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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awaren ...
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Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society event podcast
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Video Fishbowl
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Peek inside the Berkman Center's Video Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
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The Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab has a new monthly podcast entitled Sandbox. The monthly podcast is a mixture of talks, interviews, fireside chats and lab project updates that explore the art, craft & biz of storytelling in the 21st Century.
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Yanai Postelnik: Compassionate responses - inner practice and outer action
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)De către Yanai Postelnik
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Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: 4 Tasks of Satipaṭṭhāna & 4 Dimensions of contemplative practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Naming the tasks of the individual satipaṭṭhāna channel; psychological map of the contemplative territory. (Including some common hangups)De către Akincano Marc Weber
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Yanai Postelnik: Approaching the Heart of Wisdom
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on deepening wisdom and awakeningDe către Yanai Postelnik
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Akincano Marc Weber: Guided Mettā–Forgiveness- Gratitude Meditation (no phrases)
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided practice on the themes of mettā, gratitude, connectedness, and forgivenessDe către Akincano Marc Weber
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Akincano Marc Weber: Metaphors of realisation: Sudden and Gradual
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do we make ourselves growth and realisation? Tracing the historical, psychological and Two sources of valid forms of knowlege: – Paccakkha "before the eye," i.e. 'perceptible to the senses''direct experience'. – Anvaya – 'inference'History of Sudden & Gradual. Aside of the the historical background,…
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Catherine McGee: Guided Equanimity Practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Being seen with the loving gaze of another who sees that you are perfectly in tact. Then practicing with a loved one who is suffering and whom you would like to be able to meet and love with more equanimity.De către Catherine McGee
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Catherine McGee: Seeing is Believing
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our ways of looking are shaped by our views, our patterns of attention, our emotional states, inclinations, intentions and more. Working with these factors we can participate in seeing and sensing the self, others and the world in ways that are onward leading. This talk includes extracts from a practice…
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Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflection on Contemplation of mind states (cittānupassanā).
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Citta – at the heart of our experience. The wonders and challenges of the beast.Examples of things Buddhists happily disagree with each other.De către Akincano Marc Weber
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Akincano Marc Weber: Reflections on vedanā (hedonic tone) and guided practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratifica…
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Catherine McGee: Practicing with Vedena
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning Instructions day 4.De către Catherine McGee
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Akincano Marc Weber: Kafka – Love, Loss and the Satipaṭṭhāna
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Kafka and the girl with a lost doll.Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history. Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursi…
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Catherine McGee: In whose gaze your defenses drop
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing resting in and receiving the loving attention of a loving figure.De către Catherine McGee
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Catherine McGee: Samadhi : part 1
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) “As you call into the first, so the first answers’ How to approach your mediation objectDe către Catherine McGee
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Akincano Marc Weber: Different kinds of Attention; their role and relationship to Mindfulness
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The challenge of attending and being mindful. Mindfulness (sati) and Attention (manasikāra) are different things. Attention comes in two forms: voluntary and involuntary attention.De către Akincano Marc Weber
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Akincano Marc Weber: On Doing ''the Body Thing'': Reflections and Guided Practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Body as a construct. On touch (phassa) and touching and being touched (phusati). Differing senses create a different relationship - 'seeing', 'hearing' and 'touching' as analogies for attending to something create a different kind of relationship to ourselves. The visual is overdetermined, often at the …
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Catherine McGee: The body as basis
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) First morning instructions- inviting the body to be available to attention.De către Catherine McGee
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Fireside between Ganbrood and Culturehacker
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@poptwig and Columbia DSL present the first in a series of fireside chats between H=N artists. In this conversation @ganbrood and @culturehacker side down for a candid convo about creating, selling and collecting art on http://hicetnunc.xyzDe către Lance Weiler
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Framing Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
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This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of the world's most challenging problems, particularly when it comes to technology, can create new opportunities and better outcomes for humans to not just su…
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At the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development
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The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others term it, data colonialism. For so-called “periphery” countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, the information economy represents an opportunity…
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Mistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in institutions
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Even before the storming of the US Capitol, mistrust in institutions like the press and the federal government was challenging the civic fabric of America. In Ethan Zuckerman's new book, "Mistrust", he explores the deep roots of this mistrustful moment and examines ways individuals can make social change whether or not they have faith in institutio…
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Restoring US Leadership for Global Health
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Governments around the world failed to contain COVID-19, with more than 3.2 million deaths and counting. Even before the pandemic, the United States was questioning its commitments to global health, its leadership role, and a system of progressive prices for medicines whereby the rich pay more to subsidize access for the poor. The pandemic is far f…
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Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics
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Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we serve in the global south, to merely be passive beneficiaries and outside of the borders of expertise we seek? Instead of looking at digital governan…
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Governing the Social Media City
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The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and research spaces (i.e., governments, academia, NGOs, and corporations), the default response is a focus on content moderation. However, this talk by Sahar Massac…
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Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures
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What would the Internet look like if it was designed by sex workers? Taking a sex worker lens to tech ethics envisions a radically different online space. Sex workers hold unique insights into the real world impacts of platform capitalism, carceral politics, digital surveillance, and sexual gentrification. Yet sex workers face significant structura…
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COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
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In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan, Irene Poetranto, and Emiliano Treré invited participants to explore the pandemic from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in …
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Reopening Schools: A Seminar for State & Local Leaders
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Since the federal stimulus bill has been signed, one of our nation’s major goals is to safely and rapidly reopen schools using funds allocated to State Departments of Education. This session focuses on some of the more complicated response measures necessary to make schools COVID-safe environments as they reopen: improving indoor ventilation and ai…
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Hindsight is 2020: Learning From our Past to Build a Better Future
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We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it's creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when we shared an overriding optimism in the Internet's capacity to make the world a better place.Creator platforms and social media platforms saw us migrate our social lives …
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Digital Witnesses: The Power of Looking
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Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech tools to track and circumvent oppressive policies by repressive governments. The conversation includes how Black people of Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States are leveraging social media platforms such as Y…
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