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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2016-06-16 Exploring wise responses to the recent tragedy in Orlando including a focus on understanding hatred. It will be timely and enriching. 59:31
Kate Munding
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-06-09 Ajahn Chandako from Austraila with James 1:16:40
James Baraz, Ajahn Chandako
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Ajahn Chandako, an Amaravati monastic who is the abbot of Vimutti Buddhist Monastery in New Zealand. Ajahn, who is US born, has been a monk for 25 years and brings a deep, clear, playful attitude toward practice. Join us for a rich evening of dharma.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-06-02 “Taking the Focus Off ME“ 53:47
James Baraz
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Most of us know the feeling of self-consciousness when faced with a new situation or meeting new people. How can we relax, just be ourselves and really enjoy the connection? We’ll explore simple practices to allow our authentic self to shine through. Join us for an evening of practice and dharma.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-26 "Who Are You Anyway - Attachment to Identity" 55:34
James Baraz
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It's hard not to view ourselves through our accomplishments, possessions or attributes, even when circumstances change. How can we see through those temporary conditions to realize our true nature?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-19 Relational Practice and the Path of Awakening Together 63:30
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-12 James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe 39:53
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-05 "The Songs and Stories of Jennifer Berezan at IMCB" 61:01
Jennifer Berezan
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2016-04-28 The Story of Devadatta: Lust for Power in the Buddha's Time 52:51
James Baraz
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Devadatta, the Buddha's cousin and brother-in-law, joined the Order in the early years with good intentions. Over time his jealousy and obsession with power turned him into the Buddha's main enemy. This dramatic story, reading like a Hollywood screenplay, gives us lessons in just what hunger for power can drive someone to do and the Buddha's wise responses to the various threats he faced.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-04-24 Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice 2:55:56
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
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-04-21 Sacred Activism Part 5: The Seven Laws of Sacred Practice 61:56
James Baraz
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Andrew Harvey's seven mystical laws that both define what sacred activism is and shape its mysterious power and success in the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

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