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James Baraz's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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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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2014-06-15 Q&A 16:59	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-06-15 Dharma Q&A 17:36	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-06-15 Guided Meditation 23:12	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-06-13 Inner Harmony, Outer Contribution 63:18	Download Listen
Integrity and contentment are not only sources of true well-being but can lead to compassionate action, another support for deep happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy

2014-06-12 Forgiveness 25:51	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy

2014-06-10 Three Paths to Joy 58:39	Download Listen
How mindfulness, intention and opening to suffering are pathways to true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy

2014-03-09 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson 27:17	Download Listen
James Baraz talking about Kalyana Mitta, exploring the idea, "What is 'Spiritual Friendship'?" The word "Mitta" is related to "Metta" or lovingkindness. Mitta means friend, Kalyana is Spiritual. So, KM is a Spiritual Friends group. This term is particularly used in the Theravada tradition to talk about the relationship we have with each other to have that third refuge in the sangha really flourish
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-09 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson 55:30	Download Listen
Intro to the KM half day by James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-09 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson 24:56	Download Listen
Elad Levinson talks about the importance of building agreement among KM group members.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-02-28 Your Practice Makes a Difference! 61:03	Download Listen
In this last talk of the month long retreat, the Buddha's five supports for our practice (from the Maghiya Sutta) are presented as well as the ways our practice can benefit not only ourselves, but everyone we know and our planet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

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