James Baraz's Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
James Baraz
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 their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.
The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.
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2007-07-19
"Calling All Bodhisattvas"
2017-09-03
"Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred" (Retreat Version) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-10-24
2015-10-24 The Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thupten
2010-05-10
3 Principles of Awakening Joy
2018-01-28
5 Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-02-10
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2000-02-25
A Path With Heart
2010-02-15
Abundant Enoughness: The Practice of Contentment
2013-02-08
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions
2013-02-25
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita for All Beings
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 1
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 2
2005-09-05
Aligning Our Life With The Dharma
2013-02-04
An Ode to Mindfulness
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy
2010-02-19
Awakening Joy
2010-07-20
Awakening Joy and Mudita
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy Daylong PM Session
2011-09-04
Awakening Joy: The Buddhist Path to Happiness
2004-02-20
Awakening To Joy - part 1
2004-02-25
Awakening To Joy - part 2
2013-09-14
Awareness as Basis of Connection to Self and Others
2002-10-02
Body of Fear Mind of Wisdom
2015-02-06
Brahma Vihara Day #6: Forgiveness
2015-02-20
Brahma Vihara Day 20
2013-02-12
Brahma Viharas - Forgivness
2015-02-15
Brahma Viharas Day 15
2011-07-22
Bringing Metta into the World
2014-07-17
Bringing Your Metta Practice into the World
2014-08-31
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2015-09-06
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2012-11-01
Buddha Dharma as a Path of Happiness
2009-09-06
Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 2 of 4
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 4 of 4
2002-02-16
Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice
2015-10-04
Closing the Day
2012-02-13
Comparing Mind
2002-03-04
Comparing Mind
2018-05-26
Compassion - Full Expression of a Joyful Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-12-03
Connecting Mind and Heart: Awakening Joy
2012-02-27
Contentment
2013-03-02
Contentment
2014-02-17
Contentment
2013-02-18
Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2
2013-02-11
Cultivating Wholesome States, Part 1
2018-05-22
Day 1 Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-06
Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2019-02-14
Day 12 - Brahma Vihara Practice - Metta for Difficult Persons (part 2) & All ...
2019-02-14
Day 12 - Morning Sit with Instructions - Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-12
Day 13 Morning Instructions: Cultivating the Wholesome
2018-02-09
Day 13: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2018-02-11
Day 15: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-16
Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Compassion: Neutral and difficult person
2019-02-21
Day 19 Guided Meditation: The Big Mind/Sky Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-18
Day 19: Morning Instructional Sit: Breath Concentration
2018-02-15
Day 19: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2018-05-30
Day 1: Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-28
Day 1: Morning Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-29
Day 2 - Morning Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-04
Day 2 Morning Sit w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-23
Day 23 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity: Benefactor and Dear Friend
2018-02-19
Day 23: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2019-02-26
Day 24 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-22
Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-06-01
Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-29
Day 2: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-02
Day 3 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-20
Day 3 Sitting/Instructions
2017-11-04
Day 3: Guided Meditation Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-01
Day 3: Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-03
Day 4 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor
2019-06-07
Day 4 Experiential Practice: Forgiveness - Pathway to an Open Heart (Retreat ...
2017-12-01
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-03
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-25
Day 4: Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-25
Day 4: Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-26
Day 5 Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-07
Day 5: Brahma Vihara Guided Meditation - Forgiveness Practice (Retreat at Sp...
2016-02-07
Day 8 Morning Instructional Sit: Vedana
2019-02-11
Day 9 - Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-08
Day 9 Brahma Viharas: Dear Friend
2018-02-05
Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-27
Deepening & Expressing Our Practice
2007-12-07
Devotional Practice
2012-02-16
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-02-11
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2017-02-10
Dharma Practice as a Path to Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2011-01-17
Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And...
2017-02-20
Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-18
Emaho! How amazing! Wonder and Awe
2013-05-18
Equanimity with Things As They Are
2017-02-16
Equanimity: Bringing Balance to our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-06-05
Faith and Confidence
2009-02-20
Faith In The Dharma
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2012-02-20
Fear as Practice
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
2019-02-03
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2005-04-22
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2007-02-08
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2017-01-30
Five Spiritual Faculties: Understanding how Intensive Practice Works (Retreat...
2007-07-16
Forgiveness
2014-06-12
Forgiveness
2014-07-12
Forgiveness
2016-12-02
Forgiveness Practice
2005-07-11
Forgiveness: The Doorway To An Open Heart
2009-09-28
Forgiveness; Cleaning Your Slate
2017-11-06
From Me to We:
How Inter-Connectedness Manifests Intra-personally, Interper...
2019-02-09
Gladness of the Wholesome ( Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2005-02-12
Gladness Of The Wholesome - Awakening Joy
2014-07-16
Gratitude
2014-06-15
Guided Meditation
2006-02-08
Happiness - part 1: Wise Effort And Wholesome States
2006-02-14
Happiness - part 2: Opening To Suffering As Well As To Joy
2006-02-22
Happiness - part 3: Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-02-27
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2006-07-19
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2016-05-21
Heart Practices for Awakening Joy
2015-09-03
How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
2011-02-10
Humility and Confidence
2004-02-15
Inclining Our Mind Towards Freedom: The Power Of Intention
2014-06-13
Inner Harmony, Outer Contribution
2017-06-02
Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-18
Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy
2017-05-31
Intention and Mindfulness as the Basis for Awakening Joy (Retreat at Spirit ...
2009-08-10
Intersecting Realities
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-10-04
Introduction to A Day of Connectoin
2012-07-10
It's Really Possible!
2018-09-29
James Baraz and Adam Baraz - Embodying Presence: Relaxing the Body into Being
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 1 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 2 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 3 of 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 1
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 2
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 4
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2018-05-24
Learning to Love Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-01-12
Learning To Open To Experience
2016-12-01
Love, Serve, Remember = Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2013-05-15
Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older
2016-06-11
Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thubten
2016-11-29
Making Friends with Ourselves: Working with Judging Mind
2016-02-06
Making Friends with the Judging Mind
2018-08-31
Metta
2016-11-29
Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor
2011-07-19
Metta Instructions: The Neutral Person
2016-09-03
Metta Practice - Self and Dear Friend
2018-07-19
Metta to all
2016-09-01
Mindfulness with Attitude
2015-02-12
Morning Instructions #12
2014-02-02
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2014-02-08
Morning Instructions - Day 7
2015-02-06
Morning Instructions Day #6
2015-02-01
Morning Instructions Day 1
2014-02-13
Morning Instructions Day 12
2013-02-05
Morning Instructions, Day 2
2013-02-12
Morning Instructions, Day 9
2014-02-16
Morning Instructions: Day 15
2011-07-19
Mudita
2014-10-18
No Doing
2019-02-23
Non Greed, Non Hatred, Non Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2012-06-23
Obstacles to Connecting in Relationships
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2017-02-05
Opening to Experience: How and When (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-20
Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness
2011-03-02
Opening to the Moment
2010-02-09
Our Greatest Protection
2003-02-19
Passion For Practice
2004-12-27
Past, Present, Future: A Journey Through Time
2016-02-17
Planting Seeds of Happiness: Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion
2017-06-01
Practical Tips on Opening Up to Suffering and Exploring Generosity (Retreat a...
