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Dharma Talks
2010-10-24 First Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 21:31
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 First Morning Commentary on Walking Practice / Ranni komentar k Meditaci v chuzi 12:03
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 Meditation, Awareness & Understanding / Meditace, Uvedomovani a Chapani 68:37
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 Supporting Samadhi 57:52
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Les Bases de Vipassana 47:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Paris and Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 2 1:17:06
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 1 48:19
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Part 2 Instructions - Day 1 66:34
Joseph Goldstein
Mindfulness Of Breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-24 The Turn 51:33
Leela Sarti
A talk on the liberating power of mindfulness and how to turn towards the teeming flow of experience in body, heart and mind and the capacity to be awakened by all things.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-24 Meditation Instructions - Walking and Sitting 58:13
Yanai Postelnik
These instructions also given by Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-23 Joyous Equanimity 61:48
Spring Washam
Freedom and equanimity in the midst of challenges and change. The Buddha's teachings on equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-23 Taking Refuges as a Practice / Prijeti 3-Utociste jako praxe 56:19
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Refuges and Precepts (Call and Response) / Utociste a Predsevzeti (vedeni a odezva) 4:07
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Vier Ebenen des Glücks 52:46
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2010-10-23 Hard Things That Open the Heart 46:46
Rick Hanson
AM Middle Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 The Hard Things That Open The Heart 34:51
James Baraz
Opening AM Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 Le Kamma de la Liberation 49:14
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-23 Leaning On Noble Supports 54:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Moneyyos Pabbaja 6:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Opening Talk for the Awakening Heart 38:57
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-22 Kamma - Karma 58:43
Marcia Rose
Exploring kamma as a very accessible aspect of the Buddha's teaching... kamma as intention or motivation, which includes will, choice and decision... the mental impetus that leads to actions... both creative and destructive actions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-22 Nous causons de la souffrance pour nous meme 54:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-22 Emptying The Path 18:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-21 Buddha's Advice on Becoming Free from Latent Tendencies 64:10
Carol Wilson
A brief talk on the 2nd sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-21 Metta Bhavana Bienveillance 27:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-21 The Big E. What does it mean to you? 50:25
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-10-21 Dignified Unwinding 20:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-20 Compassion 55:51
Joseph Goldstein
Engaging with the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-20 Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series 1:24:15
Tara Brach
Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecure. In this class we explore how to free ourselves from this suffering by bringing a mindful and kind awareness to the stories and feelings that make up our emotional life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-20 Wisdom Everywhere 51:16
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-20 Self and Others 60:51
Stephen Batchelor
Concluding remarks: recap. on namarupa/consciousness, and reiteration that, as a way of embracing dukkha, this account of experience is prescriptive NOT descriptive; example from literature that illustrates the poignancy of this view of life; reflection on Dhammapada v. 80 to illustrate how the self is a project to be realised, a middle way approach that avoids both eternalism and nihilism; reflection on three suttas that provide a foundation for ethics and one's relation with others; how to tend to the Buddha entails tending to those who suffer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-20 Portals To The Deathless 23:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-19 Stepping Out of Our Identities 40:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-10-19 Diligence 57:28
Ariya B. Baumann
The Buddha rated diligence (appamada) as foremost among all the wholesome qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-19 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 of 6 1:30:49
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-19 Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings 46:58
Winnie Nazarko
Reflections on the power and value of loving-friendless practice, and its place on the road to awakening. Guided metta practice for all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-19 Nameform / Consciousness 67:43
Stephen Batchelor
Recapitulation on the principle of conditioned arising; the 6, 10, and 12 "links"; an analysis of the passage where the Buddha declares that consciousness is conditioned by nameform [namarupa] and nameform by consciousness; the meaning of term namarupa in Brahmanic thought; a phenomenological account of each of the nama factors (contact, feeling, perception, intention and attention) and their role in consciousness.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-19 Crucible Of Samadhi 29:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-18 Baby Blessing - October 18, 2010 5:55
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Choegyal: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma. 69:13
Jack Kornfield
The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Rinpoche: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma 29:58
Jack Kornfield
Part 1 of 2: The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 Continuing the Momentum of the Retreat in Daily Life Practice 33:54
Donald Rothberg
We explore a number of resources, support structures, and guiding perspectives that can help our daily life practice come alive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-18 Entering the Stream 61:33
Stephen Batchelor
The parable of the ancient city as a template for a secular Buddhism, i.e. how the four truths and conditioned arising provide a framework for a new culture or civilisation; further reflection on "fully knowing dukkha" in terms of its cognitive, affective and aesthetic implications; how stream entry entails autonomy, as well as confirmed confidence in Buddha, dharma and sangha; the humanised Buddha as the appropriate model for one's practice of the dharma not the arahant.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-18 Stillness and Movement 53:46
Catherine McGee
Sometimes we long for stillness and for all activity to come to rest. Sometimes we long for movement and can't bare to be still any longer. In using the practices of stillness and movement of body we start to study this dynamic, and we see the inner life of stillness and movement and how suffering arises through not fully understanding this play: either we get hooked into the things that move because they catch our attention, or we want to reject them for the same reasons. Coming to a wise relationship with stillness and movement brings more rest in a world of things that move.
