Anushka Fernandopulle's Dharma Talks
Anushka Fernandopulle
I am a lifelong spiritual practitioner who has trained for over 20 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India and Sri Lanka. I live in an urban area and consider how the practices can translate for my fellow citizens with a busy modern life; I am most interested in bringing these ancient teachings to the contemporary world, informed by my love of creative arts, technology, politics and pop culture. I also have an MBA and am particularly interested in the practice as it relates to leadership development -- how we can each see through the things that hold us back from manifesting our unique gifts and talents in the world. I am on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and teach at other meditation centers, but also do a lot of teaching & coaching in tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and less overtly spiritual settings. For more information, please visit: www.anushkaf.org
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2017-09-22
32 Parts of the Body - Guided Meditation 5 - Bile ,Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, F…
2017-09-20
32 Parts of the Body: Guided Meditation 2 - Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Marrow, Kidne…
2012-09-02
Aligning With Truth
2012-05-22
An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
2024-10-29
Anatta or Not Self
2024-03-09
Anicca : Training to Perceive Impermanence & Changeablility
2018-10-09
Attention to the Body
2016-09-04
Awareness of thoughts and emotions
2016-03-22
Bright Guardians of the World
2011-11-22
Buddha's Recipe for Happiness
2012-07-19
Catching the Right Thought Trains
2025-09-05
Chanting
2025-07-13
Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-14
Compassionate awareness, Balanced Awareness
2017-06-29
Cracking the Code - Meditation Instructions on Vedana or Feeling Tone
2018-10-11
Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana
2025-07-20
Cultivating a Tone of Kindness
2017-07-21
Cultivating Goodwill towards All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-07-01
Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-07-02
Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-06-13
Day 3: Morning Instructions
2016-06-14
Day 4: Afternoon Instructions
2016-07-03
Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2018-04-13
Day Four: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-10
Day One: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-30
Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness
2017-03-29
Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts
2018-04-11
Day Two: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-13
Death
2017-09-03
Deconstructing Our Life: Instructional Sit
2013-05-21
Developing Our Practice
2016-03-15
Developing Perception that Frees
2025-08-14
Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth
2010-09-27
Dharma and Technology
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus
2018-10-10
Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-01-18
Dharma For MLK Day
2017-12-31
Dharma For The New Years Eve
2011-11-26
Dharma in the World
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-09-03
Discovering six sense doors and the body
2015-07-22
Distortions of Perception, Mind & View
2016-03-01
Diving Into Long Retreat
2017-06-27
Dukkha & Refuge - Strain, Stress, Difficulty, Unreliability
2024-10-28
Dukkha + Compassion
2012-04-03
Dying to Ideas of the Self and Practicing Resurrection
2017-09-23
Elements of Nature, elements of the body
2024-08-31
Emotions and thoughts, Q&A
2017-07-15
Entering Retreat: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-06-16
Envisioning Your Practice
2014-07-15
Equanimity
2016-04-14
Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3
2024-09-06
Feeling tone – cracking the code of reality
2024-09-01
Feeling tone and reactivity
2025-03-08
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Roc…
2011-05-12
Finding Refuge As We Leave Retreat
2017-06-25
Finding Refuge in the Truth
2019-09-27
Finding True Refuge
2025-03-02
Finding Your Anchor in Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-12-30
First Morning Instructions
2017-07-18
Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Re…
2018-09-06
Freedom and Ease Of Being
2017-09-21
Full Awareness of the Body
2013-11-28
Gratitude, Joy & Humility
2014-07-11
Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor
2008-08-02
Guided Meditation - Day 3 with Questions And Answers
2017-06-26
Guided Meditation on Awareness of Emotions
2017-09-07
Guided Meditation On Four Wholesome States
2017-06-26
Guided Meditation on Metta Towards the Body
2017-06-30
Guided Meditation on Skilful & Unskilful Intentions
2017-06-29
Happiness, Wellbeing and Non Self
2015-02-15
Heart Practices - Cultivating Wholesome Qualities of Heart and Mind
2018-04-12
Insight and Awakening
2011-11-24
Instructional sit
2017-09-09
Instructions On Feeling Tone (Vedana)
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions
2010-12-01
Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness
2014-09-30
Keep Calmly Knowing Change
2018-04-13
Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-09-01
Love For The Body
2012-10-24
Love, Revolution and Idea of Self
2013-07-17
Loving The Enemy
2017-05-05
Loving the Stranger
2017-05-05
Loving the Stranger - Talk
2012-09-01
Meditation Instruction
2018-09-01
Meditation Instructions - Day 1
2017-02-26
Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions
2017-06-25
Meditation Instructions (Retreat Day 1)
2014-09-06
Meditation Instructions- Day 4 - Thoughts and Preception
2014-08-31
Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice
2022-09-07
Metta (loving-kindness) Practice
2023-02-10
Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-17
Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-07
Metta For One's Body
2009-07-23
Metta in the context of spiritual practice.
