Caroline Jones's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Caroline Jones  
 
    
        
                            
      Caroline Jones, a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council, has been practicing meditation for 25 years and teaching since 2009. In teaching, she encourages students to discover and deepen ways of engaging with the Dharma to bring healing and liberation.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2016-10-28
             Right speech. 
  
    
        2017-09-01
             The five spiritual faculties: Faith 
    
        2017-07-21
             Wisdom is to be developed. 
    
        2024-05-03
            3 basic reminders: simplifying, knowing, caring. 
    
        2020-04-17
            A healing time: practicing with difficult emotions. 
    
        2017-04-14
            A path of happiness.  
    
        2016-01-08
            A Path of Healing 
    
        2024-05-30
            A practice for taking leave of a beloved place. 
    
        2022-11-10
            A reading of the Buddha’s teachings on the five aggregates. Sutta ref. SN 22:95… 
    
        2019-01-25
            Affliction, blessing, healing and freedom 
    
        2024-02-15
            AM morning reflection on vedana. 
    
        2018-08-24
            Anatta. 
    
        2022-09-20
            Anatta. 
    
        2019-09-20
            Anatta.  The third in a series of three talks on the three characteristics of e… 
    
        2019-09-06
            Anicca - Impermanence 
    
        2018-08-10
            Anicca. 
    
        2019-01-18
            Big mind meditation 
    
        2023-10-06
            Brahma vihara practice and its creative potential. 
    
        2016-10-07
            Caring for the earth.   
    
        2018-10-12
            Celebrating earth care week. 
    
        2016-05-27
            Celebrating the brahma viharas. 
    
        2020-08-31
            Closing Session 
    
        2012-11-17
            Compassion 
    
        2016-09-23
            Compassion 
    
        2021-11-12
            Compassion 
    
        2025-08-14
            Compassion 
    
        2024-02-10
            Compassion and joy. 
    
        2016-05-13
            Compassion.      
    
        2022-09-13
            Compassion. 
    
        2023-10-20
            Contemplating our mortal fragility. 
    
        2018-04-13
            Contentment 
    
        2022-03-04
            Contentment 
    
        2023-11-10
            Cultivating a wise relationship with thought. 
    
        2020-04-24
            Cultivating the perception and understanding of impermanence 
    
        2011-04-26
            Determination 
    
        2017-08-18
            Determination 
    
        2019-11-05
            Determination 
    
        2016-09-09
            Determination and patience 
    
        2020-02-14
            Developing a wise relationship with thoughts 
    
        2016-12-30
            Dharma practice in difficult times. 
    
        2020-08-29
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2022-06-22
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2018-07-14
            Dharma Talk - Appreciation 
    
        2018-07-12
            Dharma Talk - Metta 
    
        2024-04-19
            Dharma talk: equanimity 
    
        2024-04-12
            Dharma talk: practicing with thoughts 
    
        2024-04-05
            Dharma talk: renunciation 
    
        2019-09-13
            Dukkha - the second in a series of three talks on the three characteristics of … 
    
        2018-12-14
            Dukkha and disturbance. 
    
        2018-08-17
            Dukkha. 
    
        2016-04-22
            Earth Day.      
    
        2017-11-03
            Entering a time of retreat; some reflections that can help. 
    
        2020-02-07
            Equanimity. 
    
        2021-11-26
            Equanimity. 
    
        2022-07-26
            Equanimity. 
    
        2016-08-26
            Equinimity 
    
        2022-09-06
            Exploring how images and similes can support our dhamma practice. 
    
        2016-01-29
            Finding kindness 
    
        2015-04-28
            Five Topics for Frequent Recollection   
    
        2023-05-12
            Five topics for frequent recollection 
    
        2018-05-11
            Five topics for frequent recollection. 
    
        2020-08-27
            Further Introduction + Meditation Guidance 
    
        2010-12-18
            Gifts of Practice 
    
        2022-06-24
            Guided Big Mind Meditation 
    
        2024-02-02
            Guided body scan 
    
        2024-11-07
            Guided body scan 
    
        2018-07-11
            Guided Body Scan Meditation 
    
        2022-06-21
            Guided Body Scan Meditation 
    
        2024-05-02
            Guided body scan meditation 
    
        2021-11-18
            Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 
    
        2018-07-13
            Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2021-11-11
            Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2018-07-15
            Guided Equanimity Meditation 
    
        2015-06-27
            Guided Lovingkindness (Metta) Meditation 
    
        2020-08-28
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-08-29
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-08-30
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-06-23
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-05-23
            Guided meditation on impermanence. 
    
