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2010-02-05 Five Faculties - Mindfulness 2 43:46
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
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2010-02-04 Five Faculties - Mindfulness 1 5:48
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
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2010-02-02 Integrating Practice into Your Life 40:43
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Reflecting on our deepest aspirations. Bringing mindfulness into our life is where the rubber meets the road. The moment you realize you are not present, you are! There may come a time when you come to know that all that comes up in your life is the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Selfless Application 59:10
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Let the application of the teaching be informed by the root principle of selflessness and each mindful exercise manifest that selflessness through bare attention and total acceptance.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-01-31 Mindfulness of the Body as the Doorway Into The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 52:49
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Description: This talk begins with an explanation of the goal of Buddhist practice, liberation through non-clinging. Then it discusses that insight is what leads to liberation and the four foundations of mindfulness is the practice leading to insight. We discuss how the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, is a doorway opening to and integrating with the entire four foundations of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-01-30 32 Parts of the Body 56:34
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Brief overview of Siddhartha becoming a Buddha. What he realized - 4 Noble Truths and 3 characteristics of existence with foundations of mindfulness to the 32 parts of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-01-20 Essential Mindfulness 45:19
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma

2010-01-19 The Satipatthana Sutta 37:55:23

Rodney Smith

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The Satipatthana sutta is the fundamental teaching by the Buddha, revered by all Buddhist traditions, on the application of mindfulness. Mindulness is the the basic teaching that connects the isolated individual to his/her internal and external environments. Through a steady integration of mindfulness our unconscious tendencies become conscious, and we discover a preexisting awareness and interconnectedness to life that changes everything. The four applications of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects), as well as the underlying principles behind it, are explored thoroughly through talks, discussions, dyads, and homework.

Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-01-08 Mindful of the Climate of the Heart 26:51
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2010-01-08 Sati - Mindfulness 45:28
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-31 Metta as Mindfulness 42:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Brahma Vihara Retreat

2009-12-28 The Uncontentious Mind 52:40
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
To be mindful of our present experience along with our gentle breath, can allow us to free our grasping and ill will, and allow us to feel the conditions that come and go like ocean waves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years

2009-12-22 Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom 44:55
John Travis	Download Listen
The talk explores the aspects of practice of collecting the mind, intuitive insight, non-separation of a single taste, and ordinariness, through sharing stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-18 "I am a Bad Meditator": Seeing through the Illusion of Self 62:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
How mindfulness works with the construct of self - exploring the dynamic between self and not self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-17 The World Was Made to Be Free In: Mindfulness as the Path to Freedom 44:39
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's path to awakening, his encounters with Mara, and the power of Mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-14 Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper 42:07
Thanissara	Download Listen
Centrality of mindfulness in the contemplative process. Khandas as self structure. Transformation within the womb of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-13 Reading the Book of the Heart 38:13
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Hindrances as the teacher, cultivating trust. Mindfulness is the path to the deathless. That which knows doubt isn't doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-08 Wise Mindfulness 54:09
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : MBSR

2009-11-25 Distraction 61:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look at the nature of distraction- not attending to what is our intended focus- in three main ways, each of which we can respond to: 1) our distraction moment to moment and how we train in mindfulness, 2) our distraction in our everyday lives, and 3) how our lives become distracted in relation to our deeper intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-17 Curiosity, Confidence and Contentment 45:48
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
We need places of refuge in our lives and we need an inner place of stillness. Curiosity, confidence and contentment as we develop mindfulness can be useful in developing inner refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-15 Mindfulness and Right Effort 63:19
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
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Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-11-06 Contemplating Thought and the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 48:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2009-11-05 Wisdom 66:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine how mindfulness is distinguished from, yet leads to wisdom. We explore wisdom especially through the life story of the Buddha, moving from comfort and and illusion to deep wisdom and compassion, and through his first teaching of the Four Noble Truths - the most basic expression of wisdom in the tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-11-03 The Secret Beauty of Hearts: Transformations Through Metta 62:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Transformation in practice, whether in mindfulness or metta practice, occurs through repetition, patience, understanding and faith, in a sometimes mysterious way. Using poems and stories, we explore the nature of lovingkindness (metta) and the kinds of transformation that occur as we practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-11-02 Mindfulness - What It Is and What Makes It Difficult 64:30
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
On this first evening of the retreat, we explore the nature of mindfulness in general and how we practice mindfulness of the body in particular. We then examine the five "difficult energies" (nivarana or "hindrances"), and how they make mindfulness difficult and how to practice when they are present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart