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Dharma Talks
2010-04-01 Healing 35:37
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-03-31 Meditation and Healing Trauma 1:13:22
Tara Brach
Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This talk explores the three key elements that support this process: self-forgiveness, accessing a source of love and safety, and bringing a kind attention to the unlived life in the body.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-03-31 Speech That Is an Improvement on Silence 56:52
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-03-31 Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice 55:42
Donald Rothberg
Through reflection on just having taught a month-long retreat and several poems, we explore a number of ways to deepen our formal meditation practice through simplicity, focus, building a strong "container", developing mindfulness and lovingkindness in relation to what happens, and increased invocation of the "wise parent" (or grandparent...aka "discipline").
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-30 Right Samadhi: Collectedness of Mind 48:13
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Eightfold Noble Path Retreat

2010-03-30 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: From Mindfulness to Awareness 3:50
Rodney Smith
Mindfulness is the tool, awareness is the result. All we need to do to convert the tool into the result is get out of the way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-03-30 Gratitude, a Reading Of A Talk By Lp. Liem With A Short Reflection 32:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-03-30 Community as Path 27:05
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-29 Shining The Light On Suffering 59:51
Mark Coleman
The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-29 Managing the Gap - Places Where Meditation Doesn't Reach 24:37
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-28 Questions and Answers 60:45
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Buddhism in the Body - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-28 Guided Meditation 27:34
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Buddhism in the Body - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-28 Four Noble Truths in the the Body 34:05
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Buddhism in the Body - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-28 Buddhism in the Body 27:13
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Buddhism in the Body - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-28 Introduction and Standing 24:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Buddhism in the Body - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-28 Looking After One and All 43:49
Jose Reissig
Usually we see this as a dilemma: do I look after one (me) or after the others? This is a false dilemma, resulting from the separation we have concocted between me and you, us and them.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Insight Meditation Group

2010-03-27 Ease Trust Heart 52:37
John Travis
This talk explores our humanity/vulnerability and don't know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-27 Autobiography In Five Short Chapters 52:07
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Power of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Weekend

2010-03-27 Trying to Catch the World 40:52
Jose Reissig
To catch means both to physically capture and to understand. This follows from the belief that in order to understand we have to pluck items out of their context. Can we learn to do otherwise?
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Insight Meditation Group

2010-03-27 Whats The Point 50:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-27 The State of the World 55:13
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

2010-03-26 "Oh no, I'm still here." Practice continues. 47:48
Sharda Rogell
To integrate our practice, we need to keep applying the wisdom of our insights we gain from our sitting practice, retreats, and life experience. In this way, we come to terms with the different aspects of our personality, the aaspects we like and don't like.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-26 Opening Talk 54:31
Christina Feldman
Introduction To Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Power of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Weekend

2010-03-26 Do Not Confuse Equanimity With Indifference 40:49
Jose Reissig
Indifference is the "near enemy" of equanimity: the former insulates us from reality, while the latter gives us the strength to dive into it.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Insight Meditation Group

2010-03-26 Unravelling Layers of Experience 48:59
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

2010-03-25 Letting Go and Picking Up 58:01
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-25 Letting Go and Picking Up 0:00
Gil Fronsdal
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-25 Elders (including his Mom) 24:43
James Baraz
James interviews his mom, Selma Baraz (or maybe it's the other way around).

For more from Selma, see also the YouTube video of Selma entitled: Confessions of a Jewish Mother: How My Son Ruined My Life!
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-03-25 The Beauty of Change and the Change of Beauty 63:46
Kamala Masters
The possibility of transformation, and aging, sickness and death
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-25 Morning Instructions 15:52
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-25 Relative and Absolute 35:43
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-25 Self, Soul, Psyche, Space 51:18
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

2010-03-24 The Heart of Wisdom: Connecting Loving Kindness and Equanimity 61:52
Donald Rothberg
Heart practices and wisdom practices can appear to speak different languages and have different aims; for example, lovingkindness wishes well whereas equanimity says, "no matter what I wish for, things are as they are." We explore how the heart and wisdom connect through exploring (1) lovingkindness, (2) equanimity, and (3) how the two inform each other and are integrated.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-24 The Blessings of Deep Listening 1:13:01
Tara Brach
Our capacity to listen deeply--to our inner life and each other--is the grounds of true understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to listening and guidelines and practices that awaken a listening heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-03-24 An Intentional Life 44:10
Christina Feldman
An impulsive life is experienced as an accidental life. The practice trains us to live a conscious, intentional life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-24 The Hero's Journey - Into the Unknown 56:13
Pamela Weiss

