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Dharma Talks
2007-02-28 The Mind and the Way: Right View & Right Intention 55:59
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-28 Learning How To Live - part 3 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 57:45
Larry Rosenberg
Part 3 continues the same theme The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-27 Q&A 02-27-07 53:28
Michael Grady
Question and answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-26 Learning How To Live - part 2 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 52:37
Larry Rosenberg
Part 2 continues the same theme The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-26 The Path Of Meditation And Nature 49:37
Mark Coleman
What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-26 The Path Of Meditation And Nature 49:15
Mark Coleman
What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-02-25 The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom 53:31
Michael Grady
The power of mindfulness and self knowing frees our hearts and minds of the burden of past conditioning, opening us to a creative process learning and unconditional relaxation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-24 The Art Of Acceptance (2 Of 2) 65:22
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-24 Learning How To Live - part 1 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 48:22
Larry Rosenberg
The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-24 Four Noble Truths 46:24
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom

2007-02-23 Through The Looking Glass-The Reality Of No-Self 61:54
Marcia Rose
Can we look into the clear mirror of the dhamma? Can we face the "looking glass" with a willingness and humility and keep looking into this mirror of our 'self' without interpretation or judgement? It is only then that we begin to see and know the impersonality of presently arisen thoughts, censations,feelings and states of mind. Can we keep looking until we begin to experience and know that it's not all about "me" and teach the heart/the mind of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-23 Opening Talk for the Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom 1:18:27
Jake Dartington
this talk also includes Caroline Jones and Chris Cullen
Gaia House Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom

2007-02-21 The Mind and the Way: Realizing the Cessation of Stress 60:48
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-20 Selfing, Love and Compassion 53:16
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-19 Habits 53:37
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-18 Contact and Feeling 49:07
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-17 You Are Not It; It Is You! 67:10
Eugene Cash
How the three characteristics function to reveal the mystery of everyday life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening Natural Wisdom of the Heart

2007-02-17 Meditation in Everyday Life 53:10
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-16 Mindfulness And Transformation Of Emotional States 1:15:39
Marcia Rose
The Buddha offers us a recipe for cultivating a strong and clear mindful attention that's grounded in kindness and patience that meets the experience of the moment and sees it clearly, just as it is. We can learn to experience afflictive emotions without getting caught up or swept away and overcome by them. It's as though we learn to see them so clearly, that we see through them, just like we see through the colors of a rainbow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-14 The Mind and the Way: Letting Go of Attachment 55:30
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-13 Spiritual Passion 52:02
James Baraz
Passion for practice fuels our effort. There are different sources of spiritual passion (four Iddhipadas) that correspond to different temperaments: zeal, effort, love of the Dharma and urgency.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-12 Preferences and Desires 49:51
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-11 Speech, Impermanence & Beauty 51:19
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-02-10 The Body In The Body-The First Domain Of Mindfulness 63:40
Marcia Rose
Paying attention...a non-judgemental, non-manipulative, non-grasping, non-rejecting, kind of attention to the body in the body...just the body as such...not one's feeling, ideas, concerns, or interpretations about it. How do we know the body? How are we established in this first domain of mindfulness? Are you looking in the right place and in the right way for the happiness that you are seeking?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-10 Being who You Are 52:24
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who You Are

2007-02-09 Taking Metta Into Our Life 54:15
Mark Coleman
Taking the practice of loving kindness into our lives, relationships and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-09 Opening Talk for Being who You Are 1:14:37
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who You Are

2007-02-08 Generosity - The Verb of Metta 52:10
Gina Sharpe
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-02-08 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 4 1:18:47
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-08 Generosity - The Verb Of Metta 52:07
Gina Sharpe
Transforming kindness into action
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-08 Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens 61:59
James Baraz
The five Spiritual Faculties describe the importance of balance as well as explain the process of intensive practice. Faith leads to effort which develops mindfulness, which cultivates concentration which flowers as wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-08 Equanimity in Compassion 1:13:36
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-07 Aspiration 54:58
Sharon Salzberg
Aspiration
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-06 Sunyata and Ethics 66:39
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-06 Compassion And Mudita 57:10
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how the heart of metta develops into compassion as it meets suffering in oneself and the world and becomes appreciative joy as it meets the happiness of others
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-05 Equanimity - Evenness Of Mind 59:04
Gina Sharpe
Equanimity - evenness of mind- as a formation and support of metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-04 Love and Emptiness 1:22:52
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-04 Obstacles To Metta 56:49
Mark Coleman
This Talk explores some of the common obstacles to the development of Metta. In particular the force of aversion, self hatred and the "critic"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-04 Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena 34:58
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-03 The Power of Equanimity 1:13:25
John Peacock
The Buddha exhorted his followers to live a balanced life. Equanimity (uppekha) is at the heart of balance in an individual's life and is vitally important in our interpersonal relations.
Gaia House Gentle Joy and Equanimity

2007-02-03 Metta 50:40
Sharon Salzberg
Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-02 Faith 44:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-02-02 Gentle Joy - Mudita 62:40
John Peacock
Gaia House Gentle Joy and Equanimity

