2002-12-12 The Poison Arrow 46:43
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Stokes Valley Monastery Retreat, New Zealand The poison arrow of ignorance spreads its toxins through passion, desire and ill will. By sitting still, applying mindfulness and surrendering to what is, the right view will illuminate our minds and will help us extract the arrow and heal the wound.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2002-12-10 A Mind Empowered 5 Ways 34:01
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Learn how we can refine our mental skills of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. Enhanced by right view and a deepened understanding of the Four Noble Truths, these spiritual powers vanquish hatred and fear, nurturing our readiness to forgive, and the blessed qualities of universal loving-kindness and compassion. A talk given during a 10-day retreat at Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand in 2002.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2002-12-06 Coming Home To Ourselves 58:30
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
This talk is about some of the beautiful qualities of mind that are cultivated with each moment of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-12-01 The Lion's Roar 67:25
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
There is great power and strength in the capacity to connect within our self and to others. Directly, clearly, patiently and fearlessly with a heart/mind that is free of ill-will and rooted in lovingkindness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-27 Mindfulness And Metta 49:54
John Travis	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-11 Transformation Of Afflictive Emotions 1:17:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Cultivating a strong and clear mindful attention that meets the experience of the moment allows us to see the afflictive emotions clearly.. To see through them like we see through the colors of a rainbow. This 'seeing' brings with it the possibility of the transformation of afflictive states into wholesome energies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-03 Concentration And Mindfulness 55:28
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Reigning the mind in from all it's myriad distractions… cultivating the power of concentration in order to see clearly. Pay attention in a non judging, non manipulative, non grasping, non rejecting attention - the magic of mindfulness, taking us out of illusion directly into reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-10-30 Awareness & Compassion 61:25
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The natural expression of emptiness or anatta is compassion or friendliness. This motivation of heart develops naturally as wisdom and mindfulness deepen and we cannotice this happening both in retreat and in our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-10-14 Understanding Mara And The Seven Factors Of Awakening (Part 1) 52:30
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Being awake or asleep is a choice we make each moment of our life -- understanding how to balance and maintain mindfulness, investigation, energy and joyful interest.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2002-10-09 Skeleton Dance: Cultivating Mindfulness and Joy 30:34
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
An active Dharma talk through dance and movement. A step-by-step explorative talk, dancing into bodily awareness of joy and mindfulness, using the sense doors of sight, sound, touch and perception
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness, Consciousness in the Body 1:26:51
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
An explorative explanation of consciously connecting with the body, developing deep concentration and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness To the Body Through the Body Parts 55:40
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
A talk on how to sweep through the body, moving from part to part and incorporate the breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-08 Mindfulness To Body: Connection and Consciousness 55:40
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-09-27 Awareness Is Our Refuge 59:46
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Seeing that the heart of our practice stems from our motivation rather than from achieving certain experiences. Mindfulness enables us to shift our attitude from self-centered striving to one of confidence in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-09-04 Making Peace With Pain 50:38
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our conditioning to resist pain creates trance—we become identified as a small, victimized, threatened self. We have the capacity, through mindful, kind attention, to discover genuine freedom in the midst of pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2002-08-15 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, No Self, Laws of Experience 54:25
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen

2002-08-14 The Third Foundation Of Mindfulness: Mental States 47:28
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Practicing mindfulness with mental states, emotions and reactions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-08-13 Second Foundation Of Mindfulness - Awareness Of Pleasant, Unpleasant And Neutral 45:27
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The second foundation of mindfulness is the awareness of pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. Awareness of the texture of our experiences brings liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-08-13 Mindfulness Of The Body 46:57
Michael Grady	Download Listen
The first foundation of mindfulness - being more present through various awareness practices related to the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-06-05 Mindfulness as Intuition Practice 1:11:29
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-10 If I Pay Attention, I Am Kind 69:14
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Recapitulation of how mindfulness works to condition the strengthening of the paramitas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-27 Resonance and Mindfulness 68:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 Gratitude And Trust 52:43
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How to be in the moment in the face of life difficulties. How to live “into life” in the presence of loss and death. The power of gratitude and trust, and ways to cultivate them as mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-04-15 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 62:07
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-03-19 Mindfulness of Dharma 43:52
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2002-03-10 The Kindness And Challenge Of Mindfulness 48:04
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Mindfulness teaches us the way to develop a non judgmental presence in all the moments of our lives. Equally mindfulness challenges us, inviting renunciation, investigation and simplicity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women's Retreat

2002-02-27 Relationships As A Path Of Spiritual Awakening 42:36
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our human relationships give rise to pain and pleasure, fear, suffering and love. As we bring our experience into the light of mindful awareness, we awaken compassion and discover the truth of our connectedness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2002-02-16 Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice 57:35
James Baraz	Download Listen
Mindfulness as bare attention is supported and developed by bringing the content of clear comprehension, or full awareness, into practice. This includes clear comprehension of purpose, of suitability, of domain of meditation, and of reality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-07 The Strength Of The Still Forest Pool 58:25
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
What is mindfulness and what are the qualities that make mindfulness such a good friend to have? We discover the simplicity of mindfulness and how we can strengthen it in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-30 Buddha Dharma At People Of Color Retreat 60:39
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the way of the Dharma—including the Four Noble Truths and foundations of mindfulness from the elders of the Forest for Retreat Practice—to nourish our own practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-20 How Mindfulness Heals: Working With Thoughts And Emotions 52:34
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Disentangling ourselves from getting lost in thought stories and afflictive emotions with the power of mindfulness.

2001-10-11 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 53:40
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Developing and balancing the seven factors of awakening [mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity] to support life and practice.

2001-10-11 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 52:46
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Developing and balancing the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity) to support life and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-07 Internal Disarmament: Healing Ourselves 55:46
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Using compassion and mindfulness as we work with negative emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-03 Mindfulness 57:36
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-10-03 Mindfulness Sutta 51:27
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-09-30 Metta, Equanimity And Emotions 48:33
Steven Smith	Download Listen
When we are still in the midst of emotions, mindfulness draws forth metta and equanimity and helps us to see the layered nature of our own feelings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2001-09-25 Meditation In The Eight Fold Path 57:29
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Turning to awakeness through effort, concentration, and the knowing quality of mindfulness that is the gateway to wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-08-14 Rambling about Mindfulness 59:37
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
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2001-07-04 Mindlessness, Mindfulness and Grasping 58:01
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-06-13 Transforming Fear 59:17
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When we are identified inside the body of fear, our life contracts and our heart becomes hard. With the practices of mindfulness and compassion, we open our sense of being into the loving awareness that has room for fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-10 Gateway To Freedom: First Foundation Of Mindfulness 48:55
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The essential practice for freedom.
Santa Fe

2001-06-09 Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness 52:07
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Paying attention to how concentration and mindfulness work together to provide a foundation for meditative investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-01 Emotional Wakefulness 45:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Because of the power of our emotions, we are called upon in this practice to cultivate emotional mindfulness and emotional freedom. What is the interface then between experiencing our feelings fully, and maintaining emotional equanimity, or balance? How can we relate to our emotional life in a way that allows the creative power of our hearts to awaken?

2001-05-01 The Five Powers Of Mind 46:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The five powers of mind are confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. This talk addresses how they balance and work together, bringing inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-04-20 Come See For Yourself: The Power And Presence Of Concentration And Mindfulness 60:00
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
This practice is a path of inquiry, investigation and discovery that we fully participate in and experience for ourselves. By the power of our own attention-mindful awareness, with great interest and energy, we develop a concentrated clarity of presence, taking the time to look very deeply at our own experience of body, mind and heart. Through this process we are able to see and experience the nature of things. This is what leads to the deepest wisdom and happiness. This is what leads to awakening/liberation..
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-18 The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide For Living In The Present 47:38
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Pragmatic mindfulness gives us full, immediate presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2001-03-31 Emotional Wakefulness 42:34
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Because of the power of our emotions, we are called upon in this practice to cultivate emotional mindfulness and emotional freedom. What is the interface then between experiencing our feelings fully and maintaining emotional equanimity or balance? How can we relate to our emotional life in a way that allows the creative power of our hearts to awaken?

2001-03-15 Mindfulness Of Speech 48:07
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Learning the four guidelines of mindful speaking which allow us to see with greater clarity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-02-26 Wise Mindfulness 58:02
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen