Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: Ruth King's most recent Dharma talks

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with restlessness and worry

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Additional Teacher: Mark Nunberg

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We each have the capacity for true compassion—including all beings in our heart. This requires facing the ways we create separation, holding our inner life with great kindness, and learning to recognize the vulnerability in others. This talk includes a reflection allowing us to bring these teachings to a situation in our own life where we would like to live from our full potential for love and wisdom.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The world’s heart is on fire, and race is at its core. The bitter racial seeds from past beliefs and actions are blooming all around us, reflecting not only a division of the races that is rooted in ignorance and hate, but also, and more sorely, a division of the heart. Racism is a heart disease. How we think and respond is at the core of racial suffering and racial healing. If we cannot think clearly and respond wisely, we will continue to damage the world’s heart. In this talk, my hope is to ignite your imagination and help you discover your voice in the song of racial healing, and how we could live in this world if every one of us aimed our energy toward awakening, non-harming, generosity, and kinship—a world with race but without racism. It all begins with an examination of our habits of harm.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Self and migrant children and families, carried by the wisdom of the whales

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(Common Ground Meditation Center)

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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This talk explores six hindrances to racial harmony and six principles that support a culture of care, as well as the Buddha’s teachings on the Two Truth Doctrine and Misperception. Enjoy a blog written by Aryenish Birdie after attending the talk: "Why People of Color and White Folks Think About Race Differently." http://encompassmovement.org/why-people-of-color-and-white-folks-think-about-race-differently/

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) During this 5-day silent retreat we will explore the Brahma Viharas, or Divine Abodes–four practices that open and nurture the heart. In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing. On our retreat, we’ll not only begin to sense into these qualities of heart, but practice abiding and dwelling in them as well. Over time, these practices can become our true home, as well as the atmosphere in which we deepen our mindfulness practice and intimacy with life.

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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This talk shares a personal journey of the dance between suffering and faith, and how the Bodhisattva path is cultivated by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk shares a personal journey from suffering to faith and explores how faith is cultivated by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: mind states that lead to suffering and freedom, and our responsibility to care for the mind.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how metta flavors the mind to embrace what arises in an atmosphere of non-resistance, and influences what the mind takes birth in.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In this talk we explore two aspects of mind, wise views, what we forget and what we must remember, and strategies that support presence.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In this guided offering, we explore Metta as a technology — a software upgrade we put into the hardwiring of our conditioning that requires a learning curve AKA practice.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Exploring our interdependence, what we habitually see and don’t see, and the joy and generosity of an artistic expression.

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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing our loving offerings into the world as a creative expression of practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring this precious birth, views on death, and the promise of practice.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center))

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awakening to the constellations of racial suffering in sangha and in the world and offering tenderness and contemplative artistry to what hurts.