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Dharma Talks
2016-08-13 Self-view and Conceit 66:36
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-13 Morning Sitting Meditation with Instructions Day 6 55:34
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-13 Morning instruction– Stop, wait, do nothing, Let awareness find you 61:23
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-12 Evening reflection– Today we have live a Noble life 11:05
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-12 Four Noble Truths– Bedrock Buddha Dhamma 58:56
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-12 Do Everything with a Mind That Lets Go 55:26
Kittisaro
Seeing states of mind turn rather than being turned by them. Skillful relationship with primary elements of experience. Insight into change. Danger of making others . The Buddhas conversation with the deva Sakka. The mark of I.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-08-12 Day 4 Guided Kindness Meditation: Metta to Each Other 32:08
La Sarmiento
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-12 Q&A on Living a Heart-full Life 51:44
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-12 Q&A on Heart Cultivation 63:41
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-12 Morning Sitting Meditation with Instructions Day 5 52:50
La Sarmiento
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-12 Morning instructions and Q/A 62:44
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Opening to awareness of wholesome mental states and ideas about self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-11 The factors of awakening 61:12
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with wholesome mental states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-11 The Dharma of Accepting and Being Yourself 55:16
La Sarmiento
Cultivating courage through trust and faith to meet the "what is" in our lives allows us to remember our own innate goodness, our Buddhanature, to live life more fully no matter what.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-11 "Love!" 58:42
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-08-11 Difficulty as Opportunity 46:16
Thanissara
Calm as ground for insight. Disturbance is the path. What hinders can awaken. Emptying reactivity to painful feeling.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-08-11 Day 4 Guided Kindness Meditation: Forgiveness 30:23
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-11 Q&A Anatta and Nibbana 44:13
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-11 Day 4 Instructions - Mindful of the Mind 53:43
Nathan Glyde
Meditation Instructions to develop the Retreat
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-11 Tanha and the building of the self 51:36
Zohar Lavie
Taṇhā meaning physical or mental thirst, desire, longing, or greed. Usually divided into three types: kama-tanha (craving for sensual pleasures), bhava-tanha (craving for existence), and vibhava-tanha (craving for non-existence).
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-11 Anatta and Nibbana 49:01
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-11 Day six – guided meditation instruction and Q/A 59:19
Mark Nunberg
Meditation instruction emphasizing awareness of the feeling tone
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-10 Understanding pain 63:18
Mark Nunberg
How wisdom and seclusion allows for equanimity with the inevitable pain in life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-10 When Something Strong Calls Your Attention 64:30
Dori Langevin
Mindfulness and compassion meet the hindrances - recognizing, allowing, investigating with intimate attention and nourishing with compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-10 How Hope can Heal and Free Us – Part I 65:47
Tara Brach
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world. “We close with a simple prayer this evening, that all beings might remember the depth of their longing – that deep aspiration for love, for aliveness. That all beings may trust the heart and consciousness that’s always and already here. And that we may live from the depth and fullness of who we are.” ~ Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-08-10 Let the Alchemy Happen 55:28
Kittisaro
Using the forms of practice for contemplation of experience. Patterning of mind. Buddhas journey. The vanity of health, youth and life. Working through personal sickness. Samadhi.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-08-10 Refuge in Sangha 33:03
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-10 Equanimity and the Way Life Appears 39:48
Nathan Glyde
Equanimity, Emptiness and Perception
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-10 Q&A Day Five 19:15
Willa Thaniya Reid
with Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-10 Resting Back 42:57
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-10 Nyanaponika Thera on the Power of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part III 1:59:32
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-08-10 Morning Sitting Meditation with Instructions - Day 3 58:07
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-10 Morning instructions "Working with the kilesas" 60:54
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-09 Evening reflection– "Today we have lived a good life" 15:45
Steve Armstrong
Practicing the three trainings of the Noble Eightfold path effects restraint of the kilesas, awareness of obsessive kilesas, and understanding the latent kilesas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-09 Understanding and working with the torments 59:14
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-09 First Night of Retreat - Why and How We Practice 64:19
Tempel Smith
After twenty-four hours on a silent residential retreat we can already see the patterns of daily life being exposed. Too often we are lost and dominated by thought. Mindfulness practice allows us to see thought as transient experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for Young Adults (18 - 32)

