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Dharma Talks
2012-03-19 The Path of Joy 48:24
Mark Coleman
How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-13 Insight & Diversity 66:31
Ralph Steele
We will use the Four Foundation of Mindfulness as a frame of reference to support the understanding of our relationship with our inner and outer environment.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-11 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 47:06
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-03 Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another 50:10
Sylvia Boorstein
This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00
Carol Wilson
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-22 Loving One's Enemies I 60:40
Donald Rothberg
We explore the meaning of developing a love or loving kindness toward all, including one's "enemies," using both Christian and Buddhist resources. Four foundational practices are outlined: 1.Ffollowing ethical guidelines 2. Mindfulness 3. Metta, and 4. Wisdom practices to help contemplate emphathically the causes and conditions of difficult interactions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-22 The Flood Stopper 29:36
Thanissara
Balance and samatha, samadhi and vipassana. Full development of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-19 Practice of Mindfulness 46:28
Kittisaro
Root cause of suffering is not seeing clearly. The direct way to peace. Thought as a servant of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-14 Compassion and Mindfulness 60:14
Carol Wilson
The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-14 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 1:29:11
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-13 Instructions on Mindfulness of Body 21:09
Andrea Fella
Mountain Hermitage Fella and Scharf

2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus 35:20
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-11 Mindfulness Sitting And Walking Meditation Instructions 67:55
Mark Coleman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2012-02-11 Mindfulness 53:12
Andrea Fella
Mountain Hermitage Fella and Scharf

2012-02-07 Opinions and Truth 41:14
Shaila Catherine
Our views, beliefs, and opinions affect our perception of events. To what extent do we assume that we are right and become attached to our opinions? With attachment to views we solidify a sense of self. Mindfulness meditation invites us to observe our relationship to views and opinions and see how it might be distorting perception by reinforcing a fixed sense of self. The term "right view" does not imply a more accurate or factual perspective; rather, right view describes a perspective beyond all attachment to views and opinions.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-02-07 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 24:14
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-02 What is Mindfulness? 54:27
Sally Armstrong
Even though we talk a lot about mindfulness, we often don't fully understand what the Buddha meant by "samma sati" or right mindfulness. This talk explores samma sati and also "sati-panna"-mindfulness wisdom: the wisdom that naturally develops when we pay attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:29:52
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-25 Deepening Daily Life Practice, I 67:38
Donald Rothberg
We explore how our practice can come alive in the flow of daily life, focusing on some of the challenges as well as three areas: (1) Various supports for daily life practice, (2) the centrality of mindfulness of the body, and (3) taking difficulties and even suffering as opportunities for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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