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Dharma Talks
2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts 14:47
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Talk 65:49
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Guided Meditation 23:46
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon opening: Chants and Meditation Instructions 12:29
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon stories about standing up 18:07
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon Talk and Q&A 1:11:55
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Morning Instructions 59:19
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-16 Opening Talk 52:05
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-16 Italy Interview, Introductory Overview Talk 31:07
Stephen Snyder
This is an Interview conducted in Italy in March 2018, which provides an excellent overview of the teaching and work of Awakening Dharma, and Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder. A transcript of this talk is also available on Dharma seed with the same name.
Various :  Italy 2-week Luminous Mind Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Italy Interview, Introductory Overview (PDF)

2018-03-16 Italy Interview, Introductory Overview Talk 31:07
Tina Rasmussen
This is an Interview conducted in Italy in March 2018, which provides an excellent overview of the teaching and work of Awakening Dharma, and Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder. A transcript of this talk is also available on Dharma seed with the same name.
Various :  Italy 2-week Luminous Mind Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Italy Interview, Introductory Overview (PDF)

2018-03-16 The Six Sense Spheres & The Bahiya Sutta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:32
John Martin
The six sense spheres are the basis by which we experience the world. The Buddha provides a concise and liberating teaching in the Bahiya Sutta on these six sense spheres. The talk outlines the practice, the benefits and the power of this practice to free the heart from confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-16 Mind Not in a State 53:51
Nathan Glyde
The mutual dependencies in the arising mind moment. Then looking at skilful means in relation to the intellect and the arising and passing of both harmful and helpful thoughts.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-16 Right Speech 42:33
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-16 Freeing Our Consciousness (Friday) - Opening Talk 1:58:13
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-16 Freeing Our Concsciousness (Friday) - Opening Chants 1:58:13
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-16 Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock) 41:10
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-15 Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 46:59
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-15 The Gap Between Attention and Distraction 58:52
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-15 Guided Meditation 30:31
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center

2018-03-15 Radiation Practice - Brahma Viharas 45:25
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-14 Timelessness in Rocks & Human Experiences, Montreal 62:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 Nothing is Hidden 1:13:46
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 24:11
Tara Brach
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 51:00
Tara Brach
Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Radical and Gradual 43:08
Nathan Glyde
How the path unfolds; radical shifts supporting our gradual development.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-14 Wise Action: Do No Harm 47:38
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-03-14 Freeing Life from Our Expectations, Montreal 29:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 On Retreating - Talk 51:23
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-14 Balancing effort and enjoyment 33:12
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the balance between effort and enjoyment, bringing awareness to some common biases in the practice and some ways to increase enjoyment (A talk given on-line to the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society, Washington)

2018-03-14 Things Are Not As They Appear 2: Examining the Personal and Collective Lenses of Perception 64:01
Donald Rothberg
We review some of the main themes covered in the first session on this theme, in the context of a series of talks on five ways that “things are not as they appear.” We first examine in more depth some ways that we see through the lens of the personal self. We then explore how we also see through the lens of our social conditioning, particularly focusing, on this morning when students are walking out of their schools and universities to point to the need to respond to gun violence, on ways that we don’t see, for various reasons, many of the roots of gun violence clearly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Bring Daily Life Into Practice 59:33
Thanissara
Pathways to success. A metaphor for our times.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-13 La pierre, le temps et soi, Montréal 58:44
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Ne rien faire, un acte révolutionnaire, Montréal 28:18
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:13
Andrea Fella
Exploring how delusion co-opts the process of perception
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-13 Equanimity 44:51
Oren Jay Sofer
The series on the Seven Awakening factors concludes with Oren J. Sofer’s talk on the quality of equanimity. Sofer tells us that this quality develops slowly among the other factors and is considered one of the highest attainments in Buddhist practice. The fore-taste of evenness and balance can be considered a glimpse into the mind of an awakened being.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-03-13 A Training in Awakening 52:24
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-13 Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:05
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-13 Working on Your Inside Game 38:07
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-13 Une vison de soi plus large, Montréal 63:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Morning Instructions with Review 40:19
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:11:19
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-12 Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:16
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-12 Equanimity, Balance and Ease 63:34
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 The noble eightfold path: wise mindfulness 59:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the four foundations of mindfulness and their application to our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Talk 50:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Introduction 12:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Meditation 27:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 All Living Beings Are Our Family 38:28
Kittisaro
Relationships of wisdom and compassion. Stories of Mr. Mandela. Welcoming and letting go, gateways to unitive consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 8FP - Wise Effort part 2 38:41
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-12 8FP - Wise Effort part 1 63:33
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-11 As Silence Is To Sound 57:56
Kittisaro
Turn the mind to the deathless. The story of Anuruddha. No footprints in the sky. reflection on papanca, conceptual proliferation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-11 The Four Noble Truths 56:07
Jake Dartington
This talk also includes Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Young Person's Retreat

