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Big Sky Meditation with Bells (41:03)
  Howard Cohn Download Stream Order
2008-08-31 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-09-01)
From: 2008-08-27 Labor Day Retreat (3)

Seeing Through The Self Illusion (61:58)
  Howard Cohn Download Stream Order
Opening to our experience moment-to-moment brightens our awareness, illuminating the difference between our direct experience and the virtual version of ourselves that plays through our minds.
2008-08-30 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-31)
From: 2008-08-27 Labor Day Retreat (3)

What Kind of Effort? (51:34)
  Anna Douglas Download Stream Order
Exploring the place of effort in practice and how we need different kinds of effort at different stages; includes stories.
2008-08-28 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-29)
From: 2008-08-27 Labor Day Retreat (3)

Bringing the Practice Home (56:55)
  Adrianne Ross Download Stream Order
An end of retreat talk: Practice and principles to bring our insights and practice into our lives. Includes wise intention, renunciation, loving kindness and balanced effort and mindfulness.
2008-08-25 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-26)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

Vipassana Jhanas (62:16)
  Steve Armstrong Download Stream Order
Insight knowledge unfolds with increasing maturity of the jhanic factors of mind. Stability of mind enables increasing depth of liberating knowledge.
2008-08-23 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-24)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

Why Exchange Sukkha for Dukkha (65:45)
  Phillip Moffitt Download Stream Order
Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
2008-08-22 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-24)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

Falling In Love With The Breath (57:49)
  Sally Clough Download Stream Order
Though the teachings on dukkha (suffering) are an important part of the Buddhist path, a skillful relationship to sukha (pleasure) actually played a significant part in the Buddha's awakening. This talk explores the wise use of pleasure and the cultivation of beautiful qualities of mind, especially in concentration practice.
2008-08-21 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-25)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

Wes Nisker Reflects... (50:13)
  Wes Nisker Download Stream Order
Wes talks about his new book, "The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, & Uncommon Insights". He reads a really wonderful poem right at the end of the talk (reviewer's comment).
2008-08-21 Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley (added 2008-08-24)
From: 2009-07-20 Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley Regular Talks (10)

Arousing and Tranquilizing Factors of Concentration (64:27)
  Steve Armstrong Download Stream Order
2008-08-20 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-21)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

Development of Five Jhanic Factors and Antidotes to Hindrances (57:31)
  Adrianne Ross Download Stream Order
Development of the five jhanic factors to support concentration practice and explanation of their use as antidotes to the hindrances.
2008-08-19 Spirit Rock Meditation Center (added 2008-08-25)
From: 2008-08-17 Concentration (6)

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