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True North Insight: Michele McDonald's most recent Dharma talks

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True North Insight: Michele McDonald's most recent Dharma talks

Because I've been teaching in Burma the last three years, I've been able to see how mindfulness can be nourished by a culture that supports the ancient liberation teachings and by daily experiences of happiness arising from acts of generosity, morality and renunciation. Thus the practice of Buddhism and the living of Buddhism are woven together in a seamless tapestry. If there is anything that is most engaging to me now, it is the desire to bring this sublime way of life into our culture in the West.What began as a deep compassion for the suffering of the existential predicament of human beings deepened as I understood that we need not identify with our experience. It is this understanding that has led me far onto the path of befriending others on their spiritual journey. My greatest inspiration is working with students wherever they are in the moment. We are all capable of so much more than suffering; once we learn how to be mindful, it's only a matter of remembering that it

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  1. 279

    Michele McDonald: Dharma talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Closing dharma talk, given during an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic

  2. 278

    Michele McDonald: Sit with Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation with instructions, during COVID-19 pandemic

  3. 277

    Michele McDonald: Dharma talk: Finding Peace, Ending the War

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dharma talk on annica, dukkha, anatta

  4. 276

    Michele McDonald: Sit with Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions on setting the intention for sitting followed by guided meditation

  5. 275

    Michele McDonald: Dharma talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening talk of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, on self-retreat at home, meditation, and loving-kindness

  6. 274

    Michele McDonald: A content and joyful life - Accepting love and wisdom

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding how to deepen our understanding of vipassana and Brahma Vihara practice. Learning to make full commitment to connect with whatever is happening in our lives - without attachment to the result of our efforts.

  7. 273

    Michele McDonald: Generosity

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  8. 272

    Michele McDonald: Raindrop + Unconditional Peace

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connecting our attention with what is real rather than being consumed by our natural defenses

  9. 271

    Michele McDonald: Accepting Non-conceptual Attention

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How connecting vs sustaining the attention can lead to wisdom

  10. 270

    Michele McDonald: Impartiality and Deep Contentment

    (Hollyhock)

  11. 269

    Michele McDonald: The Fulfillment of Remembrance: Unconditional Acceptance

    (Hollyhock)

  12. 268

    Michele McDonald: Vipassana with a Brahma Vihara Flavor: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joyful Interest

    (Hollyhock)

  13. 267

    Michele McDonald: Right Effort, Resistance, Trust and Gratitude

    (Hollyhock)

  14. 266

    Michele McDonald: Love and Wisdom

    (Hollyhock)

  15. 265

    Michele McDonald: Prize Any Tenderness: Metta is Love Infused with Wisdom

    (Hollyhock)

  16. 264

    Michele McDonald: Opening

    (Hollyhock)

  17. 263

    Michele McDonald: Spiritual Urgency: Reflections on Aging, Dying, Death, and the Urgency of Finding Peace

    (True North Insight)

  18. 262

    Michele McDonald: Am I OK Right Now? The 7 Factors of Awakening and Finding Peace

    (True North Insight)

  19. 261

    Michele McDonald: Keep Trying: Love and Wisdom for RAIN

    (True North Insight)

  20. 260

    Michele McDonald: The deep reassurance of the seven factors of awakening

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating spiritual AIR investigation, courageous energy, joyful interest, and equanimity

  21. 259

    Michele McDonald: Guided Appreciative Joy - Mudita.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on how to practice appreciative joy/gratitude.

  22. 258

    Michele McDonald: Guided Loving Kindness Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to practice Metta with an anchor, the easiest being or place where one can find - and with oneself.

  23. 257

    Michele McDonald: Rest and Courage

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connecting our attention to the truth: giving birth to insight nd wisdom nd the monarch butterfly.

