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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Michael Grady's most recent Dharma talks
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I find that practitioners can practice Vipassana for a long time without paying attention to the role that fear plays in their lives. Living with fear that is unacknowledged leads to fragmentation in life and practice. I encourage people to look at the energy of fear, for fear can limit our access to freedom.It is quite possible to diligently practice mindfulness, yet keep fear at a distance. Not becoming intimate with fear creates a dualism and complacency that gives a silent nod of approval to living with fear. When we begin to look at, and become friends with, our fear, we suddenly discover a lot more space in our lives.In the larger picture, Vipassana offers us all a practice that goes counter to the tremendous cultural momentum around us of materialism and consumerism. With practice, we can learn how to take full responsibility for ourselves, and so pay attention to developing inner qualities capable of sustaining us as we navigate the shifting sands of life.
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Michael Grady: Wise effort and inquiry
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with fear and anxiety
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Michael Grady: Wise effort and the inquiring mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating an attitude of open-hearted inquiry
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Michael Grady: Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation, Identification, Four Foundations of Mindfulness
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
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Michael Grady: Awakening From Delusion Into Wisdom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise effort and attitude.
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Michael Grady: Exploring What Makes Difficult Emotions, Difficult.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Working With Expectations In Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering ease in our meditation prectice.
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Michael Grady: Discovering ease on a path of awareness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness, attitude, effort.
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Michael Grady: Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
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Michael Grady: The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Freeing the mind from preconceptions and cultivating a wise and compassionate attitude with practice
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Michael Grady: The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Insight meditation : a journey from conditional happiness to the unconditioned.
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Michael Grady: The Transformative Power Of Mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Liberating our hearts and minds from habitual suffering
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Michael Grady: Making Room For "Clear Seeing"
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing a wise and compassionate attitude in meditation
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Michael Grady: Relaxation and Insight
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Towards unconditioned relaxation. A path of awareness.
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Michael Grady: On Fear
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Shinning the light of awareness on the energy of fear.
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Michael Grady: Wise Attitude And Clear Seeing
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Letting go of habit and attitude and development of a wise and compassionate attitude in Dharma practice.
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Michael Grady: Questions and Answers
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Not Self - No need to be afraid.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Seeing things as they are - five aggregates
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Michael Grady: Questions and Answers
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Relaxation, ease and wise attitude
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Relaxation within the Vipassana framework
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Michael Grady: Insight into Not Self in everyday life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Seeing into Not Self in everyday life experiences.
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Michael Grady: Awakening Creative Intelligence
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Letting go of habitual thinking.
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Michael Grady: Letting Go Of Fear
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including fear in the field of awareness.
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Michael Grady: Ease Of Mind - Vipassana Style
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Beyond conventional relaxation: unconventional relaxation and ease
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Michael Grady: Investigation Within Vipassana Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Investigation and Insight
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sati-Panna - The merging of mindfulness and wisdom.
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Michael Grady: Not Self: We Are Included In Nature
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Seeing the ways in which we construct a self in everyday life.
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Michael Grady: Mindfulness In The Service Of Wisdom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness as a door that opens to wisdom.
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Michael Grady: Opening Talk
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Transforming One's Relationship To Thought
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: No Self And Liberation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Suffering And Liberation From Suffering
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Michael Grady: Wise Attitude and Inner Spaciousness
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
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Michael Grady: Facing Fear With An Inquiring Mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Application of Shamatha Vipassana practice in working with fear.
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Michael Grady: Questions And Answers
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Questions and Answers
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Michael Grady: Wisdom - A Journey Of Awakening
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wisdom – A journey of awakening
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Michael Grady: The Four Noble Truths
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the nature of suffering and liberation
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Michael Grady: Unburdening the Heart: Inner Freedom and the Path of Awareness
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
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Michael Grady: Letting Go of Self-Doubt
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
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Michael Grady: Q&A 02-27-07
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Question and answers
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Michael Grady: The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The power of mindfulness and self knowing frees our hearts and minds of the burden of past conditioning, opening us to a creative process learning and unconditional relaxation
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Michael Grady: Before Thinking
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
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Michael Grady: Investigating The Nature Of Fear
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Including fear in the field of Dharma practice.
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Michael Grady: The Transformative Power Of Mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness and liberation from habit and past conditioning.
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Michael Grady: Relaxation Of Inner Freedom - part 2
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inner freedom is discovered through clear seeing and understanding.
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Michael Grady: Relaxation Of Inner Freedom - part 1
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An allowing attitude and gentle perseverance transforms the conditioned mind.
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Michael Grady: The Four Noble Truths
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) The Buddha's teaching on the 4 Noble Truths provide a comprehensive and profound framework for a path of awareness.
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Michael Grady: The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: The Buddha Offers A Practice Of Liberation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Expanding the field of awareness to include all aspects of our experience.
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Michael Grady: The Liberating Power Of Mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How Mindfulness facilitates wisdom and inner freedom.
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Michael Grady: Mindfulness: In The Service Of Wisdom And Inner Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How the practice of mindfulness leads to wisdom and liberation.
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I find that practitioners can practice Vipassana for a long time without paying attention to the role that fear plays in their lives. Living with fear that is unacknowledged leads to fragmentation in life and practice. I encourage people to look at the energy of fear, for fear can limit our access to freedom.It is quite possible to diligently practice mindfulness, yet keep fear at a distance. Not becoming intimate with fear creates a dualism and complacency that gives a silent nod of approval to living with fear. When we begin to look at, and become friends with, our fear, we suddenly discover a lot more space in our lives.In the larger picture, Vipassana offers us all a practice that goes counter to the tremendous cultural momentum around us of materialism and consumerism. With practice, we can learn how to take full responsibility for ourselves, and so pay attention to developing inner qualities capable of sustaining us as we navigate the shifting sands of life.
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