Rob Burbea's Dharma Talks
Rob Burbea
Rob Burbea has practiced and studied Buddhism since 1985. Teaching since 2004, he is currently the Gaia House Resident Teacher and a member of its Teacher Council. He is a co-founder of Sanghaseva (www.sanghaseva.org), an organization exploring the Dharma through international service work, and also a co-initiator of DANCE, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (www.thedancewebsite.org). Rob is the author of Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising.
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2007-11-03
"A Body At Peace With Itself"
2016-07-28
"I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice
2017-02-07
'The Holy Life' (Part 1)
2017-02-08
'The Holy Life' (Part 2)
2017-02-09
'The Holy Life' (Part 3)
2009-12-31
'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground' (A Talk on Devotion)
2010-02-06
'To see no-thing is to see excellently'
2015-08-08
A Little Exercise for the Imagination
2011-08-04
A Mystical Kiss
(...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers and Realists...)
2007-11-08
A Question of Faith
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1)
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2)
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3)
2015-08-13
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4)
2015-08-13
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5)
2018-02-05
A Temenos Exercise (in fours)
2018-02-07
A Temenos Exercise (in threes)
2010-01-28
A Wise Relationship To Practice
2010-08-06
About Metta Practice
2011-08-05
Am I Free to Inquire?
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 2)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 3)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 4)
2010-01-21
An Introduction to Emptiness
2008-11-06
Approaches to the Hindrances
2012-11-18
Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World
2012-11-22
Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking
2006-04-23
Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1)
2006-04-23
Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2)
2017-12-15
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1)
2017-12-16
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 2)
2017-12-17
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3)
2017-12-18
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4)
2017-12-19
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5)
2017-12-20
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6)
2011-08-02
At Home in the Universe
2008-03-08
Awakening
2017-03-31
Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A)
2017-04-01
Beauty and the Buddha
2018-01-09
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1)
2018-01-10
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2)
2018-01-11
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3)
2018-01-12
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Thre...
2018-01-13
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta)
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha...
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scri...
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking ...
2008-12-31
Beyond Impermanence
2006-02-11
Beyond the Prison of the Self
2016-07-27
Beyond the Search for Freedom
2009-09-10
Blessing Life (The Power of the Generous Heart)
2018-02-03
Body and Soul (Q & A)
2011-11-14
Body/Image - A Guided Meditation
2014-11-19
Buddhism Beyond Modernism
2009-01-31
Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self
2009-02-02
Cittamatra
2017-03-28
Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A)
2008-02-04
Compassion
2005-11-22
Compassion and Emptiness
2008-02-05
Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves)
2010-01-30
Concepts, Views, Reality
2011-02-12
Contact and The Construction of Self
2005-11-12
Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 1) - Impermanence and Dukkha
2005-11-16
Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 2) - Anatta (Not-Self)
2016-07-31
Creating the Path (Q & A)
2014-11-02
Creative Samadhi
2008-03-07
Death
2011-02-16
Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4)
2010-02-14
Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned
2009-02-14
Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time
2018-02-07
Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A)
2007-04-01
Developing Samatha/Concentration
2017-01-18
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 1)
2017-01-19
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 2)
2017-01-20
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 3)
2017-01-21
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 4)
2017-01-22
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 5)
2018-02-08
Discernment in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2017-02-05
Doubt and Discernment (Part 1)
2017-02-06
Doubt and Discernment (Part 2)
2017-12-28
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1)
2017-12-29
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2)
2017-12-30
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3)
2017-12-31
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - 'Mastering the Fire')
2018-01-01
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5)
2018-01-02
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6)
2018-01-03
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7)
2018-01-04
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 8)
2018-02-03
Elements of the Imaginal (1 - 2)
2018-02-06
Elements of the Imaginal (15 - 18)
2006-11-16
Emotional Healing
2009-11-05
Emotions and Freedom
2009-01-24
Emptiness
2009-12-29
Emptiness and Insight Meditation
2010-01-31
Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness
2011-02-09
Ending Blame
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (1)
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (2)
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (3)
2016-07-28
Energy and Transubstantiation: The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A)
2017-03-30
Energy Body and Image (Q & A)
2015-08-07
Energy Body: Instructions (1)
2015-08-08
Energy Body: Instructions (2)
2015-08-07
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1)
2015-08-08
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2)
2006-12-28
Equanimity
2007-02-08
Equanimity in Compassion
2017-03-27
Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul
2017-02-16
Eros and the Brahmaviharas
2017-03-27
Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation)
2017-01-23
Eros Unfettered (Part 1)
2017-01-24
Eros Unfettered (Part 2)
2017-01-25
Eros Unfettered (Part 3)
2017-01-26
Eros Unfettered (Part 4)
2017-01-27
Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing)
2009-01-30
Exploring the Relationship with Practice
2008-01-30
Exploring the World of Loving Kindness
2007-01-25
Expressions of Metta
2017-03-27
Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2011-02-10
Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-09
First Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Impermanence
2011-02-06
First Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-09
First Instructions on Breath Meditation and Guided Meditation
2008-08-09
First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2007-03-31
First Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation on the Breath
2009-09-12
Fourth Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Welcoming
2011-02-09
Fourth Instrctions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-12
Fourth Instructions (Breath and Space) - Reactivity, Emptiness, Piti
2008-08-12
Fourth Morning Instructions
2007-07-16
Freedom From Fear And Anxiety
2009-09-12
Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge
2011-02-06
Freeing the Self
2006-11-04
From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana)
2016-07-31
From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment)
2007-01-27
From Insight to Love
2017-02-19
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul ...
