Learning to Listen With Intention & Curiosity
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The Courage to Look Deeply Starts with Intention
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The Courage to Look Deeply
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Seeing Clearly, Acting Beautifully
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Gratitude as an Affirmation of Goodness
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Everyday Dukkha, Everyday Happiness
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Reclaiming our Strength with the 5 Spiritual Faculties: Concentration & Wisdom
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Reclaiming our Strength with the 5 Spiritual Faculties: Mindfulness
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Reclaiming Our Strength with the Five Spiritual Faculties; Week 2, Energy & Effort
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Reclaiming our Strength with the 5 Spiritual Faculties: Week 1, Faith
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Uncertainty, Stability & Love: Everything Comes With Everything
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Self Respect, Social Conscience and Radical Responsibility, Part 2
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Self Respect, Social Conscience and Radical Responsibility, Part 1
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Truthfulness & Metta; Paths to Awakening
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I Love You, Keep Going
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You Are Already Wise
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Wisdom & Energy Keep Us Afloat; an Exploration of the Paramis
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Taking the Side of Peace
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Growing the Paramis From the Ground of Wise Effort
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Clearing A Space, Beginning Again
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Be Still, Wait & See; Trusting the Agents of Fermentation
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Kindness is What Keeps Us Alive
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Get Your Boat in the Water; the Path of the Bodhisattva
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It's a Radical Thing to Let Things Hurt
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Remembering the Intention Not to Cause Harm
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The Compass of the Heart: Intention, Attention & Attitude
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The Path of the Bodhisattva; Choosing a Life of Kindness, Part 1
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Place Your Heart Upon the Practice & Take the Next Step
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Radical Presence, Part 2
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Radical Presence, Part 1
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The Impossible & Necessary Path of the Bodhisattva
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Path of the Bodhisattva, Week 4
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Path of the Bodhisattva, Week 3
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Path of the Bodhisattva, Week 2
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Turn Your Life Towards Joy
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Path of the Bodhisattva, Week 1
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The Most Beautiful Day in the History of the World
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Women's Retreat 2023: Equanimity & Our Inherent Wisdom, Laurie Cousins
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Women's Retreat 2023: Exploring the Metta Sutta, Heidi Bourne
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Women's Retreat 2023: Settling, Surfacing & Being with Change, Laurie Cousins
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Women's Retreat 2023: The Divine Feminine, Laurie Cousins
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Women's Retreat 2023: Contentment & Joy, Heidi Bourne
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Women's Retreat 2023: Impermanence, Dukkha & Interconnection, Heidi Bourne
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Women's Retreat 2023: The Heart of Compassion, Laurie Cousins
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Women's Retreat 2023: Trust, Confidence & Faith, Heidi Bourne
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Dukkha is Not a Mistake
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Be Fully Present, Feel Your Heart, Take the Next Step, Part 2
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Be Fully Present, Feel Your Heart, Take the Next Step, Part 1
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Impermanence & Equanimity; A Symbiotic Relationship
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Savor Your Life; the Four Flavors of Joy
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Thank You Very Much, I Have No Complaints Whatsoever
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One Long Precious Moment; Please Do Not Squander Your Life
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The Natural & Radical Practices of Wisdom & Compassion
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You Are Already Wise
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Make Good Use of the Mud
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The Steady Mind Brings Happiness
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Tatramajjhattata: Here in the Middleness of Our Lives; Choosing a Path & Taking It
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A Deeper Dive Into Mindfulness
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Energy, Effort and Staying on Keel
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Trust the Path of Practice
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Bhavana: Cultivating the Path of Practice
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Thus Have I Heard; An Exploration of Core Teachings & Why They Matter
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Ethics, Morality & the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's All a Practice of Letting Go
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A Deep Dive Into Generosity
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Steady Mind, Contented Mind
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What Makes Mindfulness Wise; an Integration of the Noble Eightfold Path
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Wise Mindfulness; What is it and Why Does it Matter?
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Creating a Culture of Gratitude, a Culture of Reciprocity
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Wise Effort, Part 2
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Managing the Mind & Wise Effort, Part 1
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Wise Livelihood: Let Your Life Be an Expression of Your Values
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Place Your Heart Upon Your Practice: Exploring the Five Spiritual Faculties
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Wise Action: A Dedication to Cultivating Peace
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Wise Speech Takes Care of Everyone
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Awakening the Heart of Love; Day 5 Autumn Retreat Ending Session, Bring It All Home
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Awakening the Heart of Love, Day 4 Autumn Retreat, Morning Instructions
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Awakening the Heart of Love; Day 4 Autumn Retreat Dharma Talk, Impermanence & Equanimity
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Awakening the Heart of Love; Day 3 Autumn Retreat, Morning Instructions
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Awakening the Heart of Love; Day 3 Autumn Retreat, Dharma Talk, Dharma Joy, Appreciative Joy
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Awakening the Heart of Love; Day 2 Autumn Retreat, Dharma Talk-Metta & Compassion
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Wise Intention: Letting Go, Good-Will & Non-Harming
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Let Yourself Feel Joy
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The Three Most Important Things
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The Space In-Between: Beauty, Awe, Silence & Nothing
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The Kindest Thing
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Aware, Committed & Determined
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Relaxing the Edges of Time: Four Cardinal Teachings for a Lifetime of Practice
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Truthfulness is Bigger than the Truth
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Precious Patience; An Occasion for Spaciousness
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Steady Effort, Courageous Energy
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Trust Your Inner Wisdom
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Nurturing the Soil; Generosity, Morality & Renunciation
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Renunciation; a Wise Relationship With Change
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Ethics & Morality: A Tricky Practice
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Generosity: The Heart Bent On Giving
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Innate Nobility, Interconnected Compassion & Wise Livelihood
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We Were Made To Open
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Befriending the Inner Cringe; Ethics & Morality
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Integrating Change As A Path To Wholeness
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Tend Your Intention
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Everything Belongs To Everything
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Where Is This Suffering Leading?
