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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.

religion & spirituality buddhism

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1:10:03

Tempel Smith: Beautiful Qualities of the Free Heart...

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

2019/02/27

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our hearts have the potential to develop common strengths into boundless beautiful qualities called Paramis (Paramitas).

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44:54

Tempel Smith: Day 23 Equanimity: This is how it is,...

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

2019/02/25

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To practice the divine abode of equanimity, we begin by reflecting on the need to be intimate with what is really happening. With this strength of heart we can soften our preferences and the fantasies they produce in order to bring out heart in steady contact with all unfolding phenomena.

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63:40

Tempel Smith: Cultivating Meditative Absorptions...

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

2019/02/20

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are two larger categories of meditation: samatha meditations and vipassana meditations. Samatha meditations are intended to calm, unify, balance and develop strengths of the heart, and vipassana meditations lead toward insight into our patterns of suffering, confusion, clarity and freedom. The samatha meditations can develop to the point where we are fully absorbed into our meditation subject. This talk describes this process.

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43:43

Tempel Smith: Day 14 Choiceless Awareness: Guided...

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

2019/02/16

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided practice for letting go of specific objects or sense doors to practice open or choiceless awareness. For some people this is a more natural way of practicing. The intent is to become mindful of one’s mental activity as it is drawn to different experiences arising at any of the six sense doors. From this practice you can gain insight into how the mind works and find freedom no matter what the experience.

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43:57

Tempel Smith: Day 13 - Guided Metta (Loving...

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

2019/02/15

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inviting our heart to let go of all reservations and conditions to universal friendliness and kindness. This heart which can hold all beings in kindness becomes a refuge for our own well being and the well being of others.

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61:30

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

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

2019/02/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Continuing from the Anapanasati sutta we turn to vedana, the 2nd foundation of mindfulness. With great courage. we can develop contentment no matter the pleasure, pain or neutrality of any give moment. In not understanding vedana we are forever imprisoned by our wrong views. When we can breath consciously in a greater range of pain, pleasure and neutrality we find the path to non-conditional contentment.

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48:54

Tempel Smith: Day 11 - Instruction for Mindfulness of...

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

2019/02/13

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instruction and guided meditation on the 2nd foundation of mindfulness called vedana (feeling tone). This is the factor of each moment of consciousness which is pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. Being able to be mindful of vedana allows us to cut off our reactivity.

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46:33

Tempel Smith: Day 6 - Morning Instruction on Breath...

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

2019/02/08

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An introduction to a careful and detailed practice of the 4 Elements meditation practice. Focusing on different kinds of body sensations, first independently and then in combination.

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64:55

Tempel Smith: 16 Meditative Steps in Mindfulness of...

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

2019/02/07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In many discourses the Buddha gave very detailed instructions on how to develop Mindfulness of Breathing from our first awareness of breathing in and out through calming the mind into samadhi (concentration) and then steps to cultivate liberating insight. These 16 steps also include the cultivation of happiness and contentment as an aspect of the path to freedom.

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44:48

Tempel Smith: Day 3 - Instruction for Loving Kindness...

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

2019/02/05

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing metta for an easy being and for oneself, with an emphasis in establishing loyalty to be kind to yourself in all conditions.

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54:22

Tempel Smith: Day One - Instructions for Mindfulness...

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

2019/02/03

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Settling into mindfulness for the month long retreat. Approaching sounds, body sensations, and the breath as a home base, with ease, patience, and kindness of attitude.

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47:48

Tempel Smith: Day Four, Guided Kindness...

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

2018/08/10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With the practice of Forgiveness Meditation, we release our hearts from the pain of resentment without losing a healthy sense of boundaries or accountability.

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61:06

Tempel Smith: Beginning Insights of Vipassana...

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

2018/08/09

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After even a few days of insight meditation, we can begin to see clearly that thoughts are only concepts in the present. We can also see the impermanent and ever changing conditional nature of all of our experiences.

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61:35

Tempel Smith: Developing Inner Sanctuary (Retreat at...

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

2018/07/16

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Through difficult experiencing in practice and in times of easy, loving-kindness meditation purifies and heals the heart, opening us up to inner sanctuary. This ripening of loving kindness sanctuary is the taste of meditative samadhi.

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6:34:20

Tempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full...

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

2018/07/07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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7:05:37

Tempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full...

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

2018/07/06

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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7:04:33

Tempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full...

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

2018/07/05

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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1:45:45

Tempel Smith: Not yet titled

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

2017/11/16

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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61:54

Tempel Smith: Becoming Mindful of Thought (Retreat at...

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

2017/08/10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Most people are lost in thought, mesmerized by thought, experiencing the content of thought as real events. With the practice of mindfulness we can first learn to turn away from the dominance of thought, and then bring awareness to the direct experience of thinking as a present time experience.

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59:46

Tempel Smith: Developing The Love of Equanimity...

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

2017/07/12

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Fourth Brahma Vihara--Upekkha/Equanimity--is a tender, steady love that rest peacefully in the truth of how things are. This expression of love grows out of wisdom and lots of perspective.

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