Recorded Dharma
This page contains an archive of dharma talks by James Baraz and guest teachers at our Thursday evening meetings that you can play or download to your computer. You can also listen to many of the talks recorded at IMCB since mid-2007 on the Dharma Seed website; they also feature a longer description of the talks. On their Home page, click on Retreats and enter our retreat code: IMCByogis.
In addition to IMCB talks, the following menu contains links to recorded dharma offered by other closely-allied dharma centers and to instructions for playing, downloading, and burning CDs.
Scroll down or click on a topic for more information:
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- 08/26/10 - James Baraz and Julia Butterfly Hill - Spiritual Activation
- 08/19/10 - Ajahn Metta - Renunciation and the Monastic Life Saranaloka Website
- 08/12/10 - Jacques Verduin - Insight Prison Project and Insight Out Website
- 08/05/10 - Arinna Weisman - Faith
- 07/29/10 - James Baraz - Secret Ingredient for Equanimity
- 07/22/10 - Tempel Smith - Mindfulness As Liberation
Handout
- 07/15/10 - James Baraz - This Business of Wanting
- 07/08/10 - James Baraz - Suffering is Grace
- 07/01/10 - James Baraz - Independene
- 06/24/10 - James Baraz -
How to get what you want and not get what you don't want
- 06/17/10 - Linda Graham - Forgiveness
- 06/10/10 - James Baraz - Responding to the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
- 05/20/10 - James Baraz & Kevin Griffin - Breaking the Chains of Craving, part 4
- 05/13/10 - James Baraz - Breaking the Chains of Craving, part 3
- 05/06/10 - James Baraz - Breaking the Chains of Craving, part 2
- 04/29/10 - James Baraz - Breaking the Chains of Craving, part 1
- 04/22/10 - James Baraz - Earth Day: 40th Anniversary
- 04/15/10 - Wes Nisker - April Holidays
- 04/08/10 - Rev Heng Sure - Stories Into Song
- 04/01/10 - Joanna Macy - Liberation Buddhism
- 03/25/10 - James Baraz - Elders with guest Selma Baraz. See also a YouTube video of Selma entitled:
Confessions of a Jewish Mother: How My Son Ruined My Life!
- 03/18/10 - James Baraz - A Life Well Lived
- 02/18/10 - U Pyinya Zawta and Hozan Alan Senauke - Basic Buddhism and Burma
- 02/11/10 - James Baraz - The Lion's Roar
- 02/04/10 - Rev Heng Sure - Repaying Kindness
- 01/28/10 - James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander - Their new book: Awakening Joy
- 01/21/10 - James Baraz - Refuge in the Sanga, part 3 (Kalyana Mita)
- 01/14/10 - James Baraz - Refuge in the Sangha, part 2
- 01/07/10 - James Baraz - Refuge in the Sangha, part 1
- 12/17/09 - Arinna Weisman - Willing to be Vulnerable
- 12/10/09 - James Baraz - Shower the People with Love
- 12/03/09 - Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Undoing Mental Knots
- 11/19/09 - James Baraz - The Body
- 11/05/09 - Arinna Weisman - Patience
- 10/29/09 - Anthony Rodgers - Developing Our Understanding
- 10/22/09 - Yvonne Rand - Practices in Daily Life
- 10/15/09 - James Baraz - Heaven or Hell: The Choice is Yours
- 10/01/09 - James Baraz - Forgiveness: Cleaning Our Slate
- 09/17/09 - Eve Decker -
Metta for Yourself (Self-love) w/ dharma music
- 09/10/09 -
Alexa Ouellett - Why I'm Doing a 5-month Retreat at Forest Refuge
- 09/03/09 - Catherine Ingram - Choose Freedom (the practice and benefit of redirecting attention)
- 08/27/09 - James Baraz - Being the Awareness
- 08/20/09 -
Phagyab Rinpoche- Teachings on Compassion
- 08/13/09 - James Baraz - The Buddha's Five Supports for Practice
- 08/06/09 - James Baraz - Intersecting Realities
- 07/30/09 - James Baraz - The Woman at the Well
- 07/23/09 - Catherine Ingram - To Thine Own Self Be True
- 07/16/09 - James Baraz - On Metta
- 07/02/09 - James Baraz - You Never Know...
- 06/25/09 - James Baraz - Contentment
- 06/18/09 - Kate Janke - Fear
- 06/11/09 - James Baraz -
Reflections on our Deepest Truths
- 06/04/09 - James Baraz - Verses on the Faith Mind, part 3
- 05/28/09 - James Baraz with guest,
the storytelling monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri
- 05/21/09 - James Baraz - Verses on the Faith Mind, part 2
- 05/14/09 - James Baraz - Verses on the Faith Mind, part 1
- 05/07/09 - Helena Norberg-Hodge - Economics of Happiness
- 04/30/09 - James Baraz - Bamboo Acrobats
- 04/16/09 - James Baraz - Confidence
- 04/09/09 - James Baraz - Am I Good Enough?
