Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Common Ground Meditation Center Retreats

Weekly Dharma Series

These weekly groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one’s practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention.

2000-01-01 (9497 days) Common Ground Meditation Center

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2016-12-11 The Four Elements: Body Awareness as a Support for Tranquility and Insight 55:42
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2016-12-18 What do we Trust as Refuge 56:38
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2016-12-21 The Secret is there is no Secret 58:13
Gabe Keller Flores	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks

2017-01-04 New Year's Resolutions: Progress not Perfection 1:23:14

Shelly Graf

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2017-01-08 Appreciative Joy (Mudita) - Week 1 - Talk 53:42
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2017-01-13 Weathering Life's Storms 1:26:14
Santikaro	Download Listen
The recent election and its aftermath have been deeply troubling for many us. We struggle to make sense of them, find our grounding, and respond skilfully. Similarly, serious illness, death of loved ones, financial stresses, family conflict, and climate disruption create storms externally and internally. Buddha-Dhamma and the fruits of its practice offer invaluable resources for weathering these storms as they blow through us. This talk will summarize practical strategies for living with the inevitable storms of life and death.

2017-01-14 Workshop: Practicing Through Life's Storms 4:18:11
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We will review and test drive practices that, when sufficiently cultivated, give us the strength, balance, compassion, and wisdom to weather the storms that life inevitably contains, including death. The format will be a series of guided practices with background explanations, debriefing, and questions. For preparation listen to "Weathering Life's Storms" talk recorded on 2017-01-13, Link: http://cgmc.dharmaseed.org/teacher/764/talk/38729/

2017-01-15 Us vs. Them, Identities and Exclusions 68:40
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A deeply rooted habit in our ways of thinking is to create an Us-identity around perceived sameness and subsequently exclude others based on perceived difference or otherness. While these habits do not stand up well to Dhammic inquiry, we recycle them habitually, especially when stressed, frightened, and wounded. We invite you to a conversation that explores this pattern-habit in the specific identities and exclusions of which we ourselves are prone according to the circumstances of our lives. Please come prepared to prioritize lived examples over broad generalizations.

2017-01-15 Appreciative Joy (Mudita) - Week 2 - Talk 56:29
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2017-01-22 Intentional Action - Karma - Week 1 58:48
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