
Kate Munding shares how we can make the little moments in life become a different experience. That preciousness of human life doesn’t only come with beauty.
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December 12, 2017The Light & The Darkness
James Baraz talks about light and darkness. Greed, hatred, and delusion is the source of human despair and has gained so much power in our times.
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December 12, 2017Mindfulness With Attitude
James Baraz shares that the first day of the retreat is a detox process. You will feel the resistance of sorts and how the attitude to mindfulness starts.
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December 12, 2017The Tall Poppy and the Shrinking Violet
James Baraz describes the characteristics of the tall poppy and shrinking violet to oppression and benevolence. The mind can be arrogant and can be humble.
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December 12, 2017Being a Sacred Warrior in These Tough Times
“I decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear!” said Martin Luther King. James Baraz describes the sacred warrior in these tough times.
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December 12, 2017Heart Practices for Awakening Joy
James Baraz talks about how mindfulness is the tool to awaken the joy in life; how opening the heart lets many blessings to flow.
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December 12, 2017Awakening Joy for Kids
Are you a parent who’s looking to pass on to the next generation, mindfulness? James Baraz offers this mindfulness talk on awakening joy for our kids.
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December 12, 2017Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times
Hatred never ceases by hatred. James Baraz discusses how love is the only way to end hatred as we are called to be peaceful warriors in these modern times.
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December 12, 2017Working With The Judging Mind
James Baraz talks about working with the judging mind on meditation practice. Sometimes the best ones who can perform deep meditation are the worse ones.
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December 12, 2017Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred
Hatred does not cease from hatred; hatred ceases by love alone. This is an ancient and eternal law. James Baraz expounds how much we need love in the world.
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December 12, 2017The Problem With Being a Good Meditator
James Baraz talks about the problem with being a good meditator. The conceit, anxiety and restlessness clings and hides through mask of accomplishments.
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December 12, 2017Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times
James Baraz talks about pain and suffering in the world. We have the power to alleviate pain. Find balance in difficult times through equanimity.
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December 11, 2017Practice as a Path of Happiness
James Baraz talks about how practice leads us to a path of happiness. By which the purpose of life is to be happy because we open up the gifts we have.
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December 11, 2017The Importance of Appreciating our Benefactors
James Baraz tells a story about the importance of appreciating our benefactors. These mentors and inspirations should be considered streams of goodness.
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December 11, 2017The Multiplication of Courage
James Baraz talks about the power of community. There is a kind with creativity or collective intelligence, and sometimes multiplication of courage.
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October 12, 2017Compassion With Attunement
Frank Ostaseski leads a meditation centering on compassion and attunement. He says compassion is an attunement to exactly where you are.
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October 12, 2017Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice
Donald Rothberg leads a meditation through a sensitive topic of race, racism and spiritual practice. Referencing to injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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October 12, 2017Spiritual Journey
Donald Rothberg leads the spiritual journey meditation towards perfecting mindfulness. To look deeply to oneself takes more courage than the soldier on the battlefield.
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October 12, 2017Practicing with Anger
Practicing anger is a crucial theme in practice. There are many reasons for anger being quite confusing and yet being challenging to working with anger when the need arises.
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October 12, 2017Working with Transforming Judgment Mind
Donald Rothberg talks about working with transforming judgment mind. It talks about daily life and limiting factors and sometimes unconscious.
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October 10, 2017Empathy: Its Nature, What Makes It Hard, and How to Develop It
Donald Rothberg talks about empathy: its nature, what makes it hard and how to develop it. Empathy is the ability to tune in to a person’s emotions, thinking, etc.
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October 9, 2017Generosity and Gratitude
Donald Rothberg talks about the relationship between Generosity and Gratitude. It’s the spirit of giving is based on the feeling of Gratitude.
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October 9, 2017Practicing with Darkness and Light at the Winter Solstice
In this meditation practice, Donald Rothberg talks about embracing the darkness and inviting in the light especially in this time of winter solstice.
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October 9, 2017Bringing Wisdom and Love to All Parts of Our Lives
Donald Rothberg talks about a vision of bringing wisdom and love to all parts of our lives. In this meditation, he showed the letter from Birmingham Jail.
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October 9, 2017Equanimity
Donald Rothberg discusses the nature of Equanimity, what are the challenges and difficulties, & why it is important. Equanimity is synonymous with balance.
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October 9, 2017Forgiveness Practice
Forgiveness practice can be done in different ways. In cultures, it’s an interpersonal practice while in Buddhist practice, it’s more of inner or community.
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October 9, 2017Transforming the Judgmental Mind
The judgmental mind works in a very selective manner. Donald Rothberg explores the nature of the judgmental mind and gives guidance to transform it.
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October 9, 2017Patience and Perseverence
In this talk, Phillip Moffitt focuses on patience and determination. Patience is the willingness to start over while determination is starting over similar to perseverence.
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October 9, 2017Emotional Chaos to Clarity
Emotional chaos comes to the mind, and what contributes to it is the mind’s clinging to what it wants to have. Clarity is how chose to relate to the chaos, not to rid of the chaos.
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October 9, 2017Penetrating Equanimity
Phillip Moffitt talks about Penetrating Equanimity. “Teach us to care and not to care, teach us to sit still.” This poem by T.S. Eliot greatly sums up what is the felt sense of equanimity.
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October 9, 2017Good Fortune, Bad Fortune
Phillip Moffitt tells a story about fortune: good or bad and leads us to a liberating paradox of mindfulness. How believing the old paradox misleads us.
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October 5, 2017Reflections on the Splendor of Generosity
Phillip Moffitt talks about Reflections on the Splendor of Generosity. This particular meditation is to acknowledge the practice of compassionate generosity in mindfulness.
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October 5, 2017Finding Possibility in All That Arises and Passes
Phillip Moffitt leads a themed meditation finding possibility in all that arises and (vanishes) passes. The breath, thoughts, feelings, anger and etc.
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October 5, 2017Mood and Mindfulness
Phillip Moffitt explains mood and attitude are the hidden aspects that many fail to realize mindfulness. Mindfulness is defined and expounded later on.
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October 5, 2017How Do We Relate to Time Itself?
The theme of this meditation is exploring our relationship with time. Everything is born in seasons of time. Cultures are time-based.
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September 25, 2017Stories That People Will Say About Us
Sylvia Boorstein tells a story that leads to Siddharta, it deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery. We all have stories to share with people.
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September 18, 2017The Dragon and the 10 Gowns
Jack Kornfield talks about how Buddha teaches the transformation of suffering into joy. He then proceeds to tell the story about the dragon and 10 gowns.
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September 18, 2017What Should I Think?
Sylvia Boorstein tells a story about an Olympic situation and brainstorms about “what to think?” in response to the situation, how we are limited by thinking normally.
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September 11, 2017Nachiketa and the Lord of Death
Jack Kornfield tells the story of Nachiketa who puts his ego before him unafraid to face the Lord of Death. Was it courage? What can we reflect from this?
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September 11, 2017Everything is Spiritual Practice
Sylvia Boorstein leads a spontaneous meditation and tells that the spiritual practice happens even when in community with others, so it’s everything.
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July 9, 2017Seeing Anew
Jack Kornfield talks about seeing things in a fresh way or seeing anew. Perfect for beginners who are contemplating for contentment.
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