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2003-06-14 The Power Of Concentration 45:13
Michele McDonald
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The unification of the heart. Bringing the Mother Cow within us and Baby Calf within us together in metta or mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2003-05-28 The Speed Of Mindfulness 66:46
Sayadaw U Pandita
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-05-27 Aiming & Effort In Mindfulness 68:16
Sayadaw U Pandita
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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

2003-05-19 What Do We Really Want? 51:26
Sylvia Boorstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The practice of mindfulness and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-11 Transformation Of Afflictive Emotions 1:17:04
Marcia Rose
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Cultivating a strong and clear mindful attention that meets the experience of the moment allows us to see the afflictive emotions clearly.. To see through them like we see through the colors of a rainbow. This 'seeing' brings with it the possibility of the transformation of afflictive states into wholesome energies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-03 Concentration And Mindfulness 55:28
Marcia Rose
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-09-27 Awareness Is Our Refuge 59:46
Carol Wilson
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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

2002-09-04 Making Peace With Pain 50:38
Tara Brach
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Our conditioning to resist pain creates trance—we become identified as a small, victimized, threatened self. We have the capacity, through mindful, kind attention, to discover genuine freedom in the midst of pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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