Seattle Insight Meditation Society: Recent Episodes

Seattle Insight Meditation Society

Audio recordings of Buddhist teachings and discussions with local and visiting teachers of the Dhamma. Visit seattleinsight.org for more information.

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Reflection and Practice

What is your relationship to concentration from a meditative perspective? How do you cultivate it in daily meditation practice? What is the right amount and quality of effort? Are states of concentration the end goal, or are they a means to an end? What is the real purpose of concentration?

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This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer John Stott.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alyson Williams.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Sheri Cohen.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer John Stott.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Sheri Cohen.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

Reflection and Practice

Reflect on how you identify as your body: This is my hand, my foot; I like this aspect, dislike this aspect. What happens to the concept of “body” as you sustain your attention on the actual sensations during meditation? Is it harder to maintain the idea of “I am my body” at the level of sensations? If you are not your body, what are you? Where are you located?

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2025-10-27 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Candace RobbDate: 2025-10-26 Sunday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Sunday mornings, 2025) 2025-01-05 Aravind Moorthy, Candace Robb, Jerry Harter, Judith Avinger, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Nana Gyesie, Nina Laboy, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2025-10-20 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2025-10-19 Sunday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Sunday mornings, 2025) 2025-01-05 Aravind Moorthy, Candace Robb, Jerry Harter, Judith Avinger, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Nana Gyesie, Nina Laboy, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2025-10-13 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2025-10-13 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2025-10-12 Sunday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Sunday mornings, 2025) 2025-01-05 Aravind Moorthy, Candace Robb, Jerry Harter, Judith Avinger, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Nana Gyesie, Nina Laboy, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2025-10-06 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2025-09-29 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Nina LaboyDate: 2025-09-28 Sunday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Sunday mornings, 2025) 2025-01-05 Aravind Moorthy, Candace Robb, Jerry Harter, Judith Avinger, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Nana Gyesie, Nina Laboy, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2025-09-22 Monday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Monday evenings, 2025) 2025-01-06 Ghisly Garcia, Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Shawn Holmes, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2025-09-21 Sunday

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The Four Noble Truths & The Twelve Insights (Sunday mornings, 2025) 2025-01-05 Aravind Moorthy, Candace Robb, Jerry Harter, Judith Avinger, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Nana Gyesie, Nina Laboy, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2025-09-18 Thursday

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Eastside Insight Meditation Group 2021-01-23 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-09-23 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

Reflections on Resolve

What distortions of resolve do you tend toward? Are you trying to get over yourself or create a better you? How can we have resolve and yet let go at the same time? How do the other paramis support resolve?

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2024-09-15 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-09-14 Saturday

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Cultivating the Brahma Viharas at a Time of Strife and Division 2024-09-14 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-09-14 Saturday

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Cultivating the Brahma Viharas at a Time of Strife and Division 2024-09-14 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-09-09 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-09-08 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Narayan Helen LiebensonDate: 2024-09-05 Thursday

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-09-02 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-09-01 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-08-26 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-08-25 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-08-19 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2024-08-18 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-08-12 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

Practice and Reflection

This month, bring extra awareness to times you shade or negate what is true through your speech or action. Notice the internal experience before, during, and after. In the same way, notice what arises when you align with truthfulness. What does this teach you about this parami?

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-08-05 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-08-04 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-07-29 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Jerry HarterDate: 2024-07-28 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2024-07-22 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-07-21 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-07-18 Thursday

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Eastside Insight Meditation Group 2021-01-23 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-07-15 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-07-14 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-07-08 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-07-07 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2024-07-01 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-06-24 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-06-17 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-06-16 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-06-10 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2024-06-09 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-06-06 Thursday

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Eastside Insight Meditation Group 2021-01-23 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-06-03 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind Moorthy, Tim GeilDate: 2024-05-27 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-05-26 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim Geil, Tuere SalaDate: 2024-05-23 Thursday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-05-20 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-05-19 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-05-13 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2024-05-12 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-05-06 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-04-29 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-04-28 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2024-04-22 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-04-21 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lauren Wilson, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-04-15 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-04-14 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-04-08 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-04-07 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-04-01 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Aravind MoorthyDate: 2024-03-31 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-03-25 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-03-24 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-03-21 Thursday

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Eastside Insight Meditation Group 2021-01-23 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-03-18 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

Reflection and Practice

Notice the pleasure and joy that arises around the choices to be ethical or not. What pleasure is short-term, based on conditions? What joy is long-term, based on actions? What is the role of internal vs. external motivation around ethics?

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Teacher: Jerry HarterDate: 2024-03-17 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-03-11 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lyndal JohnsonDate: 2024-03-10 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Steve WilhelmDate: 2024-03-07 Thursday

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Eastside Insight Meditation Group 2021-01-23 Sooz Appel, Steve Wilhelm

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Teacher: Keri PedersonDate: 2024-03-04 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

Reflections

Make note of “moral beauty” this week whenever you encounter it—instances of the heart functioning well, in the service of the well-being of others. What is it like to make note of that?

