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Insight MyanmarTempel Smith, Part 1Episode #171: Tempel Smith, a meditation teacher who is also an active, committed social activist, is used to finding a balance among differing perspectives, points of view and ideologies. This can be traced back to his childhood, with two very different parents with two very different world outlooks.Tempel went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he began volunteering to support environmental conservation, and after a nearby abortion center was bombed, he took up that cause as well. Eventually he traveled down to Nevada to join a large protest at a nuclear site, which turned violent. It c...2023-06-131h 28
The Livestock ConservancyLipizzan Horse Chat with Esther BuonannoSpecial Guest Esther Buonanno from the United States Lipizzan Federation (https://www.uslipizzan.org/) joins Charlene Couch and Brittany Sweeney to chat about this threatened breed.
Esther Buonanno is the Program Director of the Tempel Lipizzans (https://www.tempelfarms.com) as well as granddaughter of Founders Esther and Tempel Smith. Tempel Lipizzans is located in northern Illinois and is home to 70 Lipizzan horses. The mission is to promote and preserve Lipizzan horses and classical riding in the United States through a careful breeding program and public performances and tours.
Esther is on the...2022-07-0556 min
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tuning the Heart with Gratitude(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Close to the four Brahma viharas lives the heart warm with gratitude. Blending intentional gratitude into our dharma paths and to the practices which open the heart, counting our blessing of a human body, simple resources around us, and gratitude for our planet helps dispel any sense of scarcity and an over-focus on what we feel is lacking. Feeling gratitude allows us to discern if and what is truly lacking, and to be free at times to be bathed in countless miracles.2021-07-1254 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Loving-kindness for Difficult Relationships(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our hearts' defenses might be most reinforced where there has been emotional pain. Using the previous practice of loving-kindness for easier relationships we can visit the places in our own hearts where we hold fear, hatred, resentment, and judgment. Relaxing these hard and painful places within us, by small, steady degrees, frees us from squandering our inner resources. Healing these places of pain can transform our understanding of how we can be in the world with a more open heart.2021-07-1146 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Metta Samadhi in Daily Life(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The developed momentum of loving-kindness can become a stable flow of both happy contentedness and stability of attention. This is the unification and immersion (samadhi) cultivated through dedicated metta practice. Like a river unblocked by fallen trees and debris, the flow of the heart can reopen into a smoothly pouring stream called loving-kindness concentration or metta samadhi.2021-07-101h 05Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Equanimity Brahma Vihara(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening the heart and balancing with wisdom, the equanimity sacred dwelling becomes established as we relax the tightness of our preferences to be more intimate with how the world actually is moment to moment. Equanimity brahma vihara is a flow of sacred caring without reactivity or agitation to complex truths. Starting with the open heart we have in loving the natural world, we progress to bring loving equanimity to our personal lives. Through caring equanimity, we can discover how clinging to our preferences blocks deeper connection.2021-07-0845 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Simple Metta Breathing and Metta Body Scan(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To form the foundation for loving-kindness meditation we invite the attitude of kindness, calm, and simplicity to our breath and body awareness. For many, this is the most simple and suitable metta meditation, and once embodied this metta meditation becomes the basis for radiating healthy lovingkindness to our selves and all beings. This is also the meditative foundation to ripen the five jhana factors leading to full absorption.2021-07-0740 min
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The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFThe Five Faculties - Kevin MartinTempel Smith has been practicing Insight and Metta meditation since 1989, including a year as a fully ordained monk in Burma. He is the founder of BASE (Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement) House, a collective of socially engaged dharma practitioners. In 2003, while directing young adult programs for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Oakland, Calif.,Tempel launched the West Coast teen retreat program that has become MAYA (Mindful Awareness for Young Adults). He is in the teacher training program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. ______________ To support our efforts to share these...2021-04-181h 25Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Four Brahma Viharas Practice in Daily Life, Part 2 (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To bring forward the highest heart quality of Equanimity we need to understand all four brahma viharas (heavenly dwellings: friendliness, compassion, celebration, and balance) and how the work together in beautiful harmony.2020-05-0925 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Guided Equanimity Mindfulness of Emotions and Mental States (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation to bring mindful intimacy to our every changing emotions and mental states. This is the third foundation of mindfulness.2020-05-0755 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Guided Equanimity Mindfulness of Pleasure, Pain, and Neutrality (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Description: Guided meditation to bring mindful intimacy to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experiences in the body and other phenomena. This is the second foundation of mindfulness.2020-05-0658 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Four Brahma Viharas Practice in Daily Life, Part 1 (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Description: To bring forward the highest heart quality of Equanimity we need to understand all four brahma viharas (heavenly dwellings: friendliness, compassion, celebration, and balance) and how the work together in beautiful harmony.2020-05-0543 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Building Practice Momentum (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) One of the great opportunities of sitting a long silent retreat is to take the momentum of practice forward into our daily lives.2020-02-281h 03Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Streaming vs Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are in an ever changing universe, yet conventionally don't understand this. Mindfulness brings us so much intimacy with things as they truly are that we wake up to this streaming nature. We have to let go of old habits of clinging to align with the stream we are in.2020-02-211h 02Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Vedana-The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In every moment of subjective experience there is a quality of pleasure, displeasure or neutrality. Bring mindfulness to the quality of Vedana trains us how not to add suffering when pain arises or pleasure fades.2020-02-141h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 13 Morning Meditation Instructions - Mindfulness of Vedana and Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) From the basis of our simple practices we can include mindfulness of how intentions and actions arise in reaction to what is pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral (vedana). The unconscious actions we take in response to vedana are the conditioning circumstances for our suffering. It behooves us to raise awareness to how our reactivity to vedana further conditions our patterns of craving, aversion, and ignorance.2020-02-1444 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 10 Afternoon Instructions: Practicing Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As we further open our hearts to include even difficult people, it is very helpful to learn how to practice forgiveness. Often when deeply hurt our hearts hold resentments and yearn for accountability before it would be willing to risk opening again. And yet when others feel out resentment, judgment and the need for accountability they too shut down defensively.
Starting with a good friend whom you have a history of love and trust, or even your companion animals, you can build a path of forgiveness. Some times we will never get full accountability, yet we...2020-02-1144 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day Seven Morning Instructions: Resting Wakefully in Breath & Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With the further settling of the mind we can deepen our intimacy with the breath and body. From a wakeful connection to the body and a sense of happiness we can explore areas of pain and mental activity. With the calming of mental activity we open to deeper samadhi.2020-02-081h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Steps in Developing Mindfulness of Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha described detailed steps we can take when developing and deepening our practice of mindful breathing. This talk covers steps 1-8 out of 16 classical steps given in discourses on this meditation.2020-02-071h 07Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day One Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As an introduction to Insight meditation we start with physical and mental relaxation, and then finding a home base or anchor for our attention in the stream of sounds, body sensations or what sensation arise in the body as we breathe. The first step is establishing steady calm abiding in the flow of the present.2020-02-021h 01
Wild Heart Meditation CenterVisiting Teacher - Tempel SmithSpirit Rock Meditation Center teacher, Tempel Smith, visits Wild Heart Nashville and discusses the power of unconscious habits, and how mindfulness can be an essential tool for uncovering and dismantling these habits.
Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.orgDONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit:https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donateFollow Us on Socials!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartNashville/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildheartnashville/TikTok: https://www...2019-12-2333 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Samadhi: A Whole Heart in Daily Life(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) While we often discover samadhi (whole heartedness) first on retreat, it's finding samadhi in every day life which can give us the greatest joy. How can live with a more whole attention? And joy from within?2019-08-261h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 4: Guided Meditation on the 5 Jhana Factors (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Following the talk on the 5 jhana factors and the 5 hindrances from the night before...
