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James Baraz's Dharma Talks
James Baraz
I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.
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1998-10-15 Right Thought: Creating An Inspiring Vision 43:09
As we understand the power of thoughts to create our reality, we can empower those thoughts that inspire us and see the emptiness of those thoughts that don't serve. This is the key to manifesting our vision of awakening.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
1998-06-26 Intimate Relationship As Spiritual Practice 54:47
Intimate relationship can be a vehicle for cultivating authenticity, understanding our shadow, and true opening of the heart. The challenges and opportunities of using a primary relationship as part of our awakening process are explored.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-06-19 Waves On The Oceans-Not Being Bothered By Thoughts 50:09
We can't control all the thoughts that pass through our minds. What we can do is learn how to work skillfully with troublesome thoughts and patterns in the mind so they lose their power to confuse us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1997-04-08 Five Hindrances 61:58
1996-12-06 Nourishing Healthy Seeds: Compassion, Mudita And Equanimity 65:30
Noticing and cultivating the wholesome states of compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity as they arise is a powerful training towards greater happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-11-14 Bothicitti 55:37
1996-11-07 Commitment In Practice 1:26:11
1996-04-18 Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion 61:01
Exploring the different spiritual paths that use the fundamental themes of non-greed, hatred, delusion, love, service, and remembrance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-12-01 Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion 61:09
Connecting the Buddhist values of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion with another spiritual axiom: "Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God."
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-11-27 Working With Thought 51:27
thoughts are not the enemy
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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