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Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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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57:49

Winnie Nazarko: Seeing Our Goodness

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2012/11/22

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of wholesome states, how and why to recognize them. Encouraging the growth of states leading toward liberation.

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65:12

Winnie Nazarko: Equanimity: Balanced Radiance Of Mind

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2012/11/15

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of what equanimity is, and why it is not indeference/ apathy. How equanimity develops in insight meditation, and what the state of "high equanimity" is like.

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67:14

Winnie Nazarko: The Ethical Trainings As Skillful Means

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2012/11/09

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of the place of moral training in the process of liberation. Exploration of the overlap of sila and what is legal. A story about sila during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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51:26

Winnie Nazarko: Integrity Of Effort

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2012/11/01

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reviews the Buddha's teaching on wise Effort, and explores how personal goals can be aligned with insight meditation practice.

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42:55

Winnie Nazarko: Loving Kindness Meditation

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2012/10/23

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description of the practice of loving-kindness (Metta) meditation. Brief guided meditation, questions and answers

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61:41

Winnie Nazarko: Not Making Two

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/11/28

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) At the end of retreat, there are often concerns about how to take "this" back home. If we define "this" too narrowly, with a dualistic mind, we will miss the chance to practice effectively when we return to the conditions of lay life.Lay life is different, and offers the opportunity for practice which is broader, more dynamic, and more relational than that done on retreat. The Buddha himself saw his teachings as useful and beneficial to lay people as

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50:19

Winnie Nazarko: The Problem With Greed

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/11/23

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our relationship with sense pleasure is complicated. Moving towards what is pleasant is instinctual,and we need to be able to experience what is pleasant without clinging, fear or attachment in order to be whole. Yet pleasant vedana (sensation) is not a reliable goal or guide on the spiritual path. Pleasure - like all conditioned things - has its limitations and does not work well as the orienting principle in our practice and lives. Like the Buddha, we

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50:20

Winnie Nazarko: Steadying the Mind, Opening the Heart

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/11/17

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Equanimity - that quality of mind which is balanced, steady, and non-reactive - is developed by learning to open skillfully to the full range of our experience. It is equanimity which allows the heart to feel safe enough to open to our own difficult states, and the difficult states of others. Deep equanimity is " the peace that passes understanding", a wisdom and equipoise which can hold it all.

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55:01

Winnie Nazarko: Seeing the Good

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/11/11

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wholesome states of mind are often unnoticed, even though they are frequently present. There are reasons to turn the mind toward them, and to acknowledge the goodness they represent. How and why to orient the mind this way, and a discussion of obstacles to this turning.

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56:42

Winnie Nazarko: Working in the Middle: Effort and...

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/11/02

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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.

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58:53

Winnie Nazarko: The Door in the Wall

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/10/26

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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.

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52:13

Winnie Nazarko: The Potential of the Conditioned World

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/03/01

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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.

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43:43

Winnie Nazarko: Purification of Motivation

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/02/24

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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.

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54:39

Winnie Nazarko: The Truth in Ordinary Things

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/02/18

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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.

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47:34

Winnie Nazarko: The Striving Mind

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2011/02/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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.

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48:04

Winnie Nazarko: The Spiritual compost

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2010/11/06

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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?

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40:40

Winnie Nazarko: Pith Practice Teachings

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2010/10/30

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is a brief, concise summary of: the orienting context of meditation practice; basic tasks and principles of meditation; and how to approach challenges.

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46:58

Winnie Nazarko: Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2010/10/19

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the power and value of loving-friendless practice, and its place on the road to awakening. Guided metta practice for all beings

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41:54

Winnie Nazarko: The Great Question, Investigation and...

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2010/10/16

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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.

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66:27

Winnie Nazarko: The Buddha's Question

Winnie Nazarko"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2010/10/09

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha's life provides insight into the nature of his search, and the framework he used to explain his findings - The Four Noble Truths.

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