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Place Your Heart Upon The Dharma
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The Only Time Is Now
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Loving What Is Mortal
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One Peaceful Moment
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Let Love Holds Whatever Arises
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Wage Peace
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It's a Radical Act to Let Things Hurt
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Take the Path of Love
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We Were All Covered In The Same Powdered Sugar
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Grounded, Open & Balanced; A Guided Meditation for Everyday Practice
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Releasing Resistance through Compassion; A Guided Meditation
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Intention, Commitment & Determination: Balancing the 3 Legged Stool
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Wisdom For the End of the Year
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To Face With Love Whatever Happens Next
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The Task of a Lifetime: Dissolve Contention, Forgive Everyone & Wake up!
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Meeting Our Lives Gently & Kindly
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Arranging the Furniture of the Mind
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Dukkha as a Path to Happiness
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The Great & Beautiful Secret of Meditation
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Intimacy With Everything; The Necessity of Suffering
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Distractions Are Not The Problem
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
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The Ethical & Emotional Intelligence of Mindfulness
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It Matters That You Notice
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How To Show Up In An Upside Down World
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Recommitting Ourselves to Practice
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Everyday Meditation for Everyday Life: Come Back & Begin Again
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Four Causes of Suffering & What To Do About It
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Happiness is Contentment With it All
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Waking Up to This Moment Through the Eyes of Mary Oliver
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Listening, Resting & Trusting This Moment
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The Tonic of Care & Laughter
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Offer Yourself a Little Happiness
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Befriending Discomfort Everywhere: Self, Each Other & Beyond
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Discomfort Doesn't Have to be Fixed
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Reclaiming Our Strength Through the 5 Spiritual Faculties
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Turn Off the Autopilot - Be Here Now
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Five Ways to Strengthen Your Practice
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Opening to Gratitude
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Ground, Path & Fruit; Discovering Our Inner Nobility
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Sit and Know You're Sitting
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Living In the Midst of It All
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Tilling the Ground, Taking the Path, Tasting the Fruit
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Radiating Kindness is Enough
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Cultivating an Appropriate Response to Violence, Yet Again
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Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
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The Most Important Thing Right Now
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The Privilege of Comfort
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Choosing the Path and Taking It; A Manifesto for Practice (with special guest Sylvia Boorstein)
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Five Simple Rules for Happiness from Mrs. Jones
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Renunciation & Kindness; a Symbiotic Relationship
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Befriending Those Pesky Obstacles
A look at what gets in the way of seeing clearly and a lovely poem from Lynn Ungar, The Way It Is
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Balance in the Wind
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Our Essential Ease & Peace
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Discovering Our Innate Ease & Peace
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When My Vulnerability Meets Yours
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Taming the Flames; Trauma, Resiliency & Loving Life Anyway
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Let the Dharma Come to Life
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This One Precious Life
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Honoring Endings, Welcoming Beginnings
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From Reactivity to Skillful Response
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A Meditation For the Winter Solstice
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To Press Our Hands to Each Other's Hearts
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The Calm Inside the Chaos
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Being With What Is, I Respond to What Is
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Creating a Culture of Gratitude, a Culture of Reciprocity
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Your Innate Nobility & Wise Livelihood
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Strong Back, Soft Front, Free Heart
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Hindrances & Obstacles; Caring for Ourselves During the Election
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Finding Ground in Turbulent Times; Befriending Our Lives
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The Well-Trained Disciplined Mind
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Begin at the Beginning & Begin Again and Again and Again
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By Not Holding to Fixed Views
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Being Right, Being Wrong
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Strength, Steadiness & Courage; The Practices of Renuncation & Faith, Part 2
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Strength, Steadiness & Courage; The Practices of Renuncation & Faith, Part 1
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Dissolve Contention, Forgive Everyone, Wake Up
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A Sliver of Faith
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Barking Dogs & Mooing Cows
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To Be Fully Present
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The Way It Is
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Integrity, Decency & Honesty; A Lifelong Practice
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Letting Go Into Simplicity, Freedom & Perspective
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Unleash Your Power: Generosity, Kindness & Clarity
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Three Instructions For Our Lives
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From Vulnerability to Compassion
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Start Close In; Trust Your Heart
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We Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
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Where Spirit Meets the Bone
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Finding Patience in the Eye of the Storm
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Even Now, There is Still Joy
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Replenishing the Well; Stay Close to Meaning
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Tending the Mind; As We Think, So We Become
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Four Compass Questions for Difficult Times
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A Continuous Invitation to Let Go
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Guided Meditation for Stroke Recovery
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Body Scan Meditation
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Basic Breath Meditation
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Cultivating Awareness & Compassion, Meditation
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What We Know to Be True
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Begin at the Beginning
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Taking Refuge in the Buddha as an Expression of Love
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The Joy of Realization...or Tacos & Lemonade
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Tending to What We Love; Joy as an Act of Resistance
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Refuges, Precepts, Renunciation & Spiritual Urgency
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Is Suffering Optional?
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Cultivating Happiness; Choice & Chance
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Falling in Love with the Earth
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Wise Effort as a Radical Act of Hospitality
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What's in the laundry bag, anyway?
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I Undertake the Training to Take Good Care
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The Parami of Patience - A Primary Practice
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Expanding the Bottom Line of the Heart
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Why We are Here; a Tribute Class to Sylvia Boorstein & Donald Rothberg
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