2002-07-13 A Care for the Present moment 1:33:43
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2002-07-13 Metta and the Purification of the heart 54:48
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen

2002-07-12 Jhana Factors 44:41
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Kittisaro

2002-07-08 Perfection of Energy 46:47
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-07-08 Reflection And Insight 34:37
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk describes the use of contemplation and reflection in the meditation practice and explains the difference between reflective and discursive thought.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-07 Refuge In The Triple Gem 41:52
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk includes reflections on the practical and transcendent aspects of going to the Triple Gem of refuge.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-05 Learning To Live In Real Time (Part Iii) 1:14:40
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-04 Taming Karmic Impulses 46:58
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
As meditators, we develop the capacity to relate anew to sensory input so that we are less and less preoccupied with the content of sensations, feelings and thoughts. From this new vantage point we are more able to see the clinging that leads to suffering.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-04 A Positive Attitude 42:27
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen
Developing a positive attitude as much as we can throughout the day is an essential development of practice. Hindrances to it are explored and a few suggestions are offered.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-03 Learning To Live In Real Time (Ii) 47:00
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-03 Keeping the Faith 57:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-07-03 Visit with Yanai and Katherine 34:23
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2002-07-01 Renunciation 62:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-30 Not Here, Not There 34:24
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
We often make a division, a duality, between a retreat and daily life. Is there reality in this division or it is a projection of our mind?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-29 Embrace Of Suffering And 9/11 47:12
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-06-29 Inquiry 54:25
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Christopher engages in individual inquiry at the frong of the hall with five yogis at a retreat at spirit rock.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-06-29 Introduction To The Retreat, Refuges And Precepts 60:58
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Importance of taking refuge as a ritual and as a practice in itself. The precepts cannot develop unless they're rooted in the practice and in the refuges. Basic meditation instructions and word of encouragement.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-06-29 Responsibility 45:04
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
What prevents me from being responsible here and now? Be aware of superficial explanations about your circumstances or busyness. Continue to ask the question through the range of excuses. Whenever the mind stops and says, "This is the reason," pause, and ask yourself if this is true. Is your ability to hold responsibility strengthened through living this question?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2002-06-29 Embrace Of Suffering And 9/11 46:40
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-24 Q&A 66:26
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-24 Questions and Answers 65:53
Jack Kornfield, Ajahn Sundara, Tami Postlenik	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-23 From Self Judgement To Being Yourself 31:02
Diana Winston	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-06-22 Happiness And The Obstacles To Happiness 37:39
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
This talk describes how meditation leads to an increased sense of presence and acceptance in our lives. It also describes how to work with thoughts in a skillful way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-06-17 Virtuous Heart 59:18
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-15 Seeing The Feeling In The Feeling 46:47
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2002-06-14 Opening Kwan Yin Dharmas 54:41
Thanissara	Download Listen
Unifying wisdom and compassion, cultivating Bodhisattva Heart, use of prayer.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-14 Taking Refuge In The Dhamma (Truth) 46:42
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
As we learn to trust the Dhamma we learn to trust our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-06-12 Faith Practices of the Third Zen Patriarch 63:23
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2002-06-11 Cultivating A Peaceful Abiding Echo 30:46
Thanissara	Download Listen

2002-06-10 Generosity 66:32
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-09 Navigating Through The Darkness 47:48
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Developing a taste for the truth rather than being lost in the darkness of our complicated evasions of the truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-06-08 Vipassana Meditation In Daily Life 46:07
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Focus on bringing to our daily lives and relationships the same vitality, motivation and interest that characterizes our formal meditation practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2002-06-06 Metta & Intention 59:28
Carol Wilson	Download Listen

2002-06-05 Self Knowing - A Quiet Passion (6) 1:46:15
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2002-06-05 Mindfulness as Intuition Practice 1:11:29
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-05 The Essence Of Love And Wisdom 59:42
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
What do our hearts truly need and want? How does loving ourselves and others happen? How does the heart open the essence of love and wisdom?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-06-03 Tending the Garden of the Heart 59:33
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-02 Sublime Contingency 41:51
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-02 Brahma Vihara - Metta 29:25
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-06-01 Emptiness, Empathy, & Acts 48:36
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-01 Right Speech 2 33:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen

2002-06-01 The Nature of Cessation 57:16
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-01 Giving Birth To Lovingkindness 54:07
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Different ways that Lovingkindness practice offers us levels of protection, concentration and deep understanding.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-05-31 The Five Nama Factors, Non-grasping and Emptiness 51:11
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-31 The Nature of Fixation 61:18
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 The Contingent Nature of Consciousness 59:16
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 The Cultivation of Intelligence 50:26
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 One Dharma 1:43:30
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
The new western Buddhism is a deep pragmatism that harkens back to the Buddha himself. It is allegiance to a very simple question: “what works to free the mind from suffering?”
New York Insight Meditation Center

