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Dharma Talks
2010-01-14 "Lake" Metta Meditation 22:46
Mark Coleman
A guided visual metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-14 Infusing Metta Into Daily Life 59:09
Mark Coleman
How do we bring love and compassion into our lives and relationships and what ares of our lives will benefit from the qualities of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-14 Joy and More Joy 66:10
Heather Martin
How our inner explorations release the range of joy, happiness and ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-14 Refuge in the Sangha part 2 49:30
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-01-14 Opening Talk for MBCT/MBSR Retreat 57:37
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes John Teasdale
Gaia House An Exploration of Mindfulness MBCT/MBSR Retreat

2010-01-14 Brahma Viharas 43:49
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-01-13 Equanimity and Faith 56:58
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-13 Awakening to the Sacred 65:03
Tara Brach
The tendency to think "life should be different" and to try to control experience removes us from the wisdom and compassion that naturally gives rise to healing and transformation. We learn to trust the power of our heart and awareness by meeting both the pain and beauty of this life with sacred presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-01-13 Understanding This Path of Practice part 2 55:03
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-01-13 Seeds of Goodness- omitting none 54:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Seeds of Goodness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-01-12 Happiness Is Possible 57:04
Sally Armstrong
The Brahma Vihara of Mudita allows us to see that there is more happiness available to us then we often think is posible
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-12 A Paradigm Shift of the Heart 46:55
Rodney Smith
The true resolution of the heart is not a wavering New Year's pledge but a determination to switch the very paradigm of our life.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-01-12 Everybody has to arrive safely 55:27
Sylvia Boorstein
Providing an overview of the Metta Sutta, demonstrating how it outlines the three foundations of practice: sila, samadhi and panna. Includes an explanation of concentration as the antidote of all afflictive emotions and includes stories of travel as examples of how everyone has to arrive safely.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-11 The Practice Of Compassion 57:10
Mark Coleman
What is compassion - how do we cultivate this precious heart quality towards our own suffering and towards the suffering in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-11 Part 1: The Arc of Metta Part 2: What Compassion Isn't 64:31
Heather Martin
Part 1: How differences in this practice work for different people. Part 2: Compassion is doing nothing more than tenderly holding whatever pain arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-10 Opening to our Radiant Hearts 62:19
Donald Rothberg
Lovingkindness practice ultimately works because we are evoking our deep nature - of kindness and love, the "brightly shining" citta associated with lovingkindness. We explore how we can open to our radiant hearts through (1) learning to lead with our hearts, (2) cultivating concentration, (3) evoking love and working through what blocks love, and (4) touching more and more our depths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-10 Who Am I? Guided Meditation 39:27
Ajahn Metta
Who Am I? A guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-01-10 Who Am I? Guided Meditation 47:25
Ayya Santacitta
Who Am I? Guided Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-01-09 What we're doing here 50:58
Trudy Goodman
Mettafying the hindrances to death! This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness. How we maintain the self through excluding our vulnerability. The protection of inclusion, no one left out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-09 Loving kindness 57:01
Sharon Salzberg
A basic overview of loving kindness meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-08 Mindful of the Climate of the Heart 26:51
Sylvia Boorstein
This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2010-01-08 Sati - Mindfulness 45:28
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-01-07 "Refuge in the Sangha" 50:25
James Baraz
"Refuge in the Sangha"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-01-06 Taking Refuge 1:16:49
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught of three archetypal domains in which we awaken presence and realize freedom. In contrast to our habitual false refuges, these gateways of true refuge are dependable because they express the timeless truth of what we are. This talk shines a light on false refuges, guides us in exploring the meaning of each of the three Buddhist refuges and ends in a ritual of "taking refuge."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-01-06 Understanding This Path of Practice part 1 55:40
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-01-06 Awakening Joy- Sylvia Boorstein and James Baraz 64:13
Sylvia Boorstein
Awakening Joy -Sylvia Boorstein and James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-01-05 Courage Toward the Infinite 48:55
Rodney Smith
Radical realization requires radical discernment and a ferocious willingness to tear the Dharma apart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2010-01-04 Cultivating Parami - For The Benefit Of All Beings 60:28
Yanai Postelnik
A reflection on the ten paramis: generosity, non-harming, renunciation, effort, patience, truthfulness, equanimity, resolve, wisdom, loving kindness and the noble aspiration to develop them in the service of all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2010-01-03 Dismantling Me 45:22
Heather Martin
We begin to see(see through) the many ways we make ourselves up and keep ourselves going, finding less and less we call ME, and in the process finding our original brightness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2010-01-03 The Art of Happiness 53:22
Amma Thanasanti
Yoga Studio Sanga Gathering
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-02 Contemplating Death and the Deathless 55:37
Yanai Postelnik
Rather than being a distant or fearful concept, we can use the truth of death as a tonic which can revitalize our lives, and invites a deeper letting go, into that which lies beyond death.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2010-01-02 Last Evening 58:49
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2010-01-02 Q&A 10:19
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-02 Metta-Karuna 39:33
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-02 Upekkha-Equanimity 44:49
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-02 Spaciousness 46:31
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2010-01-01 Karma 55:28
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-01-01 From Adaptation To Surrender 42:12
Rodney Smith
The Dharma demands a paradigm shift, not a modification of our narrative.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2010-01-01 Turning Towards Our Innate Goodness 52:42
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2010-01-01 All Around the Houses 48:20
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2010-01-01 Q&A 20:49
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-01 Mudita-Joy 41:19
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-01 Karuna-Compassion 48:31
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2010-01-01 Reflections on Space 51:28
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2009-12-31 Liberating Intimacy 68:49
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2009-12-31 Breaking Through 10:08
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2009-12-31 Remembering Our Roots 15:07
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2009-12-31 Fixing Pails, Whereas Accommodating Worries 53:10
Heather Martin
The relative ineffectiveness of our old strategies for well being, compared with the effectiveness of the Buddha's radical approach.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-12-31 Metta as Mindfulness 42:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2009-12-31 Metta-Kindness 45:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2009-12-31 Standing-Sitting with the Body in Mind 53:28
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Brahma Vihara Retreat

