Teachings

Guided Introduction to Guidelines Listen Deeply & Speak the Truth

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Pelo que trocamos a nossa paz?/Are we willing to trade our peace?

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Some ways the Buddha points to the possibility of a transformative inner peace (in Portuguese).

Guided Introduction to Guideline Pause

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Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Pause.

As quatro bases do amor/The four bases of love

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Consideration of the four Brahma viharas in our relational lives (in Portuguese).

Guided Introduction to Guideline Open

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Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Open.

Sallekha sutta - Apagamento do eu/Effacement

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Short talk, sutta reading, and contemplation (in Portuguese)

Metta Bhavana

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Guided meditation on lovingkindness (in Portuguese).

Karuna Bhavana

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Guided meditation on compassion (in Portuguese).

Sedaka sutta - Acrobata/The bamboo acrobat

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Short talk, sutta reading, guided meditation and contemplation (in Portuguese).

Mudita

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Short talk, followed by a guided meditation (in Portuguese).

Role of Spiritual Friendship in Meeting the Difficult

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This talk considers the benefits of spiritual friendship in meeting the difficult.

Five Questions of Sati

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Five Questions of Mindfulness (Sati).

Guided Anapanasati with Another

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Guided Anapanasati meditation and contemplation.

Giving Attention - Sources Happiness & Freedom

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Exploration of causes and conditions that both hamper and support deep seeing. 

Kindness in Action

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About kindness being expressed through generosity, appreciation, and friendship.

An Overview of the Four Brahma Viharas

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Exploring the skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

Turning the Mind Towards the Dharma

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Supporting our practice with four reflections that highlight the meaning of our life: Precious Human Body, Impermanence and Death, Law of Cause and Effect and the Imperfections of Life.

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as Antidote

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Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind.

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 2: Compassion

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An exploration of compassion and self-compassion as Brahmavihara practices, and some suggestions for applying compassion as an antidote to painful mental states.

The Aggregates and Interpersonal Meditation

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Reflections on the aggregates and interpersonal meditation.

Awareness and Release

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A talk about awareness and release.

Awareness Releases the Knot

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This talk explores how the particulars of this human experience known through awareness and the map of the Dhamma can support release.

Balance, Remembering and Effort

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This talk considers how right effort and the calling forth of joy and curiosity cultivates a path of remembering and mindfulness for daily life.

Clinging and the Vicissitudes

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This talk describes how we can have stability of mind even when changes happen and we resist or take in personally, thinking things shouldn’t be as they are.

Constructed and Unconstructed Intimacy and Love

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This talk considers constructed and unconstructed intimacy.

Cracking Hunger and Ignorance

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Talk about the role of hunger for pleasure, existence and non-existence and ignorance of these hungers in suffering.

Four Doorways to Speaking and Listening

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This talk describes how to bring listening and speaking into meditation while maintaining the integrity of practice.

The Four Noble Truths

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This talk offers a description of the Four Noble Truths. The listener is invited to look closely and see the sensitivity of the body-mind, recognize the pain of grasping and from this the possibility of something different.

The Holy Life

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Consideration of the penetrating and uncompromising quality of the Buddhas' teachings and how we bring these forward into this modern life as we live it.

Impermanence of Breath - A Guided Meditation

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Guided meditation on impermanence of the breath.

Insight Dialogue Disrupts the Structures

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Reflections on how Insight Dialogue reveals how the Buddha’s teachings on tanha manifest in our interpersonal lives and how the hungers for pleasure, existence and non-existence can be disrupted by the practice.

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 1

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In this first portion of a two-part talk, Gregory Kramer begins with the question, “What is the spiritual path for, why and how am I doing it?”

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 2

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In this second portion of a two-part talk, Phyllis Hicks describes how we "keep it real" by showing up to whatever is here now. By bringing presence to the difficulty and knowing the reactivity, the mind grows bright and we can know what it is to be caught. 

Living Spark of Wisdom

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This short, guided practice begins with an inquiry into what provides the motivation that moves the heart, mind and body toward wisdom.

Guided Metta Meditation

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This meditation guides us through the expansiveness of metta starting from the self, then moving to all beings, and followed by humbling receiving loving kindness in return.

Metta Meditation

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Guided metta (loving kindness) meditation.

Metta Meditation & Our Willingness to Turn Towards What is Here Now

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This short metta meditation points to how our willingness to turn towards what is here now is the essence of loving kindness.

Pain and Pleasure Guided Practice

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In this Insight Dialogue practice session, the guidelines Pause and Relax are practiced by contemplating bodily pain and pleasure. The question, “what is present now and how are you meeting it?”  becomes the refrain throughout the teaching.

Pause - A Guided Preparation

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A guided preparation for the Insight Dialogue guideline Pause.

Relating to Experience

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This talk considers how we relate to experience as part of a liberative path.

Relax – Layers of the Guidelines Relax

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Brief talk about the many layers of of the Insight Dialogue guideline Relax.

Release Just Here

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Reflections on how the Insight Dialogue guidelines can help orient us toward mindfulness when we forget. We pause, relax and open to investigation.

The Sensitive Human

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This talk speaks to the exquisitely sensitive nature of the human being and our specific and acute sensitivity to other humans in particular. Our sensitivity to others can be a source of great suffering and it can also open doors to insight.

Sensitive Humans

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Talk about the sensitivity of the human organism and the implications of this sensitivity.

Speech Is Action

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This talk looks at speech as a world-forming action. In the Hindu and Abrahamic traditions, all things take birth in the Word. In the Buddhist tradition we have consciousness taking rise based upon volitional formations.

Values And Pitfalls Of "Already Here"

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This recording offers a guided practice for a group that has already practiced with all of the Insight Dialogue guidelines.

When Wisdom Meets Habit

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Reflections on when wisdom meets habit.