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-18 Holistic Acceptance 23:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-17 Going Beyond the Hindrances 56:28
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-17 Embracing Dukkha 60:55
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Buddha's first sermon: how the four noble truths are a translation of the principle of conditioned arising into a way of life; the middle way as avoiding the two dead ends of worldliness and religiosity; the four truths as prescriptions rather than descriptions, as a sequence of tasks to perform rather than a set of doctrines to believe; the first truth as fully knowing dukkha both in depth and breadth.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-17 Spaciousness 50:40
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-17 A Place Of Non-Reaction 27:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-16 The Great Question, Investigation and Doubt 41:54
Winnie Nazarko
The great question, our deepest personal concern, can empower our practice, and motivate investigation of reality. But doubt can undermine our commitment to practice if we do not recognize it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-16 From Place to Ground 59:57
Stephen Batchelor
An analysis of the Buddha's account of his awakening in the Discourse on the Noble Quest (M. 26) as an existential shift from attachment to a 'place' to the seeing of the twofold 'ground' of conditioned arising and nibbana, followed by a psychological interpretation the subsequent passage which describes how, inspired by the god Brahma, he set off to teach his first sermon in Isipatana (Sarnath).
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-16 Meeting Mind States 50:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-16 Mindfulness of Body 57:42
Catherine McGee
To know 'body as body' is the invitation of the first foundation of mindfulness. Coming to a wise relationship with our body which neither glorifies nor rejects our body we can begin to know body as a vehicle for profound wisdom.
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-15 Metta - The Heart's Release 65:43
Marcia Rose
This talk explores ways that Metta practice helps to release the contractions of the heart/mind and the tremendous fullness of energy which is constituted by confidence and strength and a clear straight forwardness that comes from a loving heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-15 Metta practice and the Transformation of the Heart 45:37
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of metta practice and how it works-to develop the capacity to lead with the heart, develop in concentration, purify our being and touch our deeper nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-15 Morning Instructions / Istruzioni del mattino 67:24
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-15 Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Paramis: le Pratiche quotidiane della seconda Nobile Verità 58:52
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-15 How to Hold a Snake 58:22
Stephen Batchelor
Further reflections on the meaning of the term "secular"; the Buddha's comparison of his teaching to a snake; an enquiry into what is distinctive and original in the Buddha's teaching: the principle of conditioned arising, the process of the four noble truths, the practice of mindful awareness, the power of self reliance; reflections on citations from the Pali canon concerning the principle of conditioned arising.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-15 Opening Talk for Stillness and Movement - Insight Meditation and Qi Gong 1:10:01
Catherine McGee
This talk also includes Brad Richecouer
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-14 Courage and Compassion 63:43
Carol Wilson
The natural flow of a retreat - of life - is expansion and contraction. We suffer when we identify with any aspect as being mine or me.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-14 Wisdom-suffering, impermanence and the Heart 52:07
Donald Rothberg
Wisdom across many traditions is understood as a clear and deep seeing of human experience; a seeing that cuts through conditioning and delusion. We look at the relationship of wisdom to mindfulness and the caring heart, particularly at how we see more clearly suffering, its roots and impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-14 Morning Instructions / Istruzioni del mattino 11:19
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-14 Three Pillars of the Sure Heart's Release / I tre Pilastri della liberazione certa del cuore 69:36
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-14 Unlearning Buddhism 64:31
Stephen Batchelor
A reflection on the difficulties involved in and the methodology of a secular approach to Buddhism, followed by a reading of and comments on the Kalama Sutta, considered as a primary source text for secular Buddhism.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-13 Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series 1:18:46
Tara Brach
The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachings that give a context to the path of practice. We explore the two basic types of meditation--concentration and mindfulness--and then focus on the ground of mindfulness training: bringing mindful attention to the breath and bodily sensations. Guided meditations include setting intention and the sacred pause; learning to "come back" using an anchor of the breath; and "being here" with an embodied presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-13 Mindfulness-What it is and What Makes it Difficult. 50:49
Donald Rothberg
Mindfulness plays a central role in our practice of living with wisdom and compassion. We explore a number of the qualities of mindfulness as well as the obstacles to mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-13 Morning Guided Instructions with Questions & Answers / Istruzioni guidate - Domande e risposte 64:25
