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- James Baraz: Trusting Your Buddha Knowing(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With so many different approaches to practice how do we know if we're doing it "the right way?" And how can we decide which of the many voices in our mind to listen to? This talk includes the 5 strategies offered by the Buddha to work skillfully with distracting thoughts.1 hr 1 min
- 46 min
- James Baraz: Working with the Comparing Mind(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Comparing and judging is a deeply ingrained habit pattern that's present until full enlightenment.How can we hold it wisely and work with it skillfully?1 hr 2 min
- James Baraz: Brahma Viharas Day 15(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Karuna: Benefactor, Self, Dear Friend and Neutral49 min
- James Baraz: Morning Instructions #12(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Remembering to Notice Wholesome States45 min
- James Baraz: Practice as a Path of Happiness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma practice is not only about learning to be with suffering. Cultivating wholesome states and noticing when they're here is an essential part of practice that leads to the highest happiness. This talk includes some teachings of the Buddha on how to develop happiness in our lives.1 hr 8 min
- 46 min
- 13 min
- James Baraz: The Five Spiritual Faculties(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The practice can be seen in terms of balance and an unfolding process. The Five Spiritual Faculties - Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration & Wisdom - describe both of these perspectives.1 hr 5 min
- James Baraz: Morning Instructions Day 1(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Intro - finding an anchor, breath, body, sound45 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.