- 04/02/09 - Yvonne Rand - Reflections on Patience and Anger
- 03/26/09 - James Baraz - A Meditative Instruction: Kind Awareness
- 03/19/09 - James Baraz - A Meditative Instruction: Interested Awareness
- 03/12/09 - James Baraz - A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed Awareness
- 03/05/09 - James Baraz - Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot
- 02/19/09 - Lama Palden - What is True Refuge?
- 02/12/09
- Wes Nisker - Darwin's 200th Birthday + Suggestions for Lowering Our Impact on Earth
- 02/05/09
- Richard Shankman - Samadhi
- 01/29/09
- James Baraz - Letting in the Love
- 01/22/09
- James Baraz - Obama's Inauguration in the Context of Dharma Practice
- 01/15/09 - Paul Ekman - Emotions and Compassion: Highlights of conversations with the Dalai Lama
- 01/08/09 - James Baraz - Emotional Awareness
- 01/01/09 - Rev Heng Sure - Buddhist Songs of Enlightenment
- 12/25/08 - Rev Heng Sure - Benefits of Giving, Good News Sources, Musical Dharma
- 12/17/08 - Adam Baraz - Reflections on 3-month retreat at IMS
- 12/04/08 - James Baraz - Greening of the Sangha: Letting Go of More
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Breaking the Chains of Craving
This series is based on the Spring 2010 issue of The Inquiring Mind,
which focuses on "Addiction." James offers practices between sessions, such as experimenting with letting go of a simple habit in order to see the conditioning and to experience the aliveness of the present moment. For example, not reading or watching TV while eating. Includes lively comments and discussion from the sangha. Part 4 features
Kevin Griffin, author, teacher, and innovator in the field of
addiction treatment, who guest-edited the Addiction issue of Inquiring Mind. Kevin's website
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China)
This is a three part series on James' favorite piece of dharma wisdom: Verses on the Faith Mind by Sengstan, otherwise known as the 3rd Zen Patriarch of China. This is one of the best treatises on the non-dual approach to practice. A few choice lines:
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
"Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know."
"The burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness."
“To live in the realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.”
During this series, James reads through the text and discusses how we can apply it in our lives. You can read the text of this sutra here.
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness. Note: The Relaxed Awarenss talk was recorded at the February 2009 month-long retreat at Spirit Rock.
Emotional Awareness
The first talk is an introduction in preparation for part two with guest Paul Ekman, psychologist, leading expert on human emotions and facial expressions and co-author with the Dalai Lama on the recent book Emotional Awareness.
In the second talk, Paul plays excerpts of his discussions with the Dalai Lama on forgiveness and compassion and lays out his current theory about the origins and nature of compassion.
Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
James received teachings from the Dalai Lama in July 2008. This series is based on Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, one of the Dalai Lama’s central teachings. As the Dalai Lama says, "If I have any understanding of compassion and the practice of the Bodhisattva path, it is entirely on the basis of this text that I possess it." For those who want more information on this topic, James recommends the article: What Is a Bodhisattva?: The Evolution of a Buddhist Idea by Guy Armstrong. (If you need a free copy of Acrobat Reader to view the PDF, please download it here.)
Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness
This series is an exploration of the principles that James Baraz presents in the Awakening Joy Course from a more traditional Buddhist perspective, which shows how these principles reveal Buddhadharma as a path of happiness.
Theravada Masters and Practices
Reflections on Power, Sex, and Money
Sattipatthana Sutta (Four foundations of Mindfulness)
Mindfulness
Five Reflections
Fear
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| Individual talks by James Baraz |
11/20/08 - Anapanasati: Mindfulness of the Breath
11/13/08 - with Janet Keyes - Making a Difference Together: Deepening Sangha Bonds (Letter from Barack Obama to 4-year old girl)
11/06/08 - Change: Darkness to Light
07/03/08 - Why Do Intensive Retreat Practice? with guest Kate Janke
03/06/08 - I Know I'm Stuck and I Still Can't Get Out!
06/14/07 - When a Friend Dies
12/28/06 - Reflections on the New Year
12/14/06 - Generosity of Spirit
12/07/06 - Freedom
11/31/06 - 5 Equipments of Mind
11/09/06 - Experiencing Happiness
10/05/06 - Forgiveness
08/24/06 - Shining Through of the Divine: A Buddhist Perspective of God
07/27/06 - It's Like This
06/06/22 - Disengaging the Clutch
05/25/06 - Building Community, Large and Small
04/06\06 - in Discussion with Lama Dondrup
03/02/06 - Dharma Discussion
02/23/06 - Pleasure and Pain
02/03/06 - Praise and Blame
01/26/06 - Aditthana
01/19/06 - Vedana
01/12/06 - Earth Dharma
12/08/05 - Value of a Life
12/01/05 - Humbled by Life
11/17/05 - Gratitude
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You may either download these MP3 files and play them later, or you can play them directly from the website. To play a file, click a link and select Open. It may take time to download before starting. To save the file and play later, click a link and select Save.
To make a CD from one of these talks:
1. Right click on the file of interest.
2. Click on "Save target as..." and save the file on your computer.
3. Use a music program, like "Real Player" or "Windows Media Player",
to "burn" the file you've downloaded to an audio CD.
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