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2025-07-20 The Parami of Patience 33:26
Eugene Cash
"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."
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2025-06-22 The World of Fear and the Practice of Fearlessness 39:45
Eugene Cash
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
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2025-06-08 Living With Insight in Troubled Times 31:21
Rhonda Magee
How do we navigate a world of increasing fear, in which the vulnerable are targeted and the comfortable fear "coming next?” Reflections on living the Dharma in a time of multiple crises, legitimate worry, justifiable anxiety, and deepening distress.
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2025-03-30 Fear & Courage 33:54
Frank Ostaseski
The willingness to sit with fear is an act of courage. The old Buddhist texts refer to "the great and courageous bodhisattvas." These are beings who, have the fortitude to stand with suffering that might bring the rest of us to our knees. It's not that such people have no fear. Rather, they are able to maintain a courageous presence while they are afraid.
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2025-03-02 The Gift of Fearlessness in Difficult Times 38:46
Kitty Costello
Franklin Roosevelt famously said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” The Buddha went further — We don't need to fear the fear either. Our practice gives us the courage to turn toward our fear and metabolize it. As we free ourselves from our own reactivity, others will feel safe in our presence, giving them the gift of fearlessness.
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2025-02-16 An Appropriate Response 44:22
Pamela Weiss
In an old Zen story, a student comes to see his beloved teacher who is on his death bed and asks: Tell me, what is the teaching of your entire lifetime? And the teacher replies: An appropriate response. Tonight's talk will explore what it means to respond appropriately to a world on fire. To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
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2025-02-09 Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity 35:31
Eugene Cash
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
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2024-12-08 Guiding Rage Into Power 1:18:39
Nina Gold
The introduction to the GRIP-Training Institute will be led by Tommy Shakur Ross, Nina Gold, Robin Guillen and Lindsey Villarreal. GRIP, Guiding Rage Into Power, is a yearlong program of personal transformation, healing and accountability offered in the California State prisons. It is rooted in restorative justice principals, with the understanding that "hurt people, hurt people and healed people, heal people.” This program began as a basic insight meditation program at San Quentin Prison some 25 years ago. Through real time experience and evidence-based methodology, under the guidance of Jacques Verduin, the program evolved into a deep and comprehensive journey where the participants are able to understand their past traumas and transform their violent behavior. The program is guided by the principles of Stopping Violent Actions, Cultivating Mindfulness, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Victim Impact.
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2024-10-20 Lovingkindness & the Divine Abodes 37:36
Kitty Costello
These four qualities of heart and mind work together, giving us a safe place to dwell, supporting a kind and even joyful response in the midst of EVERYTHING! Lovingkindness, Compassion, Gladness, and Equanimity.
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2024-09-15 True Refuge: Finding Our Way Home 36:46
Pamela Weiss
True refuge is not a place or destination. It is a radical shift in attitude and orientation-from me to we, from reactivity to response-ability and from fear to love.
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