        2018-10-19
            Guided meditation on Mudita/gladness. 
    
        2017-12-15
            Guided meditation on the five aggregates.  
    
        2018-10-26
            Guided meditation on upekkha/equanimity. 
    
        2016-10-21
            Guided meditation: a guided tour through the brahma viharas.
 
    
        2024-11-22
            Guided meditation: big mind 
    
        2024-11-09
            Guided meditation: Open Presence 
    
        2022-04-05
            Guided Metta (loving-kindness) practice 
    
        2018-12-21
            Guided metta mediation with a brief introduction. 
    
        2016-09-16
            Guided Metta meditation 
    
        2017-12-22
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2019-11-19
            Guided Metta meditation 
    
        2020-04-09
            Guided metta meditation 
    
        2021-11-04
            Guided metta meditation 
    
        2016-04-29
            Guided metta meditation. 
    
        2016-12-22
            Guided metta meditation. 
    
        2018-09-14
            Guided Metta meditation. 
    
        2023-05-19
            Guided metta meditation. 
    
        2024-05-24
            Guided metta meditation. 
    
        2024-02-16
            Guided metta/goodwill/loving-kindness meditation. 
    
        2022-10-21
            Guided metta/kindness meditation. 
    
        2022-07-18
            Guided metta/loving kindness meditation using a variety of images 
    
        2022-11-08
            Guided metta/loving-kindness meditation 
    
        2024-12-13
            Guided Metta/Loving-Kindness meditation 
    
        2024-02-02
            Helpful themes for entering a time of practice 
    
        2016-08-05
            Hindrances 
    
        2017-11-10
            Hindrances are part of the path. 
    
        2022-07-12
            Hindrances: including similes of the Buddha 
    
        2023-08-11
            Hindrances. 
    
        2023-10-13
            How does the mind settle? 
    
        2012-04-22
            Ignorance 
    
        2015-12-22
            Impermanence 
    
        2023-04-13
            Impermanence. 
    
        2020-12-14
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 14 2020 
    
        2020-12-16
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 16 2020 
    
        2020-12-18
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 18 2020 
    
        2020-12-02
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 2 2020 
    
        2020-12-21
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 21 2020 
    
        2020-12-23
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 23 2020 
    
        2020-12-25
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 25 2020 
    
        2020-12-28
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 28 2020 
    
        2020-12-30
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 30 2020 
    
        2020-12-04
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 4 2020 
    
        2020-11-11
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 11 2020 
    
        2020-11-12
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 12 2020 
    
        2020-11-13
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 13 2020 
    
        2020-11-16
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 16 2020 
    
        2020-11-18
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 18 2020 
    
        2020-11-02
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 2 2020 
    
        2020-11-20
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 20 2020 
    
        2020-11-04
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 4 2020 
    
        2020-11-06
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 6 2020 
    
        2020-10-19
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 19 2020 
    
        2020-10-20
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 20 2020 
    
        2020-10-21
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 21 2020 
    
        2020-10-22
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 22 2020 
    
        2020-10-23
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 23 2020 
    
        2020-10-26
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 26 2020 
    
        2020-10-28
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 28 2020 
    
        2015-06-29
            Introduction to Equanimity and Instructions 
    
        2015-06-27
            Introduction to Metta and Instructions 
    
        2016-12-15
            Inviting the precepts to tea. 
    
        2016-01-15
            Kamatanha - craving for sense pleasure.  
    
        2012-11-08
            Listening to Teachings 
    
        2014-12-30
            Making Friends with Metta Practice 
    
        2020-08-28
            Meditation Instructions + Suggestions 
    
        2020-08-29
            Meditation Reflections + Guidance 
    
        2016-01-01
            Metta 
    
        2021-11-05
            Metta 
    
        2016-05-06
            Metta.    
    
        2023-11-17
            Metta/ loving-kindness 
    
        2021-12-02
            Mindfulness of body 
    
        2023-04-20
            Mindfulness of body and the Brahma viharas 
    
        2022-06-22
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2023-02-13
            Morning reflection 
    
        2024-05-09
            Morning Reflection - what is mindfulness? 
    
