2012-03-04 Group Discussion: Skilfullness in Practice 49:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-03 Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different? 47:32
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Suggests a way of framing daily life and intensive practice retreats so as to view them as a harmonious whole.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-03-03 Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another 50:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-02 What has become clear to you since last we met? 46:58
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
We can awaken in every moment. This talk introduces the 37 wings of awakening and teachings of letting go into the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-01 Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony 51:11
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2012-03-01 Applying The Four Foundations 39:10
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The principles of the Four Noble Truths, we are all familiar with, but the application of the principles lie within the integrated understanding of the Four Foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-01 Gifts of Practice 51:11
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2012-02-29 Embodied Presence 1:21:01
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We often move through the day in a reactive trance, removed from the aliveness of our bodies and this natural world. This talk explores how coming home to our bodies awakens us to living love, creativity and the deepest realization of who we are.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation - Portal of Aliveness 23:49 Download Listen Embodied Presence 57:12 Download Listen

2012-02-29 Sitting on the Edge of the World 27:30
John Travis	Download Listen
Transition talk for two month retreatants. Change and the loss of one monthers. Supporting the stillness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-29 Refuge In What Is Real 59:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-29 One Auspicious Day 41:38
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
at San Jose Insight
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2012-02-29 Birth, Death and Vision for an Amazing Future in a technology world. 66:48
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
With special guests: Jack Kornfield, Johan Wikman and Susan Felix.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-28 4 of This and 5 of That 60:58
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
A few words on body awareness, 4 elements and the 5 aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-28 Live a Life that Leads to Freedom 47:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-02-27 Contentment 59:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
The Buddha called contentment "the greatest wealth." Contentment, "santutthi" in Pali, supports many other wholesome states including, renunciation, equanimity, peace, gratitude and generosity. We can cultivate contentment on and off the cushion while not being complacent or lazy in our dharma practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Patterns of Becoming 5: the End of Karma 57:38
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The fifth and last in a series of talks discusses the troublesome patterns of mind and volitional action that we identify as self, and how we can step out of them with the tools of dharma practice. The Buddha said that one who is fully awake has found an end to karma, and end to compulsive formations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-25 A Human Journey 51:32
Thanissara	Download Listen
Working with the material of our life. Withstanding and transforming intensity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-25 Cultivating A Heart Of Kindness 37:51
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Being with all things with kindness. Guided Metta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Happiness - Beyond Differentiation 49:46
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
However we describe our practice, we are longing for happiness and ease. This talk explores how we get in our own way with that, pursuing ideas of happiness while missing something fundamental about our very existence which can bring us back into the freedom of being which beckons us. Like the Sufi poet Hafiz says, "Ever since Happiness first heard your name, it has been running through the streets crying out to you."
