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Dharma Talks
2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 3: Q&A 20:23
Oren Jay Sofer
Q&A on isolation, practicing with opiods, and the middle path of being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 2: Four Ways to Practice with Physical Pain 28:45
Oren Jay Sofer
Sharing reflections on intentions and explorations into what pain is. Overview of the four basic ways of practicing with pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 1: Introduction 20:42
Oren Jay Sofer
Grounding meditation for practicing with pain and intention setting for the day. Introduction into topic of meditation in pain and illness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain - all day recording 5:48:46
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-17 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta Practice Benefactors 29:57
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Metta and Its Benefits 52:21
Nikki Mirghafori
G.R.A.C.E. as an acronym for practice; benefits of metta from the suttas and scientific studies; contemplative and universal aspirations for practicing loving-kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Generosity and Sila 57:10
Zohar Lavie
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service. This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-07-16 Metaphors of growth - sudden and gradual. 61:42
Akincano Marc Weber
Thinking about Indian simile, Metaphor. Brief historical point about sudden and gradual debate in Lhasa
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-16 Instructions pour que la forêt nous parle 64:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Que la foret parle

2016-07-16 Day 3 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Forgiveness 43:01
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Across the River of Pain 28:03
Ayya Medhanandi
We long to be free from this wandering, to go beyond all suffering. The body is our raft to cross from one side of the river of pain to the other. And there we leave the raft. But we don’t leave it until we cross, until we realize the Deathless – when no one ‘dies’ but we know the death of greed, of anger, of delusion. As we cross, we end the pain, grief, rage, vulnerability, fear – every form of distress. And where we were once inflamed by these troubles, they give way to the infinitudes of love and compassion.
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community

2016-07-16 Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight #4: Spiritual Goodies: Ecstasy, Bliss and Beyond 36:13
Steve Armstrong
West Coast Dharma Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight

2016-07-16 Sharing the Blessings of our Practice 31:35
Ayya Santacitta
A short sitting, closing talk and blessing chant from the daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on July 16, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-16 Meeting With the Challenges of our Time 67:26
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma Reflection from the daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on July 16, 2016. Followed by a Q&A with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are 1:13:48
Ayya Santacitta
Dhamma reflection with Ayya Santacitta followed by a standing meditation with Ayya Anandabodhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-16 Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight #3: Purification of Conduct, Mind, View, Doubt 37:51
Steve Armstrong
West Coast Dharma Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight

2016-07-16 Arriving into Body and Breath 2:34:30
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation from our daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on Saturday, July 16, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-16 Day 3 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Easy Person 37:14
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 The Mollusk of the Heart 67:02
Heather Martin
How to recognize and not be caught by the contracting heart and the forces which diminish metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 Day 2 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Introduction to Compassion Practice 36:48
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 Être éphémère 69:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Que la foret parle

2016-07-15 Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight #2: Introduction to Mahasi Sayadaw's Manual of Insight 19:33
Steve Armstrong
West Coast Dharma Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight

2016-07-15 Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight#1: Overview of the Progress of Insight 55:36
Steve Armstrong
West Coast Dharma Map of the Journey: The Progress of Insight

2016-07-15 Day 2 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Self and Easy Person 37:29
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-14 Refrain from Stealing 51:52
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine gave the second talk in a six-week series titled "Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts." When we undertake the training of refraining from taking that which is not given and practice generosity, we are improving our mind. More specifically, we are purifying our mind of greed. In fact, not stealing and giving are conditions that contribute to the realization of nibbana.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts

2016-07-14 The Landscape of the Heart 51:38
Sally Armstrong
Developing lovingkindness takes patience and the willingness to begin again - to choose again and again the intention towards kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-14 "Breaking Our Deluded Illusions With the Four Elements" 53:38
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-07-14 Can we learn to be good? 60:28
John Peacock
A talk that covers the importance of ethics and morality in relation to our practice and our daily lives
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-14 Day 1 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Introduction of Metta Practice 48:15
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-13 Anatta revisited - Channa's story (SN 22.90) 56:49
Akincano Marc Weber
Self – Not-Self. Channa receives help when stuck and lost.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-13 Waking up to Wholesome and Unwholesome Motivations - Week 2 59:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-07-13 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 7 - Practicing with Judgments Related to Social Conditioning 1:11:06
Donald Rothberg
Partly with the reference point of recent violence in Orlando, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas, we explore the nature of judgments related to social conditioning. We look at judgments, both conscious and more hidden (in "implicit bias"), related to social hierarchies based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. We suggest some initial ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-12 Keep Your Heart Open 32:21
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-07-12 Contemplating Death 56:04
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Wise and Loving Heart

2016-07-12 Not stopping and not struggling. 41:58
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Balanced, skillful effort will get us across the flood of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-07-11 Here and No Further ? 55:00
Kirsten Kratz
How can our practice and exploration support, nourish and inform us in times of social, environmental and personal concerns and challenges?
Gaia House The Wise and Loving Heart

2016-07-11 The Present Alone - is our happiness 59:42
John Peacock
What is meant by the present moment? Why would we like to live in it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-11 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 3 1:24:06
Mark Nunberg
Here are some additional study resources to use:
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity
Attached Files:
  • RELIGIOUS CONVENTION AND SILA PRACTICE by Ajahn Sumedho (Google Doc)
  • The Healing Power of the Precepts by Thanissaro Bikkhu (Link)
  • Placeholder (File)
  • Virtue: Excerpts from the Sutras (Link)

2016-07-11 The Self 56:20
Norman Fischer
Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on July 11, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-10 Opening Talk 44:25
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-10 Opening to Life 55:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Wise and Loving Heart

