2011-01-15 Union of Love & Awareness, Part 2 31:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-15 Union of Love and Awareness, Part 1 34:49
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-12 Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities 1:19:36
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mindfulness --seeking not to change but to understand--and the expression of that understanding as love. The talk includes guided reflections that can help us recognize and awaken from the confines of trance.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 25:13 Download Listen Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities 54:22 Download Listen

2011-01-11 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Awareness of the Mind 66:46
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body gave us stability of focus and mindfulness of feelings gave us the mechanism for how we project ourselves onto the world. Now we are sufficiently prepared to look at the mind itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-01-11 Metta as the Heart of Mindfulness 53:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The "Introduction to Metta" talk positions metta as the particular form of mindfulness that reflects the third foundation of mindfulness, attention to the contents of mind. It also is presented as the practice that follows the Buddha's instructions for Wise Effort, the purposeful cultivation in the mind of wholesome states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-10 Meeting What is with Love & Awareness 58:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-05 The Mirror of Mindfulness 52:33
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
The mirror of minfulness shows us things as they are. Mindfulness grounded in the body brings the stability to know this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma

2011-01-03 Mindfulness When It Matters 61:40
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Rather than making New Year’s resolutions that often end in a sense of failure, it is more helpful to look at our life and practice in terms of aspirations, and to ask what do we need to cultivate and what can we let go of in order to support those aspirations? Using mindfulness, we can become more in tune with what really matters to us and also begin to notice the many subtle and even unconscious influences on our choices and behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-01 Stitching Our Life Into Wholeness. 47:42
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the definitions power and impact of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-01-01 Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought 25:30
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The New Years Retreat

2010-12-27 Mindfulness of Dhammas 34:45
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-14 Holding Life Tenderly 51:31
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The path of mindfulness and metta towards freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-02 Barking, Barking, Barking: Mindfulness as Respectful Listening 50:09
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-11-12 Guided Morning Instructions 42:55
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Mindfulness of what is happening and how we relate to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-10 Releasing Karmic Patterns 1:20:15
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfulness can free us to live from our inherent love and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 24:52 Download Listen Releasing Karmic Patterns 55:22 Download Listen

2010-11-10 Mindfulness Part 2 61:05
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-09 Mindfulness Part 1 1:25:12
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-08 The World Led by Mind 32:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Cultivating mindfulness of thought and how it shapes the world.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-07 Seasons of the Heart: the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 49:49
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk reflects on ways of practicing skillfully with mind states and emotions. These sometimes challenging areas of experience are a gateway to deepening clarity and opening the heart, when met in the present moment with understanding, acceptance and kindness.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-06 The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 69:19
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The contemplation of vedana, the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, provides a powerful tool to dismantle suffering; it can also reveal surprising and profoundly liberating truths about the nature of reality.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-03 Part 4 - Living from Presence - Introductory Series 1:23:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our human potential is to express the wings of presence--mindfulness and lovingkindness--through all facets of daiy living. This talk explores the practices that enable us to both serve and savor this precious life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-02 The Fathom Long Body 57:03
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
An introduction to mindfulness of the body with the 32 Parts of the Body meditation and elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of the Body

2010-10-27 Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - Introductory Series 1:14:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discern if thoughts are imprisoning us in fear or serving healing and freedom. The second is recognizing when we are in the virtual reality of thinking, and learning to "come back" to living presence. It is by inhabiting this non-conceptual presence that we have access to the love, wisdom and freedom that we cherish.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-26 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 6 of 6 1:21:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Mindfulness 62:52
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses the balance of concentration and mindfulness, present time nonjudgmental awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-24 Part 2 Instructions - Day 1 66:34
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Mindfulness Of Breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-24 The Turn 51:33
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
A talk on the liberating power of mindfulness and how to turn towards the teeming flow of experience in body, heart and mind and the capacity to be awakened by all things.
Gaia House :  Awakening the Heart

2010-10-20 Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series 1:24:15
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecure. In this class we explore how to free ourselves from this suffering by bringing a mindful and kind awareness to the stories and feelings that make up our emotional life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-19 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 of 6 1:30:49
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-16 Mindfulness of Body 57:42
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
To know 'body as body' is the invitation of the first foundation of mindfulness. Coming to a wise relationship with our body which neither glorifies nor rejects our body we can begin to know body as a vehicle for profound wisdom.
Gaia House :  Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-15 How to Hold a Snake 58:22
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Further reflections on the meaning of the term "secular"; the Buddha's comparison of his teaching to a snake; an enquiry into what is distinctive and original in the Buddha's teaching: the principle of conditioned arising, the process of the four noble truths, the practice of mindful awareness, the power of self reliance; reflections on citations from the Pali canon concerning the principle of conditioned arising.
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-14 Wisdom-suffering, impermanence and the Heart 52:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Wisdom across many traditions is understood as a clear and deep seeing of human experience; a seeing that cuts through conditioning and delusion. We look at the relationship of wisdom to mindfulness and the caring heart, particularly at how we see more clearly suffering, its roots and impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-13 Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series 1:18:46
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachings that give a context to the path of practice. We explore the two basic types of meditation--concentration and mindfulness--and then focus on the ground of mindfulness training: bringing mindful attention to the breath and bodily sensations. Guided meditations include setting intention and the sacred pause; learning to "come back" using an anchor of the breath; and "being here" with an embodied presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-13 Mindfulness-What it is and What Makes it Difficult. 50:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness plays a central role in our practice of living with wisdom and compassion. We explore a number of the qualities of mindfulness as well as the obstacles to mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-10 Samadhi - Continuity of Mindful Awareness 54:40
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-09 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:10:37
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the six senses, of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment and the Four Noble Truths.
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-08 The Third and Fourth Foundations of Mindfulness 1:22:25
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Mindfulness of mind-states, of the Five Hindrances and of the Five Aggregates
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-07 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness 1:21:31
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-05 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 of 6 1:34:11
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-04 Introduction to Satipatthana 61:37
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing, four postures, mindfulness of bodily activities, Charnel Ground Contemplations
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-01 The Factors of Awakening 63:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha talked often of seven factors that prepare the mind for awakening. Headed by mindfulness, the factors are balanced between energizing and calming states. This talk discusses each of the factors, how they are developed, and how to balance them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-01 Introduction, Mindfulness of Breathing, Precepts 47:12
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-09-27 Mindfulness Maps of the Mind 56:39
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-09-22 The Power of Mindful Investigation 1:21:45
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We each have a deep interest in reality--in understanding what is true and who we are. In Buddhist teachings, our interest, and its expression in wise investigation, energize the path of awakening. This talk explores how mindful investigation can free us from emotional suffering, nourish loving relatedness and create the conditions for deep spiritual realization.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 24:51 Download Listen The Power of Mindful Investigation 56:54 Download Listen

2010-09-21 Morning instructions – Day 10 - Standing meditation 58:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha said that we should be mindful in all four postures – sitting, walking, standing and lying down. We talk a lot about sitting meditation, some about walking and very little about the other two. This session is a guided meditation on standing meditation. Standing can be used as a practice in itself, or as a way to balance energy, especially sleepiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-15 Foundations Of Practice 59:34
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
An exploration of ardor, clean comprehension and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-14 Mindful Living 57:27
Sky Dawson	Download Listen
Developing Sila in practice and on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-14 The Judging Mind 51:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Mindfulness and investigation are doorways to understanding the inner critic as a compound of hindrances and self view.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-13 The Buddhas Instructions on Mindfulness 47:04
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An overview of the 'refrain' of the Satipatthana Sutta and how it can inform our practice.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR