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2024-0-30 | Day 4/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Trust in community | Peg Syverson by Appamada

00:00:26 - Peg Offers an exercise relating to Spiral dynamics 00:08:45 - Participants Get into groups of 3 for 30 minutes 00:08:52 - Reflections and Teachings

Looking at Spiral dynamics/Change States

Looking at what part of the Change Process you are in now. 00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:03:35 - Writing Exercise/Assignment 00:08:56 - Peg offers the Groups of 3 exercise 00:09:37 - Breakout rooms for 15 minutes in groups of 3 00:09:46 - Reflections/Teachings

Spiral Dynamics and Spirituality Spiral Dynamics Values Profile ‘This I Believe’ responses Spiritual Collectives 00:00:35 - Book Reccommendation - Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Geoffrey L. Cohen 00:04:34 - Spiral Dynamics Values Profile 2: Handout 1

2024-11-01 | Day 6/Part 2 | Integrated Intensive | Trust in Community | Peg Syverson by Appamada

2024-10-29 I Inquiry I To shine one corner of the world I Flint Sparks by Appamada

Reflections on a Burnt Match ~ Trudy Johnston What if your life was as brief as a match struck, fierce and bright, maybe helping others to shine, then gone. What if your life was as brief as the spume rising from a crashing wave, as it makes its final flourish. What if your life was as momentary as the shifting shadows on the painting behind the sofa. Would it matter? Would it matter? Did the matc...

00:18:14 - Laurie Winnette - Offers a Dharma Activity - 1 - What is your current level of commitment at Appamada? - 2 - Do you have difficulty balancing your home life and spiritual life - work/life/other activities? If the answer is yes, what does it look like and how does it feel? 3- Think about the activities at Appamada that you are involved with, and ask yourself the question, are they nouris...

Jukai Reflections Ryan Van Wyk What is this vow that invites us to somehow be both more and less at the same time? Not exactly restrictive or prohibitive and yet something is relinquished. There is a paradox here; in committing to embody these qualities that have been passed on and lived out by generations of ancestors, we are also committing to be more truly ourselves. Perhaps this vow is as simp...

2024-10-14 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 29 Fengxue's Iron Ox | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

00:00:26 - Practicing with the Brahmavihara's 00:40:59 - Reflections

2024-10-8 I Inquiry I To the Lighthouse I Josh Gifford by Appamada

2024-10-07 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 28 The Three Embarassments | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:11:19 - Exert from 'Shift into Freedom' - (10 minutes) 00:22:12 - 'Shift' Exercise Guided by Loch Kelly - ( 7 minutes) 00:29:14 - Reflections

Book Reference Sailing Home ~ Norman Fischer https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Home-Odyssey-Navigate-Pitfalls/dp/1556439962

00:00:20 - Dharma Talk 'The End of Suffering' 00:26:33 - Reflections

https://morningstarzensangha.blogspot.com/2019/03/koans-as-pointers-two-monks-roll up.html#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20case%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe,'One%20gains%3B%20one%20loses

2024-09-23 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 26 Yangshan Points to Snow | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

Links for two sources quoted from: Walking Around ~ Pablo Neruda https://poets.org/poem/walking-around Everything Is Enlightenment ~Joan Sutherland https://www.lionsroar.com/everything-is-enlightenment/

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:05:13 - Qualities that help to guide our actions - 1. Brahmavihara's: Loving kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic joy, Equanimity 00:05:35 - 2 - A sense of Humour. 3 - Honesty. 4 - A sense of Curiosity. 5 - Independence/Agency. 6 - A sense of self worth. 7 - Creativity 00:07:04 - Joel offers an Experiment - 00:08:21 - Participants Write for 3 Minutes -Choose one of these qua...

What Joel offered was adapted from “Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides" Author Geoffrey L. Cohen Buddhist underlying values: • Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity • Sense of Humor • Honesty • Bringing a sense of curiosity and learning to life’s challenges • Independence or agency and a sense of self-worth • Creativity

00:00:26 - Jon-Eric outlines the talk 00:04:16 - The Skandhas - a buddhist framework for the mind 00:11:41 - The Kleshas (also known as Mental afflictions) 00:17:01 - Hakomi 00:20:57 - Guided Meditation - 8 minutes 00:27:52 - Jon-Eric Invites Reflections

2024-09-10 I Inquiry I So What I Trudy Johnston by Appamada

2024-09-09 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 24 Look Out for the Snake | Thomas Cleary by Appamada