Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2017-03-30
"The Problem With Being a Good Meditator"
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James Baraz
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At times our meditation practice is a powerful delicious experience. The factors of awakening like concentration, calm, joy or equanimity may be strong. As wonderful as that is, the mind can easily grasp as if that were the real goal of practice. But when we're attached or take ownership of those states they become a trap--sometimes referred to as the stink of enlightenment--and we miss the true freedom that practice can reveal.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2017-03-09
"This Fleeting World"
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James Baraz
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In the Diamond Sutra, we are encouraged to see our lives in the context of impermanence this way: "Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." This talk explores practicing when someone we know dies unexpectedly as happened to James this week.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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