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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
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- 51 min
- James Baraz: Compassion is a verb(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Caring for the earth 10/10/1031 min
- James Baraz: How We Hold Ourselves with Others(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The ability to let go of the past and to forgive depends on how we hold ourselves with others. This talk explores how we affect others and how we can move to a greater connection.46 min
- James Baraz: Personal and Global Responsibility(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Personal and Global Responsibility47 min
- James Baraz: Trusting Your Buddha Knowing(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Working with thoughts including the Buddha's methods for dealing with distracting thoughts. How to discern the voice of wisdom from the voices of confusion and fear.1 hr
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- James Baraz: Awakening Joy and Mudita(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the metta practice awakens happiness and well-being, including the mudita practice of sympathetic joy.1 hr
- James Baraz: This Business of Wanting.(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This Business of Wanting.52 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.