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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2005-09-24
Faith & Doubt
1:18:48
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Truths of the observer require you simply to observe things and try to figure them out. Truths of the will, which cover relationships are skills, are things you have to bring into being or they never become a reality. In this area faith, confidence, and conviction make all the difference.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-09-14
Even As A Mother
43:16
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Can we fearlessly accept all that life gives with a wise and compassionate heart? We see how the sun shines unilaterally on all beings giving life and nourishment. But we must use sharp wisdom to discern what is harmful and abandon that; and to know what is wholesome and cultivate that. Even as a mother, may we emulate the Buddha's compassion that flows without bias in all directions across millenia.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-09-09
Death
60:21
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Coming to terms with the inevitability of your own death and the death of those you love. If you wait until the time of death in order to think about these things, it's a huge shock. This is one of the reasons the Buddha has you contemplate if before death.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-09-06
Committee Mind
63:55
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Using the analogy of the 'committee mind' to free yourself from the tendency to identify with every thought that comes into the mind; using the breath as a secure place to extract yourself from the committee discussions and gain a new perspective on them.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-08-23
Psychic Leanings of the Mind
64:38
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Rodney Smith
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Watch any tendency to lean into a problem or situation. Is the leaning motivated by a resistance to the situation or by a desire to push your own agenda? Are you willing to drop what you want and ask, Where is the vertical stance in this moment? Start by finding easier ways to practice this vertical posture (standing in a slow-moving line at a grocery store or frozen in traffic), and then progress to the more difficult situations (with family or at work). What is the value to yourself and others of standing vertically rather than pushing forward or leaning backward?
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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2005-08-21
Skillful Emotions
61:04
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The path involves learning how to marshal various emotions--grief, joy, desire, disgust, gladness, dispassion--some of which are normally regarded as negative. But they have their uses, so learn how to cultivate them all along the way. Without these emotions, the practice doesn't go anywhere. With them it can take you to release.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-08-12
The Body
1:19:12
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Awareness filling the body is the foundation of your meditation. It provides a sense of solidity throughout the interactions of life, and ultimately is the means for encountering the Deathless.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-08-07
Suffering
1:20:17
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The mind is always creating thought worlds that make us suffer. To get beyond this suffering, you have to confront the fears that force the mind to keep creating these worlds.
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2005-08-07
Passing Away
35:32
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Jose Reissig
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This talk addresses the passing away of experiences, like that of a retreat, of a relationship, or of self. They become unproblematic when clinging ends, when the "thingness" of experience drops out.
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Garrison Institute
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2005-08-06
The Middle Way Is Not The Ostrich Way
41:03
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Jose Reissig
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In our efforts to avoid the trap of polarities—like pleasant/unpleasant, or good/evil— we may fall into the trap of avoidance, i.e. of ignorance. The true Middle Way results from the wisdom of a well-trained mind, capable of seeing through deception whether initiated by self or by other.
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Garrison Institute
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2005-08-05
Arising
31:08
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Jose Reissig
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Arisings that occur "out there" trigger their match in the screen of our mind. In the arising of experiences—like with the experience of community life and of individual life—there is also the opportunity to experience awareness itself.
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Garrison Institute
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