2017-02-20
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul ...
2007-03-17
God and the Ultimate Truth
2009-02-02
Guided Meditation - Cittamatra
2008-02-10
Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas
2011-02-22
Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances
2014-12-07
Guided Meditation 1
2008-02-09
Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion
2009-01-26
Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics
2007-02-04
Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena
2010-01-31
Guided Meditation: The Vastness of Awareness
2010-01-23
Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics
2016-07-29
Healing the Imagination (Q & A)
2016-07-30
Hearing All Sounds as Mantra: A Jewelline World
2010-08-08
Heart Work
2007-03-15
Home and Homelessness
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One)
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three)
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two)
2016-07-31
Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation)
2015-08-07
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1)
2015-08-07
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2)
2011-02-14
Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3)
2017-02-10
In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self
2014-11-25
In Praise of Restlessness
2011-11-06
Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States
2011-11-04
Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body
2011-01-01
Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought
2017-03-28
Instructions: Letting Go
2017-03-29
Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire
2009-02-01
Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing
2017-03-30
Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation)
2009-05-09
Into the depths of Silence
2007-11-17
Into the Depths of Silence
2007-04-02
Jhana Practice
2007-12-31
Joy
2009-09-29
Joyful Effort
2006-10-17
Letting Go of Judgement
2010-12-31
Liberation and the Self - A Guided Inquiry
2009-09-09
Liberation From the Inner Critic
2008-11-21
Living in the Truth
2017-02-02
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1)
2017-02-03
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2)
2017-02-04
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3)
2017-04-01
Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros
2007-02-04
Love and Emptiness
2008-02-10
Love and the Emptiness of Things
2010-02-07
Love, Healing, and Emptiness
2009-02-08
Love, Karma, and Healing
2008-03-07
Love/The Difficulties of Love
2010-02-05
Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview)
2016-07-30
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1)
2016-07-30
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2)
2008-11-27
Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind)
2010-08-07
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 1
2010-08-08
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 2
2010-08-09
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3
2010-08-09
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 4
2010-08-10
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5
2016-07-27
Mindfulness and Myth
2005-11-05
Mindfulness of Mind States
2009-10-01
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
2017-04-01
Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A)
2016-07-30
Neither 'Is' nor 'Is Not': Of Emptiness and the Imaginal (Q & A)
2008-06-24
Nirvana and Transcendence
2010-02-12
No Mind
2009-05-15
No Self, No World
2010-02-04
Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception
2018-02-09
Nothing Happens By Itself
2007-09-17
Ocean of Patience
2017-03-31
On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path
2016-07-28
On Orientations in Practice (Live and Shortened version)
2008-09-17
On the Essence of Being
2009-02-13
On the Nature of Mind
2010-01-20
Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat
2011-02-05
Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1): Being on Retreat
2008-03-05
Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening
2007-03-30
Opening Talk on Samatha (Concentration Practice)
2017-02-17
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1)
2017-02-18
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2)
2009-09-08
Opening the Sense of What's Possible
2017-03-29
Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A)
2015-08-10
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1)
2015-08-10
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2)
2015-08-11
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3)
2007-03-16
Passion, Desire, and the Path
2009-01-26
Practicing with the Three Characteristics
2011-02-10
Question and Answer Session 2
2014-11-12
Questioning Awakening
2011-02-19
Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5)
2009-05-21
Realizing the Nature of Mind
2011-02-08
Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1)
2011-07-29
Reflections on the Retreat and on the Path
2017-02-13
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1)
2017-02-14
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 2)
2017-02-15
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)
2006-02-09
Renunciation and Joy
2006-11-07
Samadhi
2010-01-21
Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers)
2007-01-22
Samadhi in Metta Practice
2009-01-24
Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness
2008-10-04
Second Day Instructions - Vedana
2009-09-10
Second Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Silence
2011-02-07
Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-10
Second Instructions on Breath Meditation - Guided Meditation
2008-08-10
Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2007-04-01
Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
2010-08-10
Selflessness and a Life of Love
2008-11-14
Sense Desire
2016-08-01
Sensing Divinity
2017-12-21
Sensing with Soul (Part 1)
2017-12-22
Sensing with Soul (Part 2)
2017-12-23
Sensing with Soul (Part 3)
2017-12-24
Sensing with Soul (Part 4)
2017-12-25
Sensing with Soul (Part 5)
2017-12-26
Sensing with Soul (Part 6)
2017-12-27
Sensing with Soul (Part 7)
2011-02-12
Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness
2017-04-02
Shaping Vessels
2018-02-05
Soulful Movement and Elements of the Imaginal (6 - 10)
2015-08-10
Soulmaking (Part 1)
2015-08-10
Soulmaking (Part 2)
2018-02-06
Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A)
2008-08-12
Talk Five: Samatha, Nibbana, and the Emptiness of Perception - The Relationsh...
2008-08-11
Talk Four: Jhanas One to Four
2008-08-08
Talk One: Introduction to the Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
2008-08-10
Talk Three: Wise Effort and Wise Attachment
2008-08-09
Talk Two: Understanding the Heart
2016-08-03
Tending the Flame
2005-12-17
The Art of Letting Go
2016-07-28
The Art of Perception
2011-11-19
The Beauty of Desire (Part 1)
2011-11-26
The Beauty of Desire (Part 2)
2008-02-12
The Birth of a Bodhisattva
2008-10-03
The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions
2010-01-22
The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond)
2009-02-09
The Freedom of No-thing-ness
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1)
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2)
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3)
2016-08-01
The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A)
2015-08-11
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1)
2015-08-11
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2)
2008-12-28
The Meaning of Refuge
2011-07-31
The Meditator as Revolutionary
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Live and Shortened Version)
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Part 1)
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Part 2)
2010-11-06
The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation
2006-11-22
The Nature of Awareness
2016-07-27
The Nature of Enchantment
2012-12-31
The Necessity of Fantasy
2012-11-01
The Place of Calm
2005-12-29
The Place of Love in Insight Meditation
2008-01-29
The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice
2007-02-01
The Practice of Compassion
2017-03-26
The Problem of Desire
2010-11-12
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1)
2010-11-20
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2)
2010-11-26
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey)
2018-02-08
The Rhythms of Soulmaking and Elements of the Imaginal (23 - 28)
2009-09-11
The Self and Its Search for Security
2007-09-20
The Self and the World
2009-01-25
The Sense of Self
2010-01-29
The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere)
2010-02-13
The Subtlety of Dependent Origination
2013-11-10
The Theatre of Selves (Part One)
2013-11-24
The Theatre of Selves (Part Three)
2013-11-17
The Theatre of Selves (Part Two)
2009-02-15
The Unfabricated, The Deathless...
2010-02-15
The Union of Appearance and Emptiness
2008-10-04
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1)
2008-10-05
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 2)
2017-01-15
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1)
2017-01-16
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2)
2017-01-17
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3)
2009-11-17
The Wisdom of Non-Duality
2017-02-11
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1)
2017-02-12
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2)
2015-08-12
Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions
2009-09-11
Third Guided Meditation on the Space of Awareness - Only Impressions in Aware...
2009-09-11
Third Instructions on Breath Meditation
2008-08-11
Third Morning Instructions
2007-04-02
Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
2016-08-02
This Fire, This Longing (Q & A)
2011-12-31
This Matter of Emptiness
2012-11-06
Thoughts and Images in Meditation
2010-01-23
Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy
2007-11-24
Time and the Emptiness of Time
2018-02-04
To Sense with Soul
2018-02-05
Transformation in Soul (Q & A)
2018-02-04
Trusting in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2009-11-02
Truthfulness and Authenticity
2009-02-03
Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of ...
2008-02-02
Using Insight To Deepen Love and Compassion
2006-12-31
Views In Practice (...They make all the difference)
2017-03-30
Visions of the Beyond
2011-02-13
Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca
2011-02-15
Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha
2011-02-17
Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta
2015-08-09
What is an 'Image'? (Part 1)
2015-08-09
What is an 'Image'? (Part 2)
2018-01-05
What is Awakening? (Part 1)
2018-01-06
What is Awakening? (Part 2)
2018-01-07
What is Awakening? (Part 3)
2018-01-08
What is Awakening? (Part 4)
2007-12-29
What is Insight?
2009-05-03
What is ‘Insight’?
2017-01-28
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1)
2017-01-29
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2)
2017-01-30
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3)
2017-01-31
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4)
2017-02-01
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 5)
2013-11-02
Wise Responses to the Hindrances
2008-09-14
Working with Anger and Aversion
2011-08-03
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five)
2011-08-02
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four)
2011-07-30
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day One)
2011-08-05
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Seven)
2011-08-04
Working With The Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Six)
2011-08-01
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three)
2011-07-31
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two)
2007-03-31
Working with the Hindrances
2008-11-09
Working with Thought in Meditation
2008-11-09
Working with Thought in Meditation
62:15
As meditators, it can be tempting to see the thinking mind as an enemy, but we can instead discover a wise and skillful relationship with it. This talk presents possible ways of working with the wide range of manifestations of thought: from papanca (proliferation) and obsession to creative, reflective and helpful thinking, to seeing the empty nature of all thought.
Gaia House
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Solitary Month Retreat