We welcome a sense of contentment in our starting conditions, take interest in our breath and remind ourselves it is all we need while meditating. From here, we aim and sustain our attention.2019-08-221h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: 5 Jhana Factors and 5 Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With mindfulness of breathing as a concentration practice we intentionally develop the 5 jhana factors. We also will definitely experience their opposites. - the 5 hindrances. As the 5 jhana factors become stronger we experience fewer hindrances.2019-08-211h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Cutting Through Our Stories (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Keeping your attention directly at the sense doors lets us cut through our habit of being lost in thought. As mindfulness increases, we can eventually by mindful of thought as it arises.2019-08-0657 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 8: Metta and the Many Beautiful Qualities of Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When we develop the Brahma Viharas, we also develop many beautiful qualities of heart named the Paramis, such as Generosity, Harmlessness and Renunciation.2019-07-181h 00Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 5 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Starting the Equanimity Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Taking the most wisdom to access, the Equanimity Brahma Vihara practice gets is strength from a brave willingness to intimately see all truths. If we suspend out preferences for health and happiness, and away from pain and sorrow, we can bring our loving hearts in direct contact with what we see if true. Life is an ever changing and uncontrollable mix of gain and loss, pleasure and pain, and praise and blame. When we can rest in Equanimity Brahma Vihara we can hold all truths at the same time in one space of heart.2019-07-151h 02Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 5: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Loving Kindness for Unfamiliar Beings(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We have never met most of the living beings on our planet (and beyond), and many we have met we don’t know all that well. As we expand our loving kindness practice to include all beings we have to consciously learn how to actively care for those we don’t know well. Rather than having the typical challenge of reactivity, this group of beings is hard to love precisely because we don’t know them well. If we have learned to care for a larger group of friends and community members, then this next larger group...2019-07-1555 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 4: Metta and Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How does samadhi--the unification of the heart--develop with metta practice? And how can we use the absorption factors in metta practice to help us develop deeper metta adsorptions?2019-07-141h 02Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 1: Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Starting the Loving Kindness Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After learning to develop a kind and patient awareness of our breath and body, we have the basis to begin the traditional Loving Kindness meditation practice of repeating phrases of kindness towards our most easy being for whom we care.2019-07-1157 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Beautiful Qualities of the Free Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our hearts have the potential to develop common strengths into boundless beautiful qualities called Paramis (Paramitas).2019-02-271h 10Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 23 Equanimity: This is how it is, it is like this...(Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To practice the divine abode of equanimity, we begin by reflecting on the need to be intimate with what is really happening. With this strength of heart we can soften our preferences and the fantasies they produce in order to bring out heart in steady contact with all unfolding phenomena.2019-02-2544 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Cultivating Meditative Absorptions (Jhanas) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are two larger categories of meditation: samatha meditations and vipassana meditations. Samatha meditations are intended to calm, unify, balance and develop strengths of the heart, and vipassana meditations lead toward insight into our patterns of suffering, confusion, clarity and freedom. The samatha meditations can develop to the point where we are fully absorbed into our meditation subject. This talk describes this process.2019-02-201h 03Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 14 Choiceless Awareness: Guided meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided practice for letting go of specific objects or sense doors to practice open or choiceless awareness. For some people this is a more natural way of practicing. The intent is to become mindful of one’s mental activity as it is drawn to different experiences arising at any of the six sense doors. From this practice you can gain insight into how the mind works and find freedom no matter what the experience.2019-02-1643 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 13 - Guided Metta (Loving Kindness) for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inviting our heart to let go of all reservations and conditions to universal friendliness and kindness. This heart which can hold all beings in kindness becomes a refuge for our own well being and the well being of others.2019-02-1543 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness - Vedana (Feeling Tone) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Continuing from the Anapanasati sutta we turn to vedana, the 2nd foundation of mindfulness. With great courage. we can develop contentment no matter the pleasure, pain or neutrality of any give moment. In not understanding vedana we are forever imprisoned by our wrong views. When we can breath consciously in a greater range of pain, pleasure and neutrality we find the path to non-conditional contentment.2019-02-141h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 11 - Instruction for Mindfulness of Vedana (2nd Foundation) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instruction and guided meditation on the 2nd foundation of mindfulness called vedana (feeling tone). This is the factor of each moment of consciousness which is pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. Being able to be mindful of vedana allows us to cut off our reactivity.2019-02-1348 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 6 - Morning Instruction on Breath and 4 Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An introduction to a careful and detailed practice of the 4 Elements meditation practice. Focusing on different kinds of body sensations, first independently and then in combination.2019-02-0846 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: 16 Meditative Steps in Mindfulness of Breathing - Anapanasati (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In many discourses the Buddha gave very detailed instructions on how to develop Mindfulness of Breathing from our first awareness of breathing in and out through calming the mind into samadhi (concentration) and then steps to cultivate liberating insight. These 16 steps also include the cultivation of happiness and contentment as an aspect of the path