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James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet. I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I"m doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access

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James Baraz: Instructions from My Teachers

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/10/30

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations? What have you learned from them? I thought I'd share some ways that instructions from two of my teachers--Ram Dass and HWL Poonja (Papaji)-- have shaped how I see the world and how I practice. The talk includes a recording of a significant dialogue from 1990 with Poonjaji that reconnected me with my joy. Here is a link to the dialogue of the Poonjaji

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44:34

James Baraz: Navigating the Truth of Suffering

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/10/09

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Suffering is the Buddha's 1st Noble Truth. Sometimes it can feel like it's all too much, especially in these days of extreme unpredictability. Legitimate reactions of anger, confusion and discouragement can lead to feeling of hopelessness or resigned acceptance. How can we use the practice to not only skillfully hold those feelings, but to transform them into wholesome uplifting responses such as courage, trust and compassionate action?

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2:06:47

James Baraz: Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/09/28

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the place of Devotion in practice and what it means to look at reality through the lens of Sacred Perception.

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45:21

James Baraz: You Are Loving Awareness

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/09/25

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is interacting with the world around it. I use Ram Dass's practice of seeing beyond this mind/body by abiding in the perspective "I Am Loving Awareness". This is where the devotional and non-dual meet. To aid in this exploration James shares some powerful cuts from the album Ram Dass, a collaboration of Ram Dass's voice and teachings with

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66:18

James Baraz: Your Practice is Not Just for You...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/08/31

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ to cultivate wisdom and compassion within us. In this world with so much suffering—including the climate crisis and injustice in the world—more than ever we need to keep this in mind and see ourselves as “bodhisattvas in training“.

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31:50

James Baraz: Loving the Whole Package:...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/08/30

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practices to hold our suffering and to see our innate goodness

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57:37

James Baraz: Intrusctions: Opening to the Breath,...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/08/29

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48:04

James Baraz: Anguttara Nikaya 1.483

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/05/15

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Anguttara Nikaya is one of the five Nikayas (collections) that constitute the Sutta Pitaka, which is part of the Pali Tipitaka, the Theravada Buddhist canon.It is also known as the "Numerical Discourses" or "Gradual Collection". The Anguttara Nikaya is organized numerically, with suttas grouped into eleven books (nipatas) based on the number of items discussed within them. For example, the "Book of the Ones" contains suttas about a single topic, the "Book of the

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68:37

James Baraz, Jean Leonard, Kerstin Deibert:...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/04/29

(Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center) Dharmettes & Q&A - James Baraz, Kerstin Deibert and Jean Leonard Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart

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67:10

James Baraz: Following the Spiral-Going Forth -...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/04/28

(Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center) Following the Spiral-Going Forth - Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart

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51:41

James Baraz: The Antidote to Fear: Practicing in...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/01/30

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It seems like many are feeling either a low-level anxiety or fear these days. Fear about their safety, about disasters like fire or floods, about what the future holds. While this is natural and understandable, when our minds get hijacked by fearful thoughts, it is almost impossible to have a wise or appropriate response. In this talk we explore practicing and skillfully working with fear so that it can transform into courage, compassion and wisdom.

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46:39

James Baraz: Our Greatest Protection

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/01/16

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk is about what the Dalai Lama called our greatest protection: our sincerity of motivation. What is sincerity? How do we know when we are truly sincere? How can we cultivate it?

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49:22

James Baraz: Like an Instrument with Sarah Marie Hopf

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/26

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) How might you let Life play you like an instrument? In this talk James shares the evening with Sarah-Marie Hopf, a good friend, dedicated practitioner, coach and meditation teacher who shares about her journey of progressively deepening trust in the dharma and our True Nature and opening to what wants to flow effortlessly from the mystery into form. Becoming an unexpected singer-songwriter, she shares the origin story of her first album “Modern Mantras”

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49:23

James Baraz: Love Serve Remember

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/19

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The title of the evening is "Love, Serve, Remember". On October 13th, Spirit Rock hosts a special event Celebrating Ram Dass: Love Serve, Remember with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das and others. Those three words were the instructions Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass' guru gave to him: "Love Everyone, Serve Everyone, and Remember God."

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James Baraz: Awakening Joy: Inclining the Mind toward...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/12

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha advised us to not only cultivate wholesome states but to maintain and increase them when they arise. How can we do that without attachment? This talk explains how to cultivate and strengthen wholesome states not only in retreat but in daily life. James explains the Buddhist principles and practices he shares in his Awakening Joy course.

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57:10

James Baraz: Instructions: Breath and Body (Retreat...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/12

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Expanding the meditation field beyond the breath to include the whole physical realm of experience.

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50:09

James Baraz: Great Female Disciples of the Buddha

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/03/21

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Most of the Buddha's disciples whose names we are familiar with, such as Ananda and Sariputta, are men. The Buddha also had women disciples who were wise and profound practitioners like Mahapajapati, the Buddha's aunt/foster mother, responsible for the establishment of the order of nuns or Patacara, revered teacher, who tragically lost her family and eventually became fully enlightened. “If the measure of a human life is a chance to have significance

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51:58

James Baraz: Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/02/22

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Compassion practice including all categories.

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64:44

James Baraz: Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/02/21

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Although devotion plays a significant role in Monastic Communities and Tibetan practices it is not something often discussed in lay communities. Yet devotion can be a major source of inspiration which can fuel our practice. How can we access it and have it moisten our sincerity of motivation?

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60:37

James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit...

James Baraz"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/02/19

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation, originally created by Joseph Goldstein, shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.

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