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Dharma Talks
2000-04-10 The Eightfold Path 7: Wise Mindfulness 43:53
Rodney Smith
Exploring how mindfulness flows naturally from a wise view.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-07 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 61:53
Jack Kornfield

2000-02-05 The Practices Of Clear Seeing And Tenderness 49:59
Sylvia Boorstein
Mindfulness and Metta, as integral, implicit aspects of each other, are a unified path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-12-06 Nature Of Mind 54:12
Joseph Goldstein
exploring the nature of consciousness, awareness and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-11-23 The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties 59:42
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-11-03 The Art Of Meditation Practice 57:09
Tara Brach
Regular mindfulness and concentration can be a creative and vital ritual of daily practice that becomes essential in opening of our hearts and minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-11-01 Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness 61:16
James Baraz
The practice of appreciation is an exercise in mindfulness, openness of heart and wisdom. Whether experience is pleasant or unpleasant, inclining our minds toward appreciation allows us to open to our joys and sorrows as valuable gifts that make each moment come alive.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

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

1999-08-18 Identity + Insight: Comparing Mind 55:22
Steve Armstrong
Creating a sense of self through the activity of comparing mind. Disentangling a sense of self through mindful awareness.
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

1999-07-17 Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances 59:12
Kamala Masters
The five hindrances: attachment, aversion, restlessness, sloth and torpor, and doubt, are often seen as obstacles to liberation. However, once we are mindful of them, they become vehicles for awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat (9 days)

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

1999-01-23 Mindful Contemplation of the Body 50:35
Eugene Cash

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