  24. 256

    Michele McDonald: Understanding Metta - Breaking Down Barriers with Kindness

    (Hollyhock)

  25. 255

    Michele McDonald: More Peaceful than Peace Itself

    (True North Insight)

  26. 254

    Michele McDonald: The Poetry and Precision of Mindfulness

    (True North Insight)

  27. 253

    Michele McDonald: From the Turbulent Sea of Disconnection to the Shore of Wisdom and Compassion

    (True North Insight)

  28. 252

    Michele McDonald: Cultivating a relationship of wisdom and kindness with whatever is happening

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Vipassana is not a state oriented practice as experience isn't reliable

  29. 251

    Michele McDonald: The Inexhaustible Spring of Wisdom and Compassion Within

    (True North Insight)

  30. 250

    Michele McDonald: R.A.I.N. - D.R.O.P. Recognition, Acceptance, Investigation, Non-Identification and their opposites: Delusion, Resistance, Obliviousness, and Personification

    (True North Insight)

  31. 249

    Michele McDonald: Pure Exploration Leads Us To Wise Attention and Friendliness With Each Moment and All Beings - Part 3

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding impermanence and kindness by cultivating the soil of silence, compassion and truth

  32. 248

    Michele McDonald: The breath and depth of mindfulness meditation practice - Part 1

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The great strength and beauty of mindfulness: all aspects of the way of wise attention and kindness

  33. 247

    Michele McDonald: Pure exploration - the awakening factor of investigation - part 2

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The willingness not to know what our moment to moment experience is -conceptually. How to investigate our experience non-conceptually - that leads to insight.

  34. 246

    Michele McDonald: Calling Up Metta

    (Hollyhock)

  35. 245

    Michele McDonald: The Worthiness of the Liberated Heart

    (Hollyhock)

  36. 244

    Michele McDonald: Vipassana instructions - Letting Experience Come and Go

    (Hollyhock)

  37. 243

    Michele McDonald: Exploring RAIN and its Opposites

    (Hollyhock)

  38. 242

    Michele McDonald: Exploring our Motivation with Metta

    (Hollyhock)

  39. 241

    Michele McDonald: Appreciating Joy - Mudita instructions

    (Hollyhock)

  40. 240

    Michele McDonald: Bowing to the Dust

    (Hollyhock)

  41. 239

    Michele McDonald: Metta Instructions - Benefactor

    (Hollyhock)

  42. 238

    Michele McDonald: A Beautiful Problem

    (Hollyhock)

  43. 237

    Michele McDonald: Mindfulness: A Reverent Attention to Being

    (True North Insight)

  44. 236

    Michele McDonald: Gentle Wonder and Pure Exploration

    (True North Insight)

  45. 235

    Michele McDonald: Fixed Concentration, Momentary Concentration and Mindfulness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  46. 234

    Michele McDonald: What We Feed Within Ourselves Grows

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  47. 233

    Michele McDonald: Kindness and Trust Melt Resistance - The Strength of Soft Readiness

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  48. 232

    Michele McDonald: May I Be Safe from Inner Harm

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  49. 231

    Michele McDonald: Joy, Self-Hatred and Gratitude

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How joy, self-hatred and gratitude relate to the tenderness of existence itself.

  50. 230

    Michele McDonald: Life's redemption from ignorance.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The difference levels of how we misperceive reality and how mindfulness redeems that misperception.

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Because I've been teaching in Burma the last three years, I've been able to see how mindfulness can be nourished by a culture that supports the ancient liberation teachings and by daily experiences of happiness arising from acts of generosity, morality and renunciation. Thus the practice of Buddhism and the living of Buddhism are woven together in a seamless tapestry. If there is anything that is most engaging to me now, it is the desire to bring this sublime way of life into our culture in the West.What began as a deep compassion for the suffering of the existential predicament of human beings deepened as I understood that we need not identify with our experience. It is this understanding that has led me far onto the path of befriending others on their spiritual journey. My greatest inspiration is working with students wherever they are in the moment. We are all capable of so much more than suffering; once we learn how to be mindful, it's only a matter of remembering that it

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