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The more I rest in present awareness, and don't separate myself out from life, the more I appreciate the impact that I have on others. Only when I am present am I sensitive to my connection to the world, am I able to feel how important it is to be non-harming in my words and actions. When I am lost in thought, I lose that simplicity and sensitivity.
I continually point toward this secret of the present moment, for if I am really present, I don't suffer as much, I don't cause as much suffering, and I am less afraid. I may experience intense pain or pleasure, but the degree of mental suffering lessens. Practicing mindfulness de-conditions the habits that prevent me from being centered in the present. This in turn gives me a more stable awareness, which allows me to recognize my inherent peace and freedom.
It is this taste of nowness--introducing people to the living quality of the present moment and its sense of freedom--that most engages me in my teaching practice. I find no evidence of suffering, in my mind, unless I remind myself of some event that is not in the present. Suffering arises when I am lost in my imagination, reviewing the past or fearfully anticipating the future.
I feel tremendous gratitude and love for the dharma, and the practice of awareness. Knowing my mind a little better, and being less preoccupied with my internal drama, makes me more available to the suffering of others. Consequently, I am moved to give to others rather than focusing on what I can get. In spite of being more attuned to suffering, staying present allows each day to become more joyful, compelling and intereesting. My desire to run from this moment, by running after an imagined, better future, or away from a past fear, has diminished. It is present wakefulness that helps me recover my capacity to live with balance and ease in the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Aim for the highest happiness which is in you as you right now when you are aware.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our practice creates a beautiful opportunity to know what we are in real time and the difference between that real time experience and the view of ourselves that plays in our minds
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) The gift of truth is the most precious gift. The taste of truth is the sweetest taste. The Love of truth is the greatest love. Buddha (*Dharma means Truth)
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor. (Howie offers his 'big mind' meditation in this module!)
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor.
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor.
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor.
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor.
(One World Mindfulness) 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After reading the Metta Sutta, guiding our loving attention through our body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration and guided "practice" of the boundless heart quality of Metta.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of non self, self view and our shared capacity to be free.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Experiencing ourselves beyond our personality story and learning how to relate to our self view with wisdom and love.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Buddha's way of happiness that includes happiness of non-harming, happiness of sense pleasure, happiness of concentration , happiness of equanimity and happiness of freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) You are complete as you are. Learning to recognize and relate to our different identity views.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) You are not measurable or comparable. You are a unique beautiful expression of life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Understanding Anatta and Self View: seeing the difference between ourselves and our views of ourselves.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha's path of awakening to the four noble truths.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the Buddha's path and understanding of happiness and the causes of happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha was called 'the Happy One'. His teachings and path provide a clear and inspiring vision of our capacity to use our life to fulfill our goal of happiness. This talk of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of mindfulness, concentration and love, illustrating how each of us, through a gradual process of applying loving awareness to our moment-to-moment experience, can move from clinging and attachment to letting go and freedom, from confusion to clarity, and from tension to ease of well-being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Importance of self compassion and self respect in the face of The Four Noble Truths.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short description of the Bhrama Viharas leading into initial guided Metta, including body, self, benefactor.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Everyone wants to be calm and peaceful. Much of our restlessness and agitation stems from an untrained mind and lack of clear perception of what's happening in our mind and body moment-to-moment.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Imagine feeling at home wherever you are. Imagine feeling that your life is so complete - right here, right now - that you do not wish to be anywhere else. This daylong talk will provide the tools to experience this meditative presence wherever you are.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Following the Buddha's journey through sense pleasures to concentration, to equanimity, to freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Settling into our personal essence and noticing the different identity views.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Breath, body, state of heart, mind and thoughts.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Caressing the body with loving attention.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explore the nature of ego and the enormous stress that comes with trying to be "someone."
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Body as the way to open to the world, let go of cause of suffering and realize freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Following in the footsteps of the Buddha, we see through the illusion of self and the illusion of other. We open our hearts to the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to ease of well-being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to well- being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Viewing our self views from a place of freedom and understanding.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The inspiration for the retreat title, "Loving the House that Ego Built." Waking up to the way that this house of ego is built moment by moment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Coming out of self views to the clear open heart of awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on the sky like nature of mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring a understanding of happiness. Happiness of non harming, happiness of concentration, happiness of insight, happiness of freedom
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stepping out of and recognizing limited views of ourselves and experiencing ourselves as we are.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening to life as it is. Learning how to navigate and realize the four noble truths...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the Nature of Self and the freedom that is available as we see through the self illusion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Buddha's Awakening and Path; describing the Joy of Blamelessness, the Joy of Concentration, Joy of Equanimity, Joy of Awareness to the Unconditioned.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Seeing through the self illusion and the illusion of others.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Buddha's realization of the 4 Noble Truths and Awakening of Happiness...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the Buddha's light of wisdom evolved through the experiences of his life, culminating in the highest happiness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Happiness, Freedom and the Four Noble Truths
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring self view and the way the house of self is built.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to navigate and realize the four noble truths with mindfulness and awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Real time investigation, through the body, of the fact of dukkha, cause of dukkha, end of dukkha and the Path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening to the vulnerability that comes with being someone.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) On this day of Insight Meditation practice, we will learn how to relate to ourselves wisely, lovingly and skillfully. We will try to weaken the unwise and unkind ways that we often relate to ourselves. Finally, we will understand that everything is marked by non-self. seeing through the illusion of self we can see through the illusion of the so-called "other".
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to recognize the self view and be kind to the vulnerability that come with being "someone"
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) All about the Tibetan teaching on the four reminders: preciousness of life, impermanence, karma, and the defects of samsara.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk given by Sharda Rogell, Anna Douglas and Howie Cohn teaching on the importance of practicing and following the path to wisdom and compassion as taught by the Buddha.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk given by Sharda Rogell, Anna Douglas and Howie Cohn teaching on the importance of practicing and following the path to wisdom and compassion as taught by the Buddha.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing the light of awareness and compassion to our self views.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Each of us falls into a case of mistaken identity with the stories in our mind - seeming more real than our immediate and direct experience
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Story of The Buddha's deepening insight into impermanance, suffering and selflessness and how it led to the "Sure Heart's Release."
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha is not so far away and your practice can allow you to recognize this.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Letting the uniquely human experience of our struggles and pain become the cause for healing, tenderness and well being.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The life and teachings of the Buddha. including the Four Noble Truths
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Similar to other talks on personality view, sakaya dhitti, and how we can notice the myriad ways it is spawned in our thoughts
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The power of awareness to turn our difficulties into the path of awakening and freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Putting our trust in awareness and getting to know and embrace our different self views, and the feelings that accompany them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Buddha's life and discovery of a sense of well being that does not depend on circumstances.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Emptiness is creative expression and creative potential. Both appreciating the immediate expression of emptiness as everything as well as emptiness as creative possibility to plant seeds of awakening.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Describes the development of equanimity through the vehicle of mindful attention.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explaining concepts of time and its influence on our experience of life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In the footsteps of the Buddha, shining the light of awareness on the difficulties in practice allowing them to be the cause of awakening.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Path of Practice seen through prism of the Buddha's Life; updated but similar to talks on Happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Another version of similar talks on self view and papanca highlighting our tendency to believe the imaginary versions of ourselves that play in our mind and obscure our natural happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How our minds generate self views and we fail to see they are just views. Waking up to notice these self ideas.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha's awakening and prescription for practicing the Four Noble Truths.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk pointing out the differance between direct exploration and the added narrative.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The gradual shift from seeking relief in unreliable things towardsa well being that does not depend on conditions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Distraction, "swimming" against our habit of distraction, our practice helps us open to the truth of dukkha, let go of its causes, realize its end and cultivate the the path of liberation, a version of the Four Noble Truths.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening to our experience moment-to-moment brightens our awareness, illuminating the difference between our direct experience and the virtual version of ourselves that plays through our minds.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha's evolving understanding of happiness and his awakening based on his life experiences.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the concept of time and the way our reality is colored by the views of time that obscure the inexhaustible resource of the present moment.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning toward the dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, dharna and sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well being born of mindfulness that is free and open
(Unknown) Looking at the nature of our being, prior to thoughts awakening to the myriad ways we create and believe a fictional version of ourselves.
(Unknown) Appreciating the healing and liberating power of fear and mind. Learning to trust and use awareness.
(Unknown) The talk highlights the tendency to get lost in stories about ourselves and overlook the ever-available peace and freedom of being awake and present with what’s happening.