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- James Baraz: "Schadenfreude: Working with Your less than Noble Thoughts"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) People in powerful positions can cause suffering and harm to others by spreading hate. It's natural and healthy to want to see them defeated. But what about when we actually enjoy seeing their misfortune and demise? How can we use a dharma lens to understand and hold those feelings?58 min
- James Baraz: Finding Freedom Through Grief(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) How can we process deep pain and turn it into deepening compassion and understanding? Kaye Cleave shares her moving story with James and the community about losing her 18-year old daughter and finding a way to transform her grief into meaningful beneficial action. The talk begins with this video about her trip to Nepal to build a school in honor of her daughter.To view the video: Catherine's Gift, go to Youtube.com at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HILTuvNRXrg49 min
- James Baraz: "The Four Faults of Natural Awareness"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James Baraz and son Adam Baraz discuss "The Four Faults of Natural Awareness", a Tibetan teaching (e.g.#1: "So close you can’t see it.") Adam presents the teaching and he and James discuss it with each other and community members.58 min
- James Baraz: "The Issue of Othering"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Dedicated to the memory of Bob Kaneko, a dharma friend who recently passed away. As a child Bob spent years 4-8 in a Japanese Internment camp in California,1942-1946. This talk explores how easily we humans can unfairly treat and oppress those different from us. We see this daily in the media with hateful rhetoric stirring fears in many. How can we use practice to skillfully respond?59 min
- James Baraz: Awakening Joy for Kids: Bringing the Dharma to the Next Generation(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James talks about the new book he co-authored with classroom teacher, Michele Lilyanna, and the importance of planting seeds of wisdom and compassion in the hearts of future generations.1 hr
- James Baraz: "All It Takes Is a Moment"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Even when we see how the mind and heart are contracted and caught, we might still be stuck. Seeing clearly how we're identified with the "story" doesn't necessarily reduce the suffering. It's a good and important start. The real shift occurs when, at some point, the heart releases and truly opens to access genuine metta.49 min
- James Baraz: Practice as a Path of Happiness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha was called "The Happy One." Though he taught about suffering, the purpose was to experience true happiness.1 hr 5 min
- James Baraz: Metta Practice - Self and Dear Friend(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided metta practice with introductory remarks.30 min
- James Baraz: Mindfulness with Attitude(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Understanding just what mindfulness is and how it works, as well as the attitudes that support its cultivation by learning to open to experience.1 hr
- James Baraz: "A Box Full of Darkness"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Mary Oliver wrote: "Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift." When life brings us unwanted suffering it's sometimes possible to use the experience to deepen our wisdom and compassion, what has been called "grace disguised as obstacles."56 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.