2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Developing Samadhi 65:57
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-28 First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 43:23
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-27 Awake in the Wild Experience with Mark Coleman, Sara Overton, Tenzin Choegyal 1:24:35
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Tenzin will offer musical meditations with his transcendent vocals and exquisite lute solos. Mark will talk about meditation in nature and how the natural world is a great support for the cultivating awareness, connection and insight as well as opening the heart to wonder, awe and love. He’ll lead practices that invite us to connect with the nature in the midst of the city. Sara will share the vision of the Awake in the Wild Experience to bring the mindfulness in nature practices to every borough of the city and beyond.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-10-25 Mindfulness: Why we Practice 46:34
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-22 A Love Letter to Mindfulness 56:06
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
We explore the many ways mindfulness is capable of leading to insight and how to relate to practice to foster mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-19 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 57:05
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-19 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 5 1:27:40
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 5 - Meditation 26:22 Download Listen Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 5 - Talk 61:18 Download Listen

2015-10-16 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
This talk explores a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience and some effective way to work with them through the powerful tools in our practice of concentration, mindfulness, metta and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-15 Morning Reflection: Investigation 41:39
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Getting really interested in what it is to be this body, this mind and heart as it unfolds in the light of mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-12 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 66:04
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 - Meditation 26:35 Download Listen Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 - Talk 39:28 Download Listen

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach	Download Listen
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Mindful Eating 7:58
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-09 The Four Great Elements - the Four Great essentials 58:43
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-05 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone 57:36
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at all of these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-05 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 1:27:05
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 - Meditation 28:01 Download Listen Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 - Talk 59:03 Download Listen

2015-09-28 Satipatthana Series - The first foundation of mindfulness: the body 59:36
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
In the Satipatthana sutta on the foundations of mindfulness, the first area of practice is the body. The Buddha gives us many different practices and ways to investigate the body. This talk explores these practices, beginning with the breath, but going on to other practices that we don't often teach, such as the four elements, the 32 parts of the body, and corpse contemplations. Each of these practices can be a powerful doorway to wise seeing and freedom. This talk is the first of a series of four on each foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-28 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 2 63:40
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 2 - Meditation 28:20 Download Listen Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 2 - Talk 35:20 Download Listen

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Intro to Mindfulness and Vipassana 44:41
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment to moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-24 Mindful of Feeling 46:12
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
A short reflection and guided meditation on three kinds of feeling.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Power of Presence: Retreat for Women

2015-09-24 Morning Instructions 47:02
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An investigation of the Buddha's Teaching of mindfulness of the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-22 On dukkha & dukkha nana 1:25:19
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We explore how the ordinary experience of dukkha becomes dukkha ñāṇa, understanding of the universal characteristic (samañña lakkhaṇa) of dukkha. We look at the how the perception of impermanence (anicca-saññā) creates anxiety when the heart intuits the groundless of experience, and how the unfolding of this anxiety is mapped by the dukkha ñāṇas of classical Theravāda Buddhism. Finally, we see how the experience of dukkha gives way to that of not-self (anattā), when the heart stabilises through the maturity of mindfulness (sati) and equanimity (upekkhā).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-21 Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind 59:30
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. they then no longer dominate our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 1 62:03
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 1 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 1 - Talk 62:03 Download Listen

2015-09-21 Mindfulness, hindrances and development 46:21
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Overview of the foundations of mindfulness. The hindrances are observed as part of the 4th foundation. Understanding the hindrances both in terms of how they need to be kept in balance as as expressions of development.
Shakti Vihara :  Portal to Pure Presence

2015-09-17 Four Stages in the Transformation of the Judgmental Mind 61:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We first cover an overview of the two main inter-related ways that transformation of the judgmental mind occurs: (1) mindfulness and investigation of judgments; and (2) cultivating awakened states, particularly through "heart practices." In this talk, we examine four stages of the first way: investigating and transforming judgments by first noticing them and becoming more mindful of them in terms of the body, core narratives, emotional energy, etc., and then going beneath the surface of judgments, revealing and transforming the underlying habitual tendencies and core limiting beliefs, often initially unconscious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2015-09-14 What is Mindfulness? 55:38
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Mindfulness is becoming very popular in many areas of modern life: as a stress reduction, in schools, prisons, hospitals, in the workplace and so on. But what is mindfulness, and what was the Buddha talking about when he encouraged us to practice it? Right mindfulness, or Samma Sati, develops wisdom and understanding, decreasing unwholesome states of mind, increasing wholesome ones and leading us to more freedom and clarity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 1:11:49
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation - Simplicity of Presence 24:29 Download Listen Releasing Limiting Beliefs 47:19 Download Listen

2015-09-09 Mindfulness immersed in body - Kāyagatā sati 1:27:48
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We explore the role of the body in our meditation practice, using the Buddha’s practice of kāyagatā sati (mindfulness immersed in body) as our guide. We forget we are bodies, fooled by our mind’s ability to create realities that are separate from the bodies we are. We explore the practice of mindfulness immersed in body using the Buddha’s instructions to Mahā Kassapa as our guide: “You should train yourself in this way: “I will not abandon mindfulness immersed in body associated with joy.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-09 Continuity of Mindful Awareness 56:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2015-09-07 The three satipatthanas 1:18:37
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We survey the first three of the four satipaṭṭhānas, here translated as “foundations of mindfulness” or “domains of mindfulness” – the places where we station our mindfulness. These are body (kāya), feeling (vedanā) and heart/mind (citta). We see these domains represent a linear progression from less to greater ethical sensitivity; and we also see how feeling holds the practice together.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 The insight chorus - Part 1 - Impermanence & emptiness 67:17
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the first three sentences of the chorus of Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, where the Buddha explains the arising of insight (vipassanā). We examine “tracking body as body internally and externally,” where the assumed boundary between self and other begins to dissolve. Then we look at how the practitioner opens into the perception of impermanence – “tracking the nature of arising and ceasing as body.” Finally, we examine the entry into emptiness, where the practitioner is mindful that “body is,” for understanding (ñāṇa) and continuous mindfulness (paṭisati).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 Letting Go of Judgment (retreat talk) 53:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The scales of judgment confine us in a limited sense of self, they restrict the depth and fullness of our loving. This talk explores the genesis of projecting badness on to parts of ourselves and others, and how we can use mindfulness and self-compassion practices to evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-04 Mindfulness, memory & wisdom 62:33
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
Tonight we return to the fundamental meaning of sati as indicating memory, and look at the relationship of memory to wisdom. Our connection with the past allows us to learn from the patterns of experience as they flow over time. Mindfulness allows access to an experienced present that includes everything we have learned through the course of our lives.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-03 How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties 58:06
James Baraz	Download Listen
One way to understand how the process of mindfulness meditation leads to awakening is seeing how these five qualities of mind work together.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-01 Make Me One with Everything 59:50
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Lama Surya Das speaks about his most recent book, “Make Me One with Everything, Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation.” Becoming one with everything, by seeing through separateness, is the heart of what Lama Surya Das calls “co-meditation.” “Co” means with. So, co-meditating is not just meditating with other people, but with everything that arises. This opens the door to what Buddhists call “everyday Dharma,” which integrates mindful Dharma into daily life. Everything is the object of our meditation; there are no distractions. When we co-meditate, we are being one with everything, not against it nor apart from it. This is the meaning of “inter-being.” This is also the answer to our great loneliness and the alienation that we feel today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-29 Introducing mindfulness 31:45
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce the concept of “mindfulness,” which is the standard translation of the Pāli word sati. Sati literally means “memory,” and mindfulness refers to the act of remembering the present. We find the same meaning in railway station signs that exhort us to “Mind the gap,” to remember to be aware, now. The practice of mindfulness is associated with the felt continuity of awareness, and this is what we are aiming for in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 1:15:02
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance - we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, intelligence and capacity to love. This talk explores how this dissociation shows up in our lives and a powerful way that mindfulness enables us to integrate cut-off parts of our being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence 23:12 Download Listen Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 51:49 Download Listen

2015-08-25 Mindfulness In Action 51:20
George Mumford	Download Listen
Sati - Sampajanna with bare attention and mindfulness of four postures
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-24 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 36:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-23 The Power Of Mindfulness 53:03
George Mumford	Download Listen
Mindfulness as the heart of Buddhist meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-23 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 24:22
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-22 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada 42:00
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2015-08-22 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness (Mind- Heart, Thoughts and Emotions) 47:38
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang