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Dharma Talks
2013-07-11 The Brahma Viharas and the Climate Challenge 52:39
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-06-16 Cultivation Of Ground Of Metta 65:16
Gina Sharpe
Introduction to Brahma Viharas and beginning Metta practice, Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2013-05-18 Equanimity – Introduction to Equanimity Meditation 22:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Equanimity relinquishes the subtle attachment in the other Brahma Viharas. It is the culminating divine abode. Equanimity as an aspect of mindfulness and consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-03-20 Brahma Viharas 1:59:16
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-03 Seeing with Eyes of Kindness: The 4 Brahma Viharas 62:16
Ayya Tathaloka
Dhamma Talk given at the Marin Sangha in San Rafael, CA
Dhammadharini

2013-02-27 Metta and its myriad facets, functions and effects 58:04
Heather Martin
- A brilliant technique to focus us - So many ways to look into and nourish our hearts, without which we just can't calm down. - the mother of the collection of all 4 Brahma Viharas and their dance together - The most profound inner abiding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-19 Morning Reflection: Sati infused. The Brahmavihāras for meditators 27:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-12 Brahma Viharas - Forgivness 46:25
James Baraz
Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-10 Brahma Viharas 64:25
Tempel Smith
Benefactor, Self, Friend
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-05 Brahma Viharas: Metta 58:13
Guy Armstrong
Metta for Self and Benefactor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2012-11-07 Equanimity 43:39
Sylvia Boorstein
Equanimity is the underpinning of the other 3 Brahmaviharas. All manifest in meeting each moment fully and meeting each moment as a friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-13 Mindfulness and the Brahma Viharas 1:12:27
John Peacock
Gaia House The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-09-19 Loving Kindness and the Brahma Viharas 54:53
Jenny Wilks
An introductory overview of how the cultivation of metta relates to the other sublime abidings compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity.
Gaia House Cultivating Loving Kindness

2012-07-04 16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 35:17
Thanissara
drawing on themes of the 4 brahma viharas - kindness, compassion, joy & equanimity - infused with the divine bodhicitta of Kuan Yin
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 15. Divine Within Human 53:57
Thanissara
4 brahma viharas & bodhicitta
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-05-29 Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart 38:48
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the way we respond to life when consciousness is not caught in obsessions or reactivity. Martin explores 4 specifically different dimensions of love (Brahma Viharas) and invokes their commonality in dissolving our sense of separateness; beckoning us into an exquisite intimacy with life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-04-22 The Brahma Viharas: Shifting the Center of Gravity 56:13
Heather Sundberg
An overview of the Brahma Viharas (lovingkindness-compassion-sympathetic joy-euanimity) and the role they play in the path of transforming judgments through sharing stories, images and practical techniques.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-20 Talking Monkeys 45:21
Noah Levine
Working with internal talk, the hindrances, and Brahmaviharas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-17 Equanimity - "There in the Middleness" 56:51
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of the many ways equanimity brings balance to our lives. Groundlessness to the Brahma Viharas, and liberating insight to our mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-12-16 The Wise & Fearless Heart 62:26
Mary Grace Orr
Developing the Brahma Viharas (good will, compassion, gladness and equanimity), to strengthen the heart and meet fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-07-08 Papanca Part Three: The Brahma Viharas 52:50
John Peacock
This talk deals with the last of the areas of our obsessional thinking: views. We also examine the Brahma Viharas as distinct forms of mindfulness that lead to liberation. We look closely, in particular, at metta as the necessary soil out of which grows and blooms the beautiful flower of compassion (karuna).
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness

2011-04-13 Working with the BrahmaViharas 55:12
Pamela Weiss

2011-04-06 Brahma Viharas - Overview 52:05
Pamela Weiss

2011-03-28 Equanimity- Touching What Is Fragile 45:55
Lila Kate Wheeler
Contact with fragility -- a sane way to live. Some Abhidhamma, some Brahmaviharas; a little of this, a little of that...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-03 Living the Brahma Viharas 58:49
Heather Sundberg
A discussion of the Four Divine Abodes: meditative states, thoughts, and actions to be cultivated in Buddhist meditation:
  • Loving-kindness (Metta)
  • Compassion (Karuna)
  • Sympathetic joy, joy with others (Mudita)
  • Equanimity (Upekkha)
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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