Wild Heart Meditation Center
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- Duração: 229:21:58
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WE CHANGED OUR NAME!!PREVIOUSLY CALLED AGAINST THE STREAM NASHVILLE Wild Heart Meditation Center's podcast offers an assortment of talks given on topics as they relate to Buddhist practice. Wild Heart's guiding teacher, Andrew Chapman, along with other group facilitators share their experience with Buddhist practice, specifically offering practical teachings and instructions for our everyday, ordinary, lives.
Episódios
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Five Supportive Faculties
05/02/2017 Duração: 27minAndrew speaks on the five spiritual faculties (or "five supportive faculties"). He discusses the role of faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom in the Buddhist path to awakening.
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Dukkha: Embracing Dukkha with an Open Heart
05/02/2017 Duração: 41minAs mindfulness helps us wake up to the vulnerable, insecure, and stressful parts of our lives, we are often wrought with feelings of doubt, overwhelm, or fear. The Buddha taught us that a compassionate response is often a courageous response to our deepest sorrows and doubts. In this talk, Andrew discusses the role of compassion in learning to "embrace dukkha"; he details ways of developing the inner resource of compassion.
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Dukkha: The Five Aggregates as Self
05/02/2017 Duração: 41minThe second part in a series of three talks on the Buddha's noble truth of "dukkha", Andrew discusses the tenets of the Buddha's teaching on the five aggregates, and how the habitual tendency to cling to the aggregates causes a stressful existence.
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The First Truth: Dukkha
17/01/2017 Duração: 27minATS Brooklyn facilitator Eloise Luke Mayton and ATS Nashville facilitator Andrew Chapman co-lead a dharma talk on the First Noble Truth: the truth of dukkha. They discuss some of the qualities of dukkha and ways of experiencing and understanding the vulnerable, insecure, and unsatisfying aspects of our human experience.
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Mindfulness of Mind
19/12/2016 Duração: 42minAlthough including the 'thinking mind' as a part of one's meditation practice can seem counter to some folks perception of meditation, it is of essential and vital importance in developing a wise understanding and compassionate relationship to one's distressing thinking patterns, general anxiety, and overall mental anguish.
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Wise Communication: DBT & The Dharma
10/12/2016 Duração: 52minDiana (DBT Therapist) & Andrew discuss some practical tools for wise communication.
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Developing A Daily Meditation Practice
17/11/2016 Duração: 42minAndrew talks about some of the fundamentals of developing a meditation practice: 1. why we commit to practice; 2. how we approach meditation; and 3. what we do while we meditate.
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Audience Topics
14/11/2016 Duração: 34minAndrew discusses topics that were brought forth from members of the group: tenets of vipassana, working with neutral feeling tone, engaged buddhism, & when to share the Dharma.
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Separation, Social Suffering, & Compassionate Action
10/11/2016 Duração: 38minSpecial guest, Lizzie Harrigan, & ATS facilitator, Andrew Chapman, offer some reflection after the recent election. They provide a Buddhist framework for looking at separateness and divisiveness, and the social suffering that manifests in our local, national, and global communities. Lizzie speaks specifically to practicing self-compassion and the need to understand emotional triggers and healthy ways to cope.
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Balanced Effort: Establishing Purpose, Practice, & Patience
07/11/2016 Duração: 39minThe Buddha spoke about "Balanced Effort" more than any other factor of the eightfold path. Simply put, effort is the part of our human experience that provides the capacity for all other things. It is the foundation of what helps us establish a purpose, cultivate and sustain and practice, and develop a steadfast and gentle patience within the gradual process of awakening.
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Papanca: Mental Proliferation
31/10/2016 Duração: 30minAndrew speaks on the topic of "Papanca" - i.e. mental proliferation. He discusses how themes of craving/clinging, self-obsession, and fixed views and opinions lay the ground for much of the mental anguish in our lives.
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Kindness as a Foundation for Practice
24/10/2016 Duração: 39minAndrew discusses the role of cultivating "kindness" as a foundation for Buddhist practice. He discusses the role of undertaking training precepts, as well as offering some context and practical application of Metta practice.
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Mindfulness & Emotion Regulation
17/10/2016 Duração: 42minTonight, Andrew talks about the very exciting and confusing world of emotion. He offers both a Buddhist psychological framework and a Western psychology framework for emotion activation, and then discusses some of the primary ways that mindfulness assists in emotion regulation.
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Training the Heart: Appreciation for Self & Others
30/09/2016 Duração: 28minOn the fifth night of Against the Stream's annual Fall retreat, Andrew discusses the role of non-attached appreciation and sympathetic joy on the path of awakening.
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Awakening: The Purification of Karma
12/09/2016 Duração: 37minAndrew describes the process of awakening as an action, as a behavior, rather than a destination. He discusses the role of purifying one's karma as a procedure that promotes greater insight, self-awareness, and more moments of awakening. Enjoy!
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Equanimity
28/08/2016 Duração: 34minAndrew details the importance of the development of equanimity in Buddhist practice. He offers a definition, description, and practical application of the practice. Andrew also discusses some of the nuances of the practice, including the near-enemy of "indifference".
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Liberation Through Non-Clinging
24/08/2016 Duração: 32minAndrew discusses the path of freedom outlined by the Buddha: Liberation through non-clinging. He discusses how the relational practice of mindfulness can help us identify areas of our lives where we cling and hold on to unnecessary suffering.
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The Faith to Let Go
11/08/2016 Duração: 55minLeading retreat at New Life Foundation in Thailand, Dave Smith discusses the role of "faith" as a means of letting go. He demystifies our cultural stigma around "faith" and details the practical application of faith in Buddhist practice.