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Dharma Talks
2013-05-18 Equanimity Right Where We Are 49:10
Sharda Rogell
Equanimity is not a destination to arrive at but something we can practice right in the moment with any conditions that arise. How do we practice?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Equanimity with Things As They Are 63:13
James Baraz
The quality of equanimity is a significant factor in coming to terms with impermanence and its manifestations: agin, illness and death. Learning to find balance with regard to the reality of change is explored
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-18 Guided Equanimity Meditation 17:47
Lila Kate Wheeler
Phrases adapted from meditations by Maddy Klyne, Ken McLeod, the Reverend Howard Thurman and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Equanimity – Introduction to Equanimity Meditation 22:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Equanimity relinquishes the subtle attachment in the other Brahma Viharas. It is the culminating divine abode. Equanimity as an aspect of mindfulness and consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Apparent Here and Now 24:37
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-05-18 Guided Mudita Meditation 25:02
Greg Scharf
The meditation begins with the practice of opening to happiness, success, good fortune in one's own life and receiving appreciation from benefactors. We then turn this quality of gladness and connection towards the good fortune of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Introduction to Empathetic Joy (Mudita) 16:02
Greg Scharf
A short introduction to empathetic joy (or Mudita) including a discussion of the qualities of appreciation, gratitude and empathetic connection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Inhabiting the Body of Life 49:24
Martin Aylward
In this talk, Martin explores the ideas and images we hold of Body, the habitual ways we react to bodily experience and body image, and the tendency to relate to body as a thing rather than a process. He guides the listener through the direct experience of body as a fluid, edgeless, inconceivable unfolding, inviting us to more and more inhabit the visceral ground of all experience; the body of life.
Gaia House Right Now It's Like This...

2013-05-17 400 and Rising 42:10
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-05-17 Compassion means doing something about the crying 50:34
Lila Kate Wheeler
A Dharma talk about compassion (or karuna). The wise heart is willing to connect with what is difficult within ourselves, other individuals and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Birth & Death 64:09
Eugene Cash
Marana Sati, Mindfulness of life and death, is an inherent aspect of Buddhist teachings and practice. Both life and death are doorways to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-17 Guided Compassion Meditation 29:28
Greg Scharf
This meditation begins with the practice of opening to one's own suffering and receiving kindness and compassion from benefactors. We then turn this quality of care towards our self and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Introduction to Compassion 7:11
Greg Scharf
A short introduction to Compassion including a discussion of obstacles to its development.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Guided Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 35:54
Sharda Rogell
A guided meditation where one receives the wishes from people who care about you and are extending their wish for your happiness and well- being. Includes people from ordinary life as well as spiritual benefactors. (Phrases adapted from John Makransky
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Introduction to Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 2:38
Sharda Rogell
Recognition of the wholesome states of mind is important in their cultivation. Mindfulness of the body is encouraged as a support.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Lovingkindness 55:00
Greg Scharf
An overview of the qualities of Loving kindness emphasizing the natural luminosity of the heart. Begins with chanting of the first part of the Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Recognizing the 3 Characteristics As We Age 51:39
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-16 Guided Meditation on Loving Kindness (Metta) 39:48
Lila Kate Wheeler
Kindness and friendliness for oneself, a dear person, beings nearby and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Introduction to Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation 18:04
Lila Kate Wheeler
A concise discussion on loving kindness or Metta Bhavana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-15 Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older 59:04
James Baraz
The importance of accepting and learning to love ourselves is important at any age. But it is particularly crucial as as we learn to adjust to a body and mind going through the aging process as well as a new self-identity about who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-15 Dharma Talk 39:19
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-05-15 Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Love 1:23:24
Tara Brach
We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlovable, and the ways that mindfulness can dissolve our defenses and reveal our inner refuge of pure loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-15 Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination 62:35
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination. We also review ways of intervening in the cycle of suffering, and then begin to explore the teaching of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination-focused on the causes and conditions leading to freedom and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-15 Final Take Home Message 33:08
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-15 Guided Meditation - Early Morning - Leaving Yesterday's Shadow 14:53
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-14 Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 B 45:35
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 3, 2013

2013-05-14 Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 A 57:57
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 3, 2013