Are there areas in your life that you notice helpful remorse or regret—concerns about doing something that may have violated your own sense of integrity, or concerns about potentially causing harm to others? In your experience, what is the difference between the kind of remorse that may lead to more skillful action in the future, and the kind that is shame-driven and paralyzing?

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Teacher: Sooz AppelDate: 2024-03-03 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tim GeilDate: 2024-02-26 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Lauren WilsonDate: 2024-02-25 Sunday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Sunday mornings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Aravind Moorthy, Jerry Harter, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel

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Teacher: Tuere SalaDate: 2024-02-19 Monday

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Awakening Into the Paramis (Monday evenings, 2024) 2024-01-09 Keri Pederson, Sooz Appel, Tim Geil, Tuere Sala

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Teacher: Rodney SmithDate: 2024-02-18 Sunday

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Teacher: Rodney SmithDate: 2024-02-17 Saturday

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This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Aruna Bala.

Reflection and Practice

Practice with acknowledging the energy of hatred balanced with the clear intention to not act from that hatred. Try these three approaches: bring compassion to the underlying pain of the hatred; offer metta to yourself and the object of your hatred; sense the “self-making” power of hatred and relax into stillness.

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Reflection and Practice

Exploring the nature of greed in a non-judgmental manner, we start to understand the underlying perspective that creates it. What core perspective allows non-greed to arise? What needs to be released to allow that perspective to be present? What are the expressions of non-greed in your daily life?

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Reflection and Practice

As we start to explore the Defilement of Greed, notice the attitude you bring. Are you trying to eradicate greed or understand it? Are you relating to greed from hatred or from wisdom and compassion? Choose one of your habits around greed, and meet it with mindfulness and investigation to understand its nature more fully. Experiment with doing what is opposite of that habit's impulse.

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Reflection and Practice

Non-self is central to the Buddha’s teaching. Notice how patterns of comparison, judgment, and thinking serve to reinforce this sense of self. How does insight meditation start to thin the self automatically around these patterns? Start to sense how one way of relating to experience reinforces the self, while another thins it.

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Reflection and PracticeThis week, explore dukkha as it arises in your daily life. What part of the suffering is intrinsic to that experience, and what part is optional? Include physical, mental, and emotional experiences of dukkha in this practice. Notice when you add the second arrow, or resist the nature of impermanence, or follow the thirst to establish the sense of self. How can you release this “added-on” suffering?This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

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Reflection and PracticeWe have this assumption of a self at the center of our experiences: our thoughts, our emotions, our senses. While relatively true, dharma practice points to the underlying illusion of self. Notice how that sense of self arises in relation to the five aggregates. If you relax the activity of thinking and doing around the aggregates, is that sense of self still there? Can you actually locate it? The Five Aggregates: Form (body, etc), Vedena (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral), Perception (labeling from past history), Volitional Impulses (thinking, emotions, actions), Consciousness (sensory field).This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Aruna Bala.

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Reflection and PracticeIn your own experience, what has been the role of meditation practice compared to study of the many lists of Buddhism? What is the relationship between practice and study? Both have their strengths and limitations. How does practice inform your study? How does study inform your practice?

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Practice and ReflectionWhen difficulty arises in your life, where do you seek refuge? What is the first impulse that arises? Practice pausing your habitual reaction and instead take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Simply saying the words can have a profound impact. Reflect on your understanding of each of the refuges. Which ones resonate at different times? How does this practice affect your formal meditation and daily life?This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Aruna Bala.

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Reflection and PracticeReflect on all the different stages and cycles of your practice. There is a trajectory over time and weekly ups and downs. See how the various Ox-Herding images can speak to those cycles. In particular, notice how effort, the sense of the ox, and the sense of you as the practitioner change with each stage or cycle. What happens when you release comparison and judgment and simply meet how practice is right now?This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Aruna Bala.

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Reflection and Practice

A spiritual practice kept in isolation has limited benefit. Integrating insights into the fabric of our lives is essential for a flowering of dharma. Which areas of your daily life do you struggle integrating with your dharma practice? Are there areas you hold outside practice? Reflect on what is the nature of that difficulty? Is it spiritual idealism? Is it the mode of meditation practice? Is it uncertainty on how to practice your insights?

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Reflection and Practice

How do you hold the spiritual insight and realizations you have experienced? Sometimes we hold them as something to obtain again. The present practice is lacking if those aren’t present. Another way is to use them as guideposts, like the orienting capacity of the North Star. In the midst of confusion and struggle, the “True North” of our past insights help us find clarity and let go.

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Reflection and Practice

Reflect on emptiness and form. This picture points toward a profound aspect of emptiness. How does emptiness relate to form, particularly our story? Can the story be sustained in emptiness? Is this always a beneficial thing? Are there times the story needs to be deeply understood and felt? What guides our choice?