2016-07-10 Waking up to Wholesome and Unwholesome Motivations - Week 1 60:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-07-09 Maha Nidana Sutta : Great Discourse on Causation Part 4 38:45
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaNidana Sutta in four parts.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-07-09 Attitudes towards Death 48:30
Anna Douglas
Eastern and Western views of death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-09 Change is not Wrong! 37:02
Grove Burnett
It is not what happens in life that is important. It is what your relationship to it that is important.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-09 Afternoon Qs and As: Awareness Off Retreat 39:22
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-09 Challenging Dynamics - Working with the 5 Hindrances 53:59
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House The Wise and Loving Heart

2016-07-09 Guided Meditation: Nature of Mind 40:24
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-09 Maha Nidana Sutta : Great Discourse on Causation Part 3 58:02
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaNidana Sutta in four parts.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-07-08 Dying and Awakening 55:44
Eugene Cash
Maranasati – Mindfulness of Death is called The Supreme Mindfulness Practice by the Buddha. It teaches us to let go and value the fullness of our impermanent lives. Contemplating death reveals the paradox of dharma and death which are experience and known both personally and impersonally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-08 Excavation of My Notebooks 46:53
Wes Nisker
Snatches of science, news, poetry and crazy wisdom
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-08 Awareness: Five Spiritual Faculties 55:58
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-08 Practice Here There and Everywhere 59:14
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-08 Morning Qs and As 20:52
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-08 Maha Nidana Sutta : Great Discourse on Causation Part 2 30:24
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaNidana Sutta in four parts.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-07-07 Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts 4:55:25
with Angie Boissevain, Ayya Santussika, Drew Oman, Shaila Catherine
This series will explore virtue as the indispensable foundation of Buddhist practice. The series will emphasize the five training precepts, and explore action, ethics, kamma, and cause-effect dynamics. The precepts are not rules to be obediently followed; they serve as guidelines for the intentional development of compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom. These five precepts offer us a joyful method to cultivate the heart, nurture harmony in relationships, and free the mind from inner forces of greed and anger that if unrestrained may cause suffering to ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-07-07 The Dharma of Aging 52:53
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-07 Thinking Does Not Lead to Wisdom 44:24
Grove Burnett
According to a recent Harvard study, the wandering mind is the cause, not the consequence of our unhappiness. And the "doing mind" - analytical reasoning, problem solving, figuring things out - does not lead to wisdom!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-07 "The Path: Illusion of Linear Movement" 53:48
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-07-07 Long Enduring Mind 60:06
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-07 Afternoon Qs and As 58:08
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-07 Going Ahead Full Steam 46:57
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-06 Mindfulness of the Dukkha of Aging 50:48
Bonnie Duran
This talk looks at the identities associated with aging - and how mindfulness helps reduce the suffering of aging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-06 Stress and Everyday Nirvana – Part 2 1:11:13
Tara Brach
Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way of relating to stress determines our happiness, and invites listeners to engage with practices that radically shift our response to stress and bring a healing and freeing evolution of consciousness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-07-06 Not-Self Characteristic 62:22
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-06 Guided Meditation: Exploring the Judgmental Mind 9:11
Donald Rothberg
A guided meditation on exploring the judgmental mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-06 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 6 - Exploring Judgments and Accessing Their Hidden Roots 1:11:45
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the basic framework used for transforming judgments, we explore how to investigate judgments in multiple ways that take us toward opening up the hidden unconscious roots of judgments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-06 Generosity 1:18:55
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-06 Morning Qs and As 14:08
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-05 A Feast of Joy To Which All Are Invited 30:30
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-07-05 Trusting our experience 45:51
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Faith plays a pivotal role in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-07-05 Four Noble Truths 60:25
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-05 4th Afternoon Qs and As 61:51
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-05 4th Morning Qs and As, Recognizing and Working with Mental States 18:15
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-05 4th Morning Instructions: Supporting Awareness with Skillful Views 7:54
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Skillful Understanding of Dhamma and Insight 55:51
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Third Morning Qs and As 22:50
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Third Morning Instructions: Working with Difficulties 11:17
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Sharing experiences with the precepts in daily life. Anushka Fernandopulle, JoAnna Harper, Bonnie Duran and Vance Pryor (trainee)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-03 Right Views and Working with Challenging Mental States 56:08
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Dependent Origination Understood in a Relational Context: Part I (of IV) 44:23
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community

2016-07-03 Second Day Afternoon Qs and As 59:12
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Day 4: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 64:37
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-03 The Pure and Beautiful Mind 55:04
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-03 Why Meditate? 44:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-07-03 Day 4: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 50:38
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Encouraging Counsel: Commentary on Mahasi Sayadaw's Admonition 60:39
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-02 Day 3: Afternoon Instructions and Sitting Meditation 59:26
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 1: Intro & meditation 28:32
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 1: Intro talk and opening meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 2: walking meditation instructions 12:26
Ajahn Pasanno
Walking meditation instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 3: Q & A 1:12:50
Ajahn Pasanno
Q & A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety 62:00
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 4: talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 Day 3: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 51:08
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 First Day Instructions 10:51
Steve Armstrong
Primary and predominant object, relaxed body & mind, remember to observe & recognize
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-01 Day 2: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:25
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Three Refuges as Aspirations 54:03
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-01 "I Have Your Back" 32:44
Jean Esther
Guided Compassion Practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat

2016-07-01 Day 2: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 53:01
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Bringing Equanimity to Experiences 1:11:28
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

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