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Mark Nunberg began his Buddhist practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis, MN in 1993 and continues to serve as the center’s guiding teacher.
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) The Buddha taught, “Whoever is addicted to society and worldly bustle, they will not partake of the happiness of renunciation, dispassion, peace, and awakening.” Wisdom and awareness practice is an invitation to wholeness and intimacy. We practice opening and receiving the activities of the mind and body with a wisdom that discerns the futility and stressfulness of attachment. The renunciation of attachment is a natural result of seeing things as they are, that all experiences arise and pass lawfully following impersonal causes and conditions. Renunciation, letting go, or letting be, is a profound giving of the heart to the moment just as it is.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's teachings on the three characteristics.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Please note - The talk ends 10 minutes early, due to technical difficulties
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg and guest teachers.Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg and guest teachers.Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This guided meditation centers on the nine contemplations of death.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Referenced writing:https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/NobleStrategy/Section0009.html
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) UNDERSTANDING IMPERMANENCE with Mark Nunberg This six-week course will explore the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence, the first of the three characteristics that are said to mark all of existence. Sensing deeply the changing and insubstantial nature of all conditioned experience liberates the heart from its entrenched habits of attachment. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus of their daily practice. This ongoing program is designed to deepen our understanding through the study and application of the teachings of the Buddha.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) UNDERSTANDING IMPERMANENCE with Mark Nunberg This six-week course will explore the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence, the first of the three characteristics that are said to mark all of existence. Sensing deeply the changing and insubstantial nature of all conditioned experience liberates the heart from its entrenched habits of attachment. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus of their daily practice. This ongoing program is designed to deepen our understanding through the study and application of the teachings of the Buddha.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Includes opening remarks by Mark about the Suffusion with the Divine Abidings chant. Guided meditation begins at 7:55
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Mediation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This practice group is for people interested in developing the heart by training in the four beautiful emotions of lovingkindness (metta), compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Each session includes instruction, a guided meditation, a short dharma talk, and time for questions and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome, no registration necessary. This practice group is led by Stacy McClendon and Mark Nunberg. Generally, the teachers lead on alternating months.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This practice group is for people interested in developing the heart by training in the four beautiful emotions of lovingkindness (metta), compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Each session includes instruction, a guided meditation, a short dharma talk, and time for questions and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome, no registration necessary. This practice group is led by Stacy McClendon and Mark Nunberg. Generally, the teachers lead on alternating months.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The guided meditation begins at approximately 11 minutes and 30 seconds. It is preceded by chanting, with an insightful introduction by Mark.The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Taking Responsibility for Well Being - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Intro to the 3 Characteristics week 11: The Experience of Freedom - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Intro to the 3 Characteristics week 11: The Experience of Freedom - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Understanding the 3 Refuges: Week 8 The Impersonal Nature of Desire - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Understanding the 3 Refuges: Week 8 The Impersonal Nature of Desire -Guided Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) From the beginning of our practice on, the Buddha teaches that this path has the one taste of freedom. How can we train the heart to become more and more attuned to this flavor of release or letting go? It is the recognition of this trustworthy, onward-leading pleasure that guides the heart along the spiritual path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) From the beginning of our practice on, the Buddha teaches that this path has the one taste of freedom. How can we train the heart to become more and more attuned to this flavor of release or letting go? It is the recognition of this trustworthy, onward-leading pleasure that guides the heart along the spiritual path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Refuge is how we connect our heart's deepest aspiration with practices that reveal more tastes of freedom and clarify the path that is good in the beginning, middle, and end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Refuge is how we connect our heart's deepest aspiration with practices that reveal more tastes of freedom and clarify the path that is good in the beginning, middle, and end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The flavor of awakening. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Arising naturally out of awareness. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) The Buddha taught that we are all spinning due to our habits of greed, hatred, and delusion, long enough to have become wise and dispassionate about how we keep getting hooked into these stressful cycles. What is it that we are not seeing clearly enough that keeps this spin spinning? The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to stabilize present-moment awareness so that we can begin to see how impersonal and lawful all this inner and outer activity actually is. Understanding the river of experience in this way leads to a natural letting go and a releasing of attachment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Deepening our skill at recognizing and appreciating the power of sati, mindful awareness, is central to cultivating the path of awakening as taught by the Buddha.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity can develop into a radiant and powerful balance of heart and mind that provides both a taste of freedom and clarifies the path of practice. Equanimity arises both by learning to recognize and abide with any wholesome experience of wellbeing, and by the deepening insight into the transitory, ephemeral nature of all things leading onward to dispassion
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Refuge is how we connect our heart's deepest aspiration with practices that reveal more tastes of freedom and clarify the path that is good in the beginning, middle, and end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Morning practice instructions centering on renewing a curiosity and respect for present moment awareness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How can we better understand the essential role of wholesome desire in our Dharma practice? The strength and steadiness of determination depends on discovering and cultivating a wise and resonant desire for awakening. Wholesome desire and resolve evolves and matures over the years of practice and becomes a powerful guide and protection as we navigate the twists and turns of life.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddhist Studies courses are designed for people who have attended three or more mindfulness meditation retreats and have a commitment to daily meditation practice. This ongoing program is designed to deepen our understanding through the study and application of the teachings of the Buddha. Classes will include dharma talks, large and small group discussions, and guided sitting time. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus for their daily practice. Led by Mark Nunberg.
This six week course is a continuation of our year-long study of the Buddha’s discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness. With mindfulness of the mind, the Buddha invites us to notice whether the mind is with or without greed, anger, or delusion. We can learn to discern whether the mind is contracted and distracted or whether the mind is open and still. Learning to recognize the shape and quality of the mind is the first step toward deepening insight and release.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddhist Studies courses are designed for people who have attended three or more mindfulness meditation retreats and have a commitment to daily meditation practice. This ongoing program is designed to deepen our understanding through the study and application of the teachings of the Buddha. Classes will include dharma talks, large and small group discussions, and guided sitting time. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus for their daily practice. Led by Mark Nunberg.
This six week course is a continuation of our year-long study of the Buddha’s discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness. With mindfulness of the mind, the Buddha invites us to notice whether the mind is with or without greed, anger, or delusion. We can learn to discern whether the mind is contracted and distracted or whether the mind is open and still. Learning to recognize the shape and quality of the mind is the first step toward deepening insight and release.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Below are the resources on renunciation Mark mentions in the opening of the talk:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JolUrzOX8ESARJcK1VpW9E70Ff0vZx9agawRowDtJnE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ohn3k_urMZaVwDQtaQ4ZArWtn8scVk2ONpT-7lPpONM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JolUrzOX8ESARJcK1VpW9E70Ff0vZx9agawRowDtJnE/edit?usp=sharing
(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to cultivate an intimate ongoing mindful presence, a deep respect for cause and effect, and a profound equanimity as we live our sensual embodied lives. The Buddha asks us to directly discern the very real experience of gratification, the inevitable stress that arises with any attachment to sensuality, and the deepening insight of the heart’s release from the burning of craving and dependence that we experience in our wiser moments.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction, 33-minute guided meditation, closing thoughts
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The community questions of the Q&A were not recorded but the responses are presented here.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Equanimity dharma talk with 35-minute guided meditation in the middle
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 8 - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Q&A portion begins at 30m. Community questions were not recorded but Mark's responses were.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction to this seven-week course, followed by chant and guided meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Short guided meditation followed by Dharma Talk, small group discussions, and large group share back.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Weekly Dharma Talk led by Mark Nunberg opening with a guided meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Discussion on posture followed by 25 minute guided meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Course introduction, two guided meditations, and dharma talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction to course followed by chant and guided meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Dharma Talk led by Mark Nunberg as a part of the end of the year retreat
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Led by Mark Nunberg, Shelly Graf, Wynn Fricke, and Gabe Keller Flores
The Buddha says that any position one takes including being attached to not having any fixed views is “a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. It is accompanied by suffering... and does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation; to calm, direct knowledge, full Awakening…”
In this daylong workshop we will reflect together how necessary and unavoidable it is to use identity to illuminate the social dynamics of our lives, and at the same time how easy it is to become attached and confused by identity, taking it to be more than what it is. The same is true in terms of how the mind relates to any views. There is no way to function in the world without views about this and that. The relevant question is how one can use views without the suffering that comes with attachment.
This recording contains the following parts - in order they are:
1 - Guided Meditation with emphasis on recognizing mind states and perceptions of oneself led by Shelly
2 - Introductions by teachers and participants: Name 1-5 identities that arise in our minds conscious or not, useful or not, led by Shelly
3 - Introduction to the workshop and the Buddha’s teachings on Views by Mark followed by Q&A
4 - Panel Presentation: Each teacher discusses skillful use of identity in their lives, 5-10 minutes each, followed by large group discussion facilitated by Gab
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Sunday AM weekly talk and community discussion. Part 1 of 3.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Week 5 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Includes 30 minute meditation followed by talk and discussion with the class.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Week 4 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Includes 30 minute meditation followed by talk and discussion with the class.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The small group discussions which concluded the session are not included.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Week 3 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Includes 30 minute meditation followed by talk and discussion with the class.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Begins with chanting the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, followed by a guided meditation.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Week 1 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Starts with a 15 minute guided meditation followed by a 30 minute Dharma Talk followed by another 30 minutes of guided meditation and finally 15 minutes of discussion/Q&A led by Mark Nunberg
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Introduction followed by chant and guided meditation.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson
In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson
In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson
In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This recording begins 10 minutes into the talk due to a microphone issue.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Audio becomes poor about 11 minutes into talk due to microphone issue
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing skill and confidence in kind relaxation, interest and wise view.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) more info, list of instructions, and drawings available on Common Ground's website:
https://commongroundmeditation.org/programs/yoga-and-qigong/
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The early Buddhist teachings emphasis not clinging to views and abandoning craving for sense experience. How does this look in our human life?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the importance of wisdom and wise effort with awareness practice.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Note: Week 5 not recorded due to technical dificulties
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Note: Week 5 not recorded due to technical dificulties
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Note: Week 2 not recorded due to technical difficulties. Week 3 canceled due to weather.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Note: Week 2 not recorded due to technical difficulties. Week 3 canceled due to weather.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The root of suffering is the mind's habits to see permanence in what is impermanent, satisfaction in what is not satisfying, and self in what is not self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) There is no freedom without freedom, with the experience of the body.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to the practice of mindful awareness and deepening experience of freedom that naturally unfolds.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) What is Mindfulness Practice?
