Teachings

The Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

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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).

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).

Sallekha sutta - Apagamento do eu/Effacement

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Short talk, sutta reading, and contemplation (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).

Stages of Dharma Contemplation and the Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

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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.

Aggregates Series

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A series of talks on the five aggregates also known as the "clinging-khandas": form, feeling, perception, constructions, consciousness.

Dependent Origination Series

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A series of talks on dependent origination (paticca samuppāda) understood in a relational context offered to members of the Insight Dialogue Community.

Sutta Reflections

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As series of four talks each focusing on one or more discourses of the Buddha (suttas) offered to members of the Insight Dialogue Community.

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.

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. 

Mindfulness in Relationship: The Power of the Shared Human Experience

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Gregory Kramer speaks at The Family Action Network whose mission is to connect parents, educators and professionals through collaborative programming that educates, inspires and positively impacts the broader community. 

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.

When Wisdom Meets Habit

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Reflections on when wisdom meets habit.

Basis and Purpose of Insight Dialgoue

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Gregory Kramer describes the basis and purpose of Insight Dialogue practice.

Insight Dialogue's Beginnings

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Gregory Kramer describes how Insight Dialogue came to be.

Different Forms of Insight Dialogue Practice

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Gregory Kramer describes the different ways Insight Dialogue can be practiced.

Lineage of Gregory Kramer's Teachings

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Gregory Kramer describes his teachers and the how Insight Dialogue is linked to Vipassana meditation.

Relationship of Insight Dialogue and Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice

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Gregory Kramer describes the relationship between Insight Dialogue and Metta (loving kindness) practice.

Role of Contemplations within Insight Dialogue

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Gregory Kramer describes the role of contemplations within Insight Dialogue.