2010-03-24 Opening is the Ocean of Light- Sylvia Boorstein and Mingtong Gu 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-24 Compulsive Self Activation 51:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-24 Fear and Freedom 59:46
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

2010-03-23 The Freedom of Truth 48:22
Mary Grace Orr
How do we hold all of the joys and sorrows, skillful and unskillful actions, wounds and blessings that we see when we practice intensely.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-23 Morning Instructions 16:04
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-23 Opening Talk for Live and Let Go Retreat 1:13:30
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

2010-03-22 Confession of a Buddhist Atheist 64:31
Stephen Batchelor
Talk on the journey of exploring Buddhist doctrine and principles... the questioning there of...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-22 Compassion is Wisdom Responding 54:22
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-22 The Anatomy Of Aversion 49:46
Christina Feldman
This talks explores the landscape of aversion and how it can be transformed.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-21 Leaning toward Freedom 53:13
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-21 Truthfulness - Coming into Aligning with Truth 53:14
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-03-21 Seeing Things As They Are 34:42
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-03-21 Morning Instructions 38:51
Christina Feldman
Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-21 Whats Useful 36:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-20 Guided Metta Meditation 43:12
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-20 Contentment 44:34
Christina Feldman
The Buddha taught contentment as the key to a heart of sufficiency.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-20 Structural Nourishment For Liberation 33:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-19 Dependent Arising and Liberation 63:52
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-19 Woman's Retreat - Opening Talk 43:33
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-18 A Life Well Lived 55:22
James Baraz
A Life Well Lived
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-03-18 Disenchantment with the World/Turning towards Liberation 50:31
Sharda Rogell
Realizing clearly that things don't bring lasting satisfaction, we become disenchanted with reaching out to things; the energy that was bound up with clinging is there, released towards liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-18 Selves & Not-Self, Part III 39:37
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
One in a series of 3 talks: The Buddha viewed perceptions of self and not-self as a form of karma, or action. Thus the question is not, “Do I have a self?” or “What is my true self?” Instead, it is “When is it skillful to perceive a self, and when is it more skillful to perceive not-self?” This series of three talks will explore this last question. Part III explores the function of the perception of not-self as a means to true happiness.
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-18 The River of Change 65:03
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-18 Vulnerability invulnerability (in English) 34:32
Charles Genoud
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Mataganza 2010

2010-03-18 Talk 52:07
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-03-18 Riding The Ox Home 53:35
Myo Lahey
Gaia House The Ten Ox Herding Pictures - stories of Zen Practice, ancient and modern

2010-03-17 Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are (Liberative Dependent Arising 8) 59:52
Donald Rothberg
We explore how "knowledge and vision of things as they are," supported by concentration and earlier factors, brings us insight into impermanence, suffering and the roots of suffering, and not-self. We examine some of the forces and structure that lead to delusion and a lack of clear seeing, as well as how to practice to cultivate these insights.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-17 Realizing Your True Nature - Four Reflections 1:19:43
Tara Brach
This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature--our inherent wakefuness, openness and love--is closer than we can imagine; it is more profound than we can imagine; it is easier than we can imagine; and it is more wondrous than we can imagine.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-03-17 Selves and Not-Self, Part II 41:42
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
One in a series of 3 Talks: The Buddha viewed perceptions of self and not-self as a form of karma, or action. Thus the question is not, “Do I have a self?” or “What is my true self?” Instead, it is “When is it skillful to perceive a self, and when is it more skillful to perceive not-self?” This series of three talks will explore this last question. Part II explores ways in which a healthy, mature sense of self is essential to the practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-17 When in Doubt, Make Belief- An Interview with Jeff Bell 58:07
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-16 Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are 49:28
Mary Grace Orr
A continuation of the series on transcendental dependent origination-the beginnings of insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-16 Selves & Not-Self, Part I 35:40
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
One in a series of 3 talks: The Buddha viewed perceptions of self and not-self as a form of karma, or action. Thus the question is not, “Do I have a self?” or “What is my true self?” Instead, it is “When is it skillful to perceive a self, and when is it more skillful to series of three talks will explore this last question. Part I explores the issue of why the Buddha refused to take a position on the question of whether or not there is a self.
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Understanding Mindfulness 60:14
Rodney Smith
Mindfulness is at the heart of the Buddha's teaching, but few people understand how it evolves from the simple practice of being mindful into a mature, full-embodied awareness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-03-16 Body/Mind Conscience and the Voice of Knowing 48:14
Ayya Tathaloka
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Applications of Mindfulness A Six Week Guest Speaker Series

