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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Select from James Baraz's
362
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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)
2020-05-21
5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online 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
2025-05-15
Anguttara Nikaya 1.483
2010-02-19
Awakening Joy
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy
2010-07-20
Awakening Joy and Mudita
2022-05-28
Awakening Joy as a Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy Daylong PM Session
2024-09-12
Awakening Joy: Inclining the Mind toward Well-Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-11
Awakening Joy: Last Seven Wholesome States to Cultivate Joy
2022-02-11
Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat …
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
2025-05-22
Awareness Doesn't Care: Mindfulness, the Equal Opportunity Liberator
2023-08-31
Beyond the Comparing Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-13
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-19
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-06-19
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2002-10-02
Body of Fear Mind of Wisdom
2015-02-06
Brahma Vihara Day #6: Forgiveness
2015-02-20
Brahma Vihara Day 20
2021-02-11
Brahma Vihara: Equanimity
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
2019-09-01
Bringing Your Practice Into The World (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2023-09-04
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-09-13
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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)
2024-02-22
Compassion (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
2019-11-03
Cultivating Courage: Fearlessly Standing in Truth
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)
2018-05-30
Day 1: Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-28
Day 1: Morning Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-06
Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2019-02-14
Day 12 - Brahma Vihara Practice - Metta for Difficult Persons (part 2) & All Be…
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 R…
2020-02-16
Day 15 Morning Instructions: Big Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2016-02-18
Day 19: Morning Instructional Sit: Breath Concentration
2018-02-15
Day 19: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
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)
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)
2020-02-21
Day 20 Afternoon Instructions: Mudita (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 R…
2019-02-26
Day 24 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-22
Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions
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 at…
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 Spir…
2016-02-07
Day 8 Morning Instructional Sit: Vedana
2020-02-09
Day 8 Morning Instructions: Choiceless Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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)
2020-02-07
Day Six Afternoon Instructions: Brahma Viharas - Forgiveness & Metta for Self (…
2020-02-04
Day Three Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-27
Deepening & Expressing Our Practice
2023-02-23
Devotion in Practice
2024-02-21
Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2018-03-10
Discovering the Buddha Within
2011-01-17
Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And T…
2020-02-16
Dukkha as a Path to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-20
Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-18
Emaho! How amazing! Wonder and Awe
2022-02-18
Equanimity
2013-05-18
Equanimity with Things As They Are
2017-02-16
Equanimity: Bringing Balance to our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-11
Everything is held in Awareness
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
2023-02-16
Fear as Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
2020-04-28
Finding Your Center (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-03
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-08-29
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-02-03
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-09-01
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 a…
2007-07-16
Forgiveness
2014-06-12
Forgiveness
2014-07-12
Forgiveness
2021-02-05
Forgiveness
2016-12-02
Forgiveness Practice
2009-09-28
Forgiveness; Cleaning Your Slate
2005-07-11
Forgiveness: The Doorway To An Open Heart
2020-05-22
Friday Morning Dharmette and Instruction (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-04-20
From Me to We
2017-11-06
From Me to We:
How Inter-Connectedness Manifests Intra-personally, Interperso…
2005-02-12
Gladness Of The Wholesome - Awakening Joy
2019-02-09
Gladness of the Wholesome ( Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-16
Gratitude
2022-02-04
Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-02-10
Guided Instructions: Incorporating Awareness as a Meditation Object (including …
2014-06-15
Guided Meditation
2021-02-04
Guided Meditation on Refinement of the Breath
2022-02-21
Guided sit with brama vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2021-02-03
Holding the Judging Mind with Compassion
2015-09-03
How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
2022-01-31
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
2022-05-29
Including body sensations and sounds in the field of awareness. (Retreat at Spi…
2021-06-09
Including sensations, sounds and other objects in the field of awareness
2014-06-13
Inner Harmony, Outer Contribution
2017-03-26
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-26
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-25
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-24
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-24
Inspired by Changes: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our …
2024-06-17
Instructions Including Breath, Body Sensations and Sounds (Retreat at Spirit Ro…
2024-09-12
Instructions: Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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 Ro…
2009-08-10
Intersecting Realities
2024-06-20
Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Co…
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
2025-08-29
Intrusctions: Opening to the Breath, Body and Physical Realm of Experience (Ret…
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
2022-02-05
Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-08-30
Loving the Whole Package: Self-Compassion and Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit…
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
2022-05-30
Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-11-29
Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor
2022-09-03
Metta Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2014-02-02
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2014-02-08
Morning Instructions - Day 7
2024-09-10
Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-12
Morning Instructions #12
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
2022-02-01
Morning instructions: Focusing and unifying the mind
2022-09-02
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-08-31
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-09-01
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-07-19
Mudita
2022-02-15
Mudita Practice
2023-02-17
Mudita Practice
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
2016-05-17
Opening Night Talk
2023-08-30
Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2024-02-04
Opening to the Whole Show (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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 at …
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
2020-02-09
Practice as a Path of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2013-04-20
Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
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
2024-09-09
Spirit Rock Founders Remember the Early Days (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2020-05-24
Sunday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2019-02-21
The Big Mind/Sky Practice
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 Roc…
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)
2024-06-17
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
2024-08-29
The Miracle of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2023-05-15
The Secret Ingredients of Dharma Practice
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
2021-06-08
Three Wholesome States for Cultivating 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
2020-05-24
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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)
2023-02-09
Transforming suffering into happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-09-03
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-29
Transitions as a Focus of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-15
Trust
2016-02-21
Trust
2024-02-16
Trust (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2021-02-09
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2005-02-16
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2020-05-26
Tuesday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1995-01-02
Waking Up: Interesting Hobby Or Committed Vision
2020-04-29
Wednesday Morning Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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
2024-02-10
Wise Effort: Balance and Cultivating Wholesome States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-07
Wise Effort: Finding Balance and Inclining toward the Wholesome
2023-02-01
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
2020-02-23
You Are Loving Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-04-30
Your Practice as a Gift to Others (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-02-24
Your Practice is Not Just for You
2022-04-11
Your Practice is Not Just for You
2025-08-31
Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-28
Your Practice Makes a Difference!
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Select one of James Baraz's 64 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-07-13
Metta Retreat
2007-12-04
CDL DPP Reunion Retreat
2009-02-01
Insight Meditation February
2009-06-02
Practice in Difficult Times
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2009-09-02
Labor Day
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-07-16
Metta Retreat
2010-09-01
Labor Day Retreat
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop at the Berkeley Buddhist M…
2011-02-05
February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-07-15
Metta Retreat
2011-08-31
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-02-01
Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012
2012-07-06
Metta Retreat
2012-08-29
Labor Day Retreat
2012-10-30
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2013-02-03
February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-04-20
Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2013-05-13
Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2014-06-09
Awakening Joy
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-08-27
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Whose Love is it Anyway?
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Although metta practice can seem dualistic (me sending love to others) it is really an anatta practice that reveals the selfless nature of reality. The love that connects us isn't owned by anyone.
This talk includes two guided meditations: 1) metta towards self and 2) seeing ourselves as part of a lineage of benefactors-the love and caring we receive from others passing through us to those we care about and support.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Metta Retreat
