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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Intensive Silent Retreat Practice
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It's always inspiring to support people through an intensive period of silent retreat. James knows many of you have…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Sean Oakes, PhD: Working Class Students of the Buddha: Stories From the Suttas
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) In the Pāli Canon, who talks with the Buddha? The vast majority of named laypeople who have conversations with the…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Amma Thanasanti: The Hidden Intelligence of Anger
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) A talk on The Hidden Intelligence of Anger - What is your anger trying to tell you? Anger may look like one thing…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Lovingkindness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's teaching on Lovingkindness (Pali: Metta) extends explicitly and implicitly throughout the entire path…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Truthfulness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Truthfulness in Buddhism has two components - perceiving truthfully and behaving/speaking truthfully. Being in…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Patience
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha called patience "the supreme virtue". This talk looks at the energies of both patience and impatience…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Letting in Love: The Secret to Metta for Ourselves
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) For many, wishing well and extending metta to others can come relatively naturally. The hard part is not sending out…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Donald Rothberg: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: The Core Teaching of the Buddha
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Two Essential Qualities for Awakening: Heedfulness and Wise Attention
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores an important topic that James has not spoken on before. We often think of practice as simply…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Integrity and Simplicity
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Integrity (Sila in Pali) and Simplicity (usually translated as 'Renunciation', Nekkhama in Pali) are two practices…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Generosity and The Ten Perfections
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) One of the well known Buddhist lists is called the 'Paramis', or Perfections, which represent both qualities that…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Concentration
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The topic of this talk is Wise Concentration. What is it (as opposed to regular concentration, and how is it…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wise Mindfulness is the 7th of 8 practices the Buddha offered to help us move toward peace and freedom. It involves…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Effort
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wise Effort is the 6th of 8 practices the Buddha offered to help us move toward peace and freedom. It involves…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Action & Wise Livelihood
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wise Action and Wise Livelihood are important components to Buddhism: deliberately choosing actions and jobs rooted…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Speech
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha emphasized Wise Speech as an important part of the path to freedom. This talk takes a look at the what…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Intention
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The fourth Noble Truth is the Eight fold Path. The second of the paths is Wise Intention. In this talk Eve discusses…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Introduction to the 8 Fold Noble Path
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Introduction to the 8 Fold Noble Path
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: On Love, Shame and Human Belonging with Adam Baraz
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Adam will give the talk. Over the past seven months, Adam traveled through Bali, Nepal, and Japan on a pilgrimage…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Quiet Strength: Exploring Equanimity with James and Margaret Cullen
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Margaret is the author of the just released book, Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: The Flowing Self: A Look at the Buddha's teaching on No Separate Self
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk is an exploration of the Anattalakkhana Sutta (Teaching on No Separate Self); one of the Buddha's first…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Loving the Relative, Loving the Ultimate
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores the "two truths" doctrine in Buddhism. This teaching defines reality through two concurrent…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: When in Doubt, Relax!
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Practice can sometimes feel complicated with so many different techniques and instructions on how to extricate…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Dhammapada Teaching: You Write Your Own Script
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James has been offering reflections on the Dhammapada, the Buddha's collection of pithy teachings, and how they can…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: A Way to Work with Negative Judgments
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Eve has been offering reflections on the Buddha's teaching - MN 20 - on dis-identifying from non-useful thoughts…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: The Strategy of Forgiveness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Eve has been offering reflections on the Buddha's teaching - MN 20 - on dis-identifying from non-useful thoughts…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: More Teachings from the Dhammapada: "All Beings Tremble Before Violence"
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk continues exploring teachings from the Dhammapada, the most well-known collection of the Buddha's words…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Substituting Non-Useful Thoughts with the Brahma Viharas
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Thoughts driven by greed, hatred, or delusion lead us farther and farther from both inner and outer peace, and yet…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Warmly Dis-Identifying from Non-Useful Thoughts
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Thoughts driven by greed, hatred, or delusion lead us farther and farther from peace, and yet they are rampant. How…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Tilopa's Six Words of Advice
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk shares a teaching from the great 10th Century Tibetan master, Tilopa. Tilopa and his succession of Dharma…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Awe and Wonder: The Practice of Sacred Perception
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We often need something to be special to catch our attention. It takes practice to be mindful of ordinary…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Equanimity is a quality the Buddha described as essential to awakening. This talk discusses what that means and how…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Amma Thanasanti: Practicing SHINE
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Amma Thanasanti began meditating in 1979 under the guidance of Jack Engler, Ajahn Chah, and Dipa Ma. She spent 28…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: What is Renunciation in Buddhism and How is it Related to Compassion?
