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Christina Feldman's Dharma Talks

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What I teach is a reflection of the constantly changing nature of my own practice. When I give a talk it is not a set agenda, but something that I've been reflecting about. The talks tend to be in rhythm with my own practice.

At the moment, I'm reflecting on the interplay of the personal and the non-personal, on aloneness and intimacy, on emptiness and embodiment. This process of reflection is a slow one. I hold a question in the background of my consciousness and then prepare to be surprised, to see what actually arises.

I enjoy the dharma a great deal. I try to convey that meditation practice is not a pathway of endlessly overcoming obstacles, but also a path of tremendous joy. It brings a great deal of profound truth to people's ability to find happiness. I have great faith in the Dharma, and a bottomless faith in people's capacity to be wise.

The ancient traditions of Buddhism are as relevant today as they were 2,500 years ago because people's capacity for getting themselves into trouble, for confusion, alienation and separation is not so different from Buddha's time. Vipassana, then and now, offers people an opportunity to transform themselves, and in so doing, transform the world around them.

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2007-03-09 Opening Talk Woman's Retreat 47:58	Download Listen
A Background to this practice of Insight Meditation, Precepts, Beginning Instruction
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

2007-03-07 Wisdom Of Disappointment 44:31	Download Listen
Disappointment is one of the hearts most frequent visitors. It can be a doorway to despair and bitterness or acknowledged as being the starting point of every a journey of liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

2006-12-29 Disappointment 47:55	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Year's Retreat

2006-11-13 Papanca 33:52	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month

2006-11-06 Thought and Mental States 32:25	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month

2006-11-02 Wise Intention 33:49	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month

2006-07-15 The Ox Herding Pictures 42:10	Download Listen
The ox herding pictures trace the seasons of a spiritual journey from confusion to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-13 Healing Ill Will 45:37	Download Listen
The first precept and the practice of Loving Kindness meet in their commitment to uprooting the ill will that harms our world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-10 Gladdening The Heart 48:52	Download Listen
The liberation of our heart from ill will and hostility rests upon our discovery of what it means to abide with equanimity in our emotional world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-09 Opening Vipassana Retreat with Rodney Smith and Fred Von Allmen 34:51	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Vipassana Retreat

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