Rob Burbea's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Rob Burbea  
 
    
        
                            
      ROB BURBEA (1965-2020) was Gaia House’s much-loved resident teacher for 10 years from 2005 - 2015, when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During his time at Gaia House, Rob wrote Seeing that Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising – an important and influential work that continues to shape and open the meditative exploration of many. Emerging from this deep experiential understanding of emptiness, Rob dedicated much of his time and energy during the last years of his life to conceiving, developing, and establishing a new body of teachings that he called ‘A Soulmaking Dharma’. Before his death, Rob initiated the Hermes Amara Foundation (HAF), an organisation that is working to preserve and develop Rob's vast Dharma teaching legacy, and to support practitioners and teachers who are engaged with these teachings. All donations go directly to HAF - your financial support  is much needed if Rob’s legacy is to sustain and thrive. To join the HAF mailing list and find out more about Rob's work please go to hermesamara.org or get in touch at info@hermesamara.org. Rob was also a guiding teacher of Freely Given Retreats (freelygivenretreats.org), a co-founder of Sanghaseva, an organisation exploring the Dharma through international service work (sanghaseva.org) and a co-initiator of DANCE, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (thedancewebsite.org).
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2017-02-07
            'The Holy Life' (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-08
            'The Holy Life' (Part 2) 
    
        2017-02-09
            'The Holy Life' (Part 3) 
    
        2009-12-31
            'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground' (A Talk on Devotion) 
    
        2010-02-06
            'To see no-thing is to see excellently' 
    
        2007-11-03
            "A Body At Peace With Itself" 
    
        2016-07-28
            "I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice 
    
        2019-05-29
            "Until All is Liquid" (Emptiness and Sensing with Soul) 
    
        2019-12-19
            A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances 
    
        2015-08-08
            A Little Exercise for the Imagination 
    
        2011-08-04
            A Mystical Kiss
        (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers and Realists...) 
    
        2007-11-08
            A Question of Faith 
    
        2019-03-24
            A Rite of Angels 
    
        2015-08-12
            A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-12
            A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) 
    
        2015-08-12
            A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) 
    
        2015-08-13
            A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) 
    
        2015-08-13
            A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5) 
    
        2018-02-05
            A Temenos Exercise (in fours) 
    
        2018-02-07
            A Temenos Exercise (in threes) 
    
        2010-01-28
            A Wise Relationship To Practice 
    
        2010-08-06
            About Metta Practice 
    
        2011-08-05
            Am I Free to Inquire? 
    
        2015-12-21
            An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction) 
    
        2015-12-21
            An Ecology of Love (Part 2) 
    
        2015-12-21
            An Ecology of Love (Part 3) 
    
        2015-12-21
            An Ecology of Love (Part 4) 
    
        2010-01-21
            An Introduction to Emptiness 
    
        2019-12-18
            An Introduction to the Jhanas 
    
        2008-11-06
            Approaches to the Hindrances 
    
        2012-11-18
            Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World 
    
        2012-11-22
            Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking 
    
        2006-04-23
            Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1) 
    
        2006-04-23
            Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2) 
    
        2017-12-15
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1) 
    
        2017-12-16
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 2) 
    
        2017-12-17
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3) 
    
        2017-12-18
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4) 
    
        2017-12-19
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) 
    
        2017-12-20
            Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6) 
    
        2011-08-02
            At Home in the Universe 
    
        2019-12-20
            Attitude, Effort, Achievement, and View 
    
        2008-03-08
            Awakening 
    
        2017-03-31
            Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A) 
    
        2017-04-01
            Beauty and the Buddha 
    
        2018-01-09
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1) 
    
        2018-01-10
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2) 
    
        2018-01-11
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3) 
    
        2018-01-12
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Three … 
    
        2018-01-13
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta) 
    
        2018-01-14
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha B… 
    
        2018-01-14
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Script… 
    
        2018-01-14
            Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking wi… 
    
        2008-12-31
            Beyond Impermanence 
    
        2006-02-11
            Beyond the Prison of the Self 
    
        2016-07-27
            Beyond the Search for Freedom 
    
        2009-09-10
            Blessing Life - The Power of the Generous Heart 
    
        2018-02-03
            Body and Soul (Q & A) 
    
