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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
- 38 min
- James Baraz: “Am I Good Enough?”(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Addressing that voice inside the mind that has a hard time measuring up to our ideals52 min
- James Baraz: Kind Awareness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness.What does a kind awareness mean? How can we meet each moment—including moments of fear or physical discomfort—with this attitude? This is a key issue for deepening our practice.55 min
- James Baraz: Interested Awareness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness.”57 min
- James Baraz: Relaxed Awareness(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness.”Note: The first talk of this series was not recorded. Therefore this is a talk on the same topic that James gave during the month-long retreat at Spirit Rock on 2/10/2009.1 hr
- James Baraz: Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Some thoughts upon returning from the February retreat at Spirit Rock.49 min
- James Baraz: Faith In The Dharma(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Faith is one of the Five Spiritual faculties. This talk explores the elements of faith, sources of our faith and the ingredients we bring to deepen our trust and faith in the Dharma.1 hr 1 min
- James Baraz: Practice As A Path Of Happiness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) One aspect of Wise Effort is maintaining and increasing wholesome states that have arisen. This is supported by being present for the wholesome state without clinging. How to integrate wholesome states such as sincere intention, gratitude, being compassionate with suffering, and others into our practice is explored.1 hr 5 min
- James Baraz: A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)1 hr
- James Baraz: The Grace Of Suffering(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Suffering is often what brings people to the Dharma as well as opening us up to resources inside we didn't know were there. Looking at hindrances and difficulties in this way allows us to relate to them wisely and realize the gifts that they bring and the ways they help us grow.1 hr
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.