2009-02-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness
2015-02-11
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-09-04
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2004-04-26
Practice As A Path To Happiness
2014-06-15
Q&A
2000-02-26
Questions And Answers
2017-11-02
Refuge in Sangha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-09-02
Relaxed Interested Kind Awareness
2002-02-12
Reporting To The Mother Ship: Wonder, Awe, Interest, Investigation
2002-03-20
Resting in Awareness
2004-11-20
Saturday Night Closing Session
2018-02-23
Seeing Our Practice in a Wider Context (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-13
Seeing the Good-Inside and Out
2017-11-27
Setting the tone for Magic of Awareness Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2003-02-10
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2016-12-11
Spirit Rock - Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice with James Baraz
2007-02-13
Spiritual Passion
2001-02-24
Spiritual Passion: The Iddhipadas (Bases Of Power)
2005-02-21
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation: The Purification Process
2016-02-26
Supports for Practice
2015-10-04
Sustained by the Gladness of the Wholesome
2013-09-14
The Amazing Wonder and Awe of Awareness
2012-06-23
The Art and Practice of Connection
2000-02-14
The Brahma Viharas
2006-07-15
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2005-02-05
The Comparing Mind
2013-02-24
The Comparing Mind
2011-09-01
The Essence of Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2015-02-05
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2009-02-04
The Grace Of Suffering
2009-12-13
The Hard Things That Open the Heart
2010-10-23
The Hard Things That Open The Heart
2018-02-10
The Journey of Awakening- From Personal to the Universal (Retreat at Spirit R...
2018-08-30
The Journey to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 1
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 1
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 3
2011-02-21
The Joy of Wholesome States
2010-02-04
The Lion's Roar
2017-11-30
The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 1
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 3
2019-02-16
The Power of Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-11-19
The Power Of Mindfulness
1999-11-23
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
2019-01-31
The Refinement of Mind Part 2
2019-02-25
The Three Roots of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-08-28
The What, Why and How of Dharma Practice
2013-08-29
The What, Why and How of Mindfulness Practice
2012-02-03
The Wise Attitude in Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2012-02-08
This Precious Opportunity
2014-06-10
Three Paths to Joy
2013-09-01
Transforming Fear into Love
1993-04-21
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-03-27
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2012-09-02
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
2018-02-04
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-02
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-02
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-15
Trust
2016-02-21
Trust
2012-11-03
Trust and Surrender is Available in Any Moment
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-02-25
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-09-05
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2015-02-21
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2005-02-16
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
1995-01-02
Waking Up: Interesting Hobby Or Committed Vision
2012-08-30
What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It?
2003-08-28
What Is Mindfulness
2014-02-23
What Thought Am I Believing Right Now?
2019-06-08
What's coming, end of retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-07-21
What's Not Wrong...Mudita, Uplifting States and Looking for the Good.
2011-07-18
Whose Love is it Anyway?
2019-06-04
Why "Awakening Joy"? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-09-03
Wise Attitudes In Practice
2014-02-07
Wise Effort: Finding Balance and Inclining toward the Wholesome
2005-04-24
Wise Intention (Sutta On The Two Kinds Of Thought)
2001-10-17
Working with Fear
2015-02-16
Working with the Comparing Mind
2011-02-15
Working with the Judging Mind
2017-09-01
Working With the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-31
Working with the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-02-25
Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment
2014-02-28
Your Practice Makes a Difference!
2019-06-04
Why "Awakening Joy"? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
55:42
The Buddha was called "The Happy One", but often there is more emphasis on overcoming suffering then going for true happiness. It is beneficial to see the teachings in the light of cultivating wholesome states as well - leading to the highest happiness of freedom.
Awakening Joy
2019-02-25
The Three Roots of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
46:47
A talk on the Buddha's Teaching of three roots of happiness: non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion. Stating each in a positive way they are 1) Letting go/Generosity, 2) Loving-Kindness 3)Clarity/Wisdom.
As part of the talk I share some personal stories of how my different paths of Buddhism and the Hindu path of devotion converged around these three qualities.
February Monthlong
2019-02-23
Non Greed, Non Hatred, Non Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
64:41
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion were taught by the Buddha as the three roots of happiness. Stating each in a positive way they are 1) Letting go/Generosity, 2) Loving-Kindness and ClarityWisdom. Every moment that we're mindful we're cultivating these qualities. This talk explores both the moment-to-moment as well as the relational aspects of these three qualities.
February Monthlong
2019-02-16
The Power of Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
61:45
The Buddha said that karma is all based on intention. In every moment we are sowing the seeds of suffering or happiness. In addition to this moment to moment aspect, intention also refers to a wider motivation—Clear Comprehension of Purpose—our aspiration and vision that fuels and inspires us to practice. Both of these dimensions of intention are explored.
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