        2011-11-14
            Body/Image - A Guided Meditation 
    
        2009-09-12
            Breath and Space - Reactivity, Emptiness, Piti (4th Instructions) 
    
        2009-09-09
            Breath Meditation (1st Instructions and Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-09-10
            Breath Meditation (2nd Instructions/Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-09-11
            Breath Meditation (3rd Instructions) 
    
        2019-12-19
            Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation) 
    
        2014-11-19
            Buddhism Beyond Modernism 
    
        2009-01-31
            Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self 
    
        2009-02-02
            Cittamatra 
    
        2017-03-28
            Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A) 
    
        2019-03-30
            Closing Comments From Rob - Soulmaking and Sangha 
    
        2008-02-04
            Compassion 
    
        2005-11-22
            Compassion and Emptiness 
    
        2008-02-05
            Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves) 
    
        2010-01-30
            Concepts, Views, Reality 
    
        2011-02-12
            Contact and The Construction of Self 
    
        2005-11-12
            Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 1) - Impermanence and Dukkha 
    
        2005-11-16
            Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 2) - Anatta (Not-Self) 
    
        2019-12-17
            Counting Within the Breath (Guided Meditation) 
    
        2016-07-31
            Creating the Path (Q & A) 
    
        2014-11-02
            Creative Samadhi 
    
        2019-05-30
            Daimon, Refracted 
    
        2008-03-07
            Death 
    
        2011-02-16
            Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4) 
    
        2010-02-14
            Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned 
    
        2009-02-14
            Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time 
    
        2018-02-07
            Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A) 
    
        2019-12-21
            Developing Piti, Developing Focus, Developing Wellbeing 
    
        2007-04-01
            Developing Samatha/Concentration 
    
        2019-06-06
            Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1) 
    
        2019-06-07
            Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 2) 
    
        2019-06-08
            Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3) 
    
        2017-01-18
            Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 1) 
    
        2017-01-19
            Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 2) 
    
        2017-01-20
            Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 3) 
    
        2017-01-21
            Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 4) 
    
        2017-01-22
            Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 5) 
    
        2019-05-31
            Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love 
    
        2018-02-08
            Discernment in Soulmaking (Q & A) 
    
        2017-02-05
            Doubt and Discernment (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-06
            Doubt and Discernment (Part 2) 
    
        2019-03-25
            Dukkha and Emotions in Soulmaking Practice 
    
        2017-12-28
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1) 
    
        2017-12-29
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2) 
    
        2017-12-30
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3) 
    
        2017-12-31
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - 'Mastering the Fire') 
    
        2018-01-01
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5) 
    
        2018-01-02
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6) 
    
        2018-01-03
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7) 
    
        2018-01-04
            Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 8) 
    
        2018-02-03
            Elements of the Imaginal (1 - 2) 
    
        2018-02-06
            Elements of the Imaginal (15 - 18) 
    
        2006-11-16
            Emotional Healing 
    
        2009-11-05
            Emotions and Freedom 
    
        2009-01-24
            Emptiness 
    
        2009-12-29
            Emptiness and Insight Meditation 
    
        2010-01-31
            Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2020-02-11
            Emptiness and Ways of Looking 
    
        2011-02-09
            Ending Blame 
    
        2010-12-04
            Ending the Inner Critic (1) 
    
        2010-12-04
            Ending the Inner Critic (2) 
    
        2010-12-04
            Ending the Inner Critic (3) 
    
        2016-07-28
            Energy and Transubstantiation: The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A) 
    
        2017-03-30
            Energy Body and Image (Q & A) 
    
        2015-08-07
            Energy Body: Instructions (1) 
    
        2015-08-08
            Energy Body: Instructions (2) 
    
        2015-08-07
            Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-08
            Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2) 
    
        2006-12-28
            Equanimity 
    
        2007-02-08
            Equanimity in Compassion 
    
        2019-03-27
            Eros and Desire (Q & A) 
    
        2017-03-27
            Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul 
    
        2017-02-16
            Eros and the Brahmaviharas 
    
        2017-03-27
            Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation) 
    
        2017-01-23
            Eros Unfettered (Part 1) 
    
        2017-01-24
            Eros Unfettered (Part 2) 
    
        2017-01-25
            Eros Unfettered (Part 3) 
    
        2017-01-26
            Eros Unfettered (Part 4) 
    
        2017-01-27
            Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing) 
    
        2009-01-30
            Exploring the Relationship with Practice 
    
        2008-01-30
            Exploring the World of Loving Kindness 
    
        2007-01-25
            Expressions of Metta 
    
        2017-03-27
            Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A) 
    
        2011-02-10
            Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2011-02-06
            First Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2008-08-09
            First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2007-03-31
            First Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation on the Breath 
    
        2019-12-19
            Focusing on One Point (Intensity, Directionality, Subtlety) (Instructions) 
    
        2011-02-09
            Fourth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2008-08-12
            Fourth Morning Instructions 
    
        2007-07-16
            Freedom From Fear And Anxiety 
    
        2009-09-12
            Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge 
    
        2011-02-06
            Freeing the Self 
    
        2006-11-04
            From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana) 
    
        2016-07-31
            From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment) 
    
        2007-01-27
            From Insight to Love 
    
        2017-02-19
            From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (P… 
    
        2017-02-20
            From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (P… 
    
        2007-03-17
            God and the Ultimate Truth 
    
        2020-01-08
            Going Forwards 
    
        2018-06-23
            Growing the Energy Body (Q & A) 
    
        2009-02-02
            Guided Meditation - Cittamatra 
    
        2008-02-10
            Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas 
    
        2011-02-22
            Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances 
    
        2014-12-07
            Guided Meditation 1 
    
        2008-02-09
            Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 
    
        2009-01-26
            Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics 
    
        2007-02-04
            Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena 
    
        2010-01-31
            Guided Meditation: The Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2010-01-23
            Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics 
    
        2016-07-29
            Healing the Imagination (Q & A) 
    
        2016-07-30
            Hearing All Sounds as Mantra: A Jewelline World 
    
        2018-06-24
            Heart Art and an Introduction to Image 
    
        2010-08-08
            Heart Work 
    
        2019-05-28
            Heat and the Material 
    
        2007-03-15
            Home and Homelessness 
    
        2019-03-29
            Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A) 
    
        2014-12-07
            Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One) 
    
        2014-12-07
            Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three) 
    
        2014-12-07
            Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two) 
    
        2016-07-31
            Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) 
    
        2015-08-07
            Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-07
            Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2) 
    
        2011-02-14
            Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3) 
    
        2017-02-10
            In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self 
    
        2014-11-25
            In Praise of Restlessness 
    
        2019-12-21
            Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instru… 
    
        2011-11-06
            Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States 
    
        2011-11-04
            Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2011-01-01
            Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought 
    
        2017-03-28
            Instructions:  Letting Go 
    
        2017-03-29
            Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire 
    
        2009-02-01
            Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing 
    
        2017-03-30
            Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-05-09
            Into the depths of Silence 
    
        2007-11-17
            Into the Depths of Silence 
    
        2007-04-02
            Jhana Practice 
    
        2020-01-02
            Jhanas and Insight 
    
        2007-12-31
            Joy 
    
        2009-09-29
            Joyful Effort 
    
        2006-10-17
            Letting Go of Judgement 
    
        2010-12-31
            Liberation and the Self - A Guided Inquiry 
    
        2009-09-09
            Liberation From the Inner Critic 
    
        2008-11-21
            Living in the Truth 
    
        2019-06-02
            Logoi and Leanings 
    
        2017-02-02
            Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-03
            Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2) 
    
        2017-02-04
            Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3) 
    
        2017-04-01
            Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros 
    
        2007-02-04
            Love and Emptiness 
    
        2008-02-10
            Love and the Emptiness of Things 
    
        2010-02-07
            Love, Healing, and Emptiness 
    
        2009-02-08
            Love, Karma, and Healing 
    
        2008-03-07
            Love/The Difficulties of Love 
    
        2010-02-05
            Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) 
    
        2016-07-30
            Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1) 
    
        2016-07-30
            Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2) 
    
        2008-11-27
            Maya and  Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind) 
    
        2010-08-07
            Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 1 
    
        2010-08-08
            Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 2 
    
        2010-08-09
            Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3 
    
        2010-08-09
            Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 4 
    
        2010-08-10
            Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5 
    
        2019-12-20
            Metta Practice, and a few things about Piti (Instructions) 
    
        2016-07-27
            Mindfulness and Myth 
    
        2005-11-05
            Mindfulness of Mind States 
    
        2009-10-01
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation 
    
        2017-04-01
            Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) 
    
