(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what you love and what you care about, and with that dedication comes a trust that by planting beautiful seeds, eventually in their own time they will bear fruit."
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) When you experience your fear you become fearless. All other fears merge with that fear. If you fear that fear, then you will become fearful. Be fearless, and all your fears will flee. ~Kabir
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life; they do not hear the cry of distress continually pervading the world. Bound by selfishness, their hearts turn stiff and narrow... It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom and makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. ~Nyanaponika Thera To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Knowing Impermanence Experientially is the doorway to Freedom. We see we can't hold on to anything! Letting Go– Not Clinging brings the Freedom to Be. Anicca vata sankhara chant: 'All conditioned things are impermanent. Their nature is to arise & pass away. To live in harmony with this truth. Brings the highest happiness'. Anicca vata sankhara chant.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How Relaxing into the Simplicity of Awareness brings an Intimate experience of the Knowing of Aliveness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating our mortality personally as well as learning how Buddhism utilizes Mindfulness of Death as a gateway to Awakening. The Advice to Anathapindika gifts us with the deeper teachings on letting go of attachment; letting go of our identity; letting go of life!
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment... the effort to make each activity of our day meditation." - Ajahn Chah
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discovering how Right Effort leads to being present, awakening and realizing the Truth of the Dharma. We explored different currents of Rt. Effort: gentle; relaxed; willful; strong; fierce. We examined why and when different streams of effort might be skillful.
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Upekkhā (Equanimity) is a Brahma Vihara, one of the ten Pāramīs, and one of the Seven Factors of Awakening
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What makes humans precious? The magic, mystery & wonder embodied consciousness that is characterized by the Oneness of Birth-and-Death, & the paradox of unity of suffering and awakening being in Precious Human Birth
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explored the components & dynamics of the 1st Foundation: Breath; Body Posture; Parts of the Body; Awareness in all activities of the Body. We examined the Insight with leads to being Independent- Not clinging to anything in the world.
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(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Celebrating the Holy: Discovering Holi, Passover, Nowruz, Easter & Songkran in a Troubled World