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2008-02-27 The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 1:12:58

Tara Brach

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In the Art of Practice, we explore key techniques in preparing the grounds for true meditation. These include relaxation, identifying a home base, awakening the senses and re-mindfulness. These "skillful means" allow us to arrive Here, and to rest in a natural mindfulness, awake and open awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-02-25 Noble Eightfold Path - part 2 - Right Effort, Mindfulness And Concentration 55:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Preparing the ground for wisdom to flourish.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-08 Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now 66:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-05 The Taste Of Freedom 47:58
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Four foundations of mindfulness are the doorway in which we can discover a taste of freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-04 Mindfulness Of The Body 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Why and how mindfulness of the body reveals so much so clearly as we untangle the knots.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-02 An Attitude Of Mindfulness 52:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one that is free of greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also explores the functions of mindfulness, attention and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-30 Mindfulness & Renunciation 57:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, dharna and sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well being born of mindfulness that is free and open
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-01-20 The Five Indriya Or Spiritual Faculties 65:13
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk defines what constitutes the five spiritual faculties and what it takes to develop them. It offers a hands-on understanding of how faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed, lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-16 Mindfulness Practice: Recognizing the Difference Between Distraction and Non-distraction 50:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-14 Wisdom, Equanimity And Kindness 56:52
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk makes the point that mindfulness and lovingkindness are integral to each other, not separate and that they both lead to wisdom and are supported by wisdom. It includes poetry by Billy Collins and many stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-09 How Metta And Equanimity Lived Happily Ever After Together 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta is a powerful practice that helps us lead with our hearts, develop concentration, and "purify" our bodies, hearts and minds, working through obstacles to metta and touching our deep luminosity. Yet metta sometimes seems opposed to wisdom and mindfulness practice, and particularly to equanimity. We explore the qualities of equanimity and then how mature metta requires equanimity and mature equanimity requires metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-09 Knowing, Mindfulness, And Wisdom 54:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A discussion of these important terms exploring their application in the meditative journey.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-08 The Union Of Metta, Compassion & Awareness 60:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk discusses the qualities of metta, and the unity of mindfulness and metta -- and how compassion arises as a natural turning of the loving heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Everyday Metta - What It Is & What It Is Not 55:15
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How the loveliness of a pure heart is so readily accessible; how Metta infuses mindfulness, and the dangers of misunderstanding "love."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Faith, Intention & The Precepts: Three Steps To Deepen Your Practice 59:07
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
The training precepts can be utilized for living the dharma in daily life, but to be most effective they need a foundation of faith and intention. Also, by stating the precepts positively and in an expanded fashion, we can find new opportunities for mindfulness and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-02 Mindfulness Practice: Motivation and Working Ground 56:01
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-12-27 Don't Underestimate The Breath 52:37
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body has the breath at the center and includes all four postures, movement, speaking, listening, feelings and all activity. We can practice mindfulness of the breath and also mindfulness with the breath - developing an enlarged awareness. This practice can take us all the way to enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-20 7 Factors Of Awakening - part 1 55:31
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
An exploration of the allies of the mind, cultivating mindfulness, investigation, energy, and rapture.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-16 Mindfulness: Presence and Participation 41:57
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-09 Practice In Daily Life 59:34
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Bring mindfulness into daily life is a challenging aspect of our practice. Using specific practices for daily life helps to bring the thread of mindfulness throughout our days.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2