Mindfulness is the practice of opening to and accepting life just as it is - a constantly changing, conditioned process. To begin, we must make the necessary effort to calm the mind and body. Without this first step our intention to be present is often overwhelmed by our habits of reactivity and struggle - trying to fix or control the conditions of the moment. To calm the mind and body we practice connecting and sustaining our attention to ordinary experience in each moment; for example, the sensations of the breath coming and going or the sensations of lifting and placing each foot as we walk. This simple and clear patient knowing is at the heart of mindfulness practice.
Tranquility arises by training the attention to return to the present moment experience over and over again. This training is directed by an understanding heart that appreciates that no matter how difficult it appears to be, our practice is to recognize what is happening and to gently return the attention to the conditions as they are in the moment. It is our persistent effort that calms the mind, energizes our practice and leads to insight. We can use ordinary experience, such as the breath, as a refuge - a place to keep coming back to. Over time, this capacity to be present becomes a great friend and allows us to relate to all experience with greater clarity, trust and acceptance. The ability to abide with the flow of experience creates the context for insight to arise. Wisdom, compassion and peace of equanimity are the fruit of these deepening insights.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This talk was given on Sept. 24th at Common Ground Meditation Center. Because the talk the week before was cut off due to battery failure, we are publishing this one here, by popular demand.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Because this talk is cut short at 21 min., we are also going to publish Mark's talk give on Sept 24th at Common Ground : Understanding Joy as the Means for the Fruit of the Path
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Buddha offered the Divine Abodes reflections as skillful and joyful places for the mind to abide. These practices aim at uncovering the heart’s natural capacity to love, care for, and appreciate all beings unconditionally, including ourselves. These practices are designed to help us get in touch with that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows. (Metta)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of the Buddha's gradual training in light of living in the world with wisdom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation instruction emphasizing awareness of the feeling tone
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How wisdom and seclusion allows for equanimity with the inevitable pain in life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding mindfulness of body as a basis for liberating the mind
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) This six-week course examines the Buddha’s teachings on integrity. We will look at the traditional eight ethical precepts for lay people as guidelines for developing what the Buddha called “the bliss of blamelessness” or “freedom from remorse.” The path taught by the Buddha is grounded in a commitment to non-harming or reverence for life. This commitment supports the arising of calm, joy, and insight.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Keeping it simple, something being known.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) It is not uncommon for us to feel confused, numb, angry or overwhelmed when we hear about environmental change and uncertainty. The health of our planet, our homes, our bodies and minds all depend on the continuous balancing of so many interdependent natural processes. It is no surprize that we often prefer distraction and denial rather than an honest acknowledgement of this uncertain dynamic. In this workshop we will explore how a fearless opening to uncertainty can be the cause for a more wise and compassionate response to this world we share together. These Living the Practice Workshops include talks, guided meditations, guided reflections, and large and small group discussions designed to reveal the essential art of awakening wisdom and compassion in our actual lives.
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Five strategies for abandoning unwholesome mind states that have arisen
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Five strategies for abandoning unwholesome mind states that have arisen
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Four Exertions: preventing, abandoning, developing and maintaining
(Common Ground Meditation Center) Four Exertions: preventing, abandoning, developing and maintaining
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the path from suffering to the release of greed, anger and delusion through the insights of the Four Nobel Truths
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using the Buddha's map of the mind to understand the essential freedom - here and now.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Attachment is abandoned through a deepening understanding and letting go of our contentious relationship with the present moment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Deconstructing experience reveals the experience of clinging and the way of release.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Loving kindness is an important support for the work of wisdom and mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A look at the underlying causes for the arising of Right Effort
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discussion of skillful means in daily life and QA
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha's first teaching is still relevant today as a means to realize freedom of heart.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Preliminary Metta instructions including general overview and introduction to "easy person"