2012-05-10 Practicing With Feeling 56:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the implications of mindfulness. Of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, and suggestions of concrete ways to practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-07 Truthfulness and Sila 40:33
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
A talk given at the third retreat of the Mindfulness for Yoga Teachers training in 2012.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-04 Morning Instructions 21:30
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2012-05-01 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 50:45
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Center

2012-04-28 Goodness, Prescence and Wisdom: The Foundations of Happiness 55:36
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Inner transformation arises from a wholehearted engagement with these three primary areas of development. In living our capacity for generosity and non harming, while being mindful of and receptive to our experience in the present moment, we naturally discover the understanding that liberates dissatisfaction and reveals our inherent potential for happiness.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-21 Wise Love 38:20
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
When loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity combine with mindfulness, we can meet life with care, sensitivity and wisdom.
Gaia House :  Work Retreat

2012-04-20 A Map of Transformation for Judgments 55:41
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
With a light hearted tone, the talk outlines five key areas of practice in working with the judgmental mind; Mindfulness, Somatic Practices, Heart Practices, Inquiry into habits and the role of wise friends, Spiritual Community.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-19 Being With Emotions With Kind Heartness Awareness. 54:19
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How to bring mindfulness and kindness to emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-18 The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice 56:47
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness

2012-04-17 Equanimity - "There in the Middleness" 56:51
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
An exploration of the many ways equanimity brings balance to our lives. Groundlessness to the Brahma Viharas, and liberating insight to our mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-04-16 The Art of Mindfulness 48:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What did the Buddha actually teach about mindfulness? How does it differ from a simple attention? This talk explores mindfulness in the context of the Buddhist Path and it leading from pain to peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Body 59:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The purpose and usefulness of embodied meditation: How to stay connected to the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  One Path: Unity of Concentration and Mindfulness

2012-04-11 Death, Hindrances, 32 Body Parts 63:45
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Cultivating the mindfulness of death assists in the path of awakening. Working with the challenges/hindrances that come up after the first day of full practice. An introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Paramitas 63:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-10 The Four Stages of Letting Go 58:07
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.
Gaia House :  Zen Retreat

2012-04-08 A Wilderness Traveller 37:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 1:13:33
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible when we investigate them with a kind, mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation - In the Body (20 min.) 19:55 Download Listen Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 53:37 Download Listen

2012-04-03 Intimacy with Reality 45:21
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Mindfulness, when practiced whole-heartedly, reveals reality beyond name and form.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-03 The Secrets Of Tibetan Mindfulness Practice 52:41
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-28 Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 1:25:49
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Our fear management strategies--versions of fight/flight-- contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 25:58 Download Listen Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 59:51 Download Listen

2012-03-27 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry: March 2012 56:22
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings open up to practice questions allowing time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-25 Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole 16:53
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-03-25 Neural Factors of Mindfulness 29:15
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-03-23 03 A Culture of Awakening 55:13
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
The four P's: principle of conditionality, process of the four tasks, practice of mindfulness, power of self-reliance; ELSA as a framework for living; the city as a key metaphor of Secular Buddhism; emergence of a secular sangha based on friendships that support self-reliance.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-20 Right Mindfulness, Right Intention 55:48
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-19 The Path of Joy 48:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-13 Insight & Diversity 66:31
Ralph Steele	Download Listen
We will use the Four Foundation of Mindfulness as a frame of reference to support the understanding of our relationship with our inner and outer environment.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-11 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 47:06
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-03 Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another 50:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-22 Loving One's Enemies I 60:40
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the meaning of developing a love or loving kindness toward all, including one's "enemies," using both Christian and Buddhist resources. Four foundational practices are outlined: 1.Ffollowing ethical guidelines 2. Mindfulness 3. Metta, and 4. Wisdom practices to help contemplate emphathically the causes and conditions of difficult interactions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-22 The Flood Stopper 29:36
Thanissara	Download Listen
Balance and samatha, samadhi and vipassana. Full development of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-21 Danger of Fixation 36:05
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
How does suffering manifest in attachment to views? This talk explores right view and addresses the danger of attaching to a position, philosophy, belief, or opinion. Primary sources are the teachings from the Middle Length discourses numbers 72 and 74. Recognizing the dangers of attachment and clinging to beliefs and opinions, we directly investigate what can be known in the mind and body. This is a pragmatic path of mindful awareness that results in actions that are immediately liberating.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-02-19 Practice of Mindfulness 46:28
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Root cause of suffering is not seeing clearly. The direct way to peace. Thought as a servant of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-14 Compassion and Mindfulness 60:14
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-14 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 1:29:11
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-13 Instructions on Mindfulness of Body 21:09
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Fella and Scharf

2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus 35:20
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-11 Mindfulness Sitting And Walking Meditation Instructions 67:55
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2012-02-11 Mindfulness 53:12
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Fella and Scharf

2012-02-07 Opinions and Truth 41:14
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Our views, beliefs, and opinions affect our perception of events. To what extent do we assume that we are right and become attached to our opinions? With attachment to views we solidify a sense of self. Mindfulness meditation invites us to observe our relationship to views and opinions and see how it might be distorting perception by reinforcing a fixed sense of self. The term "right view" does not imply a more accurate or factual perspective; rather, right view describes a perspective beyond all attachment to views and opinions.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-02-07 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 24:14
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center