2008-06-12 Generosity - Cultivating Inner Abundance 51:22
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Cultivating the wholesome as a foundation and force for liberation – Focusing on the practices of generosity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-05-10 A Little Renunciation 32:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-10 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 4: Gratitude 52:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is number four in a ten-part series on Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness. This series covers the ten principles discussed in James' Awakening Joy Course from a dharma perspective.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-09 Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 47:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House :  Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2007-12-03 Loving-Kindness And Gratitude 61:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The four divine abidings show us a way to hold all the joys and sorrows of life. This talk focuses principally on the qualities of loving-kindness, which overcomes isolation and connects us to all of life; and gratitude, as a form of appreciative joy that leads to greater contentment and well-being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-21 Gratitude And Generosity 1:16:09
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
When we feel grateful, there is a sense of homecoming. We are connected with what we cherish, and in that abundance, our natural response is generosity. This talk explores two pathways that directly give rise to gratitude and generosity: full presence, and the intentional remembrance of what we love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 23:13 Download Listen Gratitude And Generosity 52:55 Download Listen

2007-11-20 Guided Meditation - Mudita 46:28
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Mudita or the practice of sympathetic joy opens us to the possibilities of increasing our sense of well-being and happiness. The haqppiness of others when directed towards ourselves, is manifesting as gratitude for the blessings in our life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-08-13 Gratitude I 1:29:19
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk describes the quality of gratitude, the blessing of gratitude and how we can cultivate and practice this essential quality on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-08-11 Fulfillment Of Dharma Happiness 58:46
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The happiness of gratitude, generosity, seclusion of mind and wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-07-18 Mudita: Practicing Joy And Gratitude 61:01
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Appreciative joy (Mudita) is the third of the divine abidings (Brahma Viharas). When directed to oneself, it enhances the sense of gratefulness. This is an important practice because joy is an integral part of the path to liberation.

2007-04-05 The Practice of Joy and Gratitude 61:57
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-11-23 Gratitude And Generosity 56:55
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Gratitude and generosity are ways of uplifting the mind. Gratitude brings a deep appreciation for blessings of our lives. Generosity an opening of the heart that cares for others.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-11-15 Generosity and Gratitude 51:03
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-11-13 Happiness 62:34
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
How happiness is derived from several of our meditation practices: generosity, sila, samatta, panna and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Intensive

2006-02-14 Happiness - part 2: Opening To Suffering As Well As To Joy 59:23
James Baraz	Download Listen
Opening to suffering is essential if we are to find true happiness. The Buddha's teaching on how suffering can lead to faith, gladness, joy and freedom is explored. Gratitude as a way to hold our suffering is also discussed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-27 Gratitude 50:55
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2005-11-24 Mudita, Joy And Gratitude 55:21
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
We develop appreciative joy (Mudita) by focusing on the happiness in others' lives and our life, leading also to a sense of gratitude. Joy and happiness then serve as links that lead onward to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-07-14 An Appropriate Response 55:10
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Lovingkindness and the other brahma viharas show us the possibility of an appropriate response to the joys and sorrows of life. The practice of mudita for oneself leads to the beautiful state of gratitude.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-11-25 Generosity And Gratitude 31:28
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The near and far-reaching benefits of generosity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2004-09-15 Developing Gratitude 61:47
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
ANA10, MD235
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  September 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2004-02-25 Awakening To Joy - part 2 61:07
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Topics include mindfulness as appreciation, wonder, gratitude, bliss of blamelessness, letting go, mudita, friendship and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-10-19 Comparing, Compassion And Gratitude 60:19
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Perfectionism, self-judgement, self-hatred, our eating habits and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-09-26 Generosity And Gratitude 53:13
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
An exploration of two rare and precious qualities; generosity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-07-30 Gratitude 55:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center