2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-08 Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now 66:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-05 The Taste Of Freedom 47:58
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Four foundations of mindfulness are the doorway in which we can discover a taste of freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-04 Mindfulness Of The Body 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Why and how mindfulness of the body reveals so much so clearly as we untangle the knots.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-02 An Attitude Of Mindfulness 52:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one that is free of greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also explores the functions of mindfulness, attention and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-30 The Power Of Inquiry 65:26
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Inquiry, or mindful investigation, is a direct way to deepen our attention and reveal the nature of reality. This talk explores the attitude, types of questions and practice of non-conceptual presence that awakens our deepest wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 17:31 Download Listen The Power Of Inquiry 47:55 Download Listen

2008-01-30 Mindfulness & Renunciation 57:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, dharna and sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well being born of mindfulness that is free and open
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-20 The Five Indriya Or Spiritual Faculties 65:13
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk defines what constitutes the five spiritual faculties and what it takes to develop them. It offers a hands-on understanding of how faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed, lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-16 Mindfulness Practice: Recognizing the Difference Between Distraction and Non-distraction 50:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-14 Wisdom, Equanimity And Kindness 56:52
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk makes the point that mindfulness and lovingkindness are integral to each other, not separate and that they both lead to wisdom and are supported by wisdom. It includes poetry by Billy Collins and many stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-09 How Metta And Equanimity Lived Happily Ever After Together 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta is a powerful practice that helps us lead with our hearts, develop concentration, and "purify" our bodies, hearts and minds, working through obstacles to metta and touching our deep luminosity. Yet metta sometimes seems opposed to wisdom and mindfulness practice, and particularly to equanimity. We explore the qualities of equanimity and then how mature metta requires equanimity and mature equanimity requires metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-09 Knowing, Mindfulness, And Wisdom 54:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A discussion of these important terms exploring their application in the meditative journey.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Scientists Retreat

2008-01-08 The Union Of Metta, Compassion & Awareness 60:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk discusses the qualities of metta, and the unity of mindfulness and metta -- and how compassion arises as a natural turning of the loving heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Faith, Intention & The Precepts: Three Steps To Deepen Your Practice 59:07
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
The training precepts can be utilized for living the dharma in daily life, but to be most effective they need a foundation of faith and intention. Also, by stating the precepts positively and in an expanded fashion, we can find new opportunities for mindfulness and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-07 Everyday Metta - What It Is & What It Is Not 55:15
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How the loveliness of a pure heart is so readily accessible; how Metta infuses mindfulness, and the dangers of misunderstanding "love."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-02 Mindfulness Practice: Motivation and Working Ground 56:01
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-12-31 The Wisdom Of Body Awareness 57:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
The 1st foundation of mindfullness – How and why it is so beneficial as we turn to the truth of each moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2007-12-27 Don't Underestimate The Breath 52:37
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body has the breath at the center and includes all four postures, movement, speaking, listening, feelings and all activity. We can practice mindfulness of the breath and also mindfulness with the breath - developing an enlarged awareness. This practice can take us all the way to enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-20 7 Factors Of Awakening - part 1 55:31
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
An exploration of the allies of the mind, cultivating mindfulness, investigation, energy, and rapture.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-16 Mindfulness: Presence and Participation 41:57
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-09 Practice In Daily Life 59:34
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Bring mindfulness into daily life is a challenging aspect of our practice. Using specific practices for daily life helps to bring the thread of mindfulness throughout our days.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-06 Mindfulness 34:36
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-28 The Mysterious Power Of The Breath 53:19
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Often the power of mindfulness of the breath is underestimated. This talk illuminates the depth of breath as skillful means to develop samadhi, oneness, intimacy, mystery and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-19 There's Nothing More Helpful Than Mindfulness 63:24
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-11-18 Mindfulness: Faculty and Power 42:38
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-16 The Abode Of The Body: Mindfulness And The Body 53:15
Ann Masai	Download Listen
Following the Buddha's direction about using the body as a mindfulness tool, we discuss many techniques for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-12 Working With Difficult Emotions 61:10
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Emotions are expressed through a mood, body sensation, and thoughts. Mindfulness of these aspects is illustrated in the talk for desire, anger, sadness, and fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-12 The Four Noble Truths & The Enneagram 55:55
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching as the 4 Noble Truths and how the teachings of the Enneagram also impact self understanding when seen in the context of mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice

2007-11-11 Seeing with New Eyes: The Skills and Fruit of Mindfulness 44:45
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-08 Habits Of Mind 57:36
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness is like swimming upstream against the habits of mind. We can learn to trust mindfulness rather than the habits.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-07 Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions II: Invoking Inquiry, Wisdom, And Antidotes 65:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the second session on practicing with thoughts and emotions, we complement the first session's focus on the more receptive practice of mindfulness. After a review of mindfulness, we explore three more active approaches: (1) deepening mindfulness through inquiry, (2) invoking wisdom through clear comprehension, (3) providing antidotes through invoking lovingkindness, compassion, and other beautiful states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-11-02 What Are We Doing Here And Why? 53:03
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk is about understanding what mindfulness is and why it is helpful to practice it
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-10-31 Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions 61:22
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of thoughts and emotions gives us one of our great resources for applying our practice in daily life -- in the midst of work, relationships, and family. Here we explore some general qualities of mindfulness, then explore the guidelines of "RAIN" -- recognition, acceptance, inquiry and non-identification -- applying this approach to the experiencing of anger. Next week we explore skillful action with thoughts and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-26 Supporting And Deepening Daily Life Practice 53:25
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Practicing mindfulness and metta in the United States is definitely challenging for a variety of reasons which are explored briefly. We outline a number of basic supports for practice (daily practice, community, study, etc. ) and then focus on four main ways of deepening daily life practice - (1) Finding regular ways to break habits, (2)Working with a mentor or teacher, (3) Grounding in the body, and (4) Learning to take obstacles and suffering as opportunities. (note: There is a 15 minute gap about 11 minutes into this talk and cuts out again at 53 minutes, due to technical difficulties.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-25 Invoking The Beautiful - The Divine Abodes Of Lovingkindness 66:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
There are two main approaches in our practice - mindfulness and invoking beautiful and exalted states. They complement each other in important ways. After considering these two approaches, we explore the nature of each of the divine abodes, their near and far enemies, and their complementary nature - each requires the other three for its mature development.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-22 Practicing With Sates Of Mind And Heart 58:24
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a framing of why we practice and how this intensive practice can inform our wider lives, and a short account of the qualities of mindfulness we explore how to practice in states of mind and heart. Using the model of RAIN (Recognition, Acceptance, Inquiry, Non-identification), we examine a number of ways to work with states of mind and heart, using as case studies, working with anger, judgment (harsh reactive judgment) and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-21 The Five Difficult Energies 65:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We sometimes feel very connected with our love, wisdom, and mindfulness. At other times, we may feel disconnected from these qualities, stuck in what the Buddha called the five "difficult energies" (or hindrances). We explore compulsive desire and aversion, sloth & torpor, restlessness, and doubt - suggesting how to respond to these when they arise, both in meditation and daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-21 #2 Going Against The Stream 56:31
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A continuation of the study of the Buddha's account of his awakening in the ARIYAPARIYESANA SUTTA (M.26). Mindfulness as the way to GROUND oneself in the GROUND of Conditional Arising. the subjective pole of this ground is the stopping of greed, hatred, delusion. The Buddha was reluctant to teach because what he had awoken to "WENT AGAINST THE STREAM". The talk concludes with several passages from the UPANISHADS to illustrate this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Study Retreat

2007-10-21 Equanimity And Mindfulness Of Body 50:57
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Mindfulness in body as ground will help us to deal with our physical and emotional feelings in a non-reactive way. What does equanimity truly mean in dealing with difficult feelings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Study Retreat

2007-10-20 Cultivating Clear Seeing - The Path Of Mindfulness 62:51
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this retreat, we are cultivating clear seeing especially through development of mindfulness and wisdom. In this talk, we focus on mindfulness- exploring its qualities of bare attention, directness, non-reactivity, present centered-ness, and interest. We introduce the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, with a particular focus on mindfulness of the body, and how this leads to wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-20 #1 The Groundless Ground 59:27
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
What did the Buddha teach that was distinctively his own view? This talk attempts to answer this question. I start to define three cardinal tenets of the Buddhist teachings: the Principle of Conditionality; the Process of the Eightfold Path, and the Practice of Mindfulness. I then examine a passage from the Ariyapariyesana Sutta in which the Buddha describes his awakening as a shift from a Place to a Ground. NOTE: The quality of the recording of this talk may be improved after 11/15
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Study Retreat

2007-10-10 The Second Foundation Of Mindfulness 59:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-09 Mindfulness Of Body 52:49
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching on Sattipattana - mindfulness of Body - what is mindfulness, what is its function, and how it illuminates the understanding of suffering, impermanence and selflessness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-05 Dealing With Craving And Attachment 55:28
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
We need to see and understand the true nature of craving and attachment in order to abandon them. However, besides mindful observation there are other ways to deal with craving and attachment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-10-01 Vipassana Meditation The Science Of Mindfulness 60:07
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Instructional overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, focusing on intentional investigation, your attention with an allowing attitude. Vipassana, clear seeing, as outcome to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-09-30 Seeing through Obstacles to Mindfulness 60:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-30 Releasing The Thinking Mind 60:13
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Finding freedom every moment, using the power of mindful awareness of thoughts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1