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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
- James Baraz: Sunday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)50 min
- James Baraz: Friday Morning Dharmette and Instruction (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)49 min
- James Baraz: Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James invited Gail Stark to join him as his guest. Gail shares what it was like to spend 10 months practicing the 10 Paramis or Perfections under Joseph Goldstein’s guidance. Her new book, Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein, is a wonderful exploration of what it means to truly bring practice into your daily life guided by Joseph Goldstein, the ultimate Dharma coach.1 hr 5 min
- James Baraz: 5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation and Dharma practice can be understood as a natural process ofdeveloping five qualities starting with Faith/Trust and culminating inWisdom. This talk describes how that process unfolds.1 hr 4 min
- James Baraz: Loss, Grief and Death: Impermanence in Pandemic Times(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha said to reflect each day on the facts of old age, sickness and death. He also said to to come to terms with the fact that everything and everyone near and dear to us will be separated from us. In these Covid-19 days our practice becomes letting go of what was and adjust to a new way of being. This practice of impermanence includes opening to loss, grief and death which is explored in this talk.57 min
- James Baraz: Your Practice as a Gift to Others (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our own centeredness and kind awareness becomes one the greatest gifts we can offer others who are in distress. Without fixing or changing our compassionate presence is healing and a source of our own inner well-being, especially when we do't identify with being "the helper".45 min
- James Baraz: Wednesday Morning Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)47 min
- James Baraz: Finding Your Center (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How can we find balance in the times of great distress? The process of first connecting with out experience, then holding what's here and finally accessing that place of peace and spacious awareness that can hold it all are discussed. Practices to help find our center are offered.48 min
- James Baraz: The Profound Implications of Interconnectedness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) "Talk for Pandemic Reality"42 min
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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.