2007-02-02 Sunyata 66:01
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-02 Samvega-Spiritual Urgency 53:24
Marcia Rose
What moves you towards spiritual practice? We are stirred and moved and inspired to practice through various experiences that goes on within our own body-mind process and by phoenomena that goes on in the world around us. Listen to stories of people being stirred to a sense of samvega-spiritual urgency from the time of the Buddha, right up to stories from our time-now.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-02 Opening Talk Metta 2-2-07 57:43
Sharon Salzberg
Opening Talk
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-01 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 3 49:36
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-01 The Practice of Compassion 1:25:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-31 Mindfulness And Papanca - part 2 57:37
Donald Rothberg
We focus, in this record of two talks, on the nature of Papanca or “conceptual proliferation” its roots in compulsive craving and aversion, and a number of different ways to work skillfully with Papanca.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-01-31 Anatta - NotSelf 66:07
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-30 Dependent Origination And Love 1:26:30
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-29 Eight Fold Noble Path - Part 2 5:56
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Given at Kyaswa Monastery in the Sagaing Hills of Burma. Translated by Jake Davis. Year is correct, exact date unknown.
Vipassana Hawai'i

2007-01-28 Tanha and Transformation 44:10
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-01-28 Eight Fold Noble Path - Part 1 11:19
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Given at Kyaswa Monastery in the Sagaing Hills of Burma. Translated by Jake Davis. Year is correct, exact date unknown.
Vipassana Hawai'i

2007-01-27 From Insight to Love 1:19:07
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-25 Finding Right Response 45:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-25 Three Characteristics 53:13
Susan O'Brien
Freeing the mind through understanding impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-01-25 Expressions of Metta 66:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-24 Mindfulness and Papanca 59:43
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-24 The Mind and the Way 63:45
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-01-22 Samadhi in Metta Practice 67:03
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-20 Balance, All Positions = No Position 41:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-20 Dawn of Contemplation 41:34
Thanissara
Gaia House Dawn of Contemplation

2007-01-19 Metta and Daily Life -- Widening Circles 61:30
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-19 Opening Talk from Dawn of Contemplation 41:34
Thanissara
Gaia House Dawn of Contemplation

2007-01-18 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 1 1:14:35
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-01-17 The Dharma and the Life and Work Of Martin Luther King 53:09
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-17 The Dharma And Martin Luther King, Jr 52:39
Donald Rothberg
At this time of King’s birthday, we use the Vietnamese Buddhist recent understanding of three core areas of the Dharma- wisdom, compassion and courage with each we examine both the teachings of the Buddha and the life and work of King, playing several of his talks.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-01-16 Intention, Becoming and 'good enough' 44:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-15 The Transformative Power Of Metta 33:56
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-15 Wisdom of Martin Luther King 57:48
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-14 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness and Compassion As A Path to Awakening 65:40
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-13 Watching, Fragmentation and Meeting 54:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-12 Stability With and Without Support 45:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-12 Metta For Self, Metta For The World 63:07
Donald Rothberg
Metta to self is traditionally a starting point for Metta practice. Yet this is challenging for many of us as we work with our pain, judgments and demons. As we develop in Metta to self, we bring Metta out into the world, which deeply needs it. This requires a lot of creativity. We end by exploring the coverage needed to bring Metta into the world, and the need for a "tough metta" -- a Metta able to respond to difficult situations, a Metta that is neither passive nor a pushover.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2007-01-11 Form, Formlessness and Nibbana 40:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-11 The Jewels Of Letting Go 55:13
Heather Martin
Metta softens and relaxes us, so we can drop our endless struggles and fall into the freedom of sweet relief.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2007-01-10 What Comes Next In Our Wild, Precious Lives? Part 2 36:34
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-09 Sangha: The Strength in Gathering 44:43
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2007-01-09 Easing Into The Great River 48:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-07 Finding Balance Through The Body 32:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-06 Balance Through The Body - Sitting Posture 44:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-06 Modes Of Attention - The Four Noble Truths 51:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-05 Alignment Of Body, Thought And Mind 31:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-01-03 What Comes Next In Our Wild, Precious Lives? Part 1 57:47
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-03 What Comes Next In Our Wild, Precious Lives? - part 1 57:24
Donald Rothberg
In our lives we often ask: "What comes next?" in my practice, in my life. We may feel stuck, or energized but not know how to manifest concretely in our lives. We explore the nature of our wold unfolding and some practical ways to tune into "what wants to come next?"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-01-03 The Risk Of Mindfulness 37:19
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat

2007-01-03 The Risk Of Mindfulness 37:04
Narayan Helen Liebenson
To be mindful is oftentimes perceived as a risk because it challenges our habits. By taking the risk of being present with all things, we move from the known to the unknown.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-01-02 Reality And Response 51:37
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on how the wisdom of the dharma empowers us to respond creatively to the way things are. Based on a poem by a 14th century samurai warrior
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat

2007-01-01 Refuge and Renewal 68:53
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-01-01 New Year Reflections 31:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2007-01-01 The Governing Laws Of The Mind 45:31
Rodney Smith
The law that the sense of self is part of the mind and not outside of it, sets the entire framework of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat

2007-01-01 Control: How Much Do I Have? 52:10
Sharda Rogell
'Doing' can create a lot of stress. As I examine and let go of habitual patterns, I open to the freshness of not knowing and experience a wise and direct engagement with life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-12-31 The Stories and Poems of the early Buddhist and Nuns 63:58
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-12-31 New Year's Eve Talk 50:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2006-12-31 The One And The Many 46:16
Narayan Helen Liebenson
practicing with support, comfort and protection in community
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-12-31 Views In Practice (...They make all the difference) 56:58
Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Year's Retreat

2006-12-30 The Four Right Efforts 55:15
Adrianne Ross
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-12-29 Disappointment 47:55
Christina Feldman
Gaia House New Year's Retreat

2006-12-29 Radical Accountabilty 46:55
Rodney Smith
Being accountable as the mind blankets the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat

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