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Dharma Talks
2003-05-26 Satipattana: The Foundations, Support & Function Of Mindfulness 1:10:48
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-05-19 What Do We Really Want? 51:26
Sylvia Boorstein
Mindfulness is a collaboration of concentration and awareness, designed to balance the mind. In a context of non-reactivity the three characteristics are clearly seen.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-11 Relating With Emotions; Plus Mindfulness, Consciousness And Awareness 64:43
Guy Armstrong
This is really 2 talks in one, the first suggests different ways to work with strong emotions in both vipassana and dzogchen styles. The second relates the qualities of mindfulness and consciousness as used in Pali Suttas to the innate awareness of rigpa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-04 What's The Breath Got To Do With Freedom? 56:08
Carol Wilson
Mindfulness of breath leads to the potential for accurate understanding of mental and physical experience. This simple mindfulness can lead us to the end of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-02 Wisdom And Compassion 42:47
Anna Douglas
Through mindfulness, we water the seeds of wisdom and compassion - inherent qualities of our nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-06 Metta And Mindfulness 55:17
Sylvia Boorstein
How these two practices of mindfulness & metta are, in fact, enfolded in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-12-12 The Poison Arrow 46:43
Ayya Medhanandi
Stokes Valley Monastery Retreat, New Zealand The poison arrow of ignorance spreads its toxins through passion, desire and ill will. By sitting still, applying mindfulness and surrendering to what is, the right view will illuminate our minds and will help us extract the arrow and heal the wound.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2002-12-10 A Mind Empowered 5 Ways 34:01
Ayya Medhanandi
Learn how we can refine our mental skills of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. Enhanced by right view and a deepened understanding of the Four Noble Truths, these spiritual powers vanquish hatred and fear, nurturing our readiness to forgive, and the blessed qualities of universal loving-kindness and compassion. A talk given during a 10-day retreat at Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand in 2002.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2002-12-06 Coming Home To Ourselves 58:30
Kamala Masters
This talk is about some of the beautiful qualities of mind that are cultivated with each moment of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-12-01 The Lion's Roar 67:25
Marcia Rose
There is great power and strength in the capacity to connect within our self and to others. Directly, clearly, patiently and fearlessly with a heart/mind that is free of ill-will and rooted in lovingkindness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-27 Mindfulness And Metta 49:54
John Travis
The practice of mindfulness and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-03 Concentration And Mindfulness 55:28
Marcia Rose
Reigning the mind in from all it's myriad distractions… cultivating the power of concentration in order to see clearly. Pay attention in a non judging, non manipulative, non grasping, non rejecting attention - the magic of mindfulness, taking us out of illusion directly into reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-10-30 Awareness & Compassion 61:25
Carol Wilson
The natural expression of emptiness or anatta is compassion or friendliness. This motivation of heart develops naturally as wisdom and mindfulness deepen and we cannotice this happening both in retreat and in our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-10-14 Understanding Mara And The Seven Factors Of Awakening (Part 1) 52:30
Michele McDonald
Being awake or asleep is a choice we make each moment of our life -- understanding how to balance and maintain mindfulness, investigation, energy and joyful interest.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2002-10-09 Skeleton Dance: Cultivating Mindfulness and Joy 30:34
Ruth Denison
An active Dharma talk through dance and movement. A step-by-step explorative talk, dancing into bodily awareness of joy and mindfulness, using the sense doors of sight, sound, touch and perception
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness, Consciousness in the Body 1:26:51
Ruth Denison
An explorative explanation of consciously connecting with the body, developing deep concentration and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness To the Body Through the Body Parts 55:40
Ruth Denison
A talk on how to sweep through the body, moving from part to part and incorporate the breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness To Body: Connection and Consciousness 55:40
Ruth Denison
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-09-27 Awareness Is Our Refuge 59:46
Carol Wilson
Seeing that the heart of our practice stems from our motivation rather than from achieving certain experiences. Mindfulness enables us to shift our attitude from self-centered striving to one of confidence in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-08-15 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, No Self, Laws of Experience 54:25
Narayan Helen Liebenson

2002-08-14 The Third Foundation Of Mindfulness: Mental States 47:28
Michael Grady
Practicing mindfulness with mental states, emotions and reactions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2002-08-13 Mindfulness Of The Body 46:57
Michael Grady
The first foundation of mindfulness - being more present through various awareness practices related to the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2002-08-13 Second Foundation Of Mindfulness - Awareness Of Pleasant, Unpleasant And Neutral 45:27
Narayan Helen Liebenson
The second foundation of mindfulness is the awareness of pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. Awareness of the texture of our experiences brings liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-06-05 Mindfulness as Intuition Practice 1:11:29
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-10 If I Pay Attention, I Am Kind 69:14
Sylvia Boorstein
Recapitulation of how mindfulness works to condition the strengthening of the paramitas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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