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

2012-02-02 What is Mindfulness? 54:27
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Even though we talk a lot about mindfulness, we often don't fully understand what the Buddha meant by "samma sati" or right mindfulness. This talk explores samma sati and also "sati-panna"-mindfulness wisdom: the wisdom that naturally develops when we pay attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-01-31 Monthly Sitting and Inquiry, January 2012 58:55
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Monthly Sitting and Inquiry with NYI Guiding Teacher, Gina Sharpe. These regularly scheduled evenings begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion. Gina Sharpe is the Guiding Teacher of NYI, which she co-founded in 1998. She has been studying and practicing the Dharma for several years in Asia and the United States across many traditions and has been teaching since 1994.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:29:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-25 Deepening Daily Life Practice, I 67:38
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore how our practice can come alive in the flow of daily life, focusing on some of the challenges as well as three areas: (1) Various supports for daily life practice, (2) the centrality of mindfulness of the body, and (3) taking difficulties and even suffering as opportunities for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-01-24 What is Right View 41:01
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Right view is an approach to life that leads to awakening, to enlightenment. As mindfulness becomes mainstreamed in western culture, serious practitioners should take care that the framework of virtue, the integrated eight-fold path, and the liberating potential of meditation practice are not lost. Both mundane and supramundane right view are examined in this talk. Ultimately, right view implies a direct realization of the four noble truths and of the model of dependent arising.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-01-24 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 2 1:27:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-17 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 1 1:26:05
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-15 Wise Mindfulness 54:29
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-14 The Path Of Awareness 60:38
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is mindfulness - how can we develop it in our meditation and lives and how does awareness reveal freedom and its obstacles - i.e. the hindrances to meditate and how to to overcome them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living a Mindful and Compassionate Life: Insight and Metta Weekend

2012-01-13 Opening Talk For Mindfulness Retreat 34:11
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living a Mindful and Compassionate Life: Insight and Metta Weekend

2012-01-12 Seven Factors of Enlightenment Part 1 56:19
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Mindfulness
Vipassana Hawai'i (Kyaswa Monastery) :  2012 Kyaswa Monastery, Burma

2012-01-08 Metta Practice as a Path of Awakening 60:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta practice is a training inclining toward the awakened heart. We explore several aspects of this training in terms of the development of a number of capacities, working through what blocks metta, and the integration of metta, mindfulness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2012-01-07 In Gladness and in Safety, Omitting None 56:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A presentation of Metta and Mindfulness as integral aspects of each other, using the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's teaching on kindness, as both teh mandate for practice and an overview of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2012-01-07 Compassion and Mindfulness 59:55
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An outline of the relationship between compassion, mindfulness, and insight in Dharma practice and in mindfulness-based therapies.
Gaia House :  Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-06 Modes of Mind and the Four Noble Truths 45:20
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An introduction to the modes of mind framework which is increasingly used within Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Reflections on how to use this in practice and its deeper relationship with the Four Noble Truths.
Gaia House :  Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-05 Wise Mindfulness 43:15
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk will explore aspects of the Satipatthana sutta, the root discourse of insight meditation and mindfulness based applications.
Gaia House :  Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-04 Opening Talk for Origins and Applications of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat 64:35
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk also includes Jenny Wilks
Gaia House :  Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-02 Mindfulness of Feeling 36:25
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) :  New Year's Retreat

2012-01-02 The New You in the New Year 60:27
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How mindfulness and compassion facilitate change. Change can be external or internal and be of three types.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-12-29 The Blessings of Embodied Presence 57:27
Tara Brach	Download Listen
All that we cherish - love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness - becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of mindfulness and compassion guide us in the midst of difficulty to our inner sanctuary of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-21 No Mud, No Lotus 1:26:06	Listen to tracks Show 3 Tracks
with La Sarmiento, Tara Brach
Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. This solstice talk explores the light of compassion that blossoms when we honor our difficult times with a deep, mindful attention. This solstice evening includes chanting, singing and a candlelighting ceremony. (see video - show tracks)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 23:55 Tara Brach Download Listen No Mud, No Lotus 54:48 Tara Brach View Download Listen Dharma: The Musical 7:22 La Sarmiento View Download Listen

2011-12-21 How Fear Transforms into Love 57:52
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Through stories and practical instruction,s the talk illuminates the direct experience of fear and other challenging emotions and describes the transformation of fear into love through the practices of naming, mindfulness of the body/nervous system, lovingkindness and letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2011-12-14 Mindfulness and Wisdom 60:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
(There is a long pause at the beginning) We complete our exploration of "mature" (or "right") mindfulness, focusing on how mindfulness may be disconnected from wisdom, how it can lead to wisdom, and how "mature" mindfulness is integrated with wisdom (as well as ethics and the awakened heart)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks