Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma Talks from Robert Beatty and the Portland Insight Meditation Community.
PIMC is an experiment in American Buddhism. The purpose of PIMC is to improve the lives of participants, their families and the greater community through meditative practice and a lifestyle that supports liberation from suffering, the awakening of wisdom, and the manifestation of compassion.
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Episodes
Doyle Banks: How To Meditate Before Meditating
July 29, 2018 16:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBDharma talk by Doyle Banks. Recorded July 29, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Kate Staples: Against The Stream - Being on the Dharma Path
July 27, 2018 16:39 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBDharma talk by Kate Staples. Recorded 6-15-18 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Gregory Maloof: On Doubt
July 21, 2018 18:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBDharma talk by Gregory Maloof. Recorded July 8, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Love-Based Activism: The 12 Steps of Dependent Origination As A Model for Skillful Action
July 04, 2018 17:33 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded July 1st, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Refugees, Compassion and Engaged Dharma
June 30, 2018 14:29 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBResponding to Racism and the Hate in our Time Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded 6/24/2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Father: Forgiveness, Gratitude and Accepting Reality
June 19, 2018 19:54 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBWe each have a person who "in this lifetime played the role of father". This person, no matter how wise, loving and awake he was was a human being with challenges and flaws. In order to go deep into our spiritual awakening we inevitably encounter our father. It is essential to come to terms with the conditioning we received from this person and to relinquish any resentments that we still cling to. Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 17, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Commu...
Opening Doors Campaign: Funding Wheelchair Ramp, ADA Updates and Seismic Upgrades for PIMC
June 17, 2018 14:06 - 6 minutes - 11.3 MBAs a participant in PIMC, you get to experience the power of sangha (community) first hand. Our center is flourishing and presenting new opportunities to experience the dharma together. Once this facility was only a dream. Now we are now adding weekly sits and new programs to accommodate the many new faces at PIMC. Our dharma home, as welcoming and comforting as it is to most of us, has a severe limitation. It is not accessible. People with mobility issues who rely on wheelchairs cannot en...
Stages of Enlightenment; Transforming Desire and Aversion.
June 17, 2018 13:56 - 54 minutes - 25 MBOur suffering is created by the mind liking and disliking the experiences that arrive in our inner and outer lives. All day long there is attaching to the pleasant and rejecting the unpleasant. Freedom and happiness come from accepting life on its own terms. Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded 6-10-18 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Enlightenment and Awakening: What is Insight Meditation
June 17, 2018 13:39 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBAwakening is a natural process. The Theravada Buddhist tradition has a very clear model of the process of awakening. It includes four distinct stages of awakening. Awakening is often described in such extreme ways that meditators think it is something that may happen after decades of retreat practice. In fact, awakening is a natural process that is strengthened and supported by our practice of the Eightfold Path. Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 3, 2018 at Portland Ins...
Community Wisdom - Sangha Members Share How Practice Helps Them In Day To Day Life
June 05, 2018 15:03 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded 5-27-2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Strengthening The Fragile Ego With Meditation
May 24, 2018 17:21 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(The song Robert sings toward the end of the Dharma talk is called "Mercy Now", by Mary Gauthier. Please go to time stamp 33:25 to hear Robert singing the song.) Here are the lyrics: MERCY NOW, Songwriter: Mary Gauthier My father could use a little mercy now The fruits of his labor fall and rot slowly on the ground His work is almost over it won't be long, he won't be around I love my father, he could use some mercy now My brother could use a little mercy ...
Visiting Teacher Jason Siff - How to Work with Thoughts During Meditation
May 13, 2018 16:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBJason Siff is head teacher of the Skillful Meditation Project. He teaches and leads retreats in Recollective Awareness throughout the United States and in Australia. He is also the author of Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get in the Way.
Skillful Means: Awareness of Everything in Meditation
May 06, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBUsing noise and all other "distractions" to wake up. Question about being imperfect. Hiri and Ottopa. Moral Shame and Moral Dread, the great protectors. Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded May 6, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Happiness: The Four Kinds of Happiness
April 29, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBWith the first Noble Truth being "Suffering" or that which is difficult to bear, there is a danger in Buddhist practice of overlooking the beauty and happiness that are part of human life. The Buddha taught that there are four fields of happiness available to us: The Happiness of the Senses The Happiness of living an"upright" life The Happiness of a Concentrated mind The Happiness of Insight, letting go, awakening and allowing the world to be as it is. The talk also covers question...
The Practice of Bare Attention
April 22, 2018 16:00 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded April 22, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Mindfulness in a Culture of Mass Consumption
April 16, 2018 16:00 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded April 15, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Buddha-Easter Connection
April 01, 2018 16:00 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MBRobert describes his long spiritual journey from Catholicism to Buddhism. He also shares his insight into the ways in which the story of Easter, the resurrection of Jesus, aligns with the teachings of The Buddha. Recorded April 1, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Activism and Overwork The Fine Line Between Action and Violence
March 16, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBWe thank you for your generous support to make these teachings available. Donate to PIMC here: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=6694bd Using his own experience as a teacher and activist, Robert asks us to consider how our constant focus on accomplishment causes us to deplete ourselves by ignoring our need for rest and self-care. Recorded February 11, 2018 Portland Insight Meditation Community Book and video references: “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which th...