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- James Baraz: Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 3(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring how living with integrity (sila) and letting go of stories, busyness and stuff - can be a source of well being and joy.1 hr
- James Baraz: Metta For the Difficult(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Why wish happiness for those who've caused us or others suffering? How can we overcome our resistance or hurt to genuinely open our heart to them?49 min
- James Baraz: The Trajectory Of Practice(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Journey from suffering - to hearing the dharma, to inspiration, to facing fear, acceptance of ourselves, opening beyond self to deep trust, freedom, and sharing our practice.1 hr 4 min
- Kittisaro: Attending To The Immovable(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) "Turn your mind to the deathless" Relationship of change to changeless. Putting down the burden.1 hr 2 min
- Thanissara: Disturbance is the Path.(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Balance and samatha (calm) and vipassana (insight). The hindrances and beyond.45 min
- James Baraz: Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Continuation of the last talk: using intention, mindfulness, difficulties, and gratitude as supports to greater well being in practice.1 hr 5 min
- James Baraz: The Dharma As A Path Of Happiness(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) With so much focus on suffering and the end of suffering, it's sometimes easy to forget this is a path of happiness. The Buddha was called the happy one. This talk presents the teachings held in that perspective.1 hr 3 min
- Bhante Buddharakkhita: Four modes of progress and working with difficult emotions.(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening.1 hr 3 min
- James Baraz: Guided Meditation on Refinement of Mindfulness on the Breath(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bring a deep investigation of subtleties of experience of breath to aid in developing concentration and interest. Looking with care and sense of wonder so the mind is both curious and relaxed.48 min
- Carol Wilson: Aspiration and Courage(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Realizing in the second week of the three-month retreat - how challenging our practice can be at times. Reflecting on and consciously refreshing our aspiration can be very supportive.1 hr 3 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.