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Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

Tempel Smith spent a year ordained as a monk in Burma and teaches Buddhist psychology and social activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently part of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program.

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51:03

Tempel Smith: Simple Mettā Breathing and Body...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/07/06

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are so many ways to practice formal mettā (loving kindness) meditation, and they all benefit from a relaxed mind and body. The proximal cause for samadhi (concentration) to arise is from a deepening sense of happiness, calm, and contentment. Many practitioners are drawn to use will and force to concentrate their attention, and this leads to agitation, frustration, and fatigue. With mettā breathing and body awareness we can cultivate the ease so useful for our

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65:45

Tempel Smith: The Three Trainings to be in the Stream...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/25

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sariputta equated the stream of liberation to being the very same 8 fold path of the Buddha's main teachings. The 8 fold path can be summed up as the three higher trainings: training in Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña. To stay in the stream which only flow in one direction - liberation - we only need to embrace Sīla (ethical attunement), Samādhi (cultivating beautiful aspects of heart), and Pañña (living with wise perspective). Whether you wear robes on the outside of your

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48:23

Tempel Smith: Guided Equanimity with Nature (Retreat...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/22

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To find equanimity within us we can reflect on how we naturally feel when in nature. We rarely judge nature or get rigidly stuck on our preferences. We can see a young sapling, a mature tree, a much older tree, and a fallen tree. We can see rabbits and coyotes, insects and birds who eat them. We let nature have its changing seasons. From these reflections we can find the open heart of caring equanimity, just wishing for respectful contact with the truth. Can we bring

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63:46

Tempel Smith: The 3rd and 4th Foundations of Mindfulness

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/20

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) While the 3rd and fourth foundations of mindfulness can be taught as their own separate topics, it can be very useful to look at the language and instruction given in both of them together. In the 3rd foundation we rest mindfully in all cognitive and emotional states as they arise and pass with the courage not to change them. In the 4th foundation of mindfulness we use this deeper intimacy from the 3rd foundation to act most skillfully in how we let go of suffering

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40:00

Tempel Smith: Guided Morning Meditation

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/20

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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62:07

Tempel Smith: Guided: Returning to 1st and 2nd...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/15

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After receiving many dharma talks and and expanding mindfulness into the 3rd and 4th Foundations of mindfulness, it is important to intentionally return every now and then to 1st and 2nd foundations of mindfulness. This keeps us grounded in the body as a continual pillar of our practice.

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66:34

Tempel Smith: Arising and Passing in the Stream...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/13

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In truth we are in a stream of every changing experiences, both internally and externally. AS we develop greater mindfulness and concentration we see through our direct experience everything which arises also passes away. This is the true nature of all conditioned phenomena. Waking up on our Buddhist path reveals our streaming nature, and this is one way of describing the process of becoming a stream enterer.

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26:15

Tempel Smith: Guided Mindfulness of Intentions

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.

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60:00

Tempel Smith: Guided Mindfulness of Intentions...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.

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42:48

Tempel Smith: Guided Karuna/Compassion Practice...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own vulnerability and that of others. Practicing compassion strengthens our hearts to stay conscious and even move lovingly towards ourselves and others when we are in pain.

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60:29

Tempel Smith: Mindfulness of the Body for...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/03

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At some point we can fully let go of all our concerns to give our full attention to the breath and body. As we build faith and devotion to this simple fullness of attention we can feel the mind healing from its habits of being scattered and exhausted. This practice develops into full absorption and becomes the basis for liberating wisdom.

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61:17

Tempel Smith: Mindfulness of the Body

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/02

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha stated we are often lost in craving and aversion when we are not mindful of our bodies. In a discourse named the Six Animals (SN 35.247) the Buddha strongly encouraged developing the concentration of body mindfulness as a pillar to collect and calm oneself, and learn to have a conscious relationship to the six sense. From developing calm and collectedness mindfulness of the body continues to liberate us from our confusions towards having a body. As both a

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40:59

Tempel Smith: Loving Kindness for Ourselves (Retreat...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/02/01

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Here is a simply guided meditation to bring kindness and patience to our mindfulness practice. As mindfulness develops it brings both clarity and warmth to our awareness.

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30:37

Tempel Smith: Simple Breath and Body Awareness

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2022/01/30

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) All practices of mindfulness begin with commitment toward breath and body awareness. This is where we start our practice and where our practice develops. Here in this guided meditation we simplify our ambition just to rest in the in breath and out breath.

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54:53

Tempel Smith: Tuning the Heart with Gratitude

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2021/07/12

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Close to the four Brahma viharas lives the heart warm with gratitude. Blending intentional gratitude into our dharma paths and to the practices which open the heart, counting our blessing of a human body, simple resources around us, and gratitude for our planet helps dispel any sense of scarcity and an over-focus on what we feel is lacking. Feeling gratitude allows us to discern if and what is truly lacking, and to be free at times to be bathed in countless

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46:36

Tempel Smith: Loving-kindness for Difficult...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2021/07/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our hearts' defenses might be most reinforced where there has been emotional pain. Using the previous practice of loving-kindness for easier relationships we can visit the places in our own hearts where we hold fear, hatred, resentment, and judgment. Relaxing these hard and painful places within us, by small, steady degrees, frees us from squandering our inner resources. Healing these places of pain can transform our understanding of how we can be in the world with

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65:49

Tempel Smith: Metta Samadhi in Daily Life

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2021/07/10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The developed momentum of loving-kindness can become a stable flow of both happy contentedness and stability of attention. This is the unification and immersion (samadhi) cultivated through dedicated metta practice. Like a river unblocked by fallen trees and debris, the flow of the heart can reopen into a smoothly pouring stream called loving-kindness concentration or metta samadhi.

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45:36

Tempel Smith: Equanimity Brahma Vihara

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2021/07/08

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening the heart and balancing with wisdom, the equanimity sacred dwelling becomes established as we relax the tightness of our preferences to be more intimate with how the world actually is moment to moment. Equanimity brahma vihara is a flow of sacred caring without reactivity or agitation to complex truths. Starting with the open heart we have in loving the natural world, we progress to bring loving equanimity to our personal lives. Through caring equanimity, we

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40:12

Tempel Smith: Simple Metta Breathing and Metta Body Scan

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2021/07/07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To form the foundation for loving-kindness meditation we invite the attitude of kindness, calm, and simplicity to our breath and body awareness. For many, this is the most simple and suitable metta meditation, and once embodied this metta meditation becomes the basis for radiating healthy lovingkindness to our selves and all beings. This is also the meditative foundation to ripen the five jhana factors leading to full absorption.

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25:14

Tempel Smith: Four Brahma Viharas Practice in Daily...

Tempel Smith"s most recent Dharma talks (Insight... ·

2020/05/09

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To bring forward the highest heart quality of Equanimity we need to understand all four brahma viharas (heavenly dwellings: friendliness, compassion, celebration, and balance) and how the work together in beautiful harmony.

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