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This is the final in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Sharon Beckman-Brindley, Susan Stone, Jeff Fracher, Teresa Miller, and Helen Farrar leads a discussion of the Brahma Viharas series.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

This is the 9th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Susan Stone leads group practice and contemplation of Equanimity.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

Sharon Beckman-Brindley explores how our practice can help us to work with relational or systemic conflicts and difficulties that may arise.

You are invited to bring to mind a conflict or difficulty that is causing you some stress and that, at times, may seem unworkable - or rather, that seems to require something or someone outside of your own mind to change. We will offer guidance on some of the many ways that the Buddha invites us to work with these inevitable life challenges.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

Sharon Beckman-Brindley presents this 8th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Equanimity is a middle path inviting deep presence with all of life. This fourth of the Brahma Viharas invites us to see with wisdom what is here, both internally and externally. Cultivating equanimity, we practice greeting it ALL with curiosity, kindness and compassion for self and others, nourished by joy in the unfolding of wholesome goodness in the world and in ourselves. Equanimity allows us to maintain our balance even in great difficulty as we see clearly both what's here and what's needed.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

In this talk, Teresa Miller highlights key aspects of the Brahma Viharas and how they are inter-related.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

This is the 7th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Helen Farrar lead group practice and contemplation of Sympathetic Joy.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

Guided meditation and dharma talk by Pat Coffey. Various meditation forms are designed to enhance the strength of the parasympathetic nervous system -- the aspect of your nervous system that supports relaxation, joy and ease. The Buddha taught greater than four dozen meditation techniques. In this guided meditation and dharma talk Pat Coffey teaches several powerful methods that support the cultivation of greater tranquility.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

This is the 6th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Susan Stone presents an overview of Sympathetic Joy.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

This is the 5th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Jeff Fracher presents several practices that focus on buildling compassion.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org

This is the 4th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

In this talk Teresa Miller presents a closer look at compasion.

For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org