        2016-07-30
            Neither 'Is' nor 'Is Not': Of Emptiness and the Imaginal (Q & A) 
    
        2008-06-24
            Nirvana and Transcendence 
    
        2010-02-12
            No Mind 
    
        2009-05-15
            No Self, No World 
    
        2010-02-04
            Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception 
    
        2018-02-09
            Nothing Happens By Itself 
    
        2007-09-17
            Ocean of Patience 
    
        2018-06-29
            Of Hunger and Humility 
    
        2017-03-31
            On Blessed Ground:  Fantasies of the Self on the Path 
    
        2016-07-28
            On Orientations in Practice (Live and Shortened version) 
    
        2019-03-26
            On Practising with Images (Q & A) 
    
        2008-09-17
            On the Essence of Being 
    
        2009-02-13
            On the Nature of Mind 
    
        2011-06-07
            One Earth Sangha 
    
        2010-01-20
            Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat 
    
        2018-06-22
            Opening Talk ('To Kiss a Falcon') 
    
        2011-02-05
            Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1):  Being on Retreat 
    
        2008-03-05
            Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 
    
        2017-02-17
            Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-18
            Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2) 
    
        2019-05-27
            Opening the Sense of the Energy Body 
    
        2009-09-08
            Opening the Sense of What's Possible 
    
        2017-03-29
            Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A) 
    
        2015-08-10
            Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1) 
    
        2015-08-10
            Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) 
    
        2015-08-11
            Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3) 
    
        2019-12-17
            Orienting to This Jhana Retreat 
    
        2020-02-13
            Pain, as Void and as Sacrament 
    
        2007-03-16
            Passion, Desire, and the Path 
    
        2020-03-06
            Perfection and Christ's Blessing 
    
        2009-01-26
            Practicing with the Three Characteristics 
    
        2020-02-20
            Practising with Death and Dying 
    
        2020-03-01
            Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1) 
    
        2020-03-02
            Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 2) 
    
        2020-03-03
            Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 3) 
    
        2020-03-04
            Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4) 
    
        2020-03-05
            Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5) 
    
        2020-01-08
            PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 
    
        2019-12-30
            Q & A 
    
        2019-12-27
            Q & A 
    
        2019-12-23
            Q & A 
    
        2019-12-22
            Q & A 
    
        2019-12-20
            Q & A 
    
        2020-01-01
            Q & A 
    
        2019-12-24
            Q & A, and Short Talk 
    
        2019-12-29
            Q & A, and Short Talk 
    
        2011-02-10
            Question and Answer Session 2 
    
        2014-11-12
            Questioning Awakening 
    
        2011-02-19
            Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) 
    
        2009-05-21
            Realizing the Nature of Mind 
    
        2011-02-08
            Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) 
    
        2011-07-29
            Reflections on the Retreat and on the Path 
    
        2017-02-13
            Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-14
            Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 2) 
    
        2017-02-15
            Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3) 
    
        2014-10-05
            Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1) 
    
        2014-10-05
            Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2) 
    
        2014-10-05
            Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3) 
    
        2006-02-09
            Renunciation and Joy 
    
        2018-06-27
            Sailing the Oceans of Soul (Q & A) 
    
        2006-11-07
            Samadhi 
    
        2010-01-21
            Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers) 
    
        2007-01-22
            Samadhi in Metta Practice 
    
        2009-01-24
            Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness 
    
        2007-03-30
            Samatha (Concentration Practice) - Introductory Talk 
    
        2008-10-04
            Second Day Instructions - Vedana 
    
        2011-02-07
            Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2008-08-10
            Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2007-04-01
            Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2010-08-10
            Selflessness and a Life of Love 
    
        2008-11-14
            Sense Desire 
    
        2016-08-01
            Sensing Divinity 
    
        2017-12-21
            Sensing with Soul (Part 1) 
    
        2017-12-22
            Sensing with Soul (Part 2) 
    
        2017-12-23
            Sensing with Soul (Part 3) 
    
        2017-12-24
            Sensing with Soul (Part 4) 
    
        2017-12-25
            Sensing with Soul (Part 5) 
    
        2017-12-26
            Sensing with Soul (Part 6) 
    
        2017-12-27
            Sensing with Soul (Part 7) 
    
        2018-06-26
            Sensitivity, Receptivity, and Respect in Soul Work (Q & A) 
    
