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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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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 (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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 (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in the meditation field
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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.
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha recommended mindfulness of difficult states but also beautiful states such as peace joy as objects of meditation
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using primary object of breath, body or sound to stabilize the attention
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
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James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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...
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
James Baraz's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(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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