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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2016-05-19
Relational Practice and the Path of Awakening Together
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Janet Surrey
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Our guest speaker is Jan Surrey, author of The Buddha’s Wife: The Path of Awakening Together, Community Dharma Leader graduate, and clinical psychologist internationally known for her work on relational theories of women’s psychological development, diversity, mothering, adoption, and substance abuse.
The Buddha’s Wife offers to a broad audience for the first time the intimate and profound story of Princess Yasodhara, the wife Buddha left behind, and her alternative journey to spiritual enlightenment.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-05-12
James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe
39:53
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James Baraz,
Ayya Yeshe
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Ayya Yeshe has developed the Bodhicitta Foundation to support the empowerment of women and children from the previously ‘untouchable’ caste in Central India.
The talk started with this YouTube video at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOpZ3kpIJU ) of her work.
To learn more about her work, go to the Bodhicitta Foundation at ( http://bodhicitta-vihara.com/ )
Bodhicitta Foundation is a socially engaged charity that helps ex-untouchable Indians – a community that was previously enslaved and forced to do the most demeaning kinds of work for little pay. They also help slum people, offer a women’s job training center, sewing, English computer classes and have a children’s study center. In addition they offer counseling for domestic violence, have a malnourished children’s program and offer basic medical and housing assistance.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-04-24
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice
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James Baraz
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This daylong includes general talks on the theme of cultivating equanimity into your dharma practice. In addition to the talks and discussion, I offer the following practices with instructions that can be used to incline the mind toward equanimity (edited to remove lengthy periods of silence during the guided meditations):
Practice #1 - Seeing things as they are
Practice #2 - Looking through the lens of impermanence
Practice #3 - Looking through the lens of vedana
(feeling tone; 2nd foundation of mindfulness)
Practice #4 - Equanimity with Big Mind meditation
Practice #5 - Equanimty using traditional Brahma Viharas phrases
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2016-04-14
Sacred Activism Part 4: Holding a Vision
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James Baraz
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Besides learning how to work with various emotions and reactions that come up in response to various events, it's important to hold an inspiring vision of possibilities so that we are motivated to work toward that desired outcome. Dharma concepts such as Clear Comprehension of Purpose can be applied to help us create an inspiring vision. Joanna Macy's Active Hope and Andrew Harvey's outline of current positive developments that give one hope are included.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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