2016-08-09 What We All Share 35:06
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-08-09 Empty Hands 48:51
Thanissara
Cultivating path activity. Samadhi, inner refuge. First Foundation of Mindfulness. Putting down the burden.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-08-09 Instant Karma 51:28
Fred Von Allmen
Intention - Action - Result
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2016-08-09 Day 2 Instructions - Experience is Perception 52:59
Nathan Glyde
Meditation Instructions to develop the Retreat
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-09 Conceit of Self 45:31
Zohar Lavie
What is the Self?
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-09 Q&A Day Four 18:20
Ayya Jitindriya
with Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-09 Dependent Origination in everyday life 54:47
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-09 Morning instructions and Q&A 62:04
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Letting nature take it's course
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-08 Trusting our experience 53:06
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The unfolding of our practice is a natural, organic process
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-08 Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being 64:14
Thanissara
This talk also includes Kittisaro.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-08-08 Heart Qualities for Manifestation 43:09
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-08 Day 1 Instructions - Breath & Body 52:47
Zohar Lavie
Meditation Instructions to Open the Retreat
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-08 An Ever Expanding Ethic 48:24
Nathan Glyde
Is Buddhism naturally ethical, or morally sufficient?
SanghaSeva Ekuthuleni 2016

2016-08-08 Q&A Day Three 27:59
Willa Thaniya Reid
with Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-08 Ocean-like Compassion: Softening into prresence 31:20
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-08 Day three - guided meditation instructions and Q&A 58:56
Mark Nunberg
Awareness of body in attitudes of mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-08 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1.15-18 53:34
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-07 Embodiment and awakening 58:47
Mark Nunberg
Understanding mindfulness of body as a basis for liberating the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-07 Yielding Deliverance as Essence 37:31
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-07 Q&A Day Two 54:43
Ayya Jitindriya
with Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-07 Five Khandhas: Seeing Through 11:51
Ayya Jitindriya
with Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-07 The Three Bases of Insight Dialogue 66:17
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community

2016-08-07 Morning instructions 41:57
Steve Armstrong
Attitude in awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-06 Reflections on the days practice 13:15
Steve Armstrong
Today we have spent our time wisely
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-06 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1.12 69:47
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-06 Attitude and awareness 56:38
Steve Armstrong
The path, The practice and the necessity of the right attitude as a foundation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-06 The Four Noble Truths: Whose Side are You On? 40:01
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-06 Guided Meditation: Two Wings of Meditation 20:06
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-06 The Weaving of Patience Into Sila, Samadhi and Panna 30:42
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2016-08-06 Q&A Day One 19:25
Willa Thaniya Reid
with Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-06 The Three Postures 26:11
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-06 Getting a Taste for Being Here 35:14
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-06 Morning instructions 53:03
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Easing gently into the retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-06 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1.11 1:12:27
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-05 Opening Talk: awareness, schedule, formal refuges and precepts 58:01
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

2016-08-05 Hindrances 44:18
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-08-05 Refuge in Buddha Knowing the Dhamma 32:31
Ayya Jitindriya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions

2016-08-05 You Are Enough 28:31
Ofosu Jones-Quartey
Often times we think of the spiritual path as a journey to an idealized place or state, but really, the spiritual path is a journey home to where we always have been. Dedicated to the memory of my friend Shawn Lucas who passed away while I was on retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2016-08-04 Refrain From Killing 68:12
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika gave the fifth talk in a six-week series titled "Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts." She takes an in-depth look at the first precept: refraining from killing. She explores harming, how to live a life of non-harming, and facing difficult situations non-violently.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts

2016-08-04 Instructions & Guided Meditation on Five Aggregates, Part II, Salt Spring Island 58:43
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-08-04 Lessons from Parenting 35:15
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2016-08-04 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1.8 61:38
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-03 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1.9 63:47
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-03 5 Rivers Running Thru, Five Aggregates, Part I, Salt Spring Island 58:07
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-08-03 Tending the Flame 18:57
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-03 The Liberation Potential of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part II 2:06:44
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-08-03 Bhante G's Sutta/Pali Series: Saṃyutta Nikaya 1 56:47
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Every Saturday Bhante G does a combined Pali/Sutta class going through the Samyutta Nikaya.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-08-02 Learning to Touch The Inner Safety 29:21
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-08-02 Instructions on Anatta, Salt Spring Island 60:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-08-02 This Fire, This Longing (Q & A) 47:26
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-02 Reflections and Practice - You are a Meeting Place' 37:30
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) 45:09
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 6 63:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity

2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2) 1:14:01
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) 53:38
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 Me, myself & I, Salt Spring Island 52:51
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-08-01 The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A) 51:08
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 Mantra, Sitting (Gate Gate Chant) 36:21
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-08-01 Sensing Divinity 51:20
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-07-31 Renunciation 48:48
Chas DiCapua
The relationship between understanding the drawbacks of sense pleasures and renunciation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2016-07-31 Re-enchanting Relationship 59:45
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-07-31 Creating the Path (Q & A) 43:20
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-07-31 Instructions, Salt Spring Island 49:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-07-31 Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) 45:48
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

2016-07-31 From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment) 7:43
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception

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