2013-05-14 The Buddha's Discourse On Non-Self 54:53
Joseph Goldstein
A discourse and exploration of the relationship between Dukkha and Anatta - and how this understanding leads to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-05-14 Not Knowing 53:56
Eugene Cash
The skillfulness of not-knowing is part of practice and the contemplative experience. We are released from the limitations of the known with the inclusion of not-knowing. The skill and art of not-knowing becomes one of the doorways to awakening, realization and the continued maturation of our understanding. As the Zen monk/poet Ryokan said, "I do not know others. Others do not know me. Not knowing each other we naturally follow the way."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-14 The Skylike Nature of Mind 35:38
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-05-14 Aspects - Questions and Answers - Gratitude and Lineage 1:11:26
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-14 Guided Meditation - Waking Up - Letting Go - Letting In 11:31
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-14 Meditation Instructions - Dhammanupassana 38:46
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-13 Patience and Perseverence 65:46
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-13 Dealing with Obstructive Thoughts 1:17:23
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-13 Guided Meditation - Early Morning - Listening and Voices 14:26
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-13 Meditation Instructions - Citta - Two Aspects of Meditation 30:45
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-12 Awareness & Human Experience (pt 2) 48:24
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-05-12 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 51:03
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-12 Meditation Instructions - Citta 18:29
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-12 Sexy Buddha 47:35
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-11 Buddha Positioning System - BPS 25:13
Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha gives us a flawless positioning system that will guide us to the coordinates of Truth. That ultimate refuge and peace is not to be known anywhere but in the sanctuary of our own heart. To find our spiritual bearings, we explore our true nature and the real origin of our sufferings. Step by step, our wise friends and daily practice of virtue, mindfulness, heroic forbearance, and faith will reinforce and steady us as we navigate the tempests of life. But this is a journey of great joys as well as trials. Like the hollow reed that becomes a flute, we empty ourselves of fear to be the true love we seek
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-11 Workshop - Individuation and Anatta 3:47:47
Amma Thanasanti
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-11 Citta - Brahma Vihāra 1:10:29
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-11 Guided Meditation - Early Morning - Gateways 11:04
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-11 Meditation Instructions - Vedanā 18:33
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-10 Dharma and Recovery, May, Part B 58:17
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-10 Dharma and Recovery - May, Part A 46:06
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-10 Sitting on the Edge 46:03
John Travis
The spiritual journey through retreat and trekking; vulnerability, humility and knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-10 Evolving Together 55:41
Wes Nisker
The new story of who we are in the universe - told with humor and dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-10 Love 28:35
Amma Thanasanti
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-10 Boundless Metta in Difficult Times - A Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 41:28
Ayya Medhanandi
We can develop the boundless quality of metta in difficult conditions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-10 Guided Meditation - Early Morning - Body (Part 2) 10:41
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-10 Hindrances and Similies 64:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-10 Meditation Instructions - Pain and Sleepiness 36:33
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-09 Change is Possible 51:13
James Baraz
Our attitudes and attachment to views change over time including choosing to become more conscious and kind. Includes James describing his visit to Jessup Prison in Maryland where he spent an inspiring afternoon with prisoners who had gone through the Awakening Joy material.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-05-09 One Inalienable Right 58:32
Ayya Medhanandi
We can free our hearts from suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-09 Pointing out the Radiance 58:20
Trudy Goodman
Dharma teachings on conflict and kindness, identity and loving awareness of who we truly are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-09 Embodying the Path 47:05
Molly Swan
True North Insight The Way of an Awakened Life

2013-05-09 Guided Meditation - Early Morning - Body (Part 1) 12:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-09 Meditation Instructions - Kaya - Posture 30:29
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-09 Satipatthana as Orientation 64:23
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-08 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: Here & Now or There & Then 57:53
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-08 Remembering Being 1:14:51
Tara Brach
Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual control strategies that keep us from presence; and the role of mindfulness and lovingkindness in reconnecting with the ground of Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-08 Quand une porte s'ouvre 18:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-05-08 The Five Hindrances 61:04
Alex Haley
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-08 The Five Hindrances:Dharma Talk 28:18
Alex Haley
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-08 Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering. 64:18
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination we look at ways of understanding several examples of suffering according to the model, and then point to multiple ways that we intervene-especially in the areas of action, direct experience, dispositions and ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-08 Seven Enlightenment Factors 43:02
Ayya Medhanandi
Brightening agents to cleanse the mind of hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-08 Opening Talk - Retreat and Attitude 36:50
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-07 Clarifying Terms 58:02
Joseph Goldstein
In Pali - terms for consciousness, perception, mindfulness and wisdom - have some very specific meanings. In English, however there are often multiple meanings for each one of these words. This talk will help to clarify their meanings, particularly as they apply to our meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-05-07 The Innocence of Identity 55:01
Howard Cohn
Opening to the vulnerability that comes with being someone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-07 Insight and Samadhi 46:00
Norman Feldman
True North Insight The Way of an Awakened Life

