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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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55:18

Tempel Smith: Guided Equanimity Mindfulness of...

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

2020/05/07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation to bring mindful intimacy to our every changing emotions and mental states. This is the third foundation of mindfulness.

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58:02

Tempel Smith: Guided Equanimity Mindfulness of...

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

2020/05/06

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Description: Guided meditation to bring mindful intimacy to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experiences in the body and other phenomena. This is the second foundation of mindfulness.

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41:05

Tempel Smith: Four Brahma Viharas Practice in Daily Life

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

2020/05/05

(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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63:30

Tempel Smith: Building Practice Momentum (Retreat at...

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

2020/02/28

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) One of the great opportunities of sitting a long silent retreat is to take the momentum of practice forward into our daily lives.

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62:27

Tempel Smith: Streaming vs Clinging (Retreat at...

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

2020/02/21

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are in an ever changing universe, yet conventionally don't understand this. Mindfulness brings us so much intimacy with things as they truly are that we wake up to this streaming nature. We have to let go of old habits of clinging to align with the stream we are in.

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64:34

Tempel Smith: Vedana-The 2nd Foundation of...

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

2020/02/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In every moment of subjective experience there is a quality of pleasure, displeasure or neutrality. Bring mindfulness to the quality of Vedana trains us how not to add suffering when pain arises or pleasure fades.

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44:22

Tempel Smith: Day 13 Morning Meditation Instructions...

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

2020/02/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) From the basis of our simple practices we can include mindfulness of how intentions and actions arise in reaction to what is pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral (vedana). The unconscious actions we take in response to vedana are the conditioning circumstances for our suffering. It behooves us to raise awareness to how our reactivity to vedana further conditions our patterns of craving, aversion, and ignorance.

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44:54

Tempel Smith: Day 10 Afternoon Instructions:...

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

2020/02/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As we further open our hearts to include even difficult people, it is very helpful to learn how to practice forgiveness. Often when deeply hurt our hearts hold resentments and yearn for accountability before it would be willing to risk opening again. And yet when others feel out resentment, judgment and the need for accountability they too shut down defensively.Starting with a good friend whom you have a history of love and trust, or even your companion animals,

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61:01

Tempel Smith: Day Seven Morning Instructions:...

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

2020/02/08

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With the further settling of the mind we can deepen our intimacy with the breath and body. From a wakeful connection to the body and a sense of happiness we can explore areas of pain and mental activity. With the calming of mental activity we open to deeper samadhi.

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67:06

Tempel Smith: Steps in Developing Mindfulness of...

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

2020/02/07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha described detailed steps we can take when developing and deepening our practice of mindful breathing. This talk covers steps 1-8 out of 16 classical steps given in discourses on this meditation.

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61:53

Tempel Smith: Day One Morning Instructions (Retreat...

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

2020/02/02

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As an introduction to Insight meditation we start with physical and mental relaxation, and then finding a home base or anchor for our attention in the stream of sounds, body sensations or what sensation arise in the body as we breathe. The first step is establishing steady calm abiding in the flow of the present.

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61:54

Tempel Smith: Samadhi: A Whole Heart in Daily Life

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

2019/08/26

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) While we often discover samadhi (whole heartedness) first on retreat, it's finding samadhi in every day life which can give us the greatest joy. How can live with a more whole attention? And joy from within?

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61:58

Tempel Smith: Day 4: Guided Meditation on the 5 Jhana...

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

2019/08/22

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Following the talk on the 5 jhana factors and the 5 hindrances from the night before... We welcome a sense of contentment in our starting conditions, take interest in our breath and remind ourselves it is all we need while meditating. From here, we aim and sustain our attention.

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64:06

Tempel Smith: 5 Jhana Factors and 5 Hindrances...

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

2019/08/21

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With mindfulness of breathing as a concentration practice we intentionally develop the 5 jhana factors. We also will definitely experience their opposites. - the 5 hindrances. As the 5 jhana factors become stronger we experience fewer hindrances.

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57:15

Tempel Smith: Cutting Through Our Stories (Retreat at...

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

2019/08/06

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Keeping your attention directly at the sense doors lets us cut through our habit of being lost in thought. As mindfulness increases, we can eventually by mindful of thought as it arises.

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60:25

Tempel Smith: Day 8: Metta and the Many Beautiful...

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

2019/07/18

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When we develop the Brahma Viharas, we also develop many beautiful qualities of heart named the Paramis, such as Generosity, Harmlessness and Renunciation.

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62:10

Tempel Smith: Day 5 Brahma Vihara Practice:...

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

2019/07/15

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Taking the most wisdom to access, the Equanimity Brahma Vihara practice gets is strength from a brave willingness to intimately see all truths. If we suspend out preferences for health and happiness, and away from pain and sorrow, we can bring our loving hearts in direct contact with what we see if true. Life is an ever changing and uncontrollable mix of gain and loss, pleasure and pain, and praise and blame. When we can rest in Equanimity Brahma Vihara we can hold

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55:13

Tempel Smith: Day 5: Sit with Instructions (Retreat...

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

2019/07/15

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We have never met most of the living beings on our planet (and beyond), and many we have met we don’t know all that well. As we expand our loving kindness practice to include all beings we have to consciously learn how to actively care for those we don’t know well. Rather than having the typical challenge of reactivity, this group of beings is hard to love precisely because we don’t know them well. If we have learned to care for a larger group of friends and

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62:34

Tempel Smith: Day 4: Metta and Samadhi (Retreat at...

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

2019/07/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How does samadhi--the unification of the heart--develop with metta practice? And how can we use the absorption factors in metta practice to help us develop deeper metta adsorptions?

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57:15

Tempel Smith: Day 1: Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat...

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

2019/07/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After learning to develop a kind and patient awareness of our breath and body, we have the basis to begin the traditional Loving Kindness meditation practice of repeating phrases of kindness towards our most easy being for whom we care.

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