2015-09-05
Metta Practice Day
2018-07-15
Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock)
2025-03-03
Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill
2009-08-01
Metta: Digging A Good Trench In The Heart
2016-12-20
Metta: unstoppable friendliness
2010-07-08
Mindfulness & Liberation of the Body
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Sports
2025-03-12
Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-06-17
Mindfulness: Befriending Yourself
2017-03-28
Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body
2013-08-31
Morning Instructions
2014-09-03
Morning Instructions
2015-02-15
Morning Instructions
2018-01-03
Morning Instructions
2017-12-31
Morning Instructions - Guided Meditation
2015-03-07
Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Body
2016-12-19
Morning instructions– day one
2025-07-11
Morning Instructions: Goodwill for Someone Easy and Yourself
2017-07-22
Morning Instructions: Things are as they are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-06
Morning Meditation Instructions
2018-09-05
Morning Meditation Instructions
2018-01-06
Multiple Choice Vipassana Practice
2017-09-02
Obstacle Course Of The Mind.
2011-11-01
Occupy the Six Senses
2017-03-31
Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A
2020-06-18
Opening Session
2015-09-06
Path Of Upward Mobility
2018-08-13
Perception and Dukkha
2012-01-17
Practicing the Five Recollections
2017-02-26
Put it down, it's unreliable! That's better.
2018-04-14
Questions and Answers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-11-02
Realms of Consciousness
2020-06-19
Recognising Mind States
2018-09-02
Recognizing Awareness
2017-06-26
Reflections on Mindful Eating.
2020-05-20
Refreshing the Heart, Living with Wisdom
2012-07-15
Refuge and Renunciation
2015-05-08
Renunciation & Why We Go on Retreat
2017-01-26
Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-05-25
Right Action 1 - Morning Session
2012-05-25
Right Action2 - Morning Session
2012-05-23
Right Speech and Listening
2017-07-19
Shifting Perspective towards Freedom
2016-03-08
Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat
2017-03-30
Some Different Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-01
Soundtrack Of The Mind
2017-01-02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation
2013-11-25
Suffering and Kindness
2014-07-12
Summer Camp of Metta
2023-08-10
talk: What is Dhamma?
2020-01-28
The Dharma
2008-05-18
The Dharma of Food
2014-06-17
The Dharma of Sports
2017-03-28
The Keys to Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-18
The Skate Park of Your Mind
2016-04-05
The Truth of the Way Things Are
2014-12-10
They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-01-27
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice
2018-04-11
This Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-10
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy of Meditation
2014-08-30
Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat
2018-10-12
Three Characteristics of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-03-10
Three Instructions for Life
2014-12-11
Thursday Morning Guided
2008-08-01
Top Five Weather Patterns Of Mind
2014-07-01
Training the Mind
2017-07-01
Transition Into Modern Life
2020-06-20
Vedanā, Guided Meditation, Mettā, Compassion, The Brahma Viharas
2013-07-13
Voyage on the Ocean of Metta
2016-01-28
Waking Up in Every World
2012-06-30
Walking as Spiritual Practice
2011-03-14
Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma
2011-11-06
Wise Action
2012-01-08
Wise Concentration
2011-12-18
Wise Effort
2011-12-11
Wise Intention
2012-01-01
Wise Livelihood
2012-01-15
Wise Mindfulness
2022-09-08
Working with feeling tone and reactivity
2018-09-07
Working With Mindfulness Of Mind
2017-01-25
Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-06
Workshop - Meditation as an Act of Love
2017-06-28
Your Body as Nature - Guided Meditation on Earth, Air, Fire, Water
2018-08-11
Your Body is Part of Nature
2018-08-09
Your Body, Buddha's Body
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Select one of Anushka Fernandopulle's 66 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2000-01-01
Monthly Guest Dharma Talk
2000-01-01
Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
2008-07-30
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-06-16
People of Color Retreat
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2010-07-07
People of Color Meditation Retreat
2010-11-30
Discovering Presence in Each Moment
2011-05-04
Spring Vipassana Retreat
2011-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2012-05-21
Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path
2012-06-28
Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma
2012-07-13
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-31
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-12
Heart of Love Metta Retreat
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-11-22
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-08-29
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2014-09-02
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2014-12-08
Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science
2015-01-16
Clear Mind, Open Heart: Insight Meditation Weekend
2015-02-12
Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat
2015-03-06
Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-05-07
Balanced Sensitivity, Embodied Wisdom
2015-07-17
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-09-04
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2016-01-24
Waking up in Every World
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-04-11
Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat
2016-06-11
Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community
2016-06-30
Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color
2016-09-02
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2016-12-18
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2017-01-22
Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind
2017-02-24
Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-03-27
Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana
2017-06-24
Finding True Refuge in a Modern World
2017-07-14
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-09-01
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2017-09-05
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2017-09-18
Finding Freedom in the Body
2017-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2018-04-09
Insight and Awakening
2018-07-11
July Metta
2018-08-08
Your Body, Buddha's Body
2018-08-31
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2018-09-04
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2018-10-09
Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation
2020-06-18
Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2021-06-11
Body as Nature, Nature in the Body: Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth
2022-01-27
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice
2022-09-06
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2023-01-28
February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2023-02-02
Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023
2024-03-08
Three Views for Freedom
2024-08-30
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2024-09-03
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-10-26
Three Views for Freedom
2025-03-01
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-07-09
Summer Lovingkindness Retreat
2025-07-18
Summer Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-08-11
Nature is Our Body: Dharma and Connection to the Earth (248R25)
2025-09-02
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25…
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