2018-03-11 Mindfulness: The Flood Stopper. 26:30
Thanissara
Contemplation of dukkha - non-dukkha. Right effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-10 Liberation Through Wisdom 57:22
Thanissara
Use the mind to know the mind to go beyond the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-10 Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:26
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-10 Discovering the Buddha Within 6:38:18
James Baraz, Carley Hauck
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-10 Morning Instructions - day 4 36:27
DaRa Williams
retreat highlights and hinderances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-09 Four Noble Truths: Keep It Simple 60:38
DaRa Williams
Reflections on foundational aspects of the Four Nobel Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-09 Buddha's Life Part 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33
Susie Harrington
Continuing the story of the Buddha's life through his awakening and his setting the wheel of the Dhamma in motion. (Note: it is largely understood to have been a Brahma God, Sahampati, who asked the Buddha to teach--not a Brahmin as mentioned in the talk.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-09 Renunciation 42:26
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-09 Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:07
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-09 The Bathman: Simile For For The First Jhana 31:19
Kittisaro
Reflections on viveka, the jhana factors, the alchemy of awareness, unification, cultivating agility when responding to the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 "Might There Be Another Way": The Turning Point In The Buddha's Life. 58:55
Kittisaro
The Buddha's childhood memory that led him to reject self-mortification, accept nourishment, and find the middle way. Samadhi, a true holiday. The story of Sona, and turning one's efforts in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 The Cycle of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:45
Andrea Fella
A teaching on Dependent Origination
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-08 The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion 36:02
Jill Shepherd
An overview of insight and brahmavihara practices, and how they work together to support each other
Auckland Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 "The Buddha’s Words on How to Skillfully Give Feedback." 67:31
James Baraz
Do you ever find yourself needing to communicate something that will be hard for someone else to receive?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-03-08 The Racial Awareness Rubik - Talk 63:12
Ruth King
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2018-03-08 The Racial Awareness Rubik - Meditation 24:33
Ruth King
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2018-03-08 Sustaining Calm and Focus. 32:18
Thanissara
Supporting factors that enable a gathered centeredness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 Cultivation or What Are We Doing? 40:58
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-07 The Buddha's Path For Our Times. 57:25
Thanissara
The cultivation of the path of awakening in the midst of intensity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-07 Patience--The Art of Caring Slowly (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:49
Greg Scharf
The poet John Ciardi described patience as "the art of caring slowly." This talk explores the vital role that patience plays in our life and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-07 Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath 23:52
Tara Brach
This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. The instructions are to rest in the breath, offering a relaxed, intimate intention. Other waves of sensation or emotion are included when they ask for attention as we cultivate an open and full mindful presence. Our freedom arises as we recognize the formless awareness that is our home, and the natural and ever-changing waves that live through us. Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. by Wu Men Hui-k’ai English version by Stephen Mitchell
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-07 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1 51:13
Tara Brach
Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence. “Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and mountains! All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars.” ― Kabir
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-07 Courageous Speech 52:43
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-03-07 Focused and Fearless (Drop in program at Spirit Rock) 1:58:00
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-07 Day One Instructions 50:53
DaRa Williams
Arriving, gathering, and breath.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-06 Opening Talk: The Eight Great Gifts 1:12:06
Kittisaro
Refuges, precepts, an overview of retreat and the blessing chant.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-06 Compassion: The Wise Response of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:50
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-06 Day 10: Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:06
Susie Harrington
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-06 Warning Against the Use of Force 44:11
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-05 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:14:24
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-05 Vedana - Breaking the Cycle of Becoming 48:54
Amana Brembry Johnson
Awareness of the feeling tone of Vedana can lead to liberation from the proliferation of stories that imprison us in a state of discomfort and suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-05 The noble eightfold path: wise understanding 53:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses understanding karma and the Four Noble Truths, the foundation of wise view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-05 Die fünf Khandha – woran greifen wir? 58:21
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha zerlegt unser Erleben in fünf Bereiche, die wir erfahren können. Alle zusammen beschreiben das komplexe Zusammenspiel zwischen allem auf Materie basierenden Erfahrungen und unserer Verarbeitung im Geist. Hier entsteht unser Ich-Erleben durch Greifen. Was bleibt, wenn wir damit aufhören?
Seminarhaus Engl :  3-Wochenretreat / 3-week retreat

2018-03-05 Day 9: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:28
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-04 Une autre point de vue, Genève 25:59
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-04 Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:28
Brian Lesage
This talk shares reflections on how to navigate emotions such as Irritation, annoyance, and anger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-04 Seclusion as a Skillful Means Part 2 of 2 - Meditation 30:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-04 Seclusion as a Skillful Means Part 2 of 2 - Talk 56:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-04 L’instabilité des choses, Genève 47:27
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness Q&A 33:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Singapore
Attached Files:

2018-03-04 Seclusion as a Skillful Means Part 1 of 2 - Talk 34:54
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-04 Seclusion as a Skillful Means Part 1 of 2 - Meditation 27:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness 50:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Singapore

2018-03-04 Day 8 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:30
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-03 Comment passer une excellente journée, Genève 10:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-03 La conscience, Genève 40:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-03 The Buddha's Life Part II: "I See You MARA" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:40
Susie Harrington
The Buddha encountered MARA throughout his life. We too have many interactions and opportunities to see MARA and develop a friendly, knowing relationship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-03 Ich-Struktur und Denken 60:34
Renate Seifarth
Durch Denken entwerfen wir die Vorstellung wer wir sind. Das ist ganz normal. Betrachtet werden das Gehen des Geistes in Vergangenheit und Zukunft wie das vergleichende, das zum Entstehen von Hochmut, Minderwertigkeit und Gleichheit führt.
Seminarhaus Engl :  3-Wochenretreat / 3-week retreat

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