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2017-03-30 Visions of the Beyond 1:44:13
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-30 Energy Body and Image (Q & A) 45:45
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-30 Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation) 37:40
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-30 Your Body as Beloved Other (Guided Lying Meditation) 55:37
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-29 Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts 52:38
Tara Brach
This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixated on substitute gratifications. We then explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-29 Mindfulness and the Relational Field 57:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-03-29 Wanting What You Want, and Senses as Portals of Soulmaking 57:25
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-29 Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A) 40:24
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-29 Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire 30:12
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-28 Passionate Love 61:16
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-28 Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A) 43:11
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-28 Twoness and Renunciation: 2nd Practice 14:10
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-28 Instructions: Letting Go 27:27
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-27 Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul 1:29:23
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-27 Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A) 30:02
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-27 Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation) 54:30
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-27 The Practice and the Art of Twoness: Intro and 1st Practice 28:47
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-27 Instructions: Energy Body 22:04
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-26 What Does Your Heart Burn For? Brief Intro to Soulmaking 15:19
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-26 The Problem of Desire 58:16
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-18 Mindfulness and Interest for Insight 47:11
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2017-03-18 2017 4NT Retreat- Right Effort : Right Mindfulness : Right Concentration 59:21
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2017 Four Noble Truths Retreat

2017-03-18 Mindfulness Of Body and Breathing 55:21
Jill Shepherd
Instructions and guided meditation, beginning with body scan, inviting ease, in mindfulness of breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-10 Introduction to Mindfulness (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 5:43:38
Mark Coleman
Insight Meditation is a profoundly liberating practice that is a path to genuine well-being, happiness and freedom. In the daylong, you will immerse yourself in the beautiful quality of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-04 The five spiritual faculties. 60:31
Winnie Nazarko
This talk describes how faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom function in anapanna practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-03 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension - Mode 2 62:28
Sayadaw U Jagara
General explanations related to "sati-sampajanna"(M. and C. C.) As a basic mode of being in the world, with the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
Attached Files:
  • 2017-03-03 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension (PDF)

2017-03-02 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness: 7 Factors of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:34
Nikki Mirghafori
In this retreat talk, the 7 factors of awakening-with examples are explained; particularly with respect to long retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-02 Introduction to the Gradual Training 1:11:28
Sayadaw U Jagara
The "why" of a gradual training and a general explanation of the chants, especially with the first mode of mindfulness as protecting and guarding.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
Attached Files:
  • 2017-03-02 Introduction to the Gradual Training (PDF)

2017-02-28 Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:36
Ruth King
This talk explores the 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: mind states that lead to suffering and freedom, and our responsibility to care for the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-02-27 Grasping and Creative Engagement 53:46
Martine Batchelor
Looking into experiencing degrasping directly and indirectly through cultivating meditation and mindfulness. How can we creatively engaged with self, others, material things, etc in our daily life.
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2017-02-26 Mindfulness of the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:10
Adrianne Ross
Sattipathana, First Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-02-26 31 short talk: Right Speech 14:47
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of Right Speech and the qualities that support it: mindfulness and the brahma vihara practices
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 3 Kinds of Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:10
Sally Armstrong
To develop any skill, to fully cultivate any qualities in our lives, particularly on the Buddhist path, we need to engage with three kinds of intention that operate on different time frames. Cetana is the moment to moment intention, the urge to do, that we can bring into the field of our mindfulness practice. The next level, Adhitthana, is usually translated as resolve or determination, and is one of the paramis. The highest level is Samma Sankappa, usually translated as right or wise intention. This is the second path factor, after right view, so it is the kind of intention developed by right view. There are three kinds of Right intention - the intention towards renunciation, non-ill will, and non-harming. These skillful intentions can then inform our choices and actions (Adhitthanas) , which we keep in mind through awareness of moment to moment intentions, or cetana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 18 instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 16:15
Jill Shepherd
Introduction to the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and skilful ways of relating to thoughts
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 14 instructions: different qualities of mindfulness 14:21
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of different qualities of mindfulness, including the technique of mental noting and more open forms of awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 11 instructions: Second Foundation of Mindfulness - vedana or feeling-tone 10:17
Jill Shepherd
A short exploration of the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, vedana or feeling-tone, as the basic recognition of any sense contact as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2) 1:41:55
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-20 07 instructions: vedana or feeling-tone 10:35
Jill Shepherd
Refining the First Foundation of Mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, in terms of physical sensations
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 06 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 25:23
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 05 instructions: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 16:51
Jill Shepherd
An overview and various definitions of mindfulness, then instructions for practising mindfulness of breathing in two different styles: for calm and insight
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing 9:09
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for mindfulness of breathing practice, emphasising tranquility
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 15:35
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation practising mindfulness of breathing, with an emphasis on calm and ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 Discovering ease on a path of awareness. 51:31
Michael Grady
Mindfulness, attitude, effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center A Path of Awakening: Mindfulness, Lovingkindness and Discernment

2017-02-19 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) 1:51:30
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-19 Noble Eightfold Path 12: Right Mindfulness Right Concentration 32:23
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration, including an overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-18 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 58:58
Sally Armstrong
The Fourth Foundation in the Satipatthana Sutta provides a profound map for our vipassana practice, pointing again and again to how to relate wisely to all experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-18 Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2) 1:19:13
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-18 How Compassion is Present in a mMoment of Mindfulness 51:52
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC winter 2017

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