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James Baraz: Scary Times on Halloween:Working with Fear

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2024/10/31

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This Thursday is Halloween night. It's definitely scary times so I thought we could explore working with fear. Join us online.

53:45

Eve Decker: Wise Action

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2024/10/03

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) An investigation into the teaching and practice of Wise Action. Born of Wise Understanding and Wise Intention, Wise Action is motivated by clarity and compassion, and is an essential part of the path to freedom.

57:22

Eve Decker: Overview of Four Noble Truths/Eightfold...

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2024/09/05

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Join Eve for a look at the Buddha's foundational teaching. The Buddha said that he wished to teach only two things - suffering and the end of suffering. And the 4 Noble Truths, concluding with the fourth truth which is the Eightfold Noble Path, are his birds-eye view of how to do that.

56:23

Eve Decker: Impermanent, Imperfect, Impersonal

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2024/08/22

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Join Eve for explorations of the Buddha's teachings on 'The Three Characteristics of Existence' - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and interdependence or not-self. The Buddha shared these insights because he saw that as we turn toward and embrace them, we suffer less and experience more peace.

1:21:26

Alexa Redner: Where do you want to be “All In?”...

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2024/08/15

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Join guest teacher Alexa Redner in an exploration the Buddhist Paramita of Resolve. What happens when we cultivate a spirited and loving commitment towards our wholesome desires? Alexa Redner has been practicing mediation since 2003. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University and has been authorized to teach the Buddha’s Dharma by James Baraz. Alexa has been an educator in many realms over the last twenty years,

55:29

Eve Decker: 'Dukkha' - Three kinds; and the power of...

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2024/08/08

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that there are three kinds of 'dukkha', or 'unsatisfactoriness'. Join Eve Decker to to explore these three and the power of deliberate presence and compassion to cool the flames of stress around life's challenges.

59:25

Judi Cohen: The 'Six Realms' as we experience them now

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2024/07/18

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Dear Friends, Join guest teacher for a look at the Buddhist teaching on "The Six Realms" - as we might be experiencing them right now. Judi Cohen is a mindfulness teacher, law professor, and long-time student of Vipassana.

56:17

Eve Decker: The Three Characteristics of Existence

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2024/07/11

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Three Characteristics of Existence

57:04

Jean Leonard: Fierce Self-Compassion -Caring for...

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2024/06/27

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) A bit about Jean: Jean Leonard, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and dharma teacher in private practice in Louisville, Colorado, USA. She has practiced vipassana meditation since 2003 and teaches mindfulness classes and mentors mindfulness teachers in training through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She has been mentored to teach in the Insight tradition by James Baraz, and her teaching style is

58:40

Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith: Exploring Lovingkindness &...

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2024/06/20

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Ramona will be speaking on "Lovingkindness and Equanimity." These two wholesome states are usually taught as being two of the Four Brahmavihara, Divine Abodes or qualities of the heart. This week Ramona will explore loving-kindness and equanimity from the perspective of the Paramis or Ten Perfections,

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Eve Decker: Supporting our Peace with Mindfulness of...

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2024/04/11

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) During mindfulness practice, we might anchor our awareness through a focus on breath or body. We can also become mindfully aware of vedena, or feeling tone: whether we experience something as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Becoming mindful of this mental function helps us interrupt our own reactivity, in order to both experience and offer greater levels of equanimity and peace.

60:09

James Baraz: Groundlessness: A Doorway to Liberation

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2024/03/07

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Pema Chödrön writes: "It's not impermanence per se, or even knowing we're going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it's our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can

54:58

Eve Decker: Contentment through Wise Joy

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2024/02/29

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This week, join Eve Decker as we consider elevating 'wise joy' in our practice and life, as an essential source of energy and contentment.

51:53

Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith: Metta in Difficult Times

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2024/02/15

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) You'll appreciate what she shares.

58:49

Alexa Redner: Cultivating Resources for Well-being

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2024/02/08

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) "Cultivating Resources for Well-being". There are so many realms of support available to us on our spiritual path when we can remember them, open to them, and receive their care.

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