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-13 Guided Metta / Metta guidata 49:49
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-13 Understanding Vipassana Insights / Comprendere l’intuizione Vipassana 67:34
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-13 Creative Liberation 41:27
Anne Cushman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity

2010-10-13 Estamos Bien 58:43
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-12 Touching our Fear 46:19
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-10-12 Why do we practice? 18:34
Donald Rothberg
It is helpful to connect with our deeper aspirations to practice - at the beginning of a retreat as well as before practice sessions. Twelve different responses to the question of why we practice are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-12 The Defilements and the Three Trainings - Part 2 63:25
Ariya B. Baumann
The latent defilements are the base from which they manifest as either obsessive or transgressive defilements. Their abandoning, temporary or complete, can be acheived by the threefold training in virtue, concentration, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-12 Q&A 59:31
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-12 Morning Instructions Overview / Revisione delle istruzioni del mattino 13:24
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-12 Guided Metta with Questions & Answers / Metta guidata - Domande e risposte 1:10:27
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-12 Compassion / Compassione 53:06
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-12 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: The Pain of Pleasure 59:21
Rodney Smith
Once pleasure becomes a determined pursuit, the world divides itself into a pleasure/pain polarity. We now pursue pleasure, both to sustain a pleasant feeling and to avoid the discontent of pain.<br />
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-10-11 Guided Metta with Questions and Answers / Metta guidata – Domande e risposte 61:19
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-11 Understanding the Defilements / Comprendere le contaminazioni della Mente 58:37
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-11 Money as Dharma Practice 16:29
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2010-10-11 Guided Meditation 44:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-10 Faith / Fede 59:18
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-10 Samadhi - Continuity of Mindful Awareness 54:40
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-10 In Deepest Gratitude 1:21:31
Rick Hanson
This moving and heartfelt event is an annual tradition, held each year to to express deep appreciation for the generous donors and volunteers that support Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Rick Hanson, PhD presented for this year’s event, giving an inspiring talk exploring the dimensions and benefits of both gratitude and generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In Deepest Gratitude

2010-10-09 The Buddha's Question 66:27
Winnie Nazarko
The Buddha's life provides insight into the nature of his search, and the framework he used to explain his findings - The Four Noble Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-09 Awareness: The Mirror of Inner Beauty / Consapevolezza: lo specchio della Bellezza Interiore 57:04
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-09 Wise Equanimity 57:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-09 Emptiness 69:25
Leigh Brasington
Nagarjuna, emptiness and dependent origination
Gaia House Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-09 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:10:37
Leigh Brasington
Mindfulness of the six senses, of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment and the Four Noble Truths.
Gaia House Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-08 Wise Concentration 62:12
Marcia Rose
Learning how to properly apply the 3 active forces of purification - sila (virtue), samadhi (concentration), and panna (wisdom) is essential to our practice. this talk explores the active force of samadhi (concentration)... its basis, the process of its development, and the fruits of concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-08 Simplicity Of Non-Reactive Mind 59:51
Carol Wilson
Luang Pu Dun defines the second noble truth as the mind that goes out to satisfy its moods, and the result that comes from the mind going out to satisfy its moods is suffering, - the first Noble Truth is the result of this! This talk describes how the mind can get lost in thoughts and create suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-08 The Freedom of Forgiveness 61:40
Vinny Ferraro
Sitting with the cost of not forgiving and the opportunity to do something different in this moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness

2010-10-08 Attributes of Inner Beauty / Gli attributi della Bellezza Interiore 28:33
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-08 Dependent Origination and Rebirth 57:46
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-08 The Third and Fourth Foundations of Mindfulness 1:22:25
Leigh Brasington
Mindfulness of mind-states, of the Five Hindrances and of the Five Aggregates
Gaia House Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-07 Unentangled Knowing 60:27
Guy Armstrong
Upasika Kee talks about finding in meditation an “inward-staying unentangled knowing.” This talk describes what this means in terms of dependent arising and offers three approaches to meditation that specifically aim at this kind of relationship to sense experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-07 What Changes As We Practice 62:04
Anna Douglas
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-10-07 Importance of Practice 40:46
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

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