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Engaged Buddhism	Show 5 Tracks
Applying the insights from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice. Contributions are offered by individual teachers, and organizations such as Buddhists for Racial Justice.
Sangha - Exploring our belonging and kinship 42:13 Ruth King Download Listen In this talk we explore the "relative" reality of kinship - patterns that harm (blindness, silence, and sameness) and mindful practices that heal and bridge separation. In collections Sangha - Exploring our belonging and kinship Engaged Buddhism Beloved Community 53:27 Tara Brach Download Listen Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts. In collections Beloved Community Engaged Buddhism On the Path of the Beautiful and Beloved Community 63:29 Larry Yang Download Listen In collection Engaged Buddhism Reclamation of the Sacred 60:33 Thanissara Download Listen Recognizing causes of collective dislocation. Naming colonial devastation. Way of the tender heart. In collection Engaged Buddhism Mindfulness and Climate Action 5:47:04 Various Show 5 Tracks This series of five conversations with dharma teachers was held October 5 through November 3, 2014. Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1 1:13:52 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Tara Brach, Ruth King and Jack Kornfield. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2 69:28 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni and Susie Harrington. In this conversation, Susie Harrington mentioned two sources: Kerry Nelson’s offering of online workshops at A Place for Peace as well as Vinit Allen’s Sustainable World Sourcebook. Both offer ways to engage individually but also at the community level.Rev angel Kyodo williams mentioned the site What Is Missing? from Maya Lin offering an interactive experience of all that has been and continues to be lost to which you can add your own accounting. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 3 68:37 Various Download Listen Thanissara with James Baraz, Catherine McGee and Chris Cullen. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4 65:35 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Bonnie Duran, Chas DiCapua and Vinny Ferraro. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5 68:40 Various Download Listen Thanissara with David Loy, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni and Ayya Santacitta Bhikkhuni. Unfortunately, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi was ill on the day of our call and was not able to join us. We wish him a speedy and thorough recovery. In this call, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni mentioned two resources: the international, interfaith effort Our Voices as well as the “Pledge to Mobilize” at the Climate Mobilization. She also invited those interested in taking action together as Buddhists on the national or local/regional level to email her at santussika at gmail.com. Finally, Dave Damm-Luhr mentioned the upcoming film from the same group that brought us “The Overview Effect.” This new film, “Planetary” (see the trailer here) maybe well-timed for action around the March deadline for targets into the UN climate talks that Lou mentioned. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Attached Files: Mindfulness and Climate Action Background Paper by Kritee Kanko and Lou Leonard (PDF) In collections Engaged Buddhism One Earth Sangha

Developing Our Practice	Show 10 Tracks
Working With The Judging Mind 63:13 James Baraz Download Listen We can easily get lost in our self-judgements, believing them to be true. This talk explains how to work with judgements and see through them to wake up to who we really are. In collection Developing Our Practice Disturbance is the Path. 44:41 Thanissara Download Listen Balance and samatha (calm) and vipassana (insight). The hindrances and beyond. In collection Developing Our Practice Attending To The Immovable 62:00 Kittisaro Download Listen "Turn your mind to the deathless" Relationship of change to changeless. Putting down the burden. In collection Developing Our Practice Four modes of progress and working with difficult emotions. 62:10 Bhante Buddharakkhita Download Listen Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening. In collection Developing Our Practice Aspiration and Courage 62:12 Carol Wilson Download Listen Realizing in the second week of the three-month retreat - how challenging our practice can be at times. Reflecting on and consciously refreshing our aspiration can be very supportive. In collection Developing Our Practice Respecting the Defended Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:08 Arinna Weisman Download Listen Honoring the defenses that have kept us alive and offering our love to those spaces that can't open yet. The capacity to offer love can come from contemplating our generosity, the ways we are ethical and the beautiful qualities of awakened beings. In collection Developing Our Practice Liberation and Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:48 Jack Kornfield Download Listen Here and now, how the deepening levels of Mindfulness and Loving Awareness can free the heart and mind. In collection Developing Our Practice Worldly And Unworldly Feelings 62:43 Joseph Goldstein Download Listen Understanding which feelings condition defilements and which feelings lead to a deeper happiness and awakening. In collection Developing Our Practice Shifting Perspective towards Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:37 Anushka Fernandopulle Download Listen Sakkayaditthi: (identity view) and five aggregates. Understanding how our experience as humans gets created. Exploring the illusion of continuity of self. In collection Developing Our Practice Applying the Practice 44:26 Ayya Anandabodhi Download Listen Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught. In collection Developing Our Practice