        2024-11-14
            Morning reflection on anicca/impermanence 
    
        2024-11-16
            Morning reflection on gratitude 
    
        2023-08-12
            Morning reflection on gratitude. 
    
        2024-02-22
            Morning reflection on impermanence/anicca. 
    
        2024-02-17
            Morning reflection on the Buddha’s advice to Bahiya. 
    
        2023-08-10
            Morning reflection on Vedana 
    
        2024-11-21
            Morning reflection on vedana/feeling tone 
    
        2024-04-18
            morning reflection: 3rd foundation of mindfulness 
    
        2024-11-28
            Morning Reflection: Acknowledging and cultivating wholesome qualities 
    
        2025-08-09
            Morning Reflection: Body and brahma viharas 
    
        2024-04-13
            morning reflection: calming the heart/mind 
    
        2024-04-27
            morning reflection: compassion 
    
        2025-08-14
            Morning Reflection: Compassion 
    
        2024-12-28
            Morning Reflection: Conscious leave-taking and tuning in to joy 
    
        2023-04-27
            Morning reflection: equanimity. 
    
        2024-12-26
            Morning Reflection: equanimity/upekkha 
    
        2024-04-06
            morning reflection: guided body scan meditation 
    
        2024-12-19
            Morning Reflection: How does the mind settle? 
    
        2023-05-11
            Morning reflection: impermanence 
    
        2025-08-02
            Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of body 
    
        2023-05-18
            Morning reflection: mindfulness of the body. 
    
        2023-05-25
            Morning reflection: mindfulness of the six sense bases. 
    
        2024-04-20
            morning reflection: moving towards relinquishment 
    
        2024-11-23
            Morning reflection: poetry, suffering and non-suffering 
    
        2024-04-25
            morning reflection: practicing the four noble truths 
    
        2024-02-24
            Morning reflection: reading of part of a sutta on the 5 aggregates. 
    
        2024-04-04
            morning reflection: settling the mind 
    
        2023-05-13
            Morning reflection: the Buddha’s advice to Bahiya. 
    
        2023-05-27
            Morning reflection: the four brahma viharas. 
    
        2025-02-27
            Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: equanimity 
    
        2025-02-20
            Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: passadhi/tranquility 
    
        2025-02-15
            Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: piti/joy 
    
        2025-02-22
            Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: samadhi/concentration 
    
        2025-02-13
            Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: viriya/energy 
    
        2024-12-14
            Morning Reflection: Two poems and a chant 
    
        2024-04-11
            morning reflection: Vedana/ feeling tone 
    
        2025-08-07
            Morning Reflection: Vedana/feeling tone 
    
        2023-04-06
            Morning reflection: welcoming. 
    
        2024-12-21
            Morning Reflection: Winter Solstice: Cosmic, elemental, and personal 
    
        2024-11-30
            Morning Reflection: Wise Speech 
    
        2024-12-12
            Morning Reflection: Working with the hindrances 
    
        2025-02-06
            Morning Reflections - Seven Awakening Factors: Sati/Mindfulness 
    
        2024-11-02
            Morning Reflections: Guided meditation on mindfulness of today 
    
        2024-05-11
            Morning reflections: knowing how and when to exert, restrain, rest and gladden … 
    
        2024-12-07
            Morning Reflections: the Buddha's advice to Bahiya 
    
        2025-02-08
            Morning Reflections: The Seven Awakening Factors: Dhamma Vicaya/Investigation 
    
        2024-05-16
            Morning reflections: working with difficult mind states. 
    
        2022-10-13
            Morning reflections.  Cultivating samadhi/gathered nests of mind. 
    
        2022-10-08
            Morning reflections. Cultivating whole body awareness and the Brahma viharas to… 
    
        2022-10-20
            Morning reflections. Four indispensable meditative skills. 
    
        2022-10-06
            Morning reflections. guided body scan. 
    
        2022-10-27
            Morning reflections. Impermanence. 
    
        2022-10-29
            Morning reflections. Wise speech. 
    
