Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2024-09-26
Like an Instrument with Sarah Marie Hopf
52:45
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James Baraz
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How might you let Life play you like an instrument? In this talk James shares the evening with Sarah-Marie Hopf, a good friend, dedicated practitioner, coach and meditation teacher who shares about her journey of progressively deepening trust in the dharma and our True Nature and opening to what wants to flow effortlessly from the mystery into form. Becoming an unexpected singer-songwriter, she shares the origin story of her first album “Modern Mantras” which was inspired by songs that came through her spontaneously during a month long Spirit Rock retreat.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-09-19
Love Serve Remember
49:23
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James Baraz
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The title of the evening is "Love, Serve, Remember". On October 13th, Spirit Rock hosts a special event Celebrating Ram Dass: Love Serve, Remember with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das and others. Those three words were the instructions Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass' guru gave to him: "Love Everyone, Serve Everyone, and Remember God."
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-08-15
Where do you want to be “All In?”
Exploring the Buddhist Paramita of Resolve
1:21:26
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Alexa Redner
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Join guest teacher Alexa Redner in an exploration the Buddhist Paramita of Resolve. What happens when we cultivate a spirited and loving commitment towards our wholesome desires?
Alexa Redner has been practicing mediation since 2003. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University and has been authorized to teach the Buddha’s Dharma by James Baraz.
Alexa has been an educator in many realms over the last twenty years, dancing between the worlds of being a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher, program teacher for Mindful Schools, and Eating Disorders/Body Positive Educator at Beyond Hunger. Alexa is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Certification Program and teaches for Banyan (formerly Cloud Sangha), leading weekly community discussion groups, meditations, and small sanghas. Alexa also has a private Dharma mentoring practice.
As a Body Love activist, Alexa is interested in exploring how dharma practices can unwind the mind from the cultural conditioning of body shame and open to the heart to the sacred quality of living in a body on the Earth. Alexa brings a playful and soft approach to meditation practice, with an emphasis on inquiry.
Alexa lives with her fiddler husband and young son in Portland, Oregon.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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