One Earth Sangha	Show 28 Tracks
One Earth Sangha is oriented toward Buddhist and mindfulness practitioners seeking dharma, practices and community around care for the Earth. See their website here: One Earth Sangha
Follow Your Heartbreak 51:12 James Baraz Download Listen Inspired by Andrew Harvey's book A Guide to Sacred Activism. The journey of transformation, both personal and global, includes our hearts opening to all the suffering we encounter and letting our heart be shattered and break open to new possibilities. This is a natural and essential component of true awakening. This process is explored on different levels: our own dharma practice, the classical Progress of Insight and what Harvey calls "The Dark Night of the Species." In collection One Earth Sangha (On Climate Change) Earth’s Crisis - On the Edge of the Roof 1:19:32 Tara Brach Show 2 Tracks This talk views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the destruction of our environment, and the inner practices of presence that enable us to respond from love and wisdom. Meditation: Opening to Aliveness 26:50 Tara Brach Download Listen In collection (On Climate Change) Earth’s Crisis - On the Edge of the Roof Earth's Crisis - On the Edge of the Roof - (on climate change) 52:41 Tara Brach View Download Listen This talk views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the destruction of our environment, and the inner practices of presence that enable us to respond from love and wisdom. In collection (On Climate Change) Earth’s Crisis - On the Edge of the Roof In collection One Earth Sangha All In This Together 57:20 Catherine McGee Download Listen The inter-relationship between inner and outer. Knowing that we belong as a basis for meeting and responding to the suffering of our world, both inner and outer. In collection One Earth Sangha Learning from Climate Change 42:00 Ayya Santacitta Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha The Broader Context of Mindfulness 57:25 Mark Coleman Download Listen Mindfulness is so much more that attention. Supporting wholesome qualities like patience and equanimity, Right Mindfulness specifically develops wise action in our lives and in the world. In collection One Earth Sangha The Meditator as Revolutionary 1:10:02 Rob Burbea Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha The Brahma Viharas and the Climate Challenge 52:39 Ayya Anandabodhi Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha 400 and Rising 42:10 Ayya Anandabodhi Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha The Necessity of Fantasy 68:38 Rob Burbea Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha Planet Earth as Divine Messenger 52:07 Ayya Santacitta Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha Practicing in Times of Big Changes 34:50 Ayya Santacitta Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha The Dharma Of Global Climate Change 60:01 Chas DiCapua Download Listen How our dharma practice can turn this difficult situation onto an opportunity for practice and awakening. In collection One Earth Sangha From Me to We 66:43 Bob Doppelt Download Listen Bob presented five transformational commitments, which are grounded in psychology, ecosystem science, and dharma principles, that are the basis of the shift in consciousness needed to rescue the planet and our lives. He distributed a handout that outlines five natural laws, the related Buddhist principles, and the five commitments, which you can refer to as you listen to his talk. The five commitments are designed to help us shift from a sole focus on ‘me’ to prioritizing the broader ‘we,’ encouraging us to make a personal commitment to protect all life on the planet, free our minds from outdated and erroneous beliefs, and begin to think and act sustainably. In collection One Earth Sangha Earth As Witness: International Dharma Teachers' Statement on Climate Change 63:57 James Baraz and Bob Doppelt Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point 3:32:40 James Baraz Show 4 Tracks A four-part series inspired by the Spring 2012 issue of Inquiring Mind, entitled 'Earth Now.' Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point: Concern for the Planet as Dharma Practice 46:36 James Baraz Download Listen This is the first of a four-part series inspired by the Spring 2012 issue of Inquiring Mind, entitled 'Earth Now.' In addition to reading this issue, especially the interview with Joanna Macy: Woman on the Edge of Time, James also suggested these readings: Ernest Callenbach’s essay "Epistle to Ecotopians" and Bob Doppelt's book From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life. The series continues on 6/28, 7/5, and 7/19. In collection Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point Seeing the System You Are Part Of 59:40 James Baraz Download Listen Sharing a positive vision for the future from Ernest Callenbach’s "Epistle to Ecotopians". We then begin to explore the first of five Dharma principles using systems and sustainability expert Bob Doppelt’s book From Me to We. The ignorance of these principles is what perpetuates the problem and the understanding of them is the key to changing our consciousness and providing a path toward healing the planet. This is part 2 of the series 'Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point' that began June 14. In collection Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point Karma and Sila as Gaia Practices 53:57 James Baraz Download Listen This is part 3 of the series 'Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point' that began 6/14. In this talk, James discusses the first three of the five transformational commitments in Bob Doppelt's book From Me to We: 1. See the systems you are part of 2. Be accountable for all the consequences of your actions 3. Abide by society’s most deeply held universal principles of morality and justice In collection Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point Stewardship and Intention as Gaia Practices 52:25 James Baraz Download Listen This is part 4 of the series 'Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point' that began 6/14. In this talk, James discusses the last two of the five transformational commitments in Bob Doppelt's book From Me to We: 4. Acknowledge your trustee obligations and take responsibility for the continuation of all life 5. Choose your own destiny In collection Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point In collection One Earth Sangha Practice & Climate Change 48:46 Thanissara Download Listen Knowing your refuge. Cultivating resilience. Alignment with authentic response. In collection One Earth Sangha Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration 4:05:21 Various Show 6 Tracks 2013-04-20 (1 day) Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Talk about the Land 31:28 Malcolm Margolin Download Listen In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration From Me to We 53:12 James Baraz and Bob Doppelt Download Listen In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration Climate and the Dance of Life 46:54 Paul Hawken Download Listen In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration Connecting Inner and Outer Responses to Climate Change 37:37 Donald Rothberg Download Listen At this time of climate disruption, we need powerful responses--integrating more "inner" spiritual practices and principles, on the one hand, with skill in "outer" responses, on the other. This integration or marriage can happen in many ways as we participate in the "great turning"--whether our primary emphasis, to use Joanna Macy's analysis, is stopping further damage from occurring, transforming our institutions, or helping to shift consciousness. Without this integration, however, spiritual practice runs the risk of becoming a kind of middle-class escapism and activism runs the risk of being caught in self-righteousness, attachment to views, demonization of the "enemy," and burnout. We need a new integration! We look at several dharma principles that can be the basis for such an integration, consider briefly how Spirit Rock is responding (and might respond further) to climate issues, and especially look at the figure of the bodhisattva. In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration Active Hope 49:37 Joanna Macy Download Listen In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration Reflections on the Day 26:30 Nina Wise Download Listen In collection Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration In collection One Earth Sangha Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration 3:41:25 Various Show 6 Tracks 2014-04-20 (1 day) Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassion As We Take Action 53:08 Jack Kornfield Download Listen Recorded from Spirit Rock's Earth Day Gathering In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration How To Be an Earthling 26:51 Wes Nisker Download Listen with Kevin Griffin on guitar In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration Today’s Climate Reality 27:36 Ayya Santussika Download Listen In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration We are the Earth 29:05 Margarita Loinaz Download Listen In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration Right Action on Climate: Ayya Anandabodhi , Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika 49:47 Ayya Anandabodhi Download Listen In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration Wise Action for the Earth 34:55 David Loy Download Listen In collection Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration In collection