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Dharma Talks
2013-02-28 What Do We Really Mean By Mindfulness? 57:50
Jenny Wilks
An exploration of what the practice of mindfulness consists of, with reference to traditional and contemporary definitions and the Buddhas teaching in the Satipatthana Sutta, with the aim of clarifying what is really meant by this widely-used term and why it is a practice that can free us from suffering.
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT and MBSR Retreat)

2013-02-27 Metta and its myriad facets, functions and effects 58:04
Heather Martin
- A brilliant technique to focus us - So many ways to look into and nourish our hearts, without which we just can't calm down. - the mother of the collection of all 4 Brahma Viharas and their dance together - The most profound inner abiding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-27 The Fires of Loss 60:52
Tara Brach
We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with loss. This talk describes the refuge of presence in the face of loss, and the gift of timeless love that arises as we make peace with the reality of this living, dying world. [NOTE: Tara was traveling this week, so offering a well-loved talk from 2010.]
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-02-27 Gratitude as Wisdom Practice 66:44
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-27 Afternoon BV Practice - Equanimity 49:14
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-27 Morning Reflection: Dukkha and mindfulness – 3 dimensions of transformation 18:25
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-27 Opening Talk 60:09
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Chris Cullen and Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT and MBSR Retreat)

2013-02-26 Les 10 armées de Mara 56:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-02-26 Touching the earth. Key moments in the Buddha's life 1:14:40
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-26 The Law of Karma 61:14
Tempel Smith
The Buddha understood our experiences as lawful events. The Law of Karma describes the causes and effects that arise through volitional actions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-26 Seconds Away from Freedom 31:50
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-02-26 Brahma Vihara Practice 42:15
Heather Martin
Equanimity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-26 Morning reflection: Personal and universal aspects of experience. Attuning to the signless (animitta). 40:29
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-26 Guided Meditation - Empty Awareness 41:55
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-25 Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination - Week 7 1:31:49
Mark Nunberg
Natural Unfolding of Liberation
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination

2013-02-25 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita for All Beings 57:05
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-25 Morning reflection: The process nature of experience and the reifying mind. On Non-identification (atammayatā) 20:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-24 The Comparing Mind 60:03
James Baraz
The tendency to compare and judge ourselves with others or regarding our ideas of good practice runs very deep. How to work with these patterns and see through them to realize our true nature is explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-24 Steadying the Mind 58:37
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-24 Brahma Vihara Practice -Mudita 26:08
Sally Armstrong
Mudita
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-24 Precepts 29:14
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Short introduction to precepts. Taking 5 precepts and 3 refuges
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-23 Footprints 64:15
Thanissara
Taking the practice into everyday life. Inspiration from contemporary hero's of spiritual activism. Holding life lightly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-23 Seeing Through Perception 40:25
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-23 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita 43:02
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-23 Guided Metta Meditation 40:37
Thanissara
Kindness for self, loved one, neutral person, adversary and all beings. Buddha's words on loving kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-23 Cultivating Wise Speech 62:30
Donald Rothberg
This is the first segment of a daylong on cultivating wise or "right" speech, including when there are difficult speech situations. There is a general introduction to speech and communication practice and an overview of the basic guidelines for speech given by the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-23 Morning Reflection: The Path reflects the Goal 12:41
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-23 Divine Abiding Of Metta 37:23
Kittisaro
Cultivating a mind that can meet adversity with loving kindness. Guided Metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-23 Effort and Effortlessness 23:56
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-23 Effort and Effortlessness - Q&A 30:20
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-23 The Five Daily Recollections 48:04
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-22 "S/he abused me!" Caring for feelings of mistreatment with mindfulness & loving-kindness 22:03
Ayya Tathaloka
Kalyanamitta group at the Peace Pagoda, Fremont
Dhammadharini

2013-02-22 Living the Eightfold Path 58:11
Andrea Fella
Our practice can be understood as living the eightfold path, moment by moment. As we practice ethical conduct, and cultivate our minds in meditation, we deepen in wisdom. This training in Sila, Samadhi and Panna helps to unravel the many layers of greed, aversion and delusion in our minds, leading us to freedom: the absence of greed, aversion and delusion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-22 Yoga of the Heart 66:44
Kittisaro
Beauty in simplicity, balance of letting go and engagement. What motivates and powder of kindness. Ajahn Chah's teaching on patience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-22 Freedom Here and Now - The 3rd Noble Truth 57:57
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-22 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 1 44:22
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-22 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 2 13:50
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-22 Working The Four Truths 29:55
Thanissara
A teaching for everyday life. The suffering that ends suffering. Power of awareness to heal. Buddha's own enlightenment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-22 I See You 53:26
Martine Batchelor
Looking at releasing our grasping and creative wise love.
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-21 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 3, Part B 64:39
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-21 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 3, Part A 43:39
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-21 Four Truths To Live By 58:36
Thanissara
Buddha's journey to awakening. Entry into Buddha's insight through core teaching of the four Noble Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-21 Anicca: The River of Change 59:38
Heather Martin
Allowing the unreliability of it all to uncouple our grasping, while encouraging calm, kindness, gratitude and collectedness to keep us afloat...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-21 Brahma Vihara Practice 46:45
Kate Munding
Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-21 The Power of the Five Spiritual Faculties 57:21
Heather Sundberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-02-21 Morning Reflection: Agendas in Meditation 15:22
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-21 This Is Peaceful 37:03
Kittisaro
Sariputta's instruction "Turn you mind to the deathless". Relinquishment of acquisitions. Shurangama (durable) samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-21 Practicing with Thought 47:01
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-20 Délicatement retirer la poussière, enseignement et méditation guidée 56:58
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-02-20 Radical Reflection 57:31
Kittisaro
Profound insight arises from seeing impermance. Dispassion. Realization of Nibbana. Home territory
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-20 Caring for Self, Caring for Other 60:06
Matthew Daniell
Using the Sedhaka sutta as a guide mindfulness and loving kindness are explored as tools for making our practice inwardly nourishing, and deeply relational and sensitive to fullness of our life.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-02-20 Beyond the Interpreted World 1:20:51
Tara Brach
Hildegard of Bingen writes, "An interpreted world is not a Home." This talk explores the suffering that arises from believing in an interpreted reality, and the love, aliveness and freedom that becomes accessible as we challenge beliefs and awaken into living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-02-20 Insight Ripens Into Wisdom - The Blade & The Bell 56:56
Tempel Smith
Through calming and gather our hearts and minds, we open to deeper insights. Over time these insights mature in wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-20 The Joy of Training the Mind 54:35
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-20 Afternoon Brahma Vihara - Karuna 40:53
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-20 What Inspires Us 66:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-20 Three gateways to liberation and a message from Luang Poo Doon 13:51
Akincano Marc Weber
Luang Poo Doon's reframing of the 4 Noble Truths: "The mind that goes out in order to satisfy its moods is the Cause of Suffering (samudaya). The result that comes from the mind going out in order to satisfy its moods is Suffering (dukkha). The mind seeing the mind clearly is the Path leading to Cessation of Suffering (magga). The result of the mind seeing the mind clearly is the Cessation of Suffering (nirodha). Luang Poo Doon หลวงปู่ ตูลย์ (trnsl. A. Pasanno)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-20 Mindfulness Of Feeling 38:11
Thanissara
Investigation of feeling and mind states. Wise reflection, not creating more pain. Guided meditation on feeling.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-20 One Breath at a Time 55:03
Martine Batchelor
Exploring creative awareness and the building blocks of meditation: samatha and vipassana.
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-19 Vipassana: Investigation of "Dhammas" 53:51
Thanissara
Introduction to insight meditation. Working with difficulty and the development of wisdom. Seeing into the body - A sky burial.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-19 Unentangled Knowing 62:37
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-19 What Can I Give to the World Today? 41:27
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-02-19 Dependent Origination: Co-Dependent Arising (2) 63:07
Rodney Smith
As we move through the links of Dependent Origination, one of the key areas for exploration are the linkages of craving, clinging, and becoming. What starts out as a simple feeling of pleasantness suddenly erupts into a needy and tumultuous sense-of-self. Dependent Origination explains the causal factors and conditions that led to full addiction and the reaction that followed. D.O. shows us how we carry over the remembrance of previous encounters that sets us up for our current display. Once the present is colored with the past, we carry the momentum of the past into that current relationship. An object is no longer seen for what it is (always neutral) but for what it has become through memory. We then chase after our memory like a cat would chase his tail, believing that the object is the same as the memory.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-02-19 Brahma Vihara Practice 26:20
Sally Armstrong
Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-19 Morning Reflection: Sati infused. The Brahmavihāras for meditators 27:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-19 Making Our Practice Even 38:48
Kittisaro
Working with "orphans of consciousness" Guided breath/body meditation. Use of BUD-DHO mantra.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-19 Opening Talk for Meditation For Life 54:08
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-18 Inspired Leadership 64:03
Jack Kornfield
How Aung San Suu Kyi, Ram Das and Nainoa Thompson all embody the Dharma of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-18 Clear comprehension - Sati's friend. On sampajañña. 52:09
Akincano Marc Weber
A perspective from both the sutta and commentarial traditions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-18 Touching The World Lightly 50:24
Kittisaro
Use of imitation to go beyond imitation. The "terrorists" of the mind that rob well being. Samadhi: when the mind is composed, it sees things as they are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-18 Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2 60:29
James Baraz
Suffering itself can lead to genuine well-being and happiness when we know how to transform it. Other wholesome states: how to have metta for self and letting go into simply being are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-18 Questions & Answers 29:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-18 Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination - Week 6 64:29
Mark Nunberg
Aggregate of Suffering
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination

2013-02-18 Afternoon Bhrama Vihara Practice - Compassion 46:18
Guy Armstrong
Compassion practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-18 Morning Reflection - Orientation: attention and intention as factors of practice 45:19
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-18 Training For Times Of Intensity 28:51
Thanissara
Mindfulness: an evolutionary skill, moving out of destructive and addictive patterns, samadhi: being "here now"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Before you react... 51:30
Thanissara
Mindfulness - the gate keeper. When the passions hit the heart - A golden idol falls - Building capacity to enable wise response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Goodness as Liberating Motivation 55:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-17 The Power of Mindfulness - A Morning Introduction 2:57:42
Mark Coleman
This recording includes Dharma talks, Q&A, sitting practice, and walking meditation instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-17 Mindfulness - Pathway to One 42:50
Kittisaro
Introduction to mindfulness. Why Mindfulness? Supporting conditions for mindfulness. Walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Textures of Love 18:02
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-17 Textures of Love - Q&A 25:24
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-16 Opening Talk: Introduction to Retreat and protection chants. 41:10
Thanissara
Using the retreat form to deepen "here and now" awakening. Paritta (protection and blessing) chants.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-16 Awakening of Faith 53:11
Max Erdstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Transforming the Mind 56:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-16 Afternoon Brahma Vihara -Metta for All Beings 30:50
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Morning Reflection: Patience 12:39
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-16 Morning Instructions 7:30
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Letting go of an insane world 30:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-16 Letting go of an insane world - Q&A 13:22
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-16 Unburdening the Mind Finding Peace 1:59:40
Anam Thubten
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-02-15 Wisdom and Insight 56:39
Andrea Fella
An exploration of ways we experience wisdom and insight in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-15 The Dharma Dance 57:22
Heather Martin
Balancing on the many fine lines of practicing skillfully
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Finding Truth Through Truth 1:15:58
Chas DiCapua
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-15 Generous Presence 61:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-15 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions - All Sentient Beings 41:46
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Renunciation 50:59
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-15 Morning Instructions - Day 12 13:08
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection Day 5 15:01
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 5 14:07
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

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