Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks
     1 2 3 4 ... 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 ... 154 155 156 157
2016-05-24 The Factors of Samadhi- to be trained in and enjoyed 61:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Use pointing (vitakka) and “tasting/feeling” (vicara). Energy comes with enthusiasm. Use the imaginative faculty to generate useful perceptions and images. Firm up mindfulness to supervise and protect the heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-20 The Centrality of Feeling 67:30
Ajahn Sucitto
As all dharmas converge on feeling, mindful handling of feeling is crucial for happiness and liberation. Revealing mental feeling through inquiry and handling it skillfully is a thorough practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01
Tara Brach
These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-09 5) Sati - What Is Mindfulness 59:36
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 62:42
Tara Brach
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are too: don’t leave this companionship… The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full. - rumi
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 1:42:54
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-06 Mindfulness and delusion: going beyond the four distortions 64:53
Mark Nunberg
Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-05 The Power of Mindfulness 51:01
George Mumford
Five spiritual powers: a joyful journey of self-discovery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 RAIN of Forgiveness 1:14:37
Tara Brach
The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-04 Fall into life: Simple Mindful Presence 62:38
Howard Cohn
Settling into our personal essence and noticing the different identity views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-03 Morning instructions and Q&A 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Establishing mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-02 Building a foundation for mindfulness 63:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How do we know when we are being mindful, and what will help us get there?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-01 Mindfulness of emotions 52:38
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-01 Day Two Instructions: Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension 53:00
George Mumford
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-04-30 The Seat of Awakening, Jack 52:11
Jack Kornfield
How to use the great invitation of mindfulness and loving awareness to awaken amidst all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-04-30 Beginning with Metta and Mindfulness 42:36
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-04-29 Proliferation of Planning 47:38
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine gave this talk on planning tendencies of the mind. Papanca is a Pali term that means proliferation. A lot of our planning is not preparation for action. Rather, it's a form of dukkha: chronic planning may be a manifestation of anxiety, restlessness, worry, or obsessive thinking about "who I will be." Planning is fuel for self-becoming, self-grasping; restless planning perpetuates the fantasy of a future we think we can control or predict, but such future may never happen. Instead of habitually indulging in planning tendencies, we can train our attention to be mindful of life as it actually unfolds. We can thus learn to calm fantasies that distract the mind, let go of expectations, and gradually strengthen concentration to be more fully present. We can also curb the tendency to become lost in imagined scenarios of hope and fear about life's events.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

     1 2 3 4 ... 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 ... 154 155 156 157
Creative Commons License