Thanissara's Dharma Talks
Thanissara
Thanissara, a practitioner since 1975, was a Theravada nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally the last 20 years. She is co-founder and director of Dharmagiri Hermitage and Outreach in South Africa and spends time between there and the US. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from Karuna Institute and Middx University UK and is currently co-facilitator of the Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock
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2011-12-03
Nothing is Outside the Heart
2009-06-08
Teaching of This Moment
2012-07-04
1. Buddha's Essential Guidance
2012-07-04
10. Training of Mind
2012-07-04
11. Four Truths
2012-07-04
12. Practice of the Four Truths
2012-07-04
13. Leap Beyond
2012-07-04
14. Original Mind
2012-07-04
15. Divine Within Human
2012-07-04
16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation
2012-07-04
17. Daily Life Practice
2012-07-04
18. Taking Precepts
2012-07-04
2. First Foundation of Mindfulness
2011-08-26
2.8.40 - The River of Self
2012-07-04
3. Basic Sanity
2012-05-10
3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart
2012-07-04
4. Guided Meditation on the Body
2012-07-04
5. Samadhi - Path into Here & Now
2012-07-04
6. Jhana Factors & Balanced Effort
2012-07-04
7. Hindrances & Stopping
2012-07-04
8. Balance of Calm & Insight
2012-07-04
9. Contemplating Change & Worldly Winds
2012-09-27
A Burning World
2012-02-25
A Human Journey
2011-03-12
A Mindful Way
2008-05-30
An Exploration of Mindfulness
2007-08-11
Archetypel Journey
2014-05-17
Authentic Relationship
2007-11-13
Awakening the Heart: The role of trust and devotion in meditation practice
2013-02-17
Before you react...
2012-09-26
Being Present
2009-06-06
Being present to body & breath
2009-06-06
Being Present to Body Breath
2012-02-18
Blessing Chants
2012-09-25
Carried by Dharma
2009-06-11
Chanting
2009-12-16
Closing Remarks and Q&A
2007-08-15
Compassion, Emptiness and Kuan Yin
2009-06-08
Contemplation of Desire and Aversion
2012-02-24
Contemplation Of Mind
2006-09-30
Cultivating the Unshakeable Heart
2007-08-17
Daily Life - the Ground of Paramita
2007-01-20
Dawn of Contemplation
2009-06-09
Desire & Aversion
2010-03-08
Discerning Mind and It's Activity
2009-01-20
Emptying the Boulders of the Mind
2011-04-04
Establishing Mindfulness
2008-05-31
Exploring Mindfulness
2009-01-30
Facets of the Diamond
2013-02-23
Footprints
2013-02-21
Four Truths To Live By
2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
2014-05-17
From Shattering to Capacity
2009-01-13
Fruit Arises According to the Dharma
2009-01-11
Gathered Attention Here and Now
2011-03-12
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
2009-12-12
Guided Meditation
2013-02-23
Guided Metta Meditation
2010-03-10
Handful Of Leaves
2011-03-10
Honoring Our Human Journey
2010-03-06
How Is It Now?
2009-01-26
I Have Faith in Nights
2009-12-13
If you understand one thing, you understand everything's journey
2011-03-06
Independent Abiding
2014-05-13
Introduction to Meditation
2014-05-15
Investigation of dhammas
2010-03-08
It Is Not As It Should Be.
2013-03-31
Kuan Yin for the Planet - Bringing the Heart Suttra Down to Earth
2006-10-04
Let the Beauty You Love Be What you Do
2009-01-13
Mara - The Ultimate Teacher
2009-06-08
Meeting Dukkha
2008-05-31
Mindfulness and the Indriyas
2013-02-20
Mindfulness Of Feeling
2009-12-14
Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper
2012-02-24
Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind
2012-02-21
No Desire, No Path
2010-03-12
Noticing The Context.
2007-08-10
Opening Talk for Illuminating the Heart of Awareness
2007-01-19
Opening Talk from Dawn of Contemplation
2013-02-16
Opening Talk: Introduction to Retreat and protection chants.
2012-09-28
Placing the Personal Self
2014-05-13
Practice & Climate Change
2013-08-23
Practice in a Burning World
2007-12-03
Prajna Paramita In The Dragon Mountains
2009-06-11
Question and Answer Session
2012-02-20
Samadhi - Healing Mind, Body, Heart
2010-03-10
Skill With Thought
2006-10-04
Stillness and Inquiry
2009-01-18
Suffering as Opportunity
2011-03-08
Sujata's Gift
2012-02-23
The Buddha's Core Teaching
2009-01-18
The Centrality of Minfulness
2007-11-29
The Dharma Is Not The Dharma
2010-03-06
The Eight Streams of Blessings.
2009-06-06
The Five Indriya's
2009-06-06
The Five Indriyas
2012-02-22
The Flood Stopper
2007-08-13
The Floodstopper
2006-10-02
The Four Noble Truths
2009-12-14
The Four Truths
2009-01-23
The Heroic Human Heart
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-12-12
The Map Of The Five Indriyas
2009-02-01
THe Naked Heart
2011-03-06
The Prisoner
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2011-03-08
The River Of The Self
2009-12-16
Touching Earth
2013-02-18
Training For Times Of Intensity
2012-02-19
Training of Attention
2014-05-15
Truths For Life
2006-10-02
Untitled Talk
2013-02-19
Vipassana: Investigation of "Dhammas"
2011-03-10
Without Walls Of The Mind
2013-02-22
Working The Four Truths