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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
via dharmaseed.org
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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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Tuere Sala
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Brian Lesage
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Third Noble Truth is about the cessation of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and the realization of Nibbāna (awakening). Through inspiring stories of modern-day figures like Mae Chee Kaew and Dipa Ma, we see that awakening is possible in this very life.由Marjolein Janssen
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.由Brian Lesage
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Greg Scharf
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The first and second truths由Tuere Sala
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Brief Reflections and Guided Practice由Tuere Sala
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on presence, impermanence (anicca) and uncertainty.由Jaya Rudgard
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Andrea Fella
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Brian Lesage
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The second talk in series - reflections on teachings from the Karaniya Metta Sutta由Greg Scharf
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Tuere Sala
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The 12 Links of Dependent Origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) form a map of suffering's arising and cessation. By recognizing the interdependent nature of all things, we see that nothing has inherent existence, including the self.由Marjolein Janssen
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Brian Lesage
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dana and Caga: how the quality of generosity can be seen to underlie the whole of our practice由Jaya Rudgard
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)由Andrea Fella
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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.xyz由Lance Weiler
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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