2001-01-01 Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension 68:13
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen

2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - I 1:21:28
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Week I - General Introduction Mindfulness of the body and concentration on the breath adding mindfulness of sensation while encouraging opening to pleasure and pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - II 1:27:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Week II - Mindfulness of Emotions Exploring ways of working with difficult inner weather systems.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - III 1:25:32
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Week III - Mindfulness of Thoughts Investigating the nature of mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2000-12-31 Purification Of The Heart 49:55
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The deepest nature of our heart is intrinsically pure, but it is usually obscured by the visiting forms of wanting, aversion, and confusion. This talk explores how to work mindfully with various kinds of difficult emotions and how mindfulness works to purify our hearts of their influence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-12-04 Sila--The Cultivation Of Virtue 50:36
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Understanding how sila is the foundation of our mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  2000 Three Month Retreat

2000-11-06 Mindfulness 59:33
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Resting in mindfulness is resting in grace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  2000 Three Month Retreat

2000-10-16 The Great Being Of Metta & Mindfulness 59:22
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Discovering the attributes of a "great one," a fully liberated and "true-hearted" one, a loyal friend and the ideal of tathagata.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  2000 Three Month Retreat

2000-09-25 Confidence, Courage, Acceptance, Simplicity = 4 Supports Of Mindfulness 57:46
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Paying attention to how confidence, courage, acceptance and simplicity support mindfulness and the spiritual life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  2000 Three Month Retreat

2000-05-30 Love And Hate 49:22
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Ways of working mindfully with discontent and understanding the importance of connection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2000-05-11 Living Fully In The Present; The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness - part 2 42:46
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
continuation of part 1.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-05-09 Living Fully In The Present; The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness - part 1 46:04
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Learning to open fully to life as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-04-25 Wise Attention 41:45
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Mindfulness is not the end but a key to a liberating wisdom..
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-18 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 58:37
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2000-04-10 The Eightfold Path 7: Wise Mindfulness 43:53
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Exploring how mindfulness flows naturally from a wise view.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-07 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 61:53
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2000-02-05 The Practices Of Clear Seeing And Tenderness 49:59
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Mindfulness and Metta, as integral, implicit aspects of each other, are a unified path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-12-06 Nature Of Mind 54:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
exploring the nature of consciousness, awareness and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-11-23 The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties 59:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom build on each other in a natural development. Understanding their relationship gives us a map for how the meditation process unfolds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-11-03 The Art Of Meditation Practice 57:09
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Regular mindfulness and concentration can be a creative and vital ritual of daily practice that becomes essential in opening of our hearts and minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-11-01 Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness 61:16
James Baraz	Download Listen
The practice of appreciation is an exercise in mindfulness, openness of heart and wisdom. Whether experience is pleasant or unpleasant, inclining our minds toward appreciation allows us to open to our joys and sorrows as valuable gifts that make each moment come alive.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

1999-09-26 The Four Noble Truths And The Four Practices Of Mindfulness 56:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
given at the first annual People of Color retreat at the Spirit Rock. The Noble Truths with a perspective on diversity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-09-14 Fully Alive- Awakening Through Embodiment 61:27
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The Buddha's teachings on mindfulness begin with mindfulness of our body. By cultivating embodied awareness, we develop the capacity for presence and awakening through all realms of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

1999-09-12 Essential Dhamma #3: The Good Fortune Of Mindfulness 60:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
the essential dhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-09-09 The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:18
James Baraz	Download Listen
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity. When brought to fruition they lead to the highest happiness we can experience. How can we cultivate these qualities consciously in our meditation practice and in our life?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Foundations Of Practice

1999-09-05 The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties 60:37
James Baraz	Download Listen
Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom build on each other in a natural development. Understanding their relationship gives us a map for how the meditation process unfolds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-08-18 Identity + Insight: Comparing Mind 55:22
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Creating a sense of self through the activity of comparing mind. Disentangling a sense of self through mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-08-04 Mindfulness And The Rainbow Of Emotions 51:43
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
given at the Family retreat: the possibility of transformation in the midst of the many hues of our emotional states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Family Retreat (5 days)

1999-08-03 Family As Family 31:06
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Contemplating family as family is a fifth foundation of mindfulness for householders.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-08-01 Blessings, Aspirations, Renunciation, Mindfulness 54:26
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
support for freedom takes many forms
Maui, Hi

1999-07-17 Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances 59:12
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The five hindrances: attachment, aversion, restlessness, sloth and torpor, and doubt, are often seen as obstacles to liberation. However, once we are mindful of them, they become vehicles for awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat (9 days)

1999-07-16 Insight And Purification 46:49
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
understanding the relationship between mindfulness and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-06-10 Just Along For The Ride 48:39
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
learning to apply mindfulness to all of our experience: recognition, acceptance, interest and non-identification
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat (10 days)

1999-05-31 Planting A Metta Garden 51:30
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
patience and acceptance in the cultivation of metta and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat (8 days)

1999-05-09 The 7 Factors Of Awakening 64:16
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
a description of each one of the seven factors: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1999-05-01 Journey Of Awakening 53:09
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
This is a personal story of how the simplicity of the practice of mindfulness has continued to support awakening to the present moment, which has been the most important way to understand life as it truly is.
Perth, Australia

1999-04-12 Foundation of Mindfulness 59:26
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

1999-02-18 Peace Is Possible 53:55
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Using the path of practice (the Fourth Noble Truth), we can learn to pay attention moment to moment, developing insight and concentration. Each moment of mindfulness is another moment of freedom from suffering, and in that freedom, indeed, peace is possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-01-23 Mindful Contemplation of the Body 50:35
Eugene Cash	Download Listen

1999-01-08 Women Awakening Through the Body 47:38
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
How we can use mindfulness of the body, and the realities of life in our body, as the awakener.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1998-10-12 Living Wholeheartedly 55:23
Tara Brach	Download Listen
exploring how to include our whole lives in mindfuless and heartfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-10-11 Mindfulness As A Last Resort 49:40
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
going beyond the transitory - understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Partial #1 (6 weeks)

1998-10-05 The Poetry Of Mindfulness 53:52
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
how mindfulness brings about a deep acceptance of the rhythms of change in our lives
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Partial #1 (6 weeks)

1998-07-03 The Five Aggregates 62:33
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
mindfulness, the universal solvent takes us apart gently
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-14 Mindfulness 54:46
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
peeling away the layers of myth, preconception and misunderstanding through mindfulness; the need for continuity of awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-10 Seven Factors Of Awakening: Mindfulness 50:03
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Developing free-flow natural mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat (10 days)

1998-06-09 Mindfulness And The Rainbow Of Emotional States 65:16
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
"seeing" through the strong energies of mind with a compassionate, mindful awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-06-03 Flowers Of Joy, Flowers Of Sorrow: Where Is Kuan Yin? 54:49
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
bringing compassion and mindfulness to our experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat (8 days)

1998-05-30 Metta, Concentration And The Hindrances 55:07
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
how to do the Lovingkindness practice in relationship to concentration or mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat (8 days)

1998-05-11 The Power Of Mindfulness 50:27
Michael Grady	Download Listen
transforming habit through silent attention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat (7 days)