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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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2020-05-21 5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:11
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Meditation and Dharma practice can be understood as a natural process of developing five qualities starting with Faith/Trust and culminating in Wisdom. This talk describes how that process unfolds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Magic of Awareness - Online
2020-04-30 Your Practice as a Gift to Others (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:49
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Our own centeredness and kind awareness becomes one the greatest gifts we can offer others who are in distress. Without fixing or changing our compassionate presence is healing and a source of our own inner well-being, especially when we do't identify with being "the helper".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-04-29 Wednesday Morning Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:00
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-04-28 Finding Your Center (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:22
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How can we find balance in the times of great distress? The process of first connecting with out experience, then holding what's here and finally accessing that place of peace and spacious awareness that can hold it all are discussed. Practices to help find our center are offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-02-23 You Are Loving Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:27
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Mindful awareness creates spaciousness for love to naturally shine through -- your true nature. The talk includes reminisces of Ram Dass, major benefactor of the insight meditation community, who passed away Dec. 2019 and whose practice was "I am loving awareness."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong
2020-02-21 Day 20 Afternoon Instructions: Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:01
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong
2020-02-16 Dukkha as a Path to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:53
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Dukkha is an inevitable part of life, the 1st Noble Truth. How we meet it and work with it is a key issue of practice. If understood, it can be a doorway to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong
2020-02-16 Day 15 Morning Instructions: Big Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:23
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All experience arises and passed in the vast space of awareness. This meditation, adapted from Tibetan text, directs attention to awareness itself rather than the objects within the awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong
2020-02-09 Practice as a Path of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:47
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Sometimes we can misunderstand practice as mainly overcoming suffering. The Buddha spoke of cultivating and increasing wholesome states and being mindful of the "gladness of the wholesome."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong
2020-02-09 Day 8 Morning Instructions: Choiceless Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:26
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Guided meditation letting go of the primary object and allowing receiving each moment as it presents itself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

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