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Dharma Talks
1999-09-26 The Four Noble Truths And The Four Practices Of Mindfulness 56:34
Jack Kornfield
given at the first annual People of Color retreat at the Spirit Rock. The Noble Truths with a perspective on diversity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-09-14 Fully Alive- Awakening Through Embodiment 61:27
Tara Brach
The Buddha's teachings on mindfulness begin with mindfulness of our body. By cultivating embodied awareness, we develop the capacity for presence and awakening through all realms of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

1999-09-12 Essential Dhamma #3: The Good Fortune Of Mindfulness 60:46
Steve Armstrong
the essential dhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-09-09 The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:18
James Baraz
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity. When brought to fruition they lead to the highest happiness we can experience. How can we cultivate these qualities consciously in our meditation practice and in our life?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Foundations Of Practice

1999-09-05 The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties 60:37
James Baraz
Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom build on each other in a natural development. Understanding their relationship gives us a map for how the meditation process unfolds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-08-04 Mindfulness And The Rainbow Of Emotions 51:43
Marcia Rose
given at the Family retreat: the possibility of transformation in the midst of the many hues of our emotional states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Family Retreat (5 days)

1999-08-03 Family As Family 31:06
Jose Reissig
Contemplating family as family is a fifth foundation of mindfulness for householders.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-08-01 Blessings, Aspirations, Renunciation, Mindfulness 54:26
Steve Armstrong
support for freedom takes many forms
Maui, Hi

1999-07-16 Insight And Purification 46:49
Michele McDonald
understanding the relationship between mindfulness and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-06-10 Just Along For The Ride 48:39
Michele McDonald
learning to apply mindfulness to all of our experience: recognition, acceptance, interest and non-identification
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat (10 days)

1999-05-31 Planting A Metta Garden 51:30
Michele McDonald
patience and acceptance in the cultivation of metta and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat (8 days)

1999-05-09 The 7 Factors Of Awakening 64:16
Narayan Helen Liebenson
a description of each one of the seven factors: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-05-01 Journey Of Awakening 53:09
Kamala Masters
This is a personal story of how the simplicity of the practice of mindfulness has continued to support awakening to the present moment, which has been the most important way to understand life as it truly is.
Perth, Australia

1999-04-12 Foundation of Mindfulness 59:26
Jack Kornfield

1999-02-18 Peace Is Possible 53:55
Sylvia Boorstein
Using the path of practice (the Fourth Noble Truth), we can learn to pay attention moment to moment, developing insight and concentration. Each moment of mindfulness is another moment of freedom from suffering, and in that freedom, indeed, peace is possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-01-08 Women Awakening Through the Body 47:38
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
How we can use mindfulness of the body, and the realities of life in our body, as the awakener.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1998-10-11 Mindfulness As A Last Resort 49:40
Michele McDonald
going beyond the transitory - understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Partial #1 (6 weeks)

1998-10-05 The Poetry Of Mindfulness 53:52
Michele McDonald
how mindfulness brings about a deep acceptance of the rhythms of change in our lives
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Partial #1 (6 weeks)

1998-07-03 The Five Aggregates 62:33
Steve Armstrong
mindfulness, the universal solvent takes us apart gently
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-14 Mindfulness 54:46
Sharon Salzberg
peeling away the layers of myth, preconception and misunderstanding through mindfulness; the need for continuity of awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-10 Seven Factors Of Awakening: Mindfulness 50:03
Steven Smith
Developing free-flow natural mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat (10 days)

1998-06-09 Mindfulness And The Rainbow Of Emotional States 65:16
Marcia Rose
"seeing" through the strong energies of mind with a compassionate, mindful awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-03 Flowers Of Joy, Flowers Of Sorrow: Where Is Kuan Yin? 54:49
Michele McDonald
bringing compassion and mindfulness to our experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat (8 days)

1998-05-30 Metta, Concentration And The Hindrances 55:07
Michele McDonald
how to do the Lovingkindness practice in relationship to concentration or mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat (8 days)

1998-05-11 The Power Of Mindfulness 50:27
Michael Grady
transforming habit through silent attention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat (7 days)

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