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Compassion - turning toward suffering with care and wise responsiveness - is a familiar tenet of Buddhism…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: The Buddha on Views + Sangha Q&A
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk discusses the Buddha's words on holding to fixed views from The Paramatthaka Sutta (Sn 4.5) followed by an…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: The Gift of Practice: A Choice in Every Moment
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It seems with every day of news, there is more uncertainty, deep concern and unease. As much as we would like to, we…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Practicing with the Four Qualities of the Awakened Heart
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Awakened heart dwells in the present moment and chooses wise response to the unfolding, ever changing…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Welcoming in the New Year Together!
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk will 1. Look back at 2025 reviewing what we've learned 2. Open to where we are in the present 3. Get in…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: The Light Inside the Darkness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) As we head into the darkest period of the year we are processing dark forces of ignorance and hate in the news each…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: For Goodness Sake: Consciously Cultivating the Wholesome
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The capacity to be touched by and love goodness is, in some sense, the heart of spiritual practice. Something in us…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Mindfulness and Imagery: Two strategies for clarity and compassion
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught transcending (and not identifying with) the thinking mind through present moment awareness. He…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Compassion: Wise Motivation and Wise Action
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Compassion: Wise Motivation and Wise Action
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha taught that the two wings of awakening are wisdom and compassion. Compassion is much more than a concept…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Instructions from My Teachers
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations? What have you…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Wise Self-Soothing is Crucial
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's teachings point to the need for clear understanding of our own minds and hearts, along with intention…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Navigating the Truth of Suffering
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Suffering is the Buddha's 1st Noble Truth. Sometimes it can feel like it's all too much, especially in these days of…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: You Are Loving Awareness
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Longing for the Sacred
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) With so much violence and insensitivity all around us, we can lose touch with our love for what is sacred. All that…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Meeting Painful Mental/Emotional States with Compassion
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha said that "Hatred will never end by hatred, by love alone will it end". He also taught that we can…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Don't Know Mind - Letting Go of Conclusions
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Most of us like to have some sense of security thinking planning ahead or knowing what to expect can help us be more…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
JD Doyle: The Sacred Practice of Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) A discussion of meditation techniques to evoke Equanimity
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
James Baraz: Anapanasati: The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Working with the Anapanasati Sutta in some depth. There are 16 steps in four tetrads that the Buddha lays out…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Mind States - for working with difficult emotions
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's third foundation of mindfulness - mindfulness of mind states - give us directions that allow us to see…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone - for working with difficult emotions
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha's second foundation of mindfulness - vedana in Pali or 'feeling tone' - is a powerful and often…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Mindfulness of Emotions: What, Why, and How
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) An exploration of emotions, and the Buddha's teaching on mindfulness as an antidote for working with them. The…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Buddhist Fundamentals: Dependent Origination
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Four Noble Truths were called "Dependent Origination, telegram-style" by Buddhist teacher Venerable Ayya Khema…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Buddhist Fundamentals: Wise Effort
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We will look at the general teaching and then apply it to the distress of anxiety. The foundational motivation that…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Buddhist Fundamentals: Wise Speech
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wise Speech. The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Buddhist Fundamentals: Wise Intention
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The foundational motivation that the Buddha stated repeatedly for his teachings and practices was to find direct…
- Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Eve Decker: Buddhist Fundamentals: Wise Understanding
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk looks at the first factor in the Buddha's Eightfold Noble Path: Wise Understanding. The foundational…