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Mark Nunberg's Dharma Talks at Common Ground Meditation Center
Mark Nunberg
Mark Nunberg began his Buddhist practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis, MN in 1993 and continues to serve as the center’s guiding teacher.
2016-03-20 The Three Refuges 56:10
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
2016-03-16 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Lovingkindness - Week 1 55:31
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections
2016-03-14 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 10 - The Five Aggregates and the Six Sense Spheres 60:39
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
2016-03-07 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 9 - The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:30:06
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
2016-03-06 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Determination Week 3 53:51
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections
2016-03-04 Lovingkindness (Metta) 65:29
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
2016-03-01 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 8 - The Seven Factors of Awakening 63:58
Tonight we will review the Buddha's teaching on the Seven Factors of Awakening. There are the inherent qualities of mind that when recognized and developed in balance with each other inevitably lead onward to awakening. They include mindfulness, investigation, energy/persistence, joy, tranquility, concentration/steadiness and equanimity. Joseph Goldstein calls these factors, "The sap that runs through the Buddha's tree of liberation; a powerful healing medicine that we must actually develop in our own minds." In the Buddhist tradition, it is thought that just to be reminded of these inherent qualities, to bring them to mind, is considered to be deeply healing and protecting. Are we willing to learn to recognize them, and learn how to feed or strengthen these aspects of the mind. Here is a link to the Ahara Sutta, a discourse of the Buddha's where he describes how to strengthen and weaken the factors of awakening This discourse also describes how to feed and weaken the five hindrances
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
Attached Files:
  • Ahara Sutta by Thanissaro Bikkhu (PDF)
  • Seven Factors of Awakening by Insight Meditation Center (Link)
2016-02-28 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Determination Week 2 53:18
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections
2016-02-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 7 - The Five Hindrances 1:18:39
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
Attached Files:
  • Sutta Studies: Understanding the Hindrances by Andrew Olendzki (Link)
  • The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon by Nyanaponika Thera (Link)
2016-02-21 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Determination Week 1 57:03
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

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