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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
2025-04-11 Learning from the Buddha's journey (Part 3) 26:11
Bernat Font
The imperfectly perfect teacher: the Buddha's hesitation to teach, a lifelong ambivalence between blissful solitude and human engagement, the human & vs the ideal Buddha. How unconditioned can awakening really be? How perfectionistic are we? Equanimity not as flawless calm but as the ability to hold fluctuations with gentleness.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-11 Ethics of the 8-Fold Path : Careful and Caring Speech, Action, Livelihood 28:19
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-11 Mettā and the Awakening Factors 54:13
Bernat Font
Talk & Guided Meditation
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-10 Learning From the Buddha's Journey (Part 2) 40:31
Bernat Font
Impermanence through the image of the Little Prince's rose. Is everything really dukkha just because it's transient? More on samatha & vipassanā. Stages in relinquishing reactivity. The Buddha's awakening as a discovery of secular faith, connecting impermanence to beauty & care, liberation through mettā.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-10 From Grasping to Letting Go; Four Stages of Awakening 27:54
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-10 Three Characteristics of Existence 58:32
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-09 Learning from the Buddha's journey (Part 1) 39:57
Bernat Font
His (and our) addiction to both pleasure and suffering. The four efforts as different strategies of practice, moving from problem-fixing to sustaining naturally occuring non-reactivity. Samatha as settling the mind, vipassanā as understanding how that happened. The awakening factors, joy at the release of reactivity & the first jhāna.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-09 Presence or Absence of the Seven Awakening Factors 59:36
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-09 Dhammānupassanā: contemplating the process & conditionality of experience. 59:35
Bernat Font
The 4th satipaṭṭhāna in formal practice & in daily life. Includes guided meditation.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-08 The Pyramid of Mindfulness 35:21
Bernat Font
An overview of the four satipaṭṭhānas, with emphasis on the fourth.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

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