Dharma Insight | Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville

Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk on Sep 19, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

Pat shares mediation practices that support our journey as "contemplative artists".

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Sep 12, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

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Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk on Aug 22, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

None of us are spared the experience of loss in our lives. How do we respond to grief when we experience a loss? What do the Buddha’s teachings offer us in dealing with our grief? We will explore the teachings on grief and how to fully embrace life even as we grieve our losses.

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Aug 8, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

What is ours to do in aiming toward the creation of beloved community? The Buddha’s teaching was a kind of framework to learn to be honest with ourselves and with what’s going on in our minds, in our bodies, in our lives. As always, the talk may provide guidance for living this moment and the ones to come – today and tomorrow – with awareness, and an intention to do no harm, to ease suffering.

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on Aug 1, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

In our practice, we regularly hear beautiful and wholesome instruction on presence, on peace and on mindfulness and concentration: "Be here now." When we actually sit on our cushions, however, especially after reading the morning headlines, or anticipating a difficult phone call, or following a challenging day at work or with those hordes of visiting relatives, or considering the white supremacy rallies in Charlottesville, we can easily despair as the mind and emotions wander about.

This evening's talk will explore very specifically how our practice points us directly to peaceful and calm abiding - as well as to wise and skillful action - in the midst of life's inner and outer challenges.

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Ruth King gave this dharma talk on Jul 25, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

Ruth King is a national Insight Meditation Teacher and Emotional Wisdom author and consultant. She is a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, core teacher in the Dedicated Practitioner Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC.

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Laura Good gave this dharma talk on Jul 18, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

In addition to being a producer, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Laura is a longtime meditator. Combining these interests, she has studied Buddhist chanting from various traditions. In this session she provides an introduction to chanting and teaches several chants.

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on Jul 11, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

When life is challenging, internally or externally, we can find ourselves confused and uncertain about how to live our spiritual practice, how to proceed. While all of the Dharma is a guide, we can still be confused in the moment: what is mine to do? Here? Now?

Tonight's talk will explore and hopefully strengthen our personal and unique ability to rest in this confusion as a perfect doorway to the clarity of the sacred.

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Jul 4, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

We celebrate July 4th in the USA with words and symbols that express philosophical values of democracy and equality. Yet we are aware of explicit and implicit bias, a transparent disparity and inequity, that creates harm in our selves, our community, the world. In the face of suffering, how do we remember, and embody, our interdependence, in order to respond wisely and kindly?

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Jeffrey Fracher gave this dharma talk on Jun 27, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

While the Buddha taught extensively about compassion as an important part of practice, there is little mention in the Pali Canon about self-compassion. We will address why so many of us struggle with feelings of self-loathing.

We will explore the topic of compassion toward ourselves and examine the specific ways we can incorporate a practice of self-compassion into our daily practice.

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