Best Insight Meditation Community Of Charlottesville IMCC Podcasts (2025)

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Mindful of Race, Transforming Racism from the Inside Out 1:03:58

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Ruth King shares that “Racism is a heart disease, and it’s curable.” In this talk she shares insights from her new book, Mindful of Race, and her approach of blending mindfulness principles and meditation with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Communit…

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Peace and Restoration Beneath The Turbulence 37:35

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Pat Coffey shares that the Buddha offered a path and practices for his students to learn how to navigate and settle peacefully in relationship to the vicissitudes of life. All of us are subject to what he called the 8 Worldly Winds. They are gain, loss, status, disgrace, censure, praise, pleasure and pain. Most people spend their entire lives buffe…

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Why Truth-Telling Still (and Always) Matters 34:53

6+ y ago34:53

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Susan Stone shares that at a time when truth is a frequent hostage to those with the loudest or angriest voices, our insight tradition teaches truth-telling as a practice. The practice includes, but reaches beyond, the statement of facts. It involves consciously aligning with and embodying our deepest truths and values. Following a guided meditatio…

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The Value of Added Dimensions 28:26

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Jeanne van Gemert shares how the added dimensions of the Buddhist teaching expand our perspective and provide richness to our path.For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Good in the Beginning, Middle, and End 33:20

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Susan Stone shares that the Buddha said his Dharma (teaching) is "good in the beginning, good in the middle and good in the end." Following a guided meditation, Susan will offer overview observations about the Buddha's graduated teaching. Grounded in the wisdom of loving, skillful and ethical approaches in daily life, the teaching expands to the my…

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Establishing and Enhancing Your Practice to Transform Your Life 39:11

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Pat Coffey shares that every spiritual path worth it's salt has elements of practice. Real transformation requires this. There is no end-run around practicing. In a real sense, any skill you have learned..... you have earned. As humans, we are naturally inclined to move away from anything challenging and toward pleasure. That is how we roll. Given …

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Live in Love, in Joy, Even Among Those Who Hate 33:52

6+ y ago33:52

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Susan Stone shares in this talk: in this fraught world, it is helpful to remember the Buddha's teaching of living in joy and love even among those who hate. When we look deeply into the teachings, we realize the way to do this requires us not only to cultivate lovingkindness and compassion, but to move into difficult territory that we almost instin…

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Dwelling Places for the Mind and Heart 30:20

6+ y ago30:20

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley shares that in the Mahanama Sutta, the Buddha teaches us how to cultivate the mind so that it becomes a fertile ground for true, deep and lasting awakening from the trance of suffering. In this talk, we will together explore his instruction to Mahanama, investigating the ways that this teaching offers practical encouragement…

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Massaging Your Perspective: The Road to Happiness 35:28

6+ y ago35:28

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Pat Coffey explores the view or perspective of how this creation operates will determine your level of happiness or suffering. If your view is a Wise View, a view aligned with nature you will suffer less and enjoy greater happiness. It is just that simple.The Buddha has declared that a Wise View is both the beginning and end of the contemplative pa…

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Being a Buddha 44:54

6+ y ago44:54

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IMCC is pleased to welcome guest teacher, Caverly Morgan. She is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Peace in Schools and Presence Collective. She trained for eight years in a silent monastery and now teaches meditation through retreats, workshops, and online courses nationally and internationally. Peace in Schools has created the first, for credit …

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Brahma Viharas: Series Conclusion, Assessments and the Way Forward 37:17

7y ago37:17

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This is the final in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Sharon Beckman-Brindley, Susan Stone, Jeff Fracher, Teresa Miller, and Helen Far…

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Brahma Viharas: Equanimity - Part II 29:01

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This is the 9th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Susan Stone leads group practice and contemplation of Equanimity.For more informat…

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Everything is Workable. Really. 40:06

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley explores how our practice can help us to work with relational or systemic conflicts and difficulties that may arise. You are invited to bring to mind a conflict or difficulty that is causing you some stress and that, at times, may seem unworkable - or rather, that seems to require something or someone outside of your own min…

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Brahma Viharas: Equanimity - Part I 37:47

7y ago37:47

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley presents this 8th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Equanimity is a middle path inviting deep presence with all of life. …

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Notes on the Brahma Viharas 26:21

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In this talk, Teresa Miller highlights key aspects of the Brahma Viharas and how they are inter-related.For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Brahma Viharas: Sympathetic Joy - Part II 26:29

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This is the 7th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Helen Farrar lead group practice and contemplation of Sympathetic Joy.For more inf…

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Bringing Relaxation, Joy and Ease to Your Practice 1:07:26

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Guided meditation and dharma talk by Pat Coffey. Various meditation forms are designed to enhance the strength of the parasympathetic nervous system -- the aspect of your nervous system that supports relaxation, joy and ease. The Buddha taught greater than four dozen meditation techniques. In this guided meditation and dharma talk Pat Coffey teache…

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Brahma Viharas: Sympathetic Joy - Part I 37:33

7y ago37:33

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This is the 6th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Susan Stone presents an overview of Sympathetic Joy.For more information, please v…

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Brahma Viharas: Compassion - Part II 23:12

7y ago23:12

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This is the 5th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Jeff Fracher presents several practices that focus on buildling compassion.For mor…

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Brahma Viharas: Compassion - Part I 33:17

7y ago33:17

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This is the 4th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Teresa Miller presents a closer look at compasion.For more information, please vis…

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On Tuning a Lute 45:00

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Apr 3, 2018. During this series on the Brahma Viharas we've explored together the practice of loving kindness and some questions have emerged. Some have wondered about prayer or the meaning of "wishing." Others have been puzzled about a practice that actively encourages cultivation: "I though…

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Brahma Viharas: Lovingkindness Part 2 33:52

7y ago33:52

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 27, 2018. Sharon guided a discussion about lovingkindness and how to practice so that it becomes a living and deeply meaningful part of our own daily lives.For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org…

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Real Love and Happiness 1:06:13

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Sharon Salzberg gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 20, 2018. Sharon reflects on real love and true happiness and how it can be cultivated.For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Lovingkindness (Metta) Part I 37:21

7y ago37:21

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 13, 2018. This is the 2nd in a ten-part, series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Here, Susan Stone presents a closer…

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Brahma Viharas: Overview of the Heart Qualities 36:44

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 6, 2018. This is the first in a ten-part, series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Here, Susan Stone presents an over…

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Guided Meditation with Pat Coffey 37:13

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Pat Coffey gave this guided meditation at IMCC on Feb 14, 2018. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Love Is A Big Deal on Valentines Day: But What Are We Really Talking About? 28:09

7y ago28:09

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Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Feb 13, 2018. Love is a "squirrelly" term that has many connotations and definitions. Throughout the ages poets, artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, psychologists and now neuroscientists have offered their take on one of the strongest and most beautiful emotions known to humankind.In honor of Valen…

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Change Can Be Your Best Friend 30:10

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Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Feb 6, 2018. In a large part your relationship to change determines the amount of joy, ease, happiness, angst and suffering you experience in this life. Tonight we will explore the very 'nature of nature'. The most profound truth of nature is that everything is moving and changing.....everything.....and t…

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Onward But Not Easy 37:02

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 31, 2018. Spiritual practice is onward-leading, as teacher Joseph Goldstein observed. However, we each face challenges as we practice, and often the movement can seem anything but onward. It can be discouraging. After a guided meditation, Susan Stone shares some of her practice challenges over time, …

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True Happiness 31:38

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Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 23, 2018. What is true happiness and can we ever experience it? How does it differ from transient happiness or joy? This dharma talk explores the path to true happiness and offer strategies for achieving it.For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville websit…

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Awakening 27:18

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 16, 2018. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Five Kinds of Happiness 43:51

7+ y ago43:51

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 09, 2018. "The purpose of life is to be happy." --Dalai LamaThe Buddha developed and then taught about states of happiness: those that are dependent on conditions and those that are not dependent on any conditions at all. The path that he has given us is primarily a path to the latter: a …

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Ring the Bells That Still Can Ring 37:54

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 2, 2018. “That gladness connected with what is wholesome, I call an equipment of mind for overcoming ill-will and hostility.” --The BuddhaIn difficut times we are encouraged to connect with the wholesome. In the words of singer-songwriter and Zen priest Leonard Cohen, we might best focus …

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Who are Our People? 35:45

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Helen Farrar gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Dec 12, 2017.Not being clear about how who “our people” have been—and are—can be a source of suffering, confusion, and conflict, subtle and not so subtle, both within and without. How can we open to that spacious field where all are “our people”? This talk will take a look at using our mindfulness pract…

