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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Abhayagiri Monastery)

Hosted by Dharma Seed · religion · EN · 144 episodes

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I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and f

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I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside.

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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Abhayagiri Monastery) is hosted by Dharma Seed. The show has published 144 episodes to date.

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Recent episodes include "James Baraz: Working with the Comparing and Judging Mind" (13 October 2026, 65 minutes), "James Baraz: Heart Ptactice: Forgiveness" (10 October 2026, 49 minutes), and "James Baraz: Instructions: Vedana" (9 October 2026, 69 minutes).

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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Abhayagiri Monastery) publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 53 minutes across 144 episodes.

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    James Baraz: Working with the Comparing and Judging Mind

    Oct 13, 20261h 5m

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.

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    James Baraz: Heart Ptactice: Forgiveness

    Oct 10, 202649 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on forgiveness towards our body, mind, heart and relations with others

  • James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Abhayagiri Monastery)

    James Baraz: Instructions: Vedana

    Oct 9, 20261h 9m

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in the meditation field

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    James Baraz: Cultivating Wholesome States

    Oct 6, 20261h 4m

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort includes not only weakening unwholesome states but strengthening wholesome states. This talk explores how to do the latter.

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    James Baraz: Instructions: including Mind States wholesome and unwholesome in the meditation field

    Oct 5, 20261h 1m

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha recommended mindfulness of difficult states but also beautiful states such as peace joy as objects of meditation

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    James Baraz: Variations on Five Hindrances

    Oct 2, 20261h 1m

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them

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    James Baraz: Instruction on Grounding with anchor

    Oct 1, 202659 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using primary object of breath, body or sound to stabilize the attention

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    James Baraz: Letting in Love: The Secret to Metta for Ourselves

    Sep 10, 202646 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) For many, wishing well and extending metta to others can come relatively naturally. The hard part is not sending out love, but letting it in. This is one of the most supportive...

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    James Baraz: On Love, Shame and Human Belonging with Adam Baraz

    Jun 18, 202651 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Adam will give the talk. Over the past seven months, Adam traveled through Bali, Nepal, and Japan on a pilgrimage that became both an outer journey and an inner exploration. At...

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    James Baraz: Quiet Strength: Exploring Equanimity with James and Margaret Cullen

    Jun 4, 202650 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Margaret is the author of the just released book, Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly through the Power of Equanimity. In this she leads in an...

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    James Baraz: What Does it Mean to Practice Community? James and Nina Raddy

    May 21, 202636 min

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk James introduces Nina Raddy, a member of our IMCB community, who shares from her own experience of community practice and helping build Community Village, a vibrant, peer-led...

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    James Baraz: When in Doubt, Relax!

    May 7, 202640 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Practice can sometimes feel complicated with so many different techniques and instructions on how to extricate oneself from identifying with our experience. Using approaches...

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    James Baraz: Dhammapada Teaching: You Write Your Own Script

    Apr 30, 202648 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James has been offering reflections on the Dhammapada, the Buddha's collection of pithy teachings, and how they can be practically applied in our lives. Dhammapada Verse #165...

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    James Baraz: Monday Night Dharma Talk: We Are What We Think

    Apr 13, 20261 hour

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    James Baraz: More Teachings from the Dhammapada: "All Beings Tremble Before Violence"

    Apr 9, 202648 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk continues exploring teachings from the Dhammapada, the most well-known collection of the Buddha's words. It shares the Buddha's teachings on harmlessness and the...

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    James Baraz: Teachings from the Dhammapada

    Apr 2, 202643 min

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Dhammapada is the most well-known collection of the Buddha's words. Consisting of 26 chapters in 423 verses, it contains pith teachings from discourses that are found throughout the...

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    James Baraz: Tilopa's Six Words of Advice

    Mar 12, 202646 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk shares a teaching from the great 10th Century Tibetan master, Tilopa. Tilopa and his succession of Dharma heirs formed the core of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan...

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    James Baraz: Awe and Wonder: The Practice of Sacred Perception

    Mar 5, 202645 min

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We often need something to be special to catch our attention. It takes practice to be mindful of ordinary experiences like the breath, a sound or a sensation. When we practice...

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    James Baraz: Big Mind: Using Awareness as the Primary Object (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Feb 22, 202655 min

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.

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    James Baraz: Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Feb 19, 20261h 5m

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Letting go is the direct instruction to move from the Second Noble Truth (there is a cause of suffering) to the Third Noble Truth (there is an end to suffering), Letting go on many levels...

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