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Dharma Talks
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2025-08-31
What Does it Mean to be Free? (Part 2)
51:09
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Pamela Weiss
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We can’t solve our problems with the same mind that created them. We have to learn to think in a new way.
~Albert Einstein
Big mind experiences everything within itself. Do you understand the difference between the big mind and small mind—the mind which includes everything, and the mind which is related to something? Actually they are the same thing, but the understanding is different, and your attitude towards your life will be different according to which understanding you have.
~Suzuki Roshi
The talk will continue our exploration of what it means to be free. Building on the talk last week about how mindfulness supports our ability to choose, this week we will deepen our understanding of freedom by illuminating the mystery and paradox of interdependence and radical simplicity.
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
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2025-08-24
What Does it Mean to be Free?
39:26
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Pamela Weiss
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We can’t solve our problems with the same mind that created them. We have to learn to think in a new way.
~Albert Einstein
In the midst of the Saha world, what does it mean to be free? The talk tonight will explore walking the Buddhist path as radical reorientation, and illuminate how the teachings can help us respond to the suffering in and all around us.
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2025-07-27
Creativity and the Dharma
34:35
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Kitty Costello
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"You are the most powerful when you are in the moment. You create the future when you are in the moment.”
- Herbie Hancock, jazz improvisation master and Nichiren Buddhist
The "clear seeing" of vipassana gives us more choice, more freedom to intentionally shape and recreate our selves and our lives, moment by moment. Is there creativity in your own dharma practice? Does practice enhance your creativity?
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
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2025-07-20
The Parami of Patience
33:26
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Eugene Cash
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"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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2025-03-30
Fear & Courage
33:54
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Frank Ostaseski
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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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2025-02-16
An Appropriate Response
44:22
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Pamela Weiss
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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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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
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2025-02-09
Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity
35:31
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Eugene Cash
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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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