2009-12-31 Mana - Dünkel und Iibildig - Würde u Einfachheit 52:01
Fred Von Allmen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-12-31 'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground' (A Talk on Devotion) 62:55
Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Years Retreat

2009-12-30 Coming home to an easeful breath. 62:00
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2009-12-30 Body Wisdom, Body Dharma 50:36
Yanai Postelnik
This talk explores establishing a wise and kind relationship with our body. This becomes the basis for discovering that the experience of body has much wisdom to reveal in the dharma of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-12-30 Renunciation 43:54
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2009-12-29 From Noise To Stillness 47:01
Rodney Smith
The spiritual journey can be understood as moving from the constricting and confining environment of noise to the free expanse of stillness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-12-29 Pilgrimage To The Unfabricated 50:34
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2009-12-29 Suffering and the End of Suffering 68:31
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-29 Schwierige Emotionen 48:54
Fred Von Allmen
Gift oder Futter für die Weisheit
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-12-29 Emptiness and Insight Meditation 62:25
Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Years Retreat

2009-12-28 An Uncontentious Mind 52:40
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-28 Center of the Cyclone 55:25
Myoshin Kelley
Finding peace within the turbulence of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-28 The Uncontentious Mind 52:40
Sharda Rogell
To be mindful of our present experience along with our gentle breath, can allow us to free our grasping and ill will, and allow us to feel the conditions that come and go like ocean waves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2009-12-28 Karma - unser Tun wirkt 51:58
Fred Von Allmen
Die Wirkung unseres Denkens, Redens und Handelns auf uns selbst
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-12-28 Impermanence - Gateway to Freedom 51:07
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-28 Motivation 60:00
Catherine McGee
Gaia House New Years Retreat

2009-12-27 No Part Left Out 51:31
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years

