2008-06-10 Exploring The Universe Within 55:19
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
How I came to practice – intro; followed by an exploration of the nature of mind, a description of the qualities of mindfulness as a toll for investigation and liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-06-07 Relaxation, Curiosity And Mindfulness 58:01
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How relaxation and curiosity support our journey to see the truth of how things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-05-31 Joy Of Practice 69:45
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the joys and fruits of the practice of Vipassana/mindfulness? This talk elaborates the peace, joy, freedom that arises from meditation; especially in regard to seeing clearly the nature of thought, papanca and disengaging from the delusions of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation for the Curious

2008-05-31 Exploring Mindfulness 60:01
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House :  An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-31 Mindfulness and the Indriyas 1:13:03
Thanissara	Download Listen
This talk also includes Mahesi Caplan
Gaia House :  An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-30 An Exploration of Mindfulness 44:46
Thanissara	Download Listen
This talk also includes Mahesi Caplan
Gaia House :  An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-21 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 1) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #35 1:13:27
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching of Mindful Eating and the Flowering of Wisdom. From the series Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #35.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2008-05-21 Mindfulness In Relationship To Food 59:54
Pablo Das	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-14 Essential Dharma, Class 7 - Wise Mindfulness 54:07
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Wise Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma 2008 - Session II

2008-05-10 A Little Renunciation 32:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2008-05-05 Questions And Answers #1 - Evening Dharma Talk 7:30 PM 66:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On self-aversion, on the distinction between mindfulness and insight and on the development of samadi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-05-03 Balancing The Indriya - Evening Dharma Talk 53:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The five indriya: faith, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment merge in the Deathless where they correctly balance each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-26 The Power of Mindfulness to go beyond Reactivity and Coercion 61:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Of The Body, III 67:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Part 2 44:30
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Hermitage

2008-04-07 Mindfulness Part 1 64:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Hermitage

2008-04-06 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 2) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #36 1:18:46
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching of Mindful Eating and the Flowering of Wisdom
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2008-04-02 A Wise Understanding Of Desire 1:13:30
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We lose huge swaths of our life when caught in wanting experience to be more and different. Yet if we bring a mindful presence to the thoughts and feelings of wanting, we discover a portal into full aliveness and freedom. This talk explores how to recognize and investigate wanting mind; how by tracing longing back to it's very source we discover that what we long for is already here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 27:31 Download Listen A Wise Understanding Of Desire 45:58 Download Listen

2008-04-02 The Clarity And Promise Of Mindfulness 63:49
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

2008-03-20 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness 54:47
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is the second of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. This first week we’ll explore the theme of Mindfulness as a path for well-being. We will share some practical exercises to use in daily life as well as understand why mindfulness is called by the Buddha “the most direct way to overcome sorrow and despair and realize the highest happiness.”
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-15 The Attitude Of Awareness 54:07
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one free from greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also defines some key terms in practice: consciousness, mindfulness, awareness, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-12 Papanca - The Unbidden Wandering Of Mind 51:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
As mindfulness deepens, we can uncover the 4 root causes of getting lost in our thinking, as well as remembering the aliveness of being when we step aside from thinking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-06 I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out! 56:08
James Baraz	Download Listen
Mindfulness practice helps us see clearly how we’re creating suffering for ourselves with our insecurities, self-judgments, judgments of others or other conditioned reactions. But often seeing these isn’t enough to release their hold on us. In fact, sometimes it’s more frustrating to see them but still feel as stuck as ever. We’ll explore how to work with this predicament wisely so we 1) don’t have to be at the mercy of our lofty ideals of good practice can use some simple but effective methods for moving to a greater place of well-being.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-27 The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 1:12:58
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
In the Art of Practice, we explore key techniques in preparing the grounds for true meditation. These include relaxation, identifying a home base, awakening the senses and re-mindfulness. These "skillful means" allow us to arrive Here, and to rest in a natural mindfulness, awake and open awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 26:00 Download Listen The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 46:58 Download Listen

2008-02-25 Noble Eightfold Path - part 2 - Right Effort, Mindfulness And Concentration 55:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Preparing the ground for wisdom to flourish.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

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