Undefended Dharma with Mary Stancavage
By Mary Stancavage
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Dharma talks from meditation teacher Mary Stancavage. These focus primarily on the pragmatic aspects of Buddhist teachings and philosophy drawing strongly on wisdom and heart practices. All are viewed through the lens of learning to live with an Undefended Heart. (photo by @kimanhuynh)
| Episode | Date |
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Calm Knowing
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May 27, 2025 |
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Managing the Transition
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May 20, 2025 |
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Skillful Means
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May 13, 2025 |
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Internal Revolution of the Heart
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May 06, 2025 |
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Just Collecting Data
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Reflections on Retreat
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Heirs to Our Actions
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Care for Ourselves, Care for Others
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Relax the Body, Relax the Mind
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Roller Coaster is the Human Condition
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Hope as a Practice
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Taming the Monkey Mind
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The Path of No Preference
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Be a Buddha
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Antidote to Fear
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Stepping into the Darkness
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Cruising the Dharma
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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The Long Journey
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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The Bodhisattva Realm
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Grief, Anger and All the Feels
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Supporting Our Intentions
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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So Many Rules
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Greet the Moment with Peace
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Finding Your Way
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Let Go Let Be
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Opening Ourselves
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Suffering and Joy
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Finding Our Foundation
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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November 2024
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Seeing Our Goodness
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Holding It Together
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The Path of Wisdom
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Tea with Demons
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Sati - Being With
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Tentativenss of Life
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Choiceless Awareness
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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It Can't Be Different from the Way It Is
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The Eight Worldly Winds
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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There is No There There
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Only This Moment
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Recognizing Our Fixed Views
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Noble Eightfold Path
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Facing Complexity with Gentleness
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Grounded in Groundlessness
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Relax, Observe, Allow
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Everyday Sublime
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Do Good. Avoid Bad. Purify the Mind.
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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How Do We Do the Dharma - The Path of Kindness.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Dropping the Self and Opening to Joy
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Samsara is a Mess
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Conventional and Ultimate Reality
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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How Do We Forgive?
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May 27, 2024 |
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An Undefended Heart
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May 21, 2024 |
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We Are All of a Nature
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May 13, 2024 |
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Wise Speech in Challenging Times
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May 06, 2024 |
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Letting Go Again and Again
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Shining a Light on Grief
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Everyday Impermanence
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Dropping the 2nd Arrow
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The Four Efforts
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Overwhelm is in the Mind
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Grounded in Gratitude
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Heart Practices for Our Times
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Reflections in the Moment
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Taking Refuge
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Love and a Very Loud World
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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It's All Real
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Start Where You Are
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Six Realms of Saṃsāra
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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To Cling is to Suffer
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Spiritual Reslience
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Greeting the World with Goodwill
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Wear the World as a Loose Garment
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Connection and Community
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Finding Ease in the Present Moment
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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It's On Fire
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Gratitude and Grief
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Yeah, but...
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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My Brother Died
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Greeting the Demons
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Good Wolf or Bad Wolf?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Staying Grounded in a World of Uncertainty
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Living the Dharma in Difficult Times
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Deep Intimacy with our Experience
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Generosity, Patience, Metta
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Everything is in This Moment
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Continuity of Mindfulness
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Wrong View
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Not Permanent, Not Perfect, Not Personal
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Holding Emotions
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Impermanence & Uncertainty
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Be Careful of Your Legacy
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Joy Joy Joy
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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A Little Awareness, A Little Emptiness, A Little No-Self
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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No One Gets Out of Here Alive
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Put Down the Stick of Self
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The Protection of Lovingkindness
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Don't Know, Let Go
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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A Short Reflection on Equanimity
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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A Slippery Slope
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Freedom Through Mindfulness
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Relevancy of the Dharma
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May 29, 2023 |
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Recognizing Delusion
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May 23, 2023 |
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You Must Be Present to Win
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May 15, 2023 |
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Follow the Path of Liberation
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May 08, 2023 |
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Available to Experience
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May 01, 2023 |
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Generosity of the Heart - Mudita
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Life Teaches Us How to Live It
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Intention and the Paramis
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Three Powers
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Death and Compassion
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Women in Buddhism
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Distractions and Habit Energies
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Snow Distractions
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Foundational Heart Practice
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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We Are of a Nature
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Greet Everything with Compassion
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Greetings
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Simplicity of Ajahn Chah
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Walking Towards Awakening
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Rest in Being
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Darkness and Light
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Exploring Family Relationships
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Awakening, Volition and Neuroscience
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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The Water We Swim In
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Grief and Gratitude
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Mindfulness: Right Here, Right Now
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Start Where You Are
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Doing Good in the World
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Being in the World
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Obstacles to Awakening
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Wisdom and Suffering
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Kindness
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Karma and Choice
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Meditation: Being in the Now
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Dukkha Dukkha Dukkha
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Path to Liberation
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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All You Need is Love
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Fourteen Years
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Grief and Loss
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Setting Intentions with Integrity and Compassion
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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My Human Condition
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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The Experience of Impermanence
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Don't Believe, Live
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Turning the Wheel of the Dharma
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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The Importance of Connection
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Liberation
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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The Delusion of the Hindrances
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Thoughts Are Not the Enemy
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Why Love is So Important Right Now
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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2022 and the Undefended Heart
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Brahma Viharas and the Undefended Heart
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May 24, 2022 |
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Refuge in the Buddha
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May 17, 2022 |
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It's Tough Right Now
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May 10, 2022 |
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Don't Know Mind
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May 03, 2022 |
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You Don't Do the Dharma, the Dharma Does You
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Joy
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The Brahma Viharas
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Fifth Training Precept
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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The 4th Training Precept
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The 2nd and 3rd Training Precepts
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Opening Up to Difficult Moments
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The First Training Precept
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Feeling All the Feels
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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A Wise Heart
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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It's All Real
|
Feb 15, 2022 |
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It's All In the Mind
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Remembering Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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The Perfection of Wisdom
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Connection
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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There Is Nowhere Else
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Letting Go Into Clarity
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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New Year's Eve 2021 Refuges and Precepts
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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New Year's Eve 2021 Intention Setting
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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The Wisdom and Love of bell hooks
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Setting Intention with the Paramis
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Kisa Gotami: Grief, Loss, Community
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Buddhist Personality Types
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Stay the Course
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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A Beneficial Alternative
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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They Come and They Go
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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What is Insight?
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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The Mahasangha
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Nothing Lasts Forever
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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I See You Mara
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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The Human Condition
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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I'm So Happy for You!
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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The Meaning of Life
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The Dhammapada
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Decolonizing the Mind
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Concentration
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness Part 2
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness Part 1
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Effort
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Livelihood
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Action
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Speech
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right Intention
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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The Eightfold Path: Right View
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Meditation: Lovingkindness (Metta)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Anatta: The Conditioned Self
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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The Four Protective Meditations
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Look Around
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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A Brave New World - Or Is It?
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May 31, 2021 |
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Insidious Delusion
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May 24, 2021 |
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Making It Safe for Everyone
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May 17, 2021 |
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Distortions of the Mind
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May 11, 2021 |
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We're All Human
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May 03, 2021 |
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Practice: Just Like Riding a Bicycle
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Diving into the Satipaṭṭhāna
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Relaxed and Aware
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Be a Bodhisattva
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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The Power of the Pause
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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The Path to Enlightenment
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Blame and Shame
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Dharma Everywhere
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Getting Unstuck
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Don't Miss the Joy
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Making Peace with Our Demons
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Holding Ourselves Dear
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Reclaiming the Heart, Reclaiming the Sacred
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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A New Beginning
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Being Fully Present
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Being with the Dark
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Seven Factors of Awakening
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Commitment to Metta
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Wisdom, Compassion, Heartbreak
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Reflections on This Moment
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Opening into Spaciousness
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Strong Back, Soft Front
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Equanimity
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Habits of Mind
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Friendship, Connection, Community
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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The Four Passing Sights
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Taking Care of Ourselves
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Don't Miss What's Happening!
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Taking Refuge in the Heart
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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The Paramis as a Framework for Working with the World
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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What is This? - Beginner's Mind
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Grief Rage Hope Despair
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Skillful Means: Moving through the World with Wisdom and Compassion
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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From Delusion to Wise Action
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Escape from Deep Conditioning
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Training the Mind
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Impermanence and Change
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Wise Action: Standing Firm in the Dharma
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Kindness and Intimacy
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Gratification, Danger, Escape
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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The Early Buddhist Nuns
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Where Are You Right Now?
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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A Place of Profound Balance
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Finding a Place to Hold You
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Joy in the Time of Covid
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May 25, 2020 |
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See For Yourself...
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May 18, 2020 |
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Reality on the Cushion
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May 10, 2020 |
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Taking Care of Ourselves
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May 04, 2020 |
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Let in the Good
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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The Heart Practices
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Pandemic and the Undefended Heart
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Getting Unstuck
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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It's Always Something
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Meditation: Rest in Being
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Working with the Mind
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Fear, Love and COVID-19
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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The Wisdom of Ajahn Chah in Today's World
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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What's Love Got to Do With It?
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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The Five Remembrances
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Fear, Anxiety and RAIN
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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The Eightfold Path
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Intention and a Reflection on My Grandmother's Hands
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The Importance of Retreat
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Living with Compassion for All Beings
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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Cultivating Gratitude
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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Practicing Self-Restraint
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Taking Care of Ourselves
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Nov 16, 2019 |
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10,000 Joys - 10,000 Sorrows
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Emptiness
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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Staying Away from Expectations
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Letting In the Good
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Ignorance and the Beautiful Qualties
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Nowhere to Go; Nothing to Do; No One to Be
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Oct 05, 2019 |
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Lead with the Heart
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Aspiration and Intention
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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The Paramis
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Groundlessness
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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A Dharma Journey
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Spiritual Bypass
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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Transition and Transformation
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Obstacles to Awareness: The Hindrances
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Ehipassiko: Find Your Own Way
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Just Be
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Facing Your Demons
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Guardians of the World
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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The Eight Worldly Winds - A Practice in Equanimity
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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In the Moment
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Desire and Craving
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May 23, 2019 |
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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys - The Practice of Letting Go
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May 07, 2019 |
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Live as Though the Truth Were True
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May 07, 2019 |
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Guarding the Sense Doors
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May 03, 2019 |
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Be a Buddha Not a Buddhist
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Living with an Undefended Heart
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Heart Practices - The Near Enemies
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Love Really Is the Answer
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Working with the Defilements
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Working with the Insanity of the World
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Gratitude
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Nirvana Right Here, Right Now
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Working with the Body
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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Faith and the Five Spiritual Faculties
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Wake Up to Your Conditioning
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Wise Concentration - 8th Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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The Metta Sutta
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Wise Mindfulness - The 7th Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Awakening Joy
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Wise Effort - 6th Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Setting Intention with Wisdom and Compassion
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Wise Action - 4th Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Dec 29, 2018 |
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Wise Speech - 3rd Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Hope and Love
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Wise Intention - 2nd Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Wise View - 1st Factor of the Eightfold Path
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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Avoiding the Second Arrow
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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The Fourfold Task
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Letting Go of Fixed Views
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Reaction vs Response
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Oct 21, 2018 |