        2018-07-12
            Morning Teachings - Metta 
    
        2018-07-14
            Morning Teachings - Mudita 
    
        2018-07-16
            Morning Teachings - Re-Cap of the Brahma Vihara Practices 
    
        2021-11-19
            Mudita - Appreciative Joy 
    
        2013-04-12
            Opening Talk 
    
        2020-08-27
            Opening Talk 
    
        2013-02-19
            Opening Talk for Meditation For Life 
    
        2011-04-24
            Opening Talk for the Work Retreat 
    
        2009-02-04
            Opening Talk for the Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 
    
        2010-05-19
            Opening Talk for Work Retreat 
    
        2012-04-20
            Opening Talk for Work Retreat 
    
        2023-11-24
            Opening to impermanence. 
    
        2017-11-17
            Opening to Metta; a guided meditation 
    
        2017-08-04
            Patience 
    
        2019-01-04
            Patience 
    
        2019-11-12
            Patience 
    
        2022-10-07
            Patience 
    
        2024-12-06
            Patience 
    
        2024-05-17
            Patience. 
    
        2013-04-13
            Practicing with Difficult Emotions 
    
        2013-02-21
            Practicing with Thought 
    
        2024-11-08
            Practicing with thoughts 
    
        2019-04-12
            Practicing with thoughts. 
    
        2018-03-23
            Q&A 
    
        2018-07-16
            Questions and Responses 
    
        2021-11-13
            Reflection on the cultivation of compassion through mindfulness 
    
        2023-04-22
            Reflections on Earth Day. 
    
        2021-11-27
            Reflections on equanimity 
    
        2021-11-25
            Reflections on equanimity. 
    
        2021-12-18
            Reflections on finding our way in practice. 
    
        2021-12-10
            Reflections On Impermanence 
    
        2022-09-26
            Reflections on impermanence. 
    
        2012-03-28
            Reflections on Metta 
    
        2021-12-23
            Reflections on metta and mindfulness. 
    
        2021-12-12
            Reflections on mindfulness of mind states. 
    
        2020-04-23
            Reflections on practice and guided big mind meditation 
    
        2021-12-10
            Reflections on practicing with Vedana/ feeling tone 
    
        2021-12-16
            Reflections on the Buddha’s advice to Bahiya 
    
        2022-04-06
            Reflections on the metta sutta. 
    
        2022-11-14
            Reflections on the Paramis. 
    
        2022-04-11
            Reflections on Vedana/feeling tone. 
    
        2022-11-09
            Reflections on Vedana/feeling tone. 
    
        2015-04-07
            Refuge 
    
        2020-04-03
            Refuges and Precepts 
    
        2023-11-03
            Relating wisely to difficult emotions. 
    
        2017-04-07
            Relational Dharma practice on retreat.  
    
        2017-07-07
            Renunciation 
    
        2018-03-09
            Renunciation 
    
        2025-08-07
            Renunciation 
    
        2010-05-22
            Right Livelihood 
    
        2018-03-16
            Right Speech 
    
        2024-02-01
            Rigor and gentleness in practice. 
    
        2015-12-08
            Samadhi
 
    
        2013-04-14
            Strange Happiness 
    
        2024-11-29
            Strange Happiness 
    
        2016-05-20
            Strange Happiness.      
    
        2012-11-23
            Taking Refuge 
    
        2019-07-19
            The Brahma Viharas 
    
        2025-02-27
            The Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances: Part 2 
    
        2024-12-20
            The Brahma Viharas: The Importance of Joy 
    
        2019-12-13
            The Brahma Viharas. 
    
        2024-05-18
            The Buddha's advice to Bahiya. 
    
        2008-02-16
            The Eightfold Path 
    
        2010-05-21
            The Five Aggregates 
    
        2024-05-25
            The five aggregates. 
    
        2013-02-23
            The Five Daily Recollections 
    
        2013-12-31
            The Five Daily Recollections 
    
        2017-12-08
            The Five Daily Recollections 
    
        2024-11-15
            The Five Daily Recollections 
    
        2019-01-11
            The five daily recollections. 
    
        2022-10-14
            The five daily recollections. 
    
        2024-05-10
            The five daily recollections. 
    
        2022-03-18
            The Five Daily Reflections 
    
        2010-05-20
            The Five Hindrances 
    
        2009-02-07
            The Five Precepts 
    
        2017-09-08
            The five spiritual faculties: energy and mindfulness. 
    
        2017-09-15
            The five spiritual faculties: samadhi/collectedness and wisdom. 
    
        2018-09-21
            The five topics for frequent recollection. 
    
        2025-02-21
            The Four Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances. Part 1. 
    