to freedom.2019-02-071h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 3 - Instruction for Loving Kindness for Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing metta for an easy being and for oneself, with an emphasis in establishing loyalty to be kind to yourself in all conditions.2019-02-0544 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day One - Instructions for Mindfulness of Sound, Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Settling into mindfulness for the month long retreat. Approaching sounds, body sensations, and the breath as a home base, with ease, patience, and kindness of attitude.2019-02-0354 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day Four, Guided Kindness Meditation-Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With the practice of Forgiveness Meditation, we release our hearts from the pain of resentment without losing a healthy sense of boundaries or accountability.2018-08-1047 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Beginning Insights of Vipassana Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After even a few days of insight meditation, we can begin to see clearly that thoughts are only concepts in the present. We can also see the impermanent and ever changing conditional nature of all of our experiences.2018-08-091h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Developing Inner Sanctuary (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Through difficult experiencing in practice and in times of easy, loving-kindness meditation purifies and heals the heart, opening us up to inner sanctuary. This ripening of loving kindness sanctuary is the taste of meditative samadhi.2018-07-161h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 3(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2018-07-076h 34Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 2(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2018-07-067h 05Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 1(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2018-07-057h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Becoming Mindful of Thought (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Most people are lost in thought, mesmerized by thought, experiencing the content of thought as real events. With the practice of mindfulness we can first learn to turn away from the dominance of thought, and then bring awareness to the direct experience of thinking as a present time experience.2017-08-101h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Developing The Love of Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Fourth Brahma Vihara--Upekkha/Equanimity--is a tender, steady love that rest peacefully in the truth of how things are. This expression of love grows out of wisdom and lots of perspective.2017-07-1259 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 6: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2017-07-1153 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Developing Samadhi/Concentration with Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are many beautiful reasons to develop loving-kindness meditation and one of them is deeper samadhi/concnetration. By developing the Five Jhana Factors in Metta meditation we can come to know wholeness and focus within our own hearts, minds and bodies.2017-07-101h 03Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 3: Introduction to Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A basic introduction to compassion meditation for a dear friend and for oneself.2017-07-0859 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 2: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2017-07-0756 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Sanctuary and Service (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2017-07-061h 00Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksBonnie Duran, Tempel Smith: Day 1: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2017-07-0658 min
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Bonnie Duran's most recent Dharma talksBonnie Duran, Tempel Smith: Day 1: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2017-07-0658 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Becoming Mindful of the Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After we begin to establish mindfulness of the breath and body, the next place to develop our practice is mind objects and the mind itself. Mind objects are the stream of thoughts and inner dialogue and for the mind we can observe emotions and mental states.2017-01-241h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Beginning Meditation Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) On the first morning of retreat we guide our bodies to be still and relaxed as a base for the mind to settle. We can use sounds, body sensations and the breath to gather our attention and start the training not to be lost in thought.2017-01-231h 06Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0937 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0937 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 3: Metta Practice(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0837 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 3: Metta Practice(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0837 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Metta: Sanctuary and Service(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) By welcoming beautiful qualities of heart, and becoming mindful of difficult qualities, our hearts become a sanctuary for ourselves. This sanctuary is a gift to the world and is also the place our love comes to serve the world.2016-12-0758 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0633 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-12-0633 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 4 Guided Kindness Meditation: Forgiveness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-08-1130 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Morning Sitting Meditation with Instructions - Day 3(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-08-1058 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Kindness, Harmlessness and Generosity(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After an intensive Metta (loving-kindness) retreat we get the great opportunity to take our practice home. In our daily lives the practice of metta supports sila (harmlessness) and dana (generosity).2016-07-211h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 7 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Equanimity(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-07-2046 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 5 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Neutral Person(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-07-1841 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Metta and Samadhi: Absorbing in Kindness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Loving-kindness practice can be used to unify the heart and mind in deep contentment. To develop this unity we need to ripen the five jhana (absorption) factors.2016-07-171h 02Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 3 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Forgiveness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2016-07-1643 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 1(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)) Introduction and Meditation2016-05-2552 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 