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2011-11-02 Getting Down to Direct Experience IV: How Can We Relate Skillfully to Thinking? 58:49
Donald Rothberg
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After reviewing the emphasis on grounding in more direct experience, we explore how to be skillful as we move away from indirect experience with our thinking, focusing on (1) having our thinking connected with direct experience and (2) using "views" wisely. Includes Q and A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-11-01 A New Paradigm 62:18
Tempel Smith
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Towards a Secular Buddhism

2011-11-01 A New Paradigm 62:18
Tempel Smith
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Through a greater self understanding brought about through mindfulness, we can live in alignment with anicca, dukka and anatta. Becoming aligned in the New Paradigm allows our frustrations with life to cease arising.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Towards a Secular Buddhism

2011-11-01 Whatever Arises and Ceases 59:00
Stephen Batchelor
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Further reflections on Secular Dharma; what was distinctive in the Buddha's teaching at his time; "Whatever arises ceases": the ocean, the breath, the heartbeat; the Kaccanagotta Sutta (S.12:15); quotes from Montaigne & Nagarjuna re: neither being nor non-being; the questions of Vacchagotta concerning self (S.44:10)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Towards a Secular Buddhism

2011-10-31 Balance in Meditation 57:51
Martine Batchelor
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Looking at balance in mediation through the prism of appropriate vision and appropriate concentration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Towards a Secular Buddhism

2011-10-31 Into the Mystery 58:22
Mark Coleman
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What does it mean to see through the veil that clouds our perception and to sense, perceive and know the mystery in all it manifestations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-10-31 A Secular Religion? 61:36
Stephen Batchelor
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Reflections on the conversational and dialogical nature of a living tradition; the tension between the deeply human religious impulse (questioning) and religious institutions and dogmas; the twofold meaning of the word "secular."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Towards a Secular Buddhism

2011-10-30 Breaking Free of Habits: Part 1 60:28
Martine Batchelor
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During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
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2011-10-30 Breaking Free of Habits: Part 2 1:25:21
Martine Batchelor
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During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
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2011-10-29 Questions and Answers about 'Self' and other topics 52:23
Stephen Batchelor
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