        2011-02-12
            Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness 
    
        2017-04-02
            Shaping Vessels 
    
        2018-06-28
            Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise) 
    
        2019-06-09
            Sila and Soul (Part 1) 
    
        2019-06-10
            Sila and Soul (Part 2) 
    
        2019-06-11
            Sila and Soul (Part 3) 
    
        2019-06-12
            Sila and Soul (Part 4) 
    
        2019-06-13
            Sila and Soul (Part 5) 
    
        2019-06-14
            Sila and Soul (Part 6) 
    
        2019-06-15
            Sila and Soul (Part 7) 
    
        2019-06-16
            Sila and Soul (Part 8) 
    
        2019-06-17
            Sila and Soul (Part 9) 
    
        2018-06-28
            Soul Making Dharma (Q & A) 
    
        2018-02-05
            Soulful Movement and Elements of the Imaginal (6 - 10) 
    
        2015-08-10
            Soulmaking (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-10
            Soulmaking (Part 2) 
    
        2019-06-03
            Soulmaking Dyad Practice 
    
        2018-02-06
            Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A) 
    
        2008-08-12
            Talk Five: Samatha, Nibbana, and the Emptiness of Perception - The Relationship… 
    
        2008-08-11
            Talk Four:  Jhanas One to Four 
    
        2008-08-08
            Talk One: Introduction to the Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation) 
    
        2008-08-10
            Talk Three:  Wise Effort and Wise Attachment 
    
        2008-08-09
            Talk Two:  Understanding the Heart 
    
        2016-08-03
            Tending the Flame 
    
        2005-12-17
            The Art of Letting Go 
    
        2016-07-28
            The Art of Perception 
    
        2011-11-19
            The Beauty of Desire (Part 1) 
    
        2011-11-26
            The Beauty of Desire (Part 2) 
    
        2008-02-12
            The Birth of a Bodhisattva 
    
        2019-05-26
            The Crucible 
    
        2008-10-03
            The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions 
    
        2020-01-06
            The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) 
    
        2020-01-07
            The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 
    
        2018-06-23
            The Energy Body (A Little Bit of What, Why, and How) 
    
        2019-12-18
            The Energy Body and the Whole-body breath (Instructions and Guided Meditation) 
    
        2010-01-22
            The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond) 
    
        2020-01-03
            The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) 
    
        2019-12-22
            The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana 
    
        2019-12-31
            The Fourth Jhana 
    
        2009-02-09
            The Freedom of No-thing-ness 
    
        2016-08-01
            The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) 
    
        2016-08-01
            The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2) 
    
        2016-08-01
            The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) 
    
        2020-02-14
            The Image of Ethics (Part 1) 
    
        2020-02-15
            The Image of Ethics (Part 2) 
    
        2020-02-16
            The Image of Ethics (Part 3) 
    
        2020-02-17
            The Image of Ethics (Part 4) 
    
        2020-02-18
            The Image of Ethics (Part 5) 
    
        2020-02-19
            The Image of Ethics (Part 6 - An Inconclusive Conclusion, or A Prolegomenon) 
    
        2016-08-01
            The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A) 
    
        2019-03-24
            The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A) 
    
        2019-06-01
            The Invitation of Otherness (Autonomy, Eros, and Intentionality) 
    
        2015-08-11
            The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-11
            The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) 
    
        2008-12-28
            The Meaning of Refuge 
    
        2011-07-31
            The Meditator as Revolutionary 
    
        2016-07-29
            The Movement of Devotion (Live and Shortened Version) 
    
        2016-07-29
            The Movement of Devotion (Part 1) 
    
        2016-07-29
            The Movement of Devotion (Part 2) 
    
        2010-11-06
            The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 
    
        2006-11-22
            The Nature of Awareness 
    
        2016-07-27
            The Nature of Enchantment 
    
        2012-12-31
            The Necessity of Fantasy 
    
        2020-02-12
            The Ontology of the Soul, and the Soul of Ontology ( ... inevitably) 
    
        2019-06-04
            The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 1) 
    
        2019-06-05
            The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2) 
    
        2012-11-01
            The Place of Calm 
    
        2005-12-29
            The Place of Love in Insight Meditation 
    
        2008-01-29
            The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice 
    
        2007-02-01
            The Practice of Compassion 
    
        2017-03-26
            The Problem of Desire 
    
        2010-11-12
            The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1) 
    
