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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) episodes
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- James Baraz: Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)56 min
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- James Baraz: "Calling All Bodhisattvas"(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are not practicing for ourselves alone. Everyone benefits from the fruits of our practice. This talk explores how to actively and skillfully express our compassion, held with equanimity, in the world.59 min
- James Baraz: Forgiveness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Forgiveness is an essential part of Metta practice so that the heart can stay open and the kindness flows out easily. In this talk forgiveness toward ourselves, asking and extending forgiveness with others and forgiveness towards life are explored.1 hr
- James Baraz: Reflections On Power(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This is a reflection stemming from the "Money, Sex, & Power" issue of the Inquiring Mind.56 min
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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.