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Today’s Dharmabyte moves us into the theme of Death as the Buddha’s Parinirvana is celebrated across the Buddhist world. “Death as Loss or Death as Gateway” is an extract from Vidyamala’s talk “Dying to Live” (http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=OM636), which will be our next featured full length podcast. 

Confronted with impermanence and death the questions of who and what we are burn into us. Bereavements and losses of all kinds can be met with a kindness and awareness that gently ease the burden, allowing something of peace to enter our lives again.

Talk given at the Western Buddhist Order Women’s Convention 2003

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Dharmabytes Podcast #6 - "Death as Loss or Death as Gateway" by Vidyamala

Extra meditations for Mindfulness for Health book by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman

Diaphragm Breathing Meditation

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Why Are We So Afraid?,” is an excerpt from the talk “Dying to Live” (www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=OM636) by Vidyamala. Here she talks about being present with fear in the face of impermanence. In the full talk, Vidyamala gives a strong account of working with suffering and sorrow in life, and of transforming experience into one characterized by contentment and a sense of meaning. 

From her own practice of living with chronic pain comes a sane and unsentimental perspective that affords us all a measure of genuine optimism as we meet the trials of the world: bereavements and losses of all kinds can be met with a kindness and awareness that gently ease the burden, allowing something of peace to enter our lives again.

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Dharmabytes Podcast #285 - "Why Are We So Afraid?" by Vidyamala

In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Facing the Truth,” Vidyamala leads us through the art of being with change in the moment. From the beautifully strong and popular talk, “Dying to Live.”

Vidyamala shares from her own practice of living with chronic pain comes a sane and unsentimental perspective that affords us all a measure of genuine optimism as we meet the trials of the world: bereavements and losses of all kinds can be met with a kindness and awareness that gently ease the burden, allowing something of peace to enter our lives again.

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Dharmabytes Podcast #157 - "Facing the Truth" by Vidyamala

compassionate acceptance body scan

Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138

Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives and a Science of Mindfulness (Dec 27, 2012)

Recorded on event hosted by Openground training in Sydney March 8 2014

Breath-based Body scan

Guided meditation led on 'Living well with Pain, Illness and Stress' weekend hosted by Open Ground, Sydney March 8/9 2014. Looking at how to work with denial/blocking on one hand and drowning/overwhelm on the other.

Meditation Enquiring Into Blocking And Drowning in experience

Guided meditation led by Vidyamala Burch on 'Living well with Pain, Illness and Stress' weekend hosted by Open Ground, Sydney March 8/9 2014

Treasure Of Pleasure meditation

From the Plum Village dharma talk given on March 20, 2014

Four Qualities of Happiness using Pebble Meditation

Guided Mindfulness By Jon Kabat - Zinn

Guided mindfulness meditation of the body, sounds, breath, and thoughts, offered by meditation teacher Jared Featherstone.

Guided Mindfulness Meditation

Welcome to the Breathworks introductory free guided meditation playlist.  This list consists of four meditations led by Vidyamala Burch to get you started with a mindfulness and meditation practice. Even if you have been practicing for some time these are still core practices useful in everyday life.

As well as this playlist you will find plenty of other free meditations on the Breathworks Soundcloud account that you might like to try, so feel free to have a browse.

If you haven't taken part in a face to face course or an online virtual classroom course, we highly recommend that you try one of these to deepen your understanding and practice as well as sharing progress and experience with others.

To find a course for you please click here:
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/mindfulness-courses

One Minute Breathing Space

The Breathing Space Meditation

The Coffee Meditation

The Tension Release Meditation

Sister Chan Khong sings a lullaby in English and French.

Smile

Vidyamala, a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and founder of Breathworks, speaks on how she works with the worldly winds of pleasure and pain as part of the 2011 International Urban Retreat.

Vidyamala - The Worldly Winds, Pleasure and Pain

An unedited, extended version of Vidyamala's practical and inspiring talk on how to work with your mind in the face of pain and the general vicissitudes of this world...

Vidyamala, a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and founder of Breathworks, speaks on how she works with the worldly winds of pleasure and pain as part of the 2011 International Urban Retreat.

Vidyamala - The Worldly Winds - Pleasure and Pain (Extended), International Urban Retreat 2011

An excerpt from the 2013-01-03 dharma talk at Plum Village. There ia a sutra on the contemplation of the body and the body is a big subject of meditation. There is much suffering and misery in this world and some people want to get out of this world. Is there a way to get out of the world of suffering and misery by looking into your body? We can see the four elements - water, air, earth, and heat - in our body. There are six sense organs that can produce the six consciousnesses. When you look into the body deeply, you can see it is a community. Can you see all our ancestors by looking into the body?  Is there a self? If we heal ourselves, we can heal our ancestors.  We don't just practice for ourselves, we practice for all our ancestors. Our body is a treasure and we should take care of our body. There is a Buddha in the body.

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