        2010-11-20
            The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2) 
    
        2010-11-26
            The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey) 
    
        2018-02-08
            The Rhythms of Soulmaking and Elements of the Imaginal (23 - 28) 
    
        2019-12-25
            The Second Jhana 
    
        2009-09-11
            The Self and Its Search for Security 
    
        2007-09-20
            The Self and the World 
    
        2009-01-25
            The Sense of Self 
    
        2010-01-29
            The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The self cannot be found anywhere) 
    
        2020-01-05
            The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) 
    
        2020-01-04
            The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) 
    
        2009-09-09
            The Space of Awareness - Impermanence (1st Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-09-11
            The Space of Awareness - Only Impressions in Awareness (3rd Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-09-10
            The Space of Awareness - Silence (2nd Guided Meditation) 
    
        2009-09-12
            The Space of Awareness - Welcoming (4th Guided Meditation) 
    
        2018-06-28
            The Spreading of Five Wings 
    
        2010-02-13
            The Subtlety of Dependent Origination 
    
        2013-11-10
            The Theatre of Selves (Part One) 
    
        2013-11-24
            The Theatre of Selves (Part Three) 
    
        2013-11-17
            The Theatre of Selves (Part Two) 
    
        2019-12-28
            The Third Jhana 
    
        2009-02-15
            The Unfabricated, The Deathless... 
    
        2010-02-15
            The Union of Appearance and Emptiness 
    
        2008-10-04
            The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1) 
    
        2008-10-05
            The Unshakeable Heart (Part 2) 
    
        2019-05-25
            The Way of Image 
    
        2017-01-15
            The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1) 
    
        2017-01-16
            The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) 
    
        2017-01-17
            The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3) 
    
        2009-11-17
            The Wisdom of Non-Duality 
    
        2017-02-11
            The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) 
    
        2017-02-12
            The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2) 
    
        2015-08-12
            Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions 
    
        2008-08-11
            Third Morning Instructions 
    
        2007-04-02
            Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2016-08-02
            This Fire, This Longing (Q & A) 
    
        2011-12-31
            This Matter of Emptiness 
    
        2019-03-23
            This Retreat 
    
        2012-11-06
            Thoughts and Images in Meditation 
    
        2010-01-23
            Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy 
    
        2007-11-24
            Time and the Emptiness of Time 
    
        2018-02-04
            To Sense with Soul 
    
        2018-06-25
            Towards the Imaginal 
    
        2018-02-05
            Transformation in Soul (Q & A) 
    
        2019-12-26
            True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) 
    
        2018-06-24
            Trust, Ethics, Image (Q & A) 
    
        2018-02-04
            Trusting in Soulmaking (Q & A) 
    
        2009-11-02
            Truthfulness and Authenticity 
    
        2009-02-03
            Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of th… 
    
        2008-02-02
            Using Insight To Deepen Love and Compassion 
    
        2006-12-31
            Views In Practice (...They make all the difference) 
    
        2017-03-30
            Visions of the Beyond 
    
        2018-06-24
            Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (1) 
    
        2018-06-26
            Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (2) 
    
        2011-02-13
            Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca 
    
        2011-02-15
            Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha 
    
        2011-02-17
            Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta 
    
        2009-05-03
            What is ‘Insight’? 
    
        2015-08-09
            What is an 'Image'? (Part 1) 
    
        2015-08-09
            What is an 'Image'? (Part 2) 
    
        2018-01-05
            What is Awakening? (Part 1) 
    
        2018-01-06
            What is Awakening? (Part 2) 
    
        2018-01-07
            What is Awakening? (Part 3) 
    
        2018-01-08
            What is Awakening? (Part 4) 
    
        2007-12-29
            What is Insight? 
    
