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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.
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2022-02-15 Mudita Practice 48:27
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Mudita for a friend who is having great happiness, self, benefactor, and neutral categories
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-02-11 Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:14
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The Buddha taught that one should cultivate and, when possible, maintain wholesome states. This talk explores teachings on cultivating states of well-being and how to deepen them in our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-02-05 Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:07
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Being in the present requires us to open to all experience, the beautiful moments and the challenging ones. This talk explores essential qualities that help us not only accept the moment, but embrace and even love it as our true refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-02-04 Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:23
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In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided meditation invites us to practice forgiving ourselves– our body, our mind, and our heart – and then extending it towards others as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-02-01 Morning instructions: Focusing and unifying the mind 58:45
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A guided meditation on deepening concentration using the breath as the primary object.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-01-31 How The Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties 63:32
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The Five Spiritual Faculties in the Buddha's teaching give a clear description of the natural unfolding of practice unfolds over time. It also describes the process over the course of a month-long intensive retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2021-06-11 Awakening Joy: Last Seven Wholesome States to Cultivate Joy 1:13:21
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Understanding the trajectory of developing wholesome states to awaken joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being
2021-06-11 Everything is held in Awareness 46:10
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Guided "Big Mind" Meditation to perceive Awareness as the space in which all experience arises and passes away.
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2021-06-09 Including sensations, sounds and other objects in the field of awareness 46:29
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Working with the wandering mind and moving from one meditation object to another in meditation
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2021-06-08 Three Wholesome States for Cultivating Joy 60:55
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Intention, Mindfulness and Gratitude are the three wholesome states that are the foundational practices to awaken joy
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