Amita Schmidt's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Oct 10 2024 81 ep. 28 mins 38
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Amita Schmidt is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on trauma and meditation. She was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society from 2000-2006. She is the author of "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master." She also has practiced with Adyashanti, a teacher of non-dual awareness.

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Amita Schmidt: Infinte Love

Oct 10 2024 41 mins  
(Tri State Dharma) Our true nature is loving awareness, and this talk gives you practices to strengthen both awareness and love. Learn to move from "my" awareness to THE awareness in every day of your life.

Amita Schmidt: The Root Cause of Suffering

Oct 08 2024 37 mins  
(Tri State Dharma) In this talk you will learn tools to loosen the attachment to the ego perspective: how to step outside the snow globe of you; how to move away from the trance of thoughts; and ways to pendulate to a bigger perspective/view. This talk also has some science quotations from Donald Hoffman and others on infinite consciousness.

Amita Schmidt: Q and A: The gift of Listening to Suffering.

Oct 06 2024 5 mins  
(Tri State Dharma) Suffering can be a gift that helps you self-correct back to right action.

Amita Schmidt: Anxiety and Depression Basic Tools for Meditators

Sep 28 2024 36 mins  
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This talk offers some basic tools and reflections to help meditation students with Depression and Anxiety. You will learn to recognize the optical illusions of mind, label distorted thinking patterns, and unblend from difficult mindstates.

Amita Schmidt: Interview about Dipa Ma

Jun 20 2024 37 mins  
(Maui, Hi) Interview with Amita Schmidt about Dipa Ma Barua. Interview is a podcast with Donna Ferris on her podcast series Bounce Back Stronger.

Amita Schmidt: Debilitating Self Doubt

Sep 24 2023 4 mins  
(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) If you have incessant or debilitating doubts here are a few strategies, including how to see/work with it as a part, and help update this part. Also includes a brief description about what Dipa Ma did for students.

Amita Schmidt: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Dharma

Sep 24 2023 45 mins  
(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) It's important to have an orienting principle for Artificial Intelligence or AI. This talk will help you find an orienting principle, as well as give you tools and practices to use during times of great change.

Amita Schmidt: The No Self Strategy of the Buddha

May 26 2023 46 mins  
(Insight San Diego) The no self strategy of the Buddha is a tool for awakening. This talk includes a reflection on the 5 aggregates (5 characteristics that create the illusion of a self), as well as some daily micro practices/reflections to decrease the attachment to a separate self.

Amita Schmidt: Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections

Jan 29 2023 42 mins  
(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This talk explains the difference between horizontal verses vertical dharma practice. The talk also explores "The Four Reflections," or lojong teachings to inspire your sitting and daily life practice. These include reflections on precious human birth, impermanence/death, suffering, and karma.

Amita Schmidt: Below the Waves Meditation

Jan 29 2023 8 mins  
(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) A unique vertical, guided meditation for dropping below your thinking, to the body breathing, and then to awareness itself. This meditation is unique in that it doesn't try to stop thinking, but includes it as part of a vertical awareness of your whole being, here now.