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Winnie Nazarko's Dharma Talks
Winnie Nazarko
Our potential as humans is vast and deep, and can be intentionally developed. There is a way that we can learn to open to all of our experience with kindness and clarity. As we begin to find this stability of heart and mind, wisdom will emerge.This emergence of wisdom, and strengthening of compassion, are the road to our individual and collective happiness and well-being.
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2011-11-02 Working in the Middle: Effort and Surrender 56:42
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Effort and energy are necessary to liberate the mind, but the effort needs to be wise and the energy calibrated to the task. Often we don't need to "try harder"- we need to learn to let go, to surrender to things as they are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-10-26 The Door in the Wall 58:53
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In order to come to clarity and equanimity, the mind must learn to open to all states. Learning how to work with the 5 Hindrances is key to this process, and opens the door to the peace that we seek.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-03-01 The Potential of the Conditioned World 52:13
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Each of us is an open-ended process, matrixed with everything else. The very open-endedness of our nature allows for transformation in the direction of happiness, once we understand the lawfulness of things and act on that understanding. The fact that we are matrixed with other beinigs/things means our individual development has positive effects on others, beyond what we can directly observe/know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-24 Purification of Motivation 43:43
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Our minds have many mixed motivations, and they can be at play in meditation practice. This talk discusses some of the common "ulterior motives" which can be present, how to recognize them and how to re-frame them to make them into skillful supports-not distractions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-18 The Truth in Ordinary Things 54:39
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Our lives are the raw material for liberating insight to arise. Even outside of meditation, the three characteristics of conditioned things -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- are present in all experience. Understanding this directly and continuously, in the context of the Buddha's core teachings, leads to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-14 The Striving Mind 47:34
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The Buddha took effort to its far point, bringing himself close to death in the pursuit of awakening. Then he had a change of understanding, let go of self-punishment and awoke. We too need to discern when our effort is skillful, and when we are out of balance in striving. How to recognize and let go of unskillful striving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2010-11-06 The Spiritual compost 48:04
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It is clear that spiritual practice is aimed towards the development of wholesome states. Yet our mind-streams have currents of greed, hatred and delusion - how can we use these very states to our own benefit?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2010-10-30 Pith Practice Teachings 40:40
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This is a brief, concise summary of: the orienting context of meditation practice; basic tasks and principles of meditation; and how to approach challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2010-10-19 Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings 46:58
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Reflections on the power and value of loving-friendless practice, and its place on the road to awakening. Guided metta practice for all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2010-10-16 The Great Question, Investigation and Doubt 41:54
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The great question, our deepest personal concern, can empower our practice, and motivate investigation of reality. But doubt can undermine our commitment to practice if we do not recognize it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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