        2018-06-27
            Wisdom and Desire 
    
        2017-01-28
            Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1) 
    
        2017-01-29
            Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2) 
    
        2017-01-30
            Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3) 
    
        2017-01-31
            Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4) 
    
        2017-02-01
            Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 5) 
    
        2013-11-02
            Wise Responses to the Hindrances 
    
        2008-09-14
            Working with Anger and Aversion 
    
        2011-08-02
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four) 
    
        2011-07-30
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day One) 
    
        2011-08-05
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Seven) 
    
        2011-08-04
            Working With The Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Six) 
    
        2011-08-01
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three) 
    
        2011-07-31
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two) 
    
        2011-08-03
            Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions:  Day Five) 
    
        2007-03-31
            Working with the Hindrances 
    
        2008-11-09
            Working with Thought in Meditation 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Rob Burbea's 57 retreats
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        2005-11-01
            November Solitary 
    
        2005-12-15
            The Art of Letting Go - Insight Meditation 
    
        2005-12-27
            New Year's Retreat 
    
        2006-02-08
            Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat 
    
        2006-04-23
            One Day Retreat 
    
        2006-10-17
            Tuesday Night Series 
    
        2006-11-01
            Solitary Month 
    
        2006-12-27
            New Year's Retreat 
    
        2007-01-14
            Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007) 
    
        2007-03-14
            Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat 
    
        2007-03-30
            Samatha Meditation 
    
        2007-07-13
            Path of Liberation 
    
        2007-09-15
            Deepening in Wisdom 
    
        2007-11-02
            Solitary Month Retreat 
    
        2007-12-28
            The New Years Retreat Insight Meditation 
    
        2008-01-13
            Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008) 
    
        2008-03-05
            A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening 
    
        2008-06-24
            Tuesday Evening Talks 
    
        2008-08-08
            The Art Of Concentration (Samatha Meditation) 
    
        2008-09-12
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation 
    
        2008-10-03
            Equanimity 
    
        2008-11-03
            Solitary Month Retreat 
    
        2008-12-27
            Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat 
    
        2009-01-24
            Meditation on Emptiness (2009) 
    
        2009-05-01
            May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2009-09-08
            Unbinding The Heart 
    
        2009-09-26
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation 
    
        2009-11-02
            November Solitary Retreat 
    
        2009-12-27
            New Years Retreat 
    
        2010-01-20
            Meditation on Emptiness (2010) 
    
        2010-08-06
            The Loving Kindness (Metta) Retreat 
    
        2010-11-03
            November Solitary Retreat 
    
        2010-12-04
            Ending the Inner Critic 
    
        2010-12-27
            The New Years Retreat 
    
        2011-02-05
            Metta and Emptiness (Level 1) 
    
        2011-07-29
            The Boundless Heart 
    
        2011-11-01
            November Solitary 
    
        2011-12-27
            New Years Retreat 
    
        2012-10-31
            November Solitary 
    
        2012-12-27
            New Year Retreat 
    
        2013-10-31
            November Solitary 
    
        2014-10-05
            One Day Retreat 
    
        2014-11-01
            November Solitary 
    
        2014-12-07
            Path of the Imaginal (Day Retreat) 
    
        2015-08-06
            Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course) 
    
        2015-12-21
            An Ecology of Love 
    
        2016-07-27
            Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception 
    
        2017-01-15
            Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire 
    
        2017-03-26
            Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire 
    
        2017-12-15
            The Mirrored Gates 
    
        2018-02-02
            Tending the Holy Fire 
    
        2018-06-22
            Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma 
    
        2019-03-23
            Roots into the Ground of Soul 
    
        2019-05-25
            Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light 
    
        2019-12-17
            Practising the Jhānas 
    
        2020-02-11
            In Psyche's Orchard 
    
        2020-03-01
            Vajra Music 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
         
        
            
  
         
     
 
    
        
    
	
        
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
		
			
                
                    
    
      
      
        
           
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      The talks in this series were recorded by Rob at his home. As well as addressing and inquiring into common Dharma themes such as emptiness, ethics, Awakening, and tradition, they attempt to clarify or explore further various aspects and implications of some of the Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, including their bearing on some of those common Dharma themes. PLEASE NOTE: Although not all of it, much of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended when there is already some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of Soulmaking Dharma, in addition to a good working familiarity with Insight Meditation.
     
          
            
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  Sila and Soul (Part 8)
 
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      The talks in this series were recorded by Rob at his home. As well as addressing and inquiring into common Dharma themes such as emptiness, ethics, Awakening, and tradition, they attempt to clarify or explore further various aspects and implications of some of the Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, including their bearing on some of those common Dharma themes. PLEASE NOTE: Although not all of it, much of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended when there is already some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of Soulmaking Dharma, in addition to a good working familiarity with Insight Meditation.
     
          
            
            	Gaia House 
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  Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light