2010-03-16 No Ox Can Hide Hear 57:14
Myo Lahey
Gaia House The Ten Ox Herding Pictures - stories of Zen Practice, ancient and modern

2010-03-15 Peace of Letting Go 1:11:48
Amma Thanasanti
The tasks of letting go in precepts, commitment, working with awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-15 Dependent Origination and Samadhi 52:43
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-15 Giving and Receiving with a Heart in Touch with Reality 55:07
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-15 The Footprints of the Ox 58:17
Myo Lahey
Gaia House The Ten Ox Herding Pictures - stories of Zen Practice, ancient and modern

2010-03-14 Refining Balance 56:19
Heather Martin
Using the Seven Factors of Awakening as a template, mirroring our progressive theme this month, exploring the dance between the active and the passive practices. Focusing on the shift from energy to rapture to serenity , and sweetness, and especially seeing how that shift is so effectively ushered in by more reflections and practices which uplift the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-13 The Eyes of Wisdom and the Heart of a Child 55:49
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-13 Why Awakening Truth 26:11
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Still Forest Pool 62:52
Kittisaro
Refuge within daily life. Dissolving the salt crystal of obstruction. Gestures of offering. Patience as supreme practice. We're not going anywhere.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-13 Questions and Answers 46:09
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Mind Like the Sky 43:28
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Joy of Awakening Talk 24:40
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Breath Meditation 17:00
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Introduction to Joy 8:53
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara The Joy of Awakening - Daylong Retreat

2010-03-13 Immeasurable Abiding. 41:25
Kittisaro
Wisdom and compassion emerge from this one mind. Metta and its eleven attendant blessings. Guided meditation on radiancy of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-13 Intro to the Ten Ox Herding Pictures 51:01
Myo Lahey
Gaia House The Ten Ox Herding Pictures - stories of Zen Practice, ancient and modern

2010-03-12 Noticing The Context. 59:25
Thanissara
Practice of the 3rd Noble Truth. Meeting patterns of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-12 Beyond Rapture 47:46
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-12 Noticing The Context 39:36
Kittisaro
Practice of the 3rd Noble Truth. Meeting pattern of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-11 Dependent Arising and Joy 61:31
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-11 What Remains? 47:54
Kittisaro
Support for insight. Turning to the deathless. The unborn. Language gives a sense of thing-ness. The waves and depths of the ocean are all water.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-11 Compassion and Courage 57:27
Kamala Masters
Helping ourselves, helping others through compassion and courage.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-11 Just A Handful Of Leaves 41:28
Kittisaro
Awakening through reflection of the four Truths. The five focuses of the grasping mind. The Khandas and non self. A taste of peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Handful Of Leaves 54:15
Thanissara
A teaching for humans, suffering or its end. Asking the world to give us more than it can. Letting be, a gateway to Nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Delight in the Dharma (Liberative Dependent Arising 3) 56:46
Donald Rothberg
Delight (or joy or gladness, pamojja) is the second factor that emerges as we shift away from repetitive cycles of suffering. We explore how delight manifests as delight in practice, in our integrity, the "bliss of blamelessness," and in other ways. We also look at how to cultivate delight, how delight or joy support the deepening of our practice, and what makes delight difficult to access.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-10 "Wisdom is Wisdom"- Mindfulness Part 1 67:03
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-10 Skill With Thought 32:54
Thanissara
Five skills to overcome obsessive and negative thought patterns. Skill in relationship with feelings. Working with "just this much".
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Cessational Insights Within Pliable Boundaries 40:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-09 Waterfall Of Impermanence. 50:12
Kittisaro
Working with disturbance. When the use of will fails. Leaning from sickness. Characteristics of existence. The island.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-09 Following Faith to Liberation 48:39
Mary Grace Orr
The Buddha teaches both about the cycle of suffering and another cycle leading to liberation. When we willingly encounter our suffering directly, conviction arises and leads us deeper into our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

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