2002-05-29 Memorial Day Re-dedication to Peace 58:09
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-29 Thai Forest Teachings 2:01:45
Ajahn Jamnian	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-29 Verses from the Center, Opening Talk, Meditation Instructions 52:14
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-27 Untitled with Ajahn Jumnien 1:53:50
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-05-23 The Three Characteristics 55:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The three characteristics of existence -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- summarize the state of this world as in constant dissolution. Yet, a refuge can be found in an ever-available awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-22 Three Characteristics 56:12
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How being with and understanding suffering and it's causes leads to deep insights into the nature of Anicca and Anatta. Ways of working with impermanence and "non-self" in our lives and practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-05-21 Radical Acceptance 51:34
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The Buddha taught that suffering arises when we want life to be different than it is. Radical acceptance cuts through grasping and aversion and reveals the freedom of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-05-20 Buddha and the Devil 66:05
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-18 Opening Talk 63:10
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-05-18 Jack Kornfield and Others (Unknown) 65:28
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-18 Interest, attention, contact 55:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2002-05-15 Self Knowing - A Quiet Passion (5) 1:33:13
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2002-05-14 Integrity, Strength, Empowerment 59:54
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2002-05-13 What Do You Rest Your Heart Upon ? 51:13
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2002-05-13 The One Who Knows 54:18
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-12 Renunciation and Letting Go 53:50
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2002-05-11 Homelessness 34:50
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2002-05-10 If I Pay Attention, I Am Kind 69:14
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Recapitulation of how mindfulness works to condition the strengthening of the paramitas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-05-08 Faith as a Spiritual Faculty 50:30
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-08 Unseating The Inner Tyrant 60:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Wholesome path factors and the obstacle to realizing them—the “inner tyrant” of critical mindset. The dwelling on suffering, rather than upon the cessation, and means of unseating this from the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-06 Take the One Seat 65:23
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-02 Wise Speech 63:10
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-01 Feeling Our Pain 61:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-01 Others Opening Talks 62:24
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-05-01 Working With Difficulty 48:27
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
How to work skillfully with difficult body sensations, emotions, or mental states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-29 Trusting Our Practice Of Awakening Wisdom 45:13
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Practicing choosing to "show up" for our experience because we are aware that we are here to learn as much as we can spiritually. This leads to trusting our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-28 Closing Guided Meditation: Sharing Awareness 43:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-27 Alignment to Wholeness 1:13:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-27 Resonance and Mindfulness 68:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-26 Skillful Means and Pure Awareness 54:05
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-26 Guided Standing Meditation 46:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-25 Emptiness - It's Just This 66:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Distilling the salient forms that are settling. Handling material. The ground of relative emptiness—”it’s just this.” Kamma formations, self, the making much of “do, do, do” and emptying that. Pleasure and protection, taking what you need. Subjectivity as opposed to self. Panic—do we have the spaciousness to learn?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-25 Timeliness 66:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Embodied time - a sense of timeliness - is a useful reference; by relaxing into it, we move out of hyper and hypo states and return to grounded awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-24 Questions and Answers 1:15:13
Ajahn Sucitto, Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-24 Body, posture, breathing 49:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2002-04-24 The Rapturous Ground Of Being 63:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Describes the “ground of being” as the enlightenment factors. Rapture is a key to the support and uplift of this ground.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-23 Sparklers For Them 48:03
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen

2002-04-23 Body - Posture - Breathing 46:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instructions on establishing the posture for full and easeful breathing. Instructions on maintaining awareness through breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 Gratitude And Trust 52:43
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How to be in the moment in the face of life difficulties. How to live “into life” in the presence of loss and death. The power of gratitude and trust, and ways to cultivate them as mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-04-22 The Ground Of Relative Emptiness 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
This ground is empty of hindrances, the underlying ground of the enlightenment factors. It is accessible through samatha practice, vipassana practice, or just in being present.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 It's Good To Be Home 64:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Presence, being totally here, is a shared and sharing experience. Before committing to the “doingness” of meditation, check in with the “here-ness.” It is the underlying home of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-21 Layers Of Conditionality 1:10:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our experience of identity can be classified on terms of bodily, emotive, cognitive processes/structures. The cognitive layer especially gets distorted with compulsions and judgements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Embodiment and Disembodiment 1:17:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Tonality As The Key To Awakening 60:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Overview of the process of awakening of which meditation forms a part - not the whole. All awakening processes are accompanied by a wholesome tonality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-19 Opening Talk with Beginning and Ending Chanting 62:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-16 Compassion And Wisdom 66:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk looks at the intimate connection between wisdom and compassion. Insight into the three characteristics leads to compassion. Compassion needs to be tempered by wisdom so it does not become misguided or superior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-15 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 62:07
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-04-14 Non-Grasping 69:37
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk explores the process of grasping, which limits and reduces us. It also looks at non-grasping in various areas or our life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-12 The Four Great Efforts 46:15
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Balancing between cultivating wholesome qualities and not pursuing them as ends in themselves is the art of Buddhism.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-11 Reflections On Emptiness 50:28
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Buddha described emptiness as the abode of the great person. It is an understanding, seen so clearly in nature, that is possible for us to see in our own nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-10 Working With Thoughts - Papanca 1:10:43
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Working skillfully with the thinking mind. Understanding how perceptual distortion and mental proliferation obscures the truth and takes us away from the present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-08 Awakening Is Always Possible 61:49
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Seeking the sacred. The possibility of awakening exists in every moment. We all can sense our potential for bringing compassion to present world conflict. Stories of India and questions about the Middle East.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center