One Earth Sangha Buddhist Perspective On Climate Change 67:11 Sayadaw Vivekananda Download Listen Observed changes in the climate system, attribution of climate change, Buddhist perspective, Buddhist response to climate change. In collection One Earth Sangha The Anatomy of Ignorance 2 - The Social Roots of Ignorance and climate Disruption 64:06 Donald Rothberg Download Listen For Earth Care Week we review the three aspects of ignorance examined last week - personal (or psychological), social, and universal. We focus on the social roots of ignorance with attention mostly to understanding and responding to the climate crisis. In collection One Earth Sangha Dharma practice and the climate Crisis 61:12 Donald Rothberg Download Listen At the time of Earth Day, we pose a a dilemma and challenge. Dharma practice is so compelling. The climate crisis is so compelling. Which do we choose? Both, in our own ways. We look at the ways that our practice (and principles of generosity, compassion, ethics, interdependence, and wisdom) call us to regard and that those responding deeply need spiritual practices and principles to meet the great need. In collection One Earth Sangha The Four Noble Truths of Responding to Climate Change 66:01 Donald Rothberg Download Listen Continuing our exploration of ethical practice during earth care week. We examine, through the frame work of the Four Noble Truths, the question of the nature of climate change and how to respond as individuals, as communities, nationally and internationally. Attached Files: Placeholder (File) Placeholder (File) In collection One Earth Sangha The Eco-Crisis as a Spiritual Crisis 54:27 David Loy Download Listen There are precise and profound parallels between what Buddhism says about our usual individual predicament and our collective ecological predicament today. In collection One Earth Sangha Healing Ecology - A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco Crisis 1:36:38 David Loy Download Listen There are precise and profound parallels between what Buddhism says about our individual predicament and our collective predicament today in relationship to the rest of the biosphere. In collection One Earth Sangha Climate Change, Capitalism, and Buddhadharma 57:26 Joanna Macy Download Listen An impassioned talk that includes a little known story from the suttas about the dangers of and suffering caused by the notion of private property. During the talk, winds of 45 mph buffeted the monastery, emergency sirens sounded in the distance, and three power outages occurred. Ends with a lively discussion with the sangha. In collection One Earth Sangha For The Sake of Life on Earth, part 1 41:42 Joanna Macy Download Listen Through silence and song, sitting practice. Dharma talks, and interactive exercises, we will affirm our capacity to take part in the healing of our world. Each of our lives is played against a backdrop of war-making, hunger, mass extinctions and increasing climate chaos. The Buddha's teachings show how we can respond to the suffering of our time in ways that bring courage, gladness, and deep community. Our day together will draw on the Work That Reconnects, developed by Joanna over the last 35 years, and on Jennifer's soul-expanding music, that has empowered activists the world over. Joanna Macy is known worldwide as a Gaian teacher whose trainings strengthen movements for global justice. Her books include Dharma and Development, Coming Back To Life, Mutual Causality in Buddhist Teachings and Systems Theory, and her memoir Widening Circles, as well as translations of Rilke's poetry. Jennifer Berezan is a renowned singer/songwriter whose work is informed by Buddhist and indigenous teachings as well as her adventures at the forefront of social change. Her concerts and recordings include Praises for the World and her most recent release In These Arms, a Song for All Beings, based on practices of loving kindness and compassion. In collection One Earth Sangha For the Sake of Life on Earth, part 2 42:35 Joanna Macy Download Listen In collection One Earth Sangha Mindfulness and Climate Action 5:47:04 Various Show 5 Tracks This series of five conversations with dharma teachers was held October 5 through November 3, 2014. Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1 1:13:52 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Tara Brach, Ruth King and Jack Kornfield. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2 69:28 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni and Susie Harrington. In this conversation, Susie Harrington mentioned two sources: Kerry Nelson’s offering of online workshops at A Place for Peace as well as Vinit Allen’s Sustainable World Sourcebook. Both offer ways to engage individually but also at the community level.Rev angel Kyodo williams mentioned the site What Is Missing? from Maya Lin offering an interactive experience of all that has been and continues to be lost to which you can add your own accounting. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 3 68:37 Various Download Listen Thanissara with James Baraz, Catherine McGee and Chris Cullen. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4 65:35 Various Download Listen Thanissara with Bonnie Duran, Chas DiCapua and Vinny Ferraro. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5 68:40 Various Download Listen Thanissara with David Loy, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni and Ayya Santacitta Bhikkhuni. Unfortunately, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi was ill on the day of our call and was not able to join us. We wish him a speedy and thorough recovery. In this call, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni mentioned two resources: the international, interfaith effort Our Voices as well as the “Pledge to Mobilize” at the Climate Mobilization. She also invited those interested in taking action together as Buddhists on the national or local/regional level to email her at santussika at gmail.com. Finally, Dave Damm-Luhr mentioned the upcoming film from the same group that brought us “The Overview Effect.” This new film, “Planetary” (see the trailer here) maybe well-timed for action around the March deadline for targets into the UN climate talks that Lou mentioned. In collection Mindfulness and Climate Action Attached Files: Mindfulness and Climate Action Background Paper by Kritee Kanko and Lou Leonard (PDF) In collections Engaged Buddhism One Earth Sangha

Introduction to Meditation	Show 4 Tracks
Introduction To Meditation Practice 62:33 Steve Armstrong Download Listen In collection Introduction to Meditation What changes us in Spiritual Life 61:32 Jack Kornfield Download Listen The long and winding road and how the unexpected offers profound teachings... In collection Introduction to Meditation Thoughts on Practice and Why We Do It. 52:35 Pascal Auclair Download Listen In collection Introduction to Meditation Introduction to Meditation 39:43 Thanissara Download Listen A cultivated Mind: a cause for happiness. Samadhi - a gathered mind. Entry into the 1st foundation of mindfulness. In collection Introduction to Meditation

Courageous Living	Show 9 Tracks
Facing Our Fears: Living With A Courageous Heart 61:27 Tara Brach Download Listen Exploring the nature of fear, and the practices that cultivate courage. In collection Courageous Living Refuge In Calmness 48:16 Christina Feldman Download Listen Calmness is a refuge in the midst of an uncertain and changing world. In collection Courageous Living Our Karma Is Our Dharma: Family Course 1997 47:17 Marcia Rose Download Listen Mindfulness and wisdom in the midst of family life. In collection Courageous Living Seeing Deeply Into Experience 47:16 Christopher Titmuss Download Listen Teachings to enliven the whole being. In collection Courageous Living Dharma In The Workplace 2:03:16 Guy Armstrong Download Listen The Eightfold Path is a comprehensive guide to the Dharma practice in the workplace in such areas as the difficult person, the eight worldly concerns and mental stability. In collection Courageous Living Trust & Courage 59:48 Kamala Masters Download Listen How we need trust and courage to open to selflessness. In collection Courageous Living Karma, Forgiveness & Equanimity 55:20 Sylvia Boorstein Download Listen This talk discusses how clear understanding of Karma leads to forgiveness and sustains equanimity. In collection Courageous Living The Spiritual Warrior 45:21 Tara Brach Download Listen Accessing the energies that free us. The spiritual warrior is in service of awakening: the energy is manifested through our intentionality and courage to be present. In collection Courageous Living The Courage To Live Your Aspirations 56:08 Myoshin Kelley Download Listen Practice helps us to learn to recognize the voice of our deepest aspirations. These aspirations can become a very strong motivating force in our lives if they are given the right nutrients. This talk will help us to learn to cultivate conditions that support our heart's deepest vows. In collection Courageous Living

Self no-Self	Show 5 Tracks
Suffering And The Illusion Of Self 67:42 Joseph Goldstein Download Listen Experiencing the unreliability of everything! In collection Self no-Self The Experience Of No-Self 45:06 Christopher Titmuss Download Listen Staying steady in the truth of things. In collection Self no-Self In Search For Self And No Self 52:27 Christina Feldman Download Listen Reflecting upon the roles self plays in our lives, help or hindrance? In collection Self no-Self No Person, No Problem 44:19 Larry Rosenberg Download Listen Who is breathing? In collection Self no-Self Birth And Death Of The Self 63:33 Carol Wilson Download Listen Understanding the root teaching of emptiness. In collection Self no-Self

Spirituality In Daily Life	Show 3 Tracks
Practice In The World 57:29 Joseph Goldstein Download Listen The same quality of energy is required in retreats and in our lives. In collection Spirituality In Daily Life Mindfulness In Daily Life 49:35 Steve Armstrong Download Listen What can we take with us? Mindfulness helps develop wisdom, attitudes and actions. In collection Spirituality In Daily Life Meditation In Daily Life 45:11 Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Download Listen Continuing the practice throughout our daily activities. In collection Spirituality In Daily Life