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Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Amita Schmidt is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on trauma and meditation. She was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society from 2000-2006. She is the author of "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master." She also has practiced with Adyashanti, a teacher of non-dual awareness.

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26:48

Amita Schmidt: Connect and Soothe Your Parts during...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/02/23

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This is a meditation will help you connect, regulate, repair, and soothe parts of yourself during difficult times. It includes principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Metta (lovingkindness).

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36:41

Amita Schmidt: Spiritual Solidarity

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/02/23

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This talk explores ways to increase your Spiritual Solidarity, both inner and outer, during difficult times. Included are ways to regulate your nervous system, and also connect with your deeper purpose.

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2:40

Amita Schmidt: The Audacity of Joy

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/02/23

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) A response to a question about feeling joy during difficult times. The student was concerned that feeling joy might decrease connections with others who are suffering. They also felt some guilt about feeling joy when others were in pain.

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41:41

Amita Schmidt: Infinte Love

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/10

(Tri State Dharma) Our true nature is loving awareness, and this talk gives you practices to strengthen both awareness and love. Learn to move from "my" awareness to THE awareness in every day of your life.

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37:21

Amita Schmidt: The Root Cause of Suffering

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/08

(Tri State Dharma) In this talk you will learn tools to loosen the attachment to the ego perspective: how to step outside the snow globe of you; how to move away from the trance of thoughts; and ways to pendulate to a bigger perspective/view. This talk also has some science quotations from Donald Hoffman and others on infinite consciousness.

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5:03

Amita Schmidt: Q and A: The gift of Listening to...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/06

(Tri State Dharma) Suffering can be a gift that helps you self-correct back to right action.

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36:20

Amita Schmidt: Anxiety and Depression Basic Tools for...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/28

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This talk offers some basic tools and reflections to help meditation students with Depression and Anxiety. You will learn to recognize the optical illusions of mind, label distorted thinking patterns, and unblend from difficult mindstates.

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37:29

Amita Schmidt: Interview about Dipa Ma

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/06/20

(Maui, Hi) Interview with Amita Schmidt about Dipa Ma Barua. Interview is a podcast with Donna Ferris on her podcast series Bounce Back Stronger.

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4:33

Amita Schmidt: Debilitating Self Doubt

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/09/24

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) If you have incessant or debilitating doubts here are a few strategies, including how to see/work with it as a part, and help update this part. Also includes a brief description about what Dipa Ma did for students.

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45:28

Amita Schmidt: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/09/24

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) It's important to have an orienting principle for Artificial Intelligence or AI. This talk will help you find an orienting principle, as well as give you tools and practices to use during times of great change.

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46:20

Amita Schmidt: The No Self Strategy of the Buddha

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/05/26

(Insight San Diego) The no self strategy of the Buddha is a tool for awakening. This talk includes a reflection on the 5 aggregates (5 characteristics that create the illusion of a self), as well as some daily micro practices/reflections to decrease the attachment to a separate self.

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42:33

Amita Schmidt: Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/01/29

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This talk explains the difference between horizontal verses vertical dharma practice. The talk also explores "The Four Reflections," or lojong teachings to inspire your sitting and daily life practice. These include reflections on precious human birth, impermanence/death, suffering, and karma.

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8:26

Amita Schmidt: Below the Waves Meditation

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/01/29

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) A unique vertical, guided meditation for dropping below your thinking, to the body breathing, and then to awareness itself. This meditation is unique in that it doesn't try to stop thinking, but includes it as part of a vertical awareness of your whole being, here now.

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18:15

Amita Schmidt: Q and A: meditation and memory,...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/01/29

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) Questions and Answers: 1)Why meditation can make your memory worse.2) Why does practice create sadness sometimes? 3) Dementia and true nature. 4) Some reflections on chronic illness

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13:16

Amita Schmidt: Working with Thinking as a "Part"

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/12/24

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) Thinking itself is actually just a part, a protector part, and this meditation will help you have compassion for this part. The meditation will also give you insight into your thinking and what it's true purpose is. Knowing this will help you on the meditation cushion and in your daily life practice.

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9:14

Amita Schmidt: Outside the Storm: A Meditation for...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/12/22

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) Instead of trying to bring mindfulness to emotions from the inside out, this meditation will help you develop awareness of the calm outside of emotions (eg. the outside of the storm). Some people have found this tool to be very useful in decreasing anxiety, overwhelm, and fear.

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9:01

Amita Schmidt: Kuan Yin Compassion Meditation

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/12/17

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) The first 3 minutes explains about Kuan Yin, and the practice of Compassion as a listening and bearing witness to suffering. Then there is a short and simple, 5 min Kuan Yin meditation, on listening with the ear of the heart.

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9:14

Amita Schmidt: Self Forgiveness Meditation

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/11/13

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This is a short, guided meditation exercise in extending forgiveness to a part of yourself. The meditation is designed for healing, and you can practice it as many times as needed, for different ages/parts of yourself.

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2:25

Amita Schmidt: Awareness of Awareness and Dissolving...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/11/13

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) An answer to a question about Awareness of Awareness. Also includes some about "dissolving into Being" as part of our evolution in practice.

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1:00

Amita Schmidt: Listen to all thoughts like a...

Amita Schmidt"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2022/11/13

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) A brief, additional comment to a student, who mentioned that my suggestion of a practice of "listening to all thoughts like they were a birdsong" was helpful to her.

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