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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
- James Baraz: Losing It: How Being Humbled Can Lead To True Humility(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The experience of seeing the confusion in our minds as well as its unskillful expression in words and actions can be very humbling. How can we use our mistakes to deepen our practice and turn them into a noble humility that deepens our understanding and enriches our spiritual life?57 min
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- James Baraz: A Path With Heart(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Cultivating a heart-felt motivation toward practice, and the different ways we can express this essential connection.57 min
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- James Baraz: Generosity As A Source Of Happiness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Why does generosity bring us joy? How can we consciously cultivate this wholesome habit that both acknowledges our interconnectedness and develops a heart that knows the power of letting go?1 hr 3 min
- James Baraz: Seeing Through Limiting Beliefs(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Most of our confusion comes from believing the stories, such as personal history and self-image, that run through our mind. Seeing through these stories is the key to freeing the mind and opening the heart to the realization we are much greater than our limiting beliefs.1 hr 1 min
- James Baraz: The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom build on each other in a natural development. Understanding their relationship gives us a map for how the meditation process unfolds.1 hr
- James Baraz: Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The practice of appreciation is an exercise in mindfulness, openness of heart and wisdom. Whether experience is pleasant or unpleasant, inclining our minds toward appreciation allows us to open to our joys and sorrows as valuable gifts that make each moment come alive.1 hr 2 min
About James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
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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.
I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.
The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.