Latest Robertbeatty Podcast Episodes
Christine Gieben: Equanimity
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - September 16, 2018 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Christine Gieben. Recorded September 16, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
If Theres No Self, Who Makes the Decisions (Q&A with Robert)
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - September 09, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk and Q&A with Robert Beatty. Recorded September 9, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
So, Why Meditate?
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - September 02, 2018 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded September 2nd, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Five Precepts
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - August 26, 2018 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 26, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Gregory Maloof: Taking Refuge
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - August 19, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Gregory Maloof. Recorded August 19, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Life Is Difficult: The Five Hindrances and The Sense of Self
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - August 12, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 12, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. [There was an error with the original audio file. This episode has been republished to correct. Apologies for the inconvenience!] To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Questions And Answers
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - August 08, 2018 16:13 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded July 22, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Changes (Thoughts on Impermanence)
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - August 05, 2018 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 5, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Doyle Banks: How To Meditate Before Meditating
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - July 29, 2018 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - July 27, 2018 16:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - July 21, 2018 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - July 04, 2018 17:33 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 30, 2018 14:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsResponding 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 19, 2018 19:54 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe 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...
Opening Doors Campaign: Funding Wheelchair Ramp, ADA Updates and Seismic Upgrades for PIMC
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 17, 2018 14:06 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAs 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 man...
Stages of Enlightenment; Transforming Desire and Aversion.
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 17, 2018 13:56 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsOur 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. R...
Enlightenment and Awakening: What is Insight Meditation
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 17, 2018 13:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAwakening 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 retre...
Community Wisdom - Sangha Members Share How Practice Helps Them In Day To Day Life
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - June 05, 2018 15:03 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - May 24, 2018 17:21 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings(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 ...
Visiting Teacher Jason Siff - How to Work with Thoughts During Meditation
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - May 13, 2018 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJason 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - May 06, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsUsing 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.po...
Happiness: The Four Kinds of Happiness
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - April 29, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWith 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 Practice of Bare Attention
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - April 22, 2018 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - April 16, 2018 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma 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
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - April 01, 2018 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsRobert 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 sup...
Activism and Overwork The Fine Line Between Action and Violence
Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks - March 16, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe 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 ign...
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