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Dharma Talks
2009-03-09 Practicing with feeling/vedana 42:46
Ajahn Metta
Guided meditation on using mindfulness in regards to sense contact and vedana/feeling arising, practicing with feeling/vedana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2009-03-08 Feeling/Vedana Arising 53:03
Ajahn Metta
Looking into the 2nd foundation of mindfulness - pleasant, neutral and unpleasant feeling arising.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2009-03-07 Mindfulness is the light of human consciousness 53:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is held up as the one thing in Dhamma practice, but although it’s important, it works along with a range of factors. Descriptions of mindfulness applied to the aspects of the 8-fold path are given.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-02-23 The Joy Of Mindfulness 51:40
Sylvia Boorstein
Based on the concept that mindfulness cultivates insights which lead to wisdom to manifest as compassion that is experienced as joy, this talk is about 1) the joy of awakened physical awareness, 2) the joy of psychological clarity, 3) the joy of knowing universal truth, 4) the joy of service and 5) the joy of realizing the basic goodness of human beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-22 Wise Speech 48:34
Caroline Jones
This talk explores ways of practicing speech that are true, useful and timely. By learning to speak and listen with mindfulness, kindness, restraint and honesty, we deepen our understanding of how to bring more happiness and less suffering into the world.
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2009-02-18 Exploring Craving 62:24
Carol Wilson
This talk encourages us to explore the gratification, danger and escape in our personal experience of clinging; with the intention to understand rather than to judge. Meeting our experience with mindfulness/wisdom is the practice of non-clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-15 Mindfulness Part 2 61:52
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2009-02-14 Mindfulness Part 1 1:22:49
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2009-02-09 How Mind Habits Change 58:04
Sylvia Boorstein
Beginning with the hypothesis that the natural mind, unconfused by fixed views or hindrance energies, is clear and buoyant and conducive to happiness; this talk specifically details the ways in which concentration, mindfulness, effort and good will(Metta) work to lesson attachment to view and afflictive emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-03 Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of the World 1:14:07
Rob Burbea
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

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