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Dharma Talks
2013-08-04 Four Noble Truths - Guided Meditation 45:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-04 S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday: August 4, 2013 1:28:29
Gina Sharpe
S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday: August 4, 2013
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2013-08-04 Morning Instructions and Q&A 57:55
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Becoming aware of our attitude toward experience. Working with sleepiness and restlessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-04 Living in Uncertain Times 59:09
Kirsten Kratz
This talk explores what qualities of mind and heart we can rely on in face of uncertainty, using our ability and increasing capacity to be present to our experience as a powerful gateway.
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-03 The Role Of Right View On Retreat 57:43
Deborah Ratner Helzer
What kind of skillful understandings help to motivate and support us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-03 Body & Metta - Guided Meditation 44:05
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-03 Foundations of Happiness 53:40
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-02 Guided Metta Meditation 46:26
Vinny Ferraro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Against the Stream Retreat

2013-08-02 Brahma Viharas for Parents 35:28
Betsy Rose
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2013-08-02 Opening Talk 1:13:37
Kirsten Kratz
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik.
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-01 Kindness 51:06
James Baraz
Dedicated to Spirit Rock caretaker Steve Young who passed away the day of the talk and who embodied kindness. The power of kindness to bring us happiness and being conscious about the consequences of choosing to act or not act from kindness.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-08-01 Living with Intentional Care and Kindness 47:53
Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2013-07-31 Against the Stream 54:02
Noah Levine
The first day of retreat...the Path that leads against greed, hatred and delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Against the Stream Retreat

2013-07-31 The Four Noble Truths 49:29
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-07-30 The Dharma Of Global Climate Change 60:01
Chas DiCapua
How our dharma practice can turn this difficult situation onto an opportunity for practice and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-30 Dependent Origination: Feelings 57:27
Rodney Smith
Each feeling tone has a body posture and pose that reveals its occurrence. As pleasant feelings emerge and shape themselves into a psychic force, the body starts literally leaning into the experience with expectations. This can be noticed as a hurried pace, and a forward leaning tilt. Aversion is just the opposite. The avoidance occurs as a kind of backpedaling, a leaning away and tilting back in contraction or a sudden change in direction. Delusion is harder to pin down but is spacey, airy, and glazed over, often only tangentially connected to the earth. Delusion has lost the ground of its experience and because of that is usually more difficult to notice physically. There is of course the vertical stance that is upright and open to whatever comes that the homework is meant to address.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-07-30 Guided Big Mind and Sound Meditation 48:17
Spring Washam
Guided meditation with bells.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-29 Simplicity & Sympathy 50:58
Jack Kornfield
The simple heart of awakening compassion in this human incarnation...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-29 Questions and Answers 64:40
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-29 Follow the Yellow Brick Road 60:01
Spring Washam
Following in the footsteps of the awakened ones.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-29 Awakening & Mystery 26:43
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2013-07-29 Loving Kindness Meditation 45:35
Matthew Daniell
Includes easy being, self, friend, neutral person and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-28 Morning Meditation Instructions: Working With Thought 61:45
Matthew Daniell
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-28 Ten Perfections Part 5 40:51
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-27 Taking Care Of The Moment 58:22
Matthew Daniell
How taking care of the moment is relational and how caring for self and other with mindfulness and care, is an independent and liberating process.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-26 Introducción a la Meditación Parte 1: El Arte y Ciencia de la Meditación (translation from 2010-10-13) 1:24:22
Tara Brach
La primera sesión define la meditación y describe las enseñanzas budistas que le dan contexto al camino de la practica. Exploramos las dos formas básicas de meditación - concentración y conciencia plena - y luego nos enfocamos en el entrenamiento de conciencia plena: trayendo atención de conciencia plena a la respiración y sensaciones corporales. Las meditaciones guiadas incluyen el establecimiento de una intención y la pausa sagrada; aprendiendo a "regresar" usando la respiración como un ancla; y "estando aquí" con una presencia encarnada.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-25 Practicing With Fear 59:04
Donald Rothberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-07-25 What We Feed Within Ourselves Grows 57:32
Michele McDonald
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-24 Three Gestures of Love 1:22:25
Tara Brach
If we inquire "what is between me and presence" we usually find we've been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This talk explores a simple yet powerful way of arousing loving presence and dissolving the narrow identification that keeps us from inhabiting our awakened heartmind.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-24 Understanding Letting Go 55:56
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-07-24 On Equanimity 67:49
Steven Smith
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-24 Remember, Be Happy! 64:20
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-23 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry (07-23-13) 1:15:03
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2013-07-23 Kindness and Trust Melt Resistance - The Strength of Soft Readiness 55:25
Michele McDonald
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-22 Mystery & the Graciousness of Uncertainty 63:01
Jack Kornfield
Approaching, accepting, smiling with the nature of impermanence and uncertainty
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-22 Having a Tender Heart- Nurturing the quality of compassion. 56:15
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence - Week 4 67:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence

2013-07-22 Joy In and of Itself 56:22
Steven Smith
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-21 Monet's Haystack: The Art And Science Of The Meditative Journey 55:22
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of the creativity and methodology of insight meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-21 May I Be Safe from Inner Harm 53:58
Michele McDonald
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-21 Inner Allies 52:53
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-21 Filling the Hole in Your Heart 1:29:59
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-21 Self-Directed Neuroplasticity 35:29
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-21 Ten Perfections Part 4 41:27
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-20 Going Home With Equanimity 62:40
Gina Sharpe
Taking the fruits of retreat practice into daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-20 Metta and Compassion 60:34
Steven Smith
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-20 Evening Talk - Community 61:30
Martine Batchelor
The challenge of of developing community
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-20 Morning Talk - Buddhist Scepticism? 57:05
Stephen Batchelor
Concluding reflections on scepticism and the problem of certainty. Comparisons between early Buddhism and the sceptical Greek philosophy of Pyrrho.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-19 Being A Part Of It All 61:03
Yanai Postelnik
Realizing that we are an inseparable part of the vast web of life, opens our heart to a sense of deep inner connection and a life in harmony with the ways things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-19 Meditation Is Optional; Relationship Is Not 1:11:55
Amma Thanasanti
Meditation, talk and discussion on the centrality of relationship in our lives and the imperative that we relate to the eightfold path with this as the central hub from which all 8 spokes emanate.
New York Insight Meditation Center Meditation Is Optional; Relationship Is Not

2013-07-19 Morning Instructions 52:34
Christina Feldman
Chitta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-19 Evening Talk - The Path of Compassion 60:33
Martine Batchelor
Cultivating compassion in everyday life.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-19 Morning Talk - On Emptiness 56:51
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Culasunnattasutta (The Short Discourse on Emptiness) from the Majjhima Nikaya (M. 121).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-18 Keeping the Incentive to Practice 51:15
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflections on dharma practice opportunities that arise in daily life
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-07-18 Love in Action 56:03
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-18 Unbinding the Heart 58:00
Christina Feldman
Exploring the place of renunciation on the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-18 Evening Talk - To Be Or Not To Be A Self 55:49
Martine Batchelor
How do we self?
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-18 Morning Talk - How to Live a Life Without Opinions 58:29
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Paramattakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on Ultimacy) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 796-803). This talk begins with a guided meditation, introduced by Martine Batchelor.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-17 Absolute Cooperation With the Inevitable 1:22:59
Tara Brach
This talk addresses common misunderstandings about acceptance (allowing, "letting be") and explores the challenges and blessings of opening to the raw emotions that we habitually avoid.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-17 Loving The Enemy 46:45
Anushka Fernandopulle
How metta practice can help us deal with difficult situations and difficult people. Being an activist with love and courage.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-17 Questions and Answers 60:12
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-17 The Place of Coolness 55:35
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-07-17 Unbewitched, Unbothered, Unbewildered. 50:14
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-17 Evening Talk - To Be Or Not To Be Awake 56:02
Martine Batchelor
Awakening from a Zen perspective
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-17 Morning Talk - The Ultimate 56:58
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Suddhattakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on Purity) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 788-95).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-16 The Heart of Compassion 49:45
Mark Coleman
Compassion is a beautiful flowering of the heart, as it turns to face suffering and pain in ourselves and others. This talk illuminates that process and how we can encourage compassion by turning to meet pain with a kind heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-16 Love And Wisdom 61:51
Gina Sharpe
Brahma Viharas in partnership with mindfulness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-16 Selflessness and Interconnection 39:00
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-07-16 Morning Instructions 50:24
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-16 Evening Talk - Off Course 56:40
Martine Batchelor
Looking into the feeling tones and their connection with an ethical attitude.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-16 Morning Talk - Aridity 61:50
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Duṭṭhattaksutta (The Discourse of Eight on the Wrong) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 780-7).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-15 Guided Meditation with chant at finish 37:55
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-15 Anatta; Advice to My Self 43:24
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-15 Befriending The Body 48:55
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-15 Meeting The Challenges 64:54
Yanai Postelnik
Working with the hindrances.
Gaia House

2013-07-15 Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence - Week 3 1:26:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence

2013-07-15 Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence - Week 5 1:23:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence

2013-07-15 Evening Talk - No Falling Away 54:03
Martine Batchelor
Exploring grasping.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-15 Morning Talk - Solitude 56:41
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Guhatthakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on the Cell) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 772-9).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-14 Planet Earth as Divine Messenger 52:06
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Marin Sangha)
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-14 Obstacles to Unconditional Love (Metta) 51:14
Mark Coleman
What stops us from resting in the heart of love. What hindrances arise in meditation when cultivating metta? This talk explores the power of loving kindness, its obstacles and how to work with them top liberate the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-14 What Is Mindfulness? 49:49
Christina Feldman
What Is Mindfulness? - is explored through teaching stories from the life of the Buddha.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-14 Ten Perfections Part 3 41:02
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-14 Evening Talk - The Bowl of Water 52:05
Martine Batchelor
Looking at the hindrances.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-14 Morning Talk - A Secular Vision 60:35
Stephen Batchelor
An introduction to a secular Buddhist interpretation of the dharma through the example of rethinking the four noble truths as four noble tasks, thus establishing a context for the reflections on a series of suttas.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-13 Chanting of Refuges and Precepts 4:24
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-07-13 Opening Talk Of An Eight Day Retreat 60:28
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-07-13 Voyage on the Ocean of Metta 47:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Why we practice metta: connecting to the Eightfold Path, opening insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-13 The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 1 1:28:50
Ayya Santussika
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-13 The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 2 59:12
Ayya Santussika
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-13 The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 3 54:47
Ayya Santussika
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-13 The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 4 1:21:11
Ayya Santussika
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-12 Daily Life Benefits of Vipassana Retreat Practice 66:24
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-07-12 Dharma & Recovery, Step 7 55:06
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-12 Perception 23:07
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-07-12 Learning from Climate Change 42:00
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-12 Opening Talk 47:03
Stephen Batchelor
This talk also includes Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-07-11 Equanimity 68:28
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-07-11 The Brahma Viharas and the Climate Challenge 52:39
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-11 Contemplating Desire and Aversion 56:46
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Facing these two mind states with a balanced attitude helps us incline towards inner-freedom whatever the circumstances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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