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Reflection and Practice

See if you can play with your perception of the relationship between the contents of awareness (sights, sounds, thoughts, etc.) and the open field of aware knowing. One way to experiment with this is to notice the space around objects, especially when you feel yourself caught or contracted. Consider this suggestion from Bhikkhu Anālayo: "There is so much space surrounding the various things in the world, yet one usually only notices the things themselves, without paying any attention to the space between and around them. Even right now one could notice the space between one's eyes and this text... The silence between sounds, the stillness between an inhalation and an exhalation are other pointers in the same direction, and of course looking up at the vastness of the sky, whenever possible." From Bhikkhu Anālayo, Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation

How does this shift change your relationship to what you are experiencing?

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Practice and Reflection

Craft a "Vertical Question" for your own practice. This question can help you drop into stillness in the midst of daily life. This question takes us out of our normal reactivity and identification into what is conveyed by this picture.

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Practice and Reflection

What meditation technique do you use most often? Reflect on the benefits of that particular technique. What does it cultivate and what do you learn? What is your relationship with struggle and effort applying that technique? When has that technique served its usefulness and begun to get in the way? Do you cling to that technique longer than its usefulness? Understanding the usefulness of a meditation technique can come and go.

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Practice and Reflection

Look at your meditation practice as a training of the mind and attention. Consistency, patience, gentleness, and firmness are all needed. Reflect on your intention behind the training. Is it based in love or hatred? Compassion or wisdom? How does understanding your mind help with this training? How do you know when to guide and when to get out of the way?

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Discussion prompts

What does the ox represent for you right now? How are you relating to the ox? Trusting, doubting, confident, fearful... What is helping you be more mindful? What is getting in the way?

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Practice and Reflection

Bring extra discipline to your daily practice this week. Notice when the mind "strays down a dusty road or mud-filled swamp." Bring wise effort to bringing your attention back to the present moment and whatever anchor of attention you are using. How can this be a gentle process? Bring the same quality to some aspect of your daily life.

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Offered by Dane DuBose.

Offered by Dane DuBose.

Offered by Dane DuBose.

Offered by Dane DuBose

Offered by Dane DuBose

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Practice and Reflection

Reflect on the benefit of struggle and effort in your practice. How does it help wisdom grow and delusion fade? In what ways do you struggle unwisely, in a way that perpetuates suffering? How can we discern the difference?

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Practice and Reflection

Bring attention to the times during meditation practice, investigation, and daily life, where unexpectedly, something shifts, and things become effortless, still, and clear. Notice the tendency to chase these states or grasp at them. Instead, practice surrendering into them. When or if they pass, how have they transformed you and the world?

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Practice and Reflection

When you find yourself strongly seeking or obsessing over something spiritual or worldly, practice opening your senses to what is immediately present. How does this shift your perspective and relationship to that something? Is it possible to engage with it without tanha (craving that leads to becoming)? How does this transform the sense of you?

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This teaching was offered by Santikaro (Travis Cooper).

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Practice and Reflection Next time you find yourself struggling, seeking some type of happiness or escape, ask: “Is this a question of the relative or the absolute?” Hold whatever answer comes forth lightly. Realizing it can be both relative and absolute. Reflect on the deepest reason for your practice. Does your practice lead that direction?

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Offered as part of a Day of Mindfulness

Offered as part of a Day of Mindfulness

Practice and Reflection

Reflect on all the ways you seek happiness and peace which do not ultimately succeed in permanent happiness. In the same way, how many ways do you avoid pain and suffering in a way that doesn’t ultimately work? These reflections bring us into this first picture and verse. What lessons does this fruitful struggle teach us? In the pasture of the world, I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the bull. Following unnamed rivers, lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains, My strength failing and my vitality exhausted, I cannot find the bull. I only hear the locusts chirping through the forest at night. This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Aruna Bala.

At time point 00:03:17, Tuere Sala shared the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okka76Aj5tg.

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At time point 00:03:35, Tuere Sala shared the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okka76Aj5tg.

Discussion Prompt

Which of these do you find challenging in your practice? Which do you find supports your practice? 1. Building Discernment through (a) Wise attention, (b) Right intention, (c) Knowing what skillful action and unskillful action is 2. Truthfulness: (a) Learning to see experience as it truly is, (b) Understanding the mind’s capacity to fabricate reality 3. Relinquishment/Renunciation: (a) Learning to see the habitual nature of mind, (b) Letting go of I, Me, Mine thinking 4. Training for Peace: (a) Maintaining gratitude and appreciation for the path

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Refuges and Precepts: http://bit.ly/39hBILH

Note that a 20-minute period of silence for the guided sit is omitted in this recording.

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Practice and Reflection When the worldly winds blow, practice a paradigm shift. Relax your normal reactions and tendencies. Release your history and creation of the story of you within this worldly wind. Instead of adopting a new paradigm, try allowing stillness and silence to come to the forefront. Stay with the unknown and mystery of that stillness, allowing yourself to be less defined and established. Invite the heart to open toward a boundlessness in the midst of this worldly wind.

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