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Dharma Talks
given at Refuge of Belonging
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2025-01-11
Recognizing Nibbana through Dana Parami
29:56
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Nico Hase
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A talk on Dana Parami (the Perfection of Generosity) and its significance in recognizing Nibbana. The discussion covered the importance of Paramis, personal anecdotes, and the luminous nature of the mind. Participants learned about softening the obscurations that block awareness and recognizing the inherent clarity of the unborn mind. The talk also highlighted practical teachings and research-back
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2024-10-12
Four Ways to Cultivate Equanimity
29:25
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Nico Hase
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A talk that outlines four practices to cultivate equanimity: Basic Mindfulness, which brings awareness to break the cycle of rumination; Right View, understanding impermanence and insubstantiality; embracing one's Kuleana, or responsibilities, with wholeheartedness; and the use of Transformative Phrases to maintain balance and peace. These practical insights and contemplative practices were integrated into daily lives for greater harmony.
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2024-09-14
Toward a Refuge of Belonging
33:25
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Devon Hase
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In this talk, devon offers reflections on the importance of refuge in the Buddhist tradition and how deepening into refuge opens us to a stable sense of belonging, as well as building metta parami, the cultivation of love on the path.
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2024-08-11
The Path of Most Resilience
29:47
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Nico Hase
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In this talk, nico speaks about adhitthana parami as resilience. He defines resilience as the ability to bounce back from adversity and offers some pointers from contemporary psychology research on how to build resilience.
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2024-07-13
What Truth Does
30:10
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Nico Hase
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In this talk nico examines several theories of truth and suggests that Buddhism is best understood as a liberative phenomenological pragmatism. Despite the big words, there are plenty of stories and examples to drive the points home into our experience.
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2024-07-13
Four Guides to Truth
31:14
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Nico Hase
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In this talk nico offers four guides or doorways to truth: the outer guide, the inner guide, the textual guide, and phenomena itself as guide. Through bringing these four into balance we can steady ourselves on the path.
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