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Dharma 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 All Around the Houses 48:20
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

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

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 Remembering Our Roots 15:07
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2009-12-31 Breaking Through 10:08
Ayya Santacitta
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 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 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 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

2009-12-14 Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper 42:07
Thanissara
Centrality of mindfulness in the contemplative process. Khandas as self structure. Transformation within the womb of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-13 If you understand one thing, you understand everything's journey 45:58
Thanissara
Meeting Ajahn Chah, All that arises passes. Patience and finding your own voice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-13 The Judging Mind 47:23
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-12-13 The Hard Things That Open the Heart 47:58
James Baraz
The Hard Things That Open the Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2009-12-13 The Hard Things That Open The Heart 36:51
Rick Hanson
The Hard Things That Open the Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2009-12-13 Reading the Book of the Heart 38:13
Kittisaro
Hindrances as the teacher, cultivating trust. Mindfulness is the path to the deathless. That which knows doubt isn't doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-12 The Map Of The Five Indriyas 57:21
Thanissara
The five indriyas in their four aspects. The balance of trudst and discernment. Path activity breaks up obstruction, the fruit arises according to its own nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-12 Guided Meditation 26:54
Thanissara
Working with the three steams of energy, being with breath
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-12 Loving Kindness 57:27
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Retreat

2009-12-11 Compassion 52:42
Christina Feldman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center MBSR

2009-12-11 Wings Of Awakening Opening 49:51
Kittisaro
That which inclines the mind to Nibbana, original brightness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-11 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Retreat 69:18
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Retreat

2009-12-10 Shower the People with Love 46:04
James Baraz
This is a talk about establishing healing and reconciliation on both a personal and a community level. The Buddha taught was "As long as followers of the Way hold regular and frequent assemblies, they may be expected to prosper and not decline. As long as they meet in harmony, carry on their business in harmony, and break up in harmony, they may be expected to prosper and not decline."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-12-10 Forgiveness 42:25
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-12-09 Longing to Belong 1:20:06
Tara Brach
Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes guided meditations in exploring each gateway.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-12-09 By Not Holding to Fixed Views 60:37
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-08 Wise Mindfulness 54:09
Christina Feldman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center MBSR

2009-12-07 Sangha, the value of community 58:03
Mark Coleman
The Buddha spoke highly of the value of Sangha, as a refuge and a support for practice & understanding. This talk explores what Sangha is & its positive values.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-07 It Wasn't Meant to Last 57:40
Myoshin Kelley
Part 1 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploring change as a fact of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-06 Energy and Intimacy Part 2 60:44
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-06 The Innernet 45:13
Jose Reissig
This newly coined term refers to the web of connections with our inner life, which remains largely unspoiled by conventionality. The Innernet stands as an invaluable tool for our trying times, and for the even more difficult times to come.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2009-12-05 Autobiography In Five Short Chapters 52:58
Christina Feldman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center MBSR

2009-12-05 Why Do We Have To Be Human? 17:46
Ayya Medhanandi
Meditation is a renewable resource. “Why do we have to be human? O not because happiness exists – but because being in this Dharma realm means so much.” Our spiritual work reveals how we must hold the mind – as refuge, safety, and protection from harm. This is the basis for true happiness. We pay attention to what is impermanent and thereby discover deeper treasure, knowing Reality, the truest renewable resource. With the ego disabled from consciousness, we transcend beyond the bonds and blindness of our human existence.
The Dharma Centre

2009-12-05 We Are That Song 18:37
Ayya Medhanandi
Our suffering may feel too great or the mountain look too high. But we are resilient and we have it in us to do this work, to walk this path – if we can give up thoughts of self-cherishing and feel compassion for ourselves and for all beings. The fruit of this work is a treasure to be gained even in the smallest instant of awareness. With radical patience, just make peace with one moment of painful feeling. Then offer up the pain or misery. From the ashes of suffering, we turn inward to the clarity of the mind. Stay fully present in awareness, listening to that silence. Such a song comes – the pure sound of this awareness. That's what we are. We are that song.
Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)

2009-12-05 Beginner's Mind 37:58
Jose Reissig
An invitation to reinstate our genuine and uncorrupted beginner's mind.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2009-12-05 Wilderness of the Heart 59:18
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Wilderness of the Heart

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