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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2019-12-05
Just Another Ego Trip
46:16
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James Baraz
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| Sometimes our shyness or concern about what others think keeps us from expressing our gifts and making as meaningful a contribution as we can. In seeing through the constructed sense of self—the understanding of Anatta—those thoughts lose their power and don’t get in the way of expressing our true nature. |
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-11-21
Attitudes of the Mind
41:25
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Kate Munding
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| In past weeks I've been pulling inspiration from the Satipatthana Sutta, the foundational teachings on mindfulness. I've been linking them to some of it's underpinning truths of change, impermanence, suffering, and freedom from it. I'd like to continue on this thread for tomorrow's talk and bring in the third foundation, the foundation of the mind.. We'll explore how, when we aren't lost in it, the mind is a fascinating subject for our attention. When we understand our mind more fully, we can more fully understand who we are. We'll use this theme to understand better the truth of self and not-self. |
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-10-17
Holding Grief Through Connection
43:47
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James Baraz
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| I [recently] spoke about how sharing our pain by connecting with another helps us hold and process our grief. This week I want to look at the importance of "Connection through Community" and how we can create more community in our lives. |
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2019-10-03
Holding Grief Through Connection
56:18
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James Baraz
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| Whether the climate crisis, some other social issue or personal loss, sharing our pain by connecting with another helps us hold and process our grief. By opening the heart we can transform our feeling of isolation into one of shared humanity. This talk ends with a guided experiential dyad exercise adapting Joanna Macy’s "Learning to See Each Other" meditation from Coming Back to Life. |
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-09-19
No Time to Play Small: Acting with Courage, Wisdom and Love
62:07
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James Baraz
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| Greta Thunberg’s fearless willingness to speak the truth has inspired millions of youth to follow her lead resulting in the hugely successful September 20th Worldwide Climate Strike. Thunberg calls being on the autism spectrum her “superpower” because she doesn’t care what others think of her and only cares about telling the truth. Can we be like her, let go of our self-consciousness, not hold back and speak and act with honesty and courage? |
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-09-05
Like Fish in Water - Being White in a Racist World
62:46
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Debra Kerr
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| How can dharma practice help white people in becoming more aware of the suffering of racism, both in seeing the pervasive ways it effects people of color, as well as the ways it keeps white folks from being truly free??? This talk will cover the universality of "othering," and how we might use wisdom and compassion to work our way past our ingrained conditioning. |
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