2012-10-24 Four Foundations of Mindfulness II- Mindfulness of the Body 60:23
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Using the Satipatthana Sutta as a guide, we explore the first three practices of mindfulness of the body. We point to the great traditional and contemporary importance of mindfulness of the body, and suggest a number of ways to practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-23 The Four Great Elements 59:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
How intimately and mindfully connected are you too these most basic and universal experiences?... This body in its elemental nature... A composite of the earth, water, Fire and air elements? This talk is an exploration of the Buddha's primary teaching and a guided meditation in conjunction with this teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-22 Clear Understanding and Responding with Love 53:29
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Every moment of true mindfulness is kind. This talk explores the possibility of cultivating a mind that can be with the reality of life. When we turn to experience with openness, we also become more open to insights, and our confidence in ourselves and our capacity for awakening becomes grounded in life.
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-21 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 3) 62:21
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-20 Listening and Loving 47:49
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
A talk about Mindfulness as respectful looking and loving listening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-20 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 2 of 3) 2:39:36
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-19 Mindfulness, Identity and Incarnation 60:30
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The beauty and paradox revealed by attention to human incarnation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-19 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 1) 1:22:28
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-15 Trauma and Freedom 66:23
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the cloak of mindfulness and compassion to heal trauma and awaken freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-13 Mindfulness and the Brahma Viharas 1:12:27
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Connecting to Body - Guided Meditation 23:20
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Joy of Breathing - Guided Meditation 23:59
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Joy of Eating - Guided Meditation 3:18
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Sublime Abodes - Guided Meditation 25:15
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Opening Talk for The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat 57:19
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-10-09 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:42
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The Buddha offers us the recipe of cultivating a strong and clear concentration, mindfulness and investigation rooted in kindness that allows us to learn to experience the extremes and the subtleties of difficult emotions without getting caught by them. It's as though we learn to see them so clearly that we see through them and see their nature, just like we see through the colors of a rainbow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 7: Further Tools and Guidance for Daily Life Practice of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 58:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 6: Guided Meditation: Review of the Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 13:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 4: Guided Meditation Further Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 5: Further Exploration of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, with Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Difficult States at End 1:23:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness 66:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 2: Guided Meditation: Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 19:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 1: Review of the Nature of Mindfulness and the First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Coming Back to Earth 53:44
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Using mindfulness of body as a way to cultivate samadhi, and provide a firm anchor in the sea of all that life brings.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-10-03 The Foundations of Mindfulness-An Overview 62:26
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
What is mindfulness? Why is it important? How does its practice bring us toward freedom? We look generally at mindfulness and then at how we practice mindfulness of 1. the body 2. feeling tone 3. thoughts and emotions (citta) and 4. larger patterns of experience (dhammas).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-28 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Steve on Metta 8:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-09-28 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - GM Working with Mind 24:49
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-09-28 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Q&A  Contemplating Mind & Hindrances 19:17
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-09-28 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Contemplating Mind & Hindrances 42:59
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-09-24 Deepening concentration, developing happiness 56:14
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Any time we practice mindfulness and wise attention, we are weakening the impact of the hindrances, and strengthening what are known as the five jhanic factors: meditative qualities that support the continuity and deepening of our meditation. Each of the jhanic factors actually balances and acts as an antidote to one of the hindrances. This talk looks at how to strengthen the jhanic factors, and use them skillfully as antidotes to the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-23 Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 53:58
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An exploration of the 1st foundation of mindfulness with an empahasis on the four elements. Includes a short guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-19 Mindfulness and Non-Attachment 56:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-09-16 The Practice of Mindfulness 58:38
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-09-14 Three Jobs Of The Yogi 61:38
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Sayadaw U Tejaniya describes the three jobs of the yogi: begin with right view, be mindful of what is happening now and bring persistent willingness to be aware all day.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-13 Titrating our Dukkha. 54:40
James Baraz	Download Listen
Though mindfulness meditation instructions generally suggest paying attention to what is predominant, focusing on overwhelming emotions especially those rooted in trauma is often not beneficial. This talk, which includes the Buddha's teachings on working with difficult emotions as well as theory from Somatic Experiencing (SE)—an approach to working with trauma—explores how to work with intense emotions by touching them a little at a time.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2012-09-13 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 53:18
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-10 Mindfulness Of The body 56:24
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Developing a wise relationship to our body is an important part of our meditation practice. We often have a distorted, even aversive attitude to the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-08 Embodiment 47:21
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Using the metaphor of the two darts, this talk explores how mindfulness of the body is an antidote to the second dart of reactivity.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-07 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR Retreat 48:45
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Opening Talk for an Insight Meditation retreat that is particularly relevant to those teaching or training in mindfulness-based applications. This retreat explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as taught in the Satipatthana discourse given by the Buddha. This talk also includes John Teasdale and John Peacock
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-05 Trance of the Unreal Other 1:22:49
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We are conditioned to perceive people as unreal others- two dimensional characters who lack sentience, vulnerability and goodness. This is often most insidious when we filter people through demeaning culturally driven stereotypes. This talk explores the suffering of living in a trance that separates us from others, and how our practices of mindfulness and compassion enable us to experience what Thoreau calls the "miracle" of seeing through another's eyes, if only for a moment.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation: Receiving Life Through the Senses 23:07 Download Listen Trance of the Unreal Other 59:42 Download Listen

2012-09-03 Respect & Dignity 65:58
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How Mindfulness, Loving attention bring respect & dignity to all...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-09-02 Transforming Suffering into Happiness 64:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
The magic of mindfulness is how it weakens unwholesome (akusala) states of suffering and strengthens wholesome (kusala) states of well-being. This talk explains this process of alchemy: how greed, hatred and delusion are trnsformed into generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Q&A on Feeling & Metta 22:22
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Guided Meditation on Feeling 12:57
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Contemplating Feeling 27:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Mindfulness at Work 1:20:12
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  TiE at Innovation Pavilion

2012-08-30 What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It? 56:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
How mindfulness practice works on retreat, the benefits that it produces and helpful attitudes that support intensive retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-26 The First Foundation of Mindfulness on the Body: Practicing with the Four Elements, the 32 Parts of the Body, and the Charnel Ground Reflections 1:27:48
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Due to mechanical complications, the morning session of this daylong was not recorded. Deep regrets-
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-08-24 Opening Talk for Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat 46:13
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk also includes Jake Dartington
Gaia House :  Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks