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Retreat Dharma Talks at San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

SFI Sunday Nights

2001-01-01 (365243 days) San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

  
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2023-07-09 What Does It Mean To Be Free? 42:04
Pamela Weiss
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Drawing on teachings from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and the Upādānas, this talk explores walking the path as radical reorientation, and the relationship between freedom and letting go.
2023-07-16 Sampajañña: Clear Comprehension, Introspection, Full Awareness 29:03
Eugene Cash
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The support and functionality of Clarity and Mindfulness
2023-07-30 Our Changing Experience of Gender: A Conversation with René Rivera & Kitty Costello 34:05
Kitty Costello
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Whatever your pronouns, come ponder with us—How has gender identity shaped our lives? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us contemplate our experience (or non-experience!) of gender?
2023-08-06 Relationship as the Dharma Path 1:20:19
Devon Hase, Nico Hase
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Cultivating wise and skillful relationships is one way to frame the entire path to awakening. How are we relating to ourselves, other beings, and the world? During our time together, we'll explore how the practice of wise relationship leads to full awakening.
2023-08-13 Living & Dying: Remembering Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker: Friend, Colleague, Teacher— Died Aug 3 2023 31:51
Eugene Cash
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“If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” — Wes Nisker
2023-08-20 Words Create Worlds 36:44
Pamela Weiss
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This talk explores the power of language and potent Buddhist teachings on Wise Speech.
2023-09-03 Do No Harm: Exploring the Buddhist Precepts 40:27
Pamela Weiss
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This talk unfolds teachings on sila, Buddhist ethics. It will explore the precepts as the heart of the Path, and share how we can use them to stay awake in daily life.
2023-09-10 Chanda (Wholesome Desire) and Way-Seeking Mind 35:36
Kitty Costello
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Desire gets a bad rap in Buddhism for good reason, yet our wholesome and wise yearnings are what brought each of us to practice and keep us aimed toward the end of suffering. Let’s explore the upside of desire together.
2023-09-17 Nibbana Sacred Transition Now & Ongoing 31:16
Eugene Cash
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Exploring our live reality of waking up to change & discovery
2023-09-24 Making Peace 57:00
Bob Stahl
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As our meditation practice matures, we may begin to understand the importance of relinquishing grudges, judgments, and resentments through honest reconciliation that may lead to deep healing. We will focus and inquire on four inter-connected facets: 1) Making peace to the times we've been hard on oneselves 2) Making peace to the times you have hurt another 3) Making peace to those who’ve hurt you 4) Making peace with this life, with the way things are
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