2007-08-20 The Four Noble Truths 54:45
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Discovering the nature of suffering and liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Your Life is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-08 Understanding The Four Noble Truths 62:49
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
The four noble truths are the essence of the Buddha's liberating wisdom

2007-07-22 Satipatthana 4: The Four Noble Truths 1:27:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-06 The Four Noble Truths And Obstacles To Practice 56:52
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the common obstacles to practice the Five Hindrances of: restlessness, sleepiness, doubt, grasping and aversion. The Hindrances are discussed in the context of the Buddha’s central teaching on the Four Noble Truths.

2007-06-27 Contemplating The Four Noble Truths 1:31:37
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-06-13 Inquiry And Investigation - part 3 43:33
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue exploring the nature and methods of inquiry, the freshness, openness, interest and energy it can bring to practice. We explore (1) mindfulness – based inquiry, (2) deep listening, (3) working with teachings (here particularly the Four Noble Truths and Precepts), (4) radical questions and (5) deconstructing fixed beliefs, with more time on numbers 3 – 5.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-04-13 The Four Noble Truths 46:16
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Looking into the Four Truths. Focusing on the fabric that emerges from them.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group

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

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

2006-10-02 The Four Noble Truths 47:16
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Union of Wisdom and Compassion

2006-09-22 The Four Noble Truths (75% Of Them) 63:09
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Suffering, causes of suffering and freedom from suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Intensive Part 1A

2006-09-01 Dukka And Its End 51:24
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Every moment is a revelation of the Four Noble Truths. What kind of suffering do we have influence over? Once we deeply understand the nature of impermanence, freedom from suffering is close at hand.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-12 It Will Never Happen To Me 40:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Shrouded in the cloud of ignorance, we believe that suffering will never happen to us. But when we emerge from that fog into a radical simplicity of heart, suffering becomes our teacher. Our eyes are opened thanks to Right View and direct experience of the Four Noble Truths. At last we transcend the tyranny of fear.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2006-05-10 The Four Noble Truths, Part 3: the Third and Fourth Truths 43:29
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-03 The Four Noble Truths, Part 2: Working With the First and Second Truths 59:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-26 The Four Noble Truths, Part 1: An Overview 59:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-03-13 The Four Noble Truths 50:01
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-01-25 Drop The Banana: The Four Noble Truths 54:19
Diana Winston	Download Listen
Suffering, the cause, the way out, and the practical applications for retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-21 The Four Noble Truths 42:25
Michael Grady	Download Listen
The Buddha's teaching on the 4 Noble Truths provide a comprehensive and profound framework for a path of awareness.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2005-06-13 The Wheel Of Dhamma 17:12
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
The Four Noble Truths as a guide for dealing with experience so as to put an end to suffering.
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series

2005-05-29 Accomplishing The Four Noble Truths Simultaneously 1:25:09
Sayadaw U Pandita	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-03-01 The Four Noble Truths 60:28
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-02-06 Seeing In A New Way 61:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk highlights the way in which Mindfulness leads to direct seeing of the Four Noble Truths and the Three Characteristics. It particularly includes Nyavaponeba Their's description of the functions of Mindfulness as outlined in "The Vision of Dhamma".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-11-06 06. Four Noble Truths 59:24
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Perth, Australia :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2004-10-27 Four Noble Truths 60:57
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2004-05-28 The Grace Of Peace 56:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Emphasizing the value of continuity of attention in practice and including the Four Noble Truths, the three characteristics and fun stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-04 Four Noble Truths 63:04
Sarah Doering	Download Listen

2003-05-07 The Four Noble Truths 63:32
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2003-03-29 The Buddha's Advice On The Four Noble Truths 50:39
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2002-12-10 A Mind Empowered 5 Ways 34:01
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Learn how we can refine our mental skills of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. Enhanced by right view and a deepened understanding of the Four Noble Truths, these spiritual powers vanquish hatred and fear, nurturing our readiness to forgive, and the blessed qualities of universal loving-kindness and compassion. A talk given during a 10-day retreat at Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand in 2002.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2002-07-25 The Four Noble Truths And Blessing 44:49
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Thanissara

2002-02-06 Letting Go Of Suffering: The Four Noble Truths 49:37
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Suffering as a gateway to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2001-10-30 Buddha Dharma At People Of Color Retreat 60:39
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the way of the Dharma—including the Four Noble Truths and foundations of mindfulness from the elders of the Forest for Retreat Practice—to nourish our own practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-04 The Four Noble Truths 56:32
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Relating Buddha's core teachings from his first discourse, with quotes from the suttas on our human dilemma of suffering and its end.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-08-11 The Four Noble Truths 54:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk offers core teachings from the Buddhist tradition. The Four Noble Truths express the Buddha's realizations of essential truths of life. These important points on suffering and the end of suffering are illuminated, as well as how we can apply them in practice.

2001-08-08 Self, Suffering And The Relational Self 60:37
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
This talk presents a discussion on the Buddha's discourses on the Four Noble Truths and Not-self, with reflections on the importance of our "relational self".

2001-06-14 The Four Noble Truths 53:27
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Understanding how the causes of suffering, and the path of purification, can lead us to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-13 Nothing Is Everywhere 66:59
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Ajahn offers reflections on the myth of the adversary practicing with the Four Noble Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-02-14 Stop 63:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
How to use "stopping" as a tool in wise practice. Kindness and goodness are parameters to measure our practice. Stories of the Buddha including "a wise ape teaches kindness." Discussion of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-10-25 The Four Noble Truths 57:40
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
The Buddha in his very first discourse gave practical instructions as to how one could realize the end of suffering. By understanding and reflecting through direct experience of these truths we can find deepening levels of happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-06-07 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding The Wisdom Teachings 54:45
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Understanding emptiness: leaving no trace of identification with experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2000-04-08 The Four Noble Truths 52:25
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Applying the three characteristics of the Four Noble Truths, and the Eight Fold Path, to our daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

1999-12-27 Science And The Millennium And The Four Noble Truths 52:34
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Reflections on time, medicine, healing and the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-10-15 The Four Noble Truths 56:24
Sarah Doering	Download Listen
These truths reveal that suffering is not a necessary part of what it means to be human.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-09-26 The Four Noble Truths And The Four Practices Of Mindfulness 56:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
given at the first annual People of Color retreat at the Spirit Rock. The Noble Truths with a perspective on diversity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-09-13 Essential Dhamma #4: Four Noble Truths 60:44
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Dukkha: pain unsatisfactoriness, vulnerability; craving: the cause; nibbana: the cessation; morality, concentration and wisdom: the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-11-27 Four Noble Truths 69:26
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen

1998-07-07 The Four Noble Truths 51:54
Tara Brach	Download Listen
a reflection on the grounds of the Buddha's teachings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-04-04 The Four Noble Truths And Breath Awareness 48:49
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
the link between the Four Noble Truths and Anapanasati is pointed out

1997-10-05 The Four Noble Truths 42:11
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

1996-06-09 Intimacy: The Practice Of Relationship 40:40
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
working with the Four Noble Truths in our intimate relationships
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1995-08-02 Reflection On The Four Noble Truths 49:35
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Thanissara and Kittisaro

1995-03-04 Breath Awareness And Four Noble Truths (Original Only) 48:50
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1994-04-07 Four Noble Truths 60:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
the truth of suffering, its cause, the cessation of suffering, the path leading to the end of suffering; an encouragement to see the truth of these laws in our own life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1994-02-17 The Four Noble Truths 65:07
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen

1994-02-07 The Four Noble Truths 63:59
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
discovering the heart of the Buddha's teachings

1993-07-26 Four Noble Truths: Buddhist And Western 51:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
exploring the essential teachings that challenge our cultural conditioning
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  9 Day Retreat with Christina Feldman

1993-01-01 The Four Noble Truths 62:10
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Exploring the essential wisdom of the Buddhas first teaching. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Abhayagiri Monastery

1991-02-03 The Four Noble Truths And The Eight Fold Path 53:35
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Using Buddha's unique response to the fundamental problem of human existence--pain, change, loss--to face the truth about how life really is.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1988-05-25 The Four Noble Truths 52:31
Vimalo Kulbarz	Download Listen

1987-02-09 Investigating the Four Noble Truths 1:13:51
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen

1985-04-21 Four Noble Truths (21.4.85, Y.M.B.A. Nugegoda) 62:03
Ayya Khema	Download Listen
Khema Archive (Nugegoda, Sri Lanka)
In collection: Lectures By Ven. Ayya Khema

1983-07-24 Four Noble Truths 45:58
Anagarika Munindra	Download Listen
Munindra tape 4

1983-04-18 Four Noble Truths 1:10:16
Anagarika Munindra	Download Listen
mun16

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 2: The Four Noble Truths 1:33:13
Bhikkhu Bodhi	Download Listen
date uncertain, mn153.02
Washington Buddhist Vihara

1974-06-28 Essential Buddhism - The Four Noble Truths 1:11:49
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Naropa Institute