2013-05-06 Buddha's Awakening: What Really Happened... 54:45
Eugene Cash
Buddha's relationship to his body as a doorway to Enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-06 Bodiness: First Foundation of Mindfulness 44:08
John Travis
This talk explores the vertical and horizontal paths of practice, revealed through adventure stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-06 The Five Hindrances are Not Your Fault 49:58
Noah Levine
The five hindrances are just part of the natural process of meditation practice. It's not what arises that is the issue, it's how we respond to it that is important.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-06 Ways of working with hindrances 57:58
Ayya Medhanandi
Brief summary of right effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-06 Morning Reflection - 11:12
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-05-06 Self Acceptance and Not-Self (Part 3) 1:18:22
Catherine McGee
Tying the threads together. This talk also includes Mat Schencks.
Gaia House Self Acceptance and Not-Self

2013-05-05 Guardian Of The Mind 56:09
Ayya Medhanandi
Parenting ourselves with mindfulness, wisdom and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-05 Building The Foundation 49:12
Mary Grace Orr
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-05 Entering the Path with Wisdom 50:09
Norman Feldman
True North Insight The Way of an Awakened Life

2013-05-05 Awareness & Human Experience (pt 1) 49:44
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-05-05 Understanding this Path of Awakening 57:19
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-05 Understanding this Path of Awakening:Dharma Talk 33:07
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-05 Self Acceptance and Not-Self (Part 2) 65:59
Catherine McGee
Discovering the unfindability of a fixed self, we can relax into the totality of what we are and make room for life to move through us unhindered.
Gaia House Self Acceptance and Not-Self

2013-05-05 Ethical Integrity 51:03
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-04 04 How to Test the Buddha 14:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
DhammaBytes, date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Approaching the Dhamma

2013-05-04 When the Canoe Starts to Tip 30:22
Ayya Medhanandi
Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening off course – just when the canoe starts to tip – we notice and immediately rebalance, regaining awareness and sustaining it as best we can. We continue to polish the mirror of the mind each moment, discovering the joy of seeing its true nature: impermanent, imperfect and empty. With nothing to hold onto in the world, we are free to enter the shrine of Truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-04 Self Acceptance and Not-Self (Part 1) 57:16
Catherine McGee
Accepting ourselves is the basis of transformation. Including the totality of our experience and bowing to it all.
Gaia House Self Acceptance and Not-Self

2013-05-03 A Terrain Beyond Boundaries 5:42
Ayya Medhanandi
Use the practice to understand the boundaries, structures, and limits of our lives to locate that terrain within us which is beyond boundaries. We go to it by inclining the mind towards stopping, taking precepts and fully arriving in the present, in the sanctuary of now. We stop in the silence and with curiousity and wonder, investigate the true meaning of our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-03 03 Desire the Root of Suffering 12:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
DhammaBytes, date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Approaching the Dhamma

2013-05-03 Opening Talk 57:24
Catherine McGee
This talk also includes Mat Schencks
Gaia House Self Acceptance and Not-Self

2013-05-02 Self and Not Self - Part 2 53:48
Donald Rothberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-05-02 02 Discourse to the Kalamas 16:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
DhammaBytes, date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Approaching the Dhamma

2013-05-01 Renunciation 53:16
Christina Feldman
Explores the context of renunciation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2013-05-01 Talk to the European Teachers Meeting How I came to establish a non-community 25:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2013-05-01 01 Views about Spiritual Paths 13:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma
DhammaBytes, date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Approaching the Dhamma

2013-05-01 Living with the Cobra 57:23
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-01 Guided Meditation - Flower Metta 25:27
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2013 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy With Life

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