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A Life of Regret? 27:11

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Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Dec 5, 2017. Regret is central to the human experience, both for things we have done and things we have not done. How does the Dharma address the challenge of living with regret? How does excessive regret impede our progress on our spiritual path? The talk will offer a different perspective on living wi…

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Who Do You Think You Are? 37:27

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Nov 28, 2017. In our ordinary way of looking at things, we usually see ourselves and others through socially constructed perceptions and limited views. These do, indeed, have some practical utility. Nevertheless, if we misunderstand, we can identify with these perceptions and views in ways th…

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Daring to See 40:11

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Nov 21, 2017. Much of the time, we live, not so much in a real world, but in the filtered world made up of all of the perceptions, interpretations and stories we have learned over a lifetime. The Buddha referred to these as mirages that keep our own and others' suffering in place. Spiritual p…

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Dodging the Dart: Teaching of the Second Arrow 34:45

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Laura Good gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Nov 7, 2017.Laura discusses the teaching of the Second Arrow and how to "dodge the dart" with mindfulness.For more information, please visit: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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The Tyranny of the Ego 34:24

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Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Oct 3, 2017.Though the concept of ego has a specific connotation in the West, it has a very different meaning when referenced in Buddhism. We explore the concept of ego from a Buddhist perspective and discuss the ways in which it can impede our progress on our path. Tools for managing the ego will also …

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What's True for Me? What's True for You? 32:34

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Sep 26, 2017.Susan Stone reflects on an experience with the negativity bias of the mind and how to work with it compassionately. She will also explore why we often resist needful life changes and why we need to step into them. At talk for all, whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner.…

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Meditation Practices to Support the Contemplative Artist 1:20:51

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Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk on Sep 19, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.Pat shares mediation practices that support our journey as "contemplative artists".For more information, please visit: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Beginning with Self Compassion 34:19

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Sep 12, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.For more information, please visit: imeditation.orgBy Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC)

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Working with Grief 26:18

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Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk on Aug 22, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.None of us are spared the experience of loss in our lives. How do we respond to grief when we experience a loss? What do the Buddha’s teachings offer us in dealing with our grief? We will explore the teachings on grief and how to fully embrace …

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ABC's: Awareness, Beloved Community 26:17

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Aug 8, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.What is ours to do in aiming toward the creation of beloved community? The Buddha’s teaching was a kind of framework to learn to be honest with ourselves and with what’s going on in our minds, in our bodies, in our lives. As always, the talk ma…

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Mindfulness, Concentration and the Monkeys of the Sacred Forest 34:40

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on Aug 1, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.In our practice, we regularly hear beautiful and wholesome instruction on presence, on peace and on mindfulness and concentration: "Be here now." When we actually sit on our cushions, however, especially after reading the morning head…

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Equanimity in Our Times 42:20

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Ruth King gave this dharma talk on Jul 25, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.Ruth King is a national Insight Meditation Teacher and Emotional Wisdom author and consultant. She is a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, core teacher in the Dedicated Practitioner Program at Spirit Rock Meditation…

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Introduction to Buddhist Chanting 27:35

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Laura Good gave this dharma talk on Jul 18, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.In addition to being a producer, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Laura is a longtime meditator. Combining these interests, she has studied Buddhist chanting from various traditions. In this session she provides an introduction to cha…

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The Deepest Intention of the Heart 35:38

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on Jul 11, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.When life is challenging, internally or externally, we can find ourselves confused and uncertain about how to live our spiritual practice, how to proceed. While all of the Dharma is a guide, we can still be confused in the moment: wh…

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Happy Interdependence Day 21:20

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Teresa Miller gave this dharma talk on Jul 4, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.We celebrate July 4th in the USA with words and symbols that express philosophical values of democracy and equality. Yet we are aware of explicit and implicit bias, a transparent disparity and inequity, that creates harm in our selves, our comm…

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Practice of Self-Compassion 28:10

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Jeffrey Fracher gave this dharma talk on Jun 27, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.While the Buddha taught extensively about compassion as an important part of practice, there is little mention in the Pali Canon about self-compassion. We will address why so many of us struggle with feelings of self-loathing.We will explore…

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