Arinna Weisman

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Faith is not a romanticized protection of a particular experience or person. It is born from the practice of transforming our defended hearts and minds. Faith is one of the great spiritual powers which sustains love and wisdom. Entrusting ourselves to the beautiful qualities of heart, because they only bring goodness.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2923

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Delusion seduces us into thinking we are dependent on people, material objects or pleasant experiences for our happiness. Renunciation and the practice of the precepts bring us to the peace we are.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/391

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Contemplating the blessings of birth as a human being and our capacity to awaken the gates of impermanence, karma and imperfection to wisdom.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/395

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

The ground for wisdom and love is the practice of kindness and the training to refrain from harm. Here are stories to inspire and remind us.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2924

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

We are often blind to our own generosity, to the gift of our practice and efforts. The Buddha invites us to contemplate this beautiful quality of our minds, and its wholesome results, as part of the practice of growing and sustaining.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2922

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

Patience is one of the Paramis and gives us the strength to endure through difficult experiences. We can be inspired to practice it through contemplating leaders such as Mandela or the Dalai Lama who have faced extreme challenges in their lives without retribution or revenge, but with kindness and wisdom.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2921

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

The commitment to truthfulness is a mirror which highlights our deepest intention to bring harmony and peace through kind and useful words. Also it shows us the sneaky seductions of lying, flattery and unkind speech.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2920

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

We have a tendency to see the world through success-failure, enemy-friend, good-bad. It is also possible to hold, with love, the ambiguity of life and our own ambivalence. Without splitting, we are able to live within the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha’s teachings.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2919

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

The Buddha said sangha and spiritual friendship is the holy life. This practice involves learning to experience our own beauty and Buddha nature, and through this, the beauty of others.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2918

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Using experiences as a child growing up in South Africa, as well as experiences in her daily life, Arinna shares how the practice of patience is an essential part of practice.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2917