2009-12-27 Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat 44:19
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee
Gaia House Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2009-12-22 Chant - Sharing Of The Blessing 3:01
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-22 Closing Talk - "Practice Here and There - Practice Everywhere" 61:07
Marcia Rose
Taking practice out of the intensive retreat and settling into the larger world of our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-22 Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom 44:55
John Travis
The talk explores the aspects of practice of collecting the mind, intuitive insight, non-separation of a single taste, and ordinariness, through sharing stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-22 Morning Instructions 42:57
Marcia Rose
Review of instructions given in the last three days. In addition, a reflection on recognizing vitaka, vicara, piti, and sukha. When they are being experienced and to what degree with acknowledgment and appreciation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-21 Practicing with Darkness (and Light) at the Winter Solstice 55:46
Donald Rothberg
The winter solstice in our culture sometimes is close to busy and even frenzied times, yet in most cultures has been a time of deepening, stillness, and silence, like the earth. We explore four ways to practice with the darkness of the time: 1) Through stopping and stilling our habituated minds; 2) Through opening to the unknown; 3) Trhough being with what is painful or difficult; 4) Through allowing the light and the creative to emerge from darkness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-21 Putting Down the Burden of Self 52:43
Myoshin Kelley
Part 3 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of what we cling to when there is a sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-21 The Joy and Healing Capacities of Samadhi. 65:55
Pat Coffey
Deepened samadhi onto jhana is described as well as the capacity for samadhi to assist in healing trauma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-21 Morning Instructions 43:37
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-20 Challenges To Concentration 1:11:01
Pat Coffey
Benefits of samadhi, challenges to it's cultivation and practical skilful means to overcome those challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-20 Shared Values of Freedom & Clarity 29:47
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-20 Morning Instructions 27:24
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-19 Wise Concentration 67:33
Marcia Rose
An overview of the teaching of sila/virtues, samadhi/concentration and panna/wisdom - insight with a detailed emphasis on the practice and fruits of concentration practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-19 Body Scan 25:20
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-19 Morning Instructions 54:43
Pat Coffey
Emphasizing the cultivation of greater samadhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-19 Mind The Gap 49:44
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Stillness, Clarity and Freedom

2009-12-18 Opening Talk with refuges and precepts 1:16:25
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-18 "I am a Bad Meditator": Seeing through the Illusion of Self 62:09
Eugene Cash
How mindfulness works with the construct of self - exploring the dynamic between self and not self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-18 Opening Talk For Stillness, Clarity and Freedon Retreat 50:01
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Stillness, Clarity and Freedom

2009-12-17 The World Was Made to Be Free In: Mindfulness as the Path to Freedom 44:39
Pamela Weiss
This talk explores the Buddha's path to awakening, his encounters with Mara, and the power of Mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-17 Willing to become vulnerable; willing to become part of the family of life 54:55
Arinna Weisman
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-12-16 Footsteps of the Buddha: The Highest Happiness is Peace 60:51
Howard Cohn
The Path of Practice seen through prism of the Buddha's Life; updated but similar to talks on Happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-16 Awakening from the Trance of Separation 1:15:04
Tara Brach
This talk explores both our perception and feelings of separation, and the capacity, through a wise attention, to move from judgment and reactivity to the full flowering of love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-12-16 Channeling Energy into the Four Exertions 56:06
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-16 Closing Remarks and Q&A 56:28
Thanissara
Not being frightened of suffering, daily life, working in relationship and with sickness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-16 Touching Earth 7:04
Thanissara
Centering in the midst of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-16 Practicing With Views II 57:24
Donald Rothberg
The Buddha's teaching on views and beliefs is radical, pointing to how we might investigate our attachments to and grasping after views and come to hold views much more lightly. How do we practice with views? We offer a number of further perspectives, from the Buddha and Nagarjuna, and practices to work with views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-15 The Host and the Guest 27:30
Kittisaro
Wisdom surmounts all conditions. All condition merge in the deathless. A contemplation of the 3rd Noble Truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-15 Ten Paramis: Equanimity (2) 46:18
Rodney Smith
There are a number of ways to incline the mind toward the discovery of equanimity. Each perception of equanimity has a training explored in this discourse.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-12-15 Take Heart 32:22
Kittisaro
Balance within practice. A compassionate response. From is emptiness, emptiness is form. The gift of fearlessness. The way of generosity, kindness and integrity.
Dharmagiri

2009-12-14 The Rub of Life 51:22
Myoshin Kelley
Part 2 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of that which by it's nature is unsatisfactory.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-14 The Four Truths 54:33
Thanissara
The Buddha's journey of awakeningspeaks to our lives here and now. Meeting dukka, illuminating nature of desire, a non-grasping mind and cultivation of the way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

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