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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
2007-08-01 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part Two 58:49
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-31 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part One 63:13
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-30 Who Do You Think You Really Are? 62:15
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-29 How Do You Want to Be? 62:43
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-28 How Do You Want To Live Your Life? 55:00
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-22 The Seven Factors of Awakening 40:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma
A description of the Seven Factors and how they balance each other. The overarching importance of the Factor of Awareness is stressed.
Gaia House The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-21 The Practice as a Whole 36:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Seven Factors of Awakening are put into the perspective of the practice of Vipassana as a whole.
Gaia House The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-14 Go Forth into the World 60:40
Stephen Batchelor
Having entered the stream of the eightfold path, one becomes 'independent of the views of others'. This autonomy is the ground for a new way of being with oneself and the world. It deepens insight and expands empathy, leading to compassion and social engagement.
Gaia House Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-13 Awakening, Love and Compassion 64:54
Martine Batchelor
Looking at the symbols of awakening representing selflessness, showing the importance of love in our spiritual lives, and exploring compassionate activities.
Gaia House Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-12 Rembrandt's Eyes 64:12
Stephen Batchelor
Rather than four propositions to believe, the four enobling truths are to be seen as injunctions on which to act: Fully know suffering, Let go of craving, Experience cessation, and Creatre a path. Awakening is not, therefore, a 'state', but an ongoing process.
Gaia House Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

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