3(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)) Moving Towards Nibbana2016-05-2557 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: The Third Noble Truth and Nibanna Part 2(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)) Talk and Discussion2016-05-2537 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Whole Life Practice(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Retreat life is just part of the path of awakening. Most of us will spend near to the entirety of our lives living at home in our daily activities. Retreat practice is a great resource for living an awakened life.2015-12-0558 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Day 3: Afternoon Sit with Instruction: Guided Mudita (Empathetic Joy)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning our hearts and minds to the celebration of happiness, joy, and well being of others. Empathetic joy is crucial to balance our hearts that have become more intimate with suffering.2015-12-0348 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Launching your Loving-Kindness Practice(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An opening night talk of a metta retreat combining Loving-Kindness practice and Qi Gong.2015-12-011h 01Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Mindfulness of Breathing - Four Foundations of Mindfulness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.2015-10-3151 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tempel Smith's most recent Dharma talksTempel Smith: Mindfulness of Breathing - Q&A Session(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.2015-10-3137 min
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Concentration Retreat (Dharma Seed: Retreat talks)Tempel Smith: How Samadhi Supports Insight(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In both the development of Samadhi and the turning toward Insight, wisdom develops to help free the heart and mind.2012-08-201h 02Concentration Retreat (Dharma Seed: Retreat talks)Tempel Smith: Morning Instructions: Day Five(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2012-08-1855 minConcentration Retreat (Dharma Seed: Retreat talks)Tempel Smith: Deepening Concentration Through Contentment(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Through developing the jhana factors of piti, sukha and ekaggata (delight, contentment and one-pointedness) we can open a deeper ability to absorb with our breath.2012-08-161h 00Concentration Retreat (Dharma Seed: Retreat talks)Tempel Smith: Morning Instructions Day One(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)2012-08-141h 01
AudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksFrom Suffering to Well-BeingThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2012-06-28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2012-06-2850 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksThe Path to ServiceThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2011-10-20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Talking SpaceEpisode 306: Love at First LaunchOn this Valentines episode of Talking Space, we lovingly start with, once again, STS-133 and how for once it has not been delayed but an official date is set for February 24th...for now. We then discuss the Stardust-NExT mission, formerly Deep Impact, as it passed close by to Tempel 1, the same comet in which it crashed into in 2005. We then discuss keeping Endeavour flight ready through 2017 as well as its possible commercial use. The big story, however, is the release of NASA's proposed Fiscal Year 2012 Budget.
Host this week: Sawyer Rosenstein. Panel Members: Gina Herlihy, Gene Mikulka, and Mark...2011-02-1737 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksThe Four Foundations of MindfulnessThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2010-07-05 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2010-07-0547 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2010-07-05 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2010-07-0541 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2010-06-20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2010-06-2136 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksPleasant, Unpleasant and NeutralThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2010-06-20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Tempel SmithTempel Smith began practicing meditation in 1989. In 1997 he ordained as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Now, back in the Bay Area, he is works on integrating these deep meditative practices into daily life and in his work with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Tempel has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology, is the founder of the West Coast Teen Meditation Retreat, and founder of BASE House, an intentional community dedicated to Socially Engaged Buddhism. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/There...2009-10-0455 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksEmptiness and ActivismThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2006-11-02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2006-11-021h 05AudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksFreedom Through Impermanence and EmptinessThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2006-08-06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFTempel SmithTempel Smith began practicing meditation in 1989. In 1997 he ordained as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Now, back in the Bay Area, he is works on integrating these deep meditative practices into daily life and in his work with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Tempel has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology, is the founder of the West Coast Teen Meditation Retreat, and founder of BASE House, an intentional community dedicated to Socially Engaged Buddhism. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/There...2005-10-3054 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFMetta in the Mind - Tempel SmithTempel Smith began practicing meditation in 1989. In 1997 he ordained as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Now, back in the Bay Area, he is works on integrating these deep meditative practices into daily life and in his work with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Tempel has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology, is the founder of the West Coast Teen Meditation Retreat, and founder of BASE House, an intentional community dedicated to Socially Engaged Buddhism. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/There...2005-06-0555 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFBurma - Tempel SmithTempel Smith began practicing meditation in 1989. In 1997 he ordained as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Now, back in the Bay Area, he is works on integrating these deep meditative practices into daily life and in his work with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Tempel has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology, is the founder of the West Coast Teen Meditation Retreat, and founder of BASE House, an intentional community dedicated to Socially Engaged Buddhism. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/2004-06-0657 minAudioDharma: Tempel Smith's most recent dharma talksRiverThis talk was given by Tempel Smith on 2004-05-13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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