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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
- Carol Wilson: The Five Hindrances(Unknown) Cultivating a living response to a living question--what is the truth of this moment?1 hr
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- James Baraz: Nourishing Healthy Seeds: Compassion, Mudita And Equanimity(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Noticing and cultivating the wholesome states of compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity as they arise is a powerful training towards greater happiness.1 hr 6 min
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- 1 hr 27 min
- Joseph Goldstein: Working With Fear(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing the depth of conditioned fears that keep us closed to our clearest relations of mind and body.1 hr 3 min
- James Baraz: Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the different spiritual paths that use the fundamental themes of non-greed, hatred, delusion, love, service, and remembrance.1 hr 2 min
- James Baraz: Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connecting the Buddhist values of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion with another spiritual axiom: "Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God."1 hr 2 min
- James Baraz: Working With Thought(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) thoughts are not the enemy52 min
- James Baraz: Buddha's Advice On Working With Thoughts(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) working skillfully with the empty bubbles of thought52 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.