        2019-04-05
            The Four Brahma Viharas. 
    
        2020-04-10
            The four brahma viharas. 
    
        2018-05-04
            The Four Sublime Abodes 
    
        2018-10-05
            The four sublime attitudes. 
    
        2015-12-01
            The Healing Power Of Hospitality 
    
        2019-07-12
            The Hindrances 
    
        2018-04-20
            The inner critic revisited. 
    
        2016-10-14
            The inner critic. 
    
        2015-04-14
            The practice of contentment 
    
        2024-11-01
            Touchstones 
    
        2025-02-07
            Understanding  and Relating to the Hindrances 
    
        2025-02-14
            Understanding and working with the hindrances, Part 2 
    
        2012-11-04
            Vedana 
    
        2017-07-14
            Ways of connecting with metta. 
    
        2009-02-06
            What is the Middle Way? 
    
        2009-02-06
            What is the Middle Way? 
    
        2018-12-07
            Wise Attention 
    
        2012-04-21
            Wise Love 
    
        2017-04-28
            Wise relationship to practice 
    
        2009-02-22
            Wise Speech 
    
        2024-05-30
            Wise speech. 
    
        2024-02-09
            Working with and transforming the hindrances. 
    
        2015-12-15
            Working with Anger and Aversion 
    
        2015-04-21
            Working with difficult emotions 
    
        2015-06-27
            Working with Difficult Emotions 
    
        2020-04-16
            Working with disturbance: reflections and guided meditation. 
    
        2019-12-06
            Working with disturbance. 
    
        2024-02-08
            Working with disturbances 
    
        2022-03-11
            Working with disturbing emotions and mind states. 
    
        2018-09-07
            Working with the hindrances. 
    
        2023-04-14
            Working with the hindrances. 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Caroline Jones's 70 retreats
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        2008-02-16
            Young Peoples Retreat The Eightfold Path 
    
        2009-02-04
            The Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 
    
        2009-02-20
            Meditation for Daily Living 
    
        2010-05-19
            Work Retreat 
    
        2010-12-17
            Young Persons Retreat The Four Noble Truths 
    
        2011-04-24
            Work Retreat 
    
        2012-03-28
            Meditation Day 
    
        2012-04-20
            Work Retreat 
    
        2012-10-31
            November Solitary 
    
        2013-02-19
            Meditation for Life 
    
        2013-04-12
            Work Retreat 
    
        2013-12-27
            New Year's Retreat 
    
        2014-12-27
            New Year's Retreat 
    
        2015-04-01
            April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2015-06-25
            The Four Immeasurables 
    
        2015-12-01
            December 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-01-01
            January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-04-01
            April 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-05-01
            May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-08-01
            August 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-09-01
            September 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-10-01
            October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-12-10
            December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-04-01
            April 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-07-01
            July 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-08-01
            August 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-09-01
            September 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-11-01
            November 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-12-01
            December 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-03-01
            March 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-04-01
            April 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-05-01
            May 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-07-01
            July 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-07-10
            The Four Immeasurables 
    
        2018-08-01
            August 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-09-01
            September 2018  at IMS- Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-10-01
            October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2018-12-05
            December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-01-01
            January 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-04-01
            April 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-07-01
            July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-09-01
            September 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-11-01
            November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-12-01
            December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2020-02-01
            February 2020 
    
        2020-04-02
            Forest Refuge April Retreat Online 
    
        2020-08-27
            Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners 
    
        2020-10-19
            IMS Daily Dharma 2020 
    
        2021-11-01
            November 2021 
    
        2021-12-01
             December 2021 
    
        2022-03-01
            March 2022 
    
        2022-04-01
            April 2022 
    
        2022-06-20
            Creative, Living Dharma: practising with the similes of the Buddha 
    
        2022-07-01
            July 2022 
    
        2022-09-01
            September 2022 
    
        2022-10-01
            October 2022 
    
        2022-11-01
            November 1-15 2022 
    
        2023-02-01
            February 2023 
    
        2023-04-01
            April 2023 
    
        2023-05-01
            May 2023 
    
        2023-08-01
            August 2023 
    
        2023-10-01
            October 2023 
    
        2023-11-01
            November 2023 
    
        2024-02-01
            February 2024 
    
        2024-04-01
            April 2024 
    
        2024-05-01
            May 2024 
    
        2024-11-01
            November 2024 
    
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