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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
Episodes
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Working with the Comparing and Judging Mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Heart Ptactice: Forgiveness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on forgiveness towards our body, mind, heart and relations with others
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Instructions: Vedana
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in the meditation field
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Cultivating Wholesome States
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort includes not only weakening unwholesome states but strengthening wholesome states. This talk explores…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Instructions: including Mind States wholesome and unwholesome in the meditation field
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha recommended mindfulness of difficult states but also beautiful states such as peace joy as objects of…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Variations on Five Hindrances
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Instruction on Grounding with anchor
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using primary object of breath, body or sound to stabilize the attention
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Impermanence, Letting Go and Showing Up
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha said to keep one reflection in mind as much as possible: impermanence. This reflection will support…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Forgiveness Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forgiveness to ourselves (Body, mind, heart) and between us and others
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Instructions: Breath + Body sensations and sounds
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening up the meditation field to include the physical realm
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Wise Effort in Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort as an important issue in practice. This talk explores finding the balance between too much and too…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Impermanence, Letting Go and Showing Up (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha said as much as possible the one reflection to keep in mind is impermanence which leads to letting go, equanimity…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Instructions on Working with the Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructions on working with the breath and body.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Wise Effort in Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wise Effort as an important issue in practice. This talk explores finding the balance between too much and too little as well…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: What Does it Mean to Practice Community? James and Nina Raddy
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk James introduces Nina Raddy, a member of our IMCB community, who shares from her own experience of community…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Monday Night Dharma Talk: We Are What We Think
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- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Teachings from the Dhammapada
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Dhammapada is the most well-known collection of the Buddha's words. Consisting of 26 chapters in 423 verses, it contains…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Big Mind: Using Awareness as the Primary Object (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Letting go is the direct instruction to move from the Second Noble Truth (there is a cause of suffering) to the Third Noble…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Intention(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) By Incorporating intention in our practice we see the connection between mind and body. The body moves when the mind has an…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided forgiveness practice beginning with ourselves- forgiveness towards our body, our mind, and our heart- then opening to…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Including Sounds and Sensations in Addition to the Primary Object (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning how to shift the awareness from the primary object toother physical sensations and back.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Five Spiritual Faculties is a central teaching of the Buddha that explains how the practice develops and unfolds. This…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Embodying Equanimity: Implications and Applications in Daily Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A look at how Equanimity can be applied to oneself, help in our relationships and support active engagement in a troubled world.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Cultivating Mudita (Sympathetic Joy) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An overview of the importance of cultivating Mudita or happiness at the happiness of others with instructions for practicing…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Breath and Body with an Emphasis on Impermanence (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this Equanimity retreat, instructions are given to include the breath and body with a special focus on seeing the…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: The Power of Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An overview of Equanimity: why it holds a special place in all the qualities of mind, its relationship to the other 3 Brahma…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the place of Devotion in practice and what it means to look at reality through the lens of Sacred Perception.
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Loving the Whole Package: Self-Compassion and Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practices to hold our suffering and to see our innate goodness
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Awareness Doesn't Care: Mindfulness, the Equal Opportunity Liberator
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We may think some experiences are better than others to support awakening, but the Buddha said otherwise. This talk explores…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Anguttara Nikaya 1.483
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Anguttara Nikaya is one of the five Nikayas (collections) that constitute the Sutta Pitaka, which is part of the Pali…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz, Jean Leonard, Kerstin Deibert: Dharmettes & Q&A - James Baraz, Kerstin Deibert and Jean Leonard Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart RMERC
(Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center) Dharmettes & Q&A - James Baraz, Kerstin Deibert and Jean Leonard Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Following the Spiral-Going Forth - Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart
(Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center) Following the Spiral-Going Forth - Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Gratitude Practice: "It Would Have Been Enough"
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk takes a dive into Gratitude as a way to hold suffering. The Jewish holiday of Passover began on Saturday…
- James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
James Baraz: Don't Know Mind: Letting Go of Conclusions
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It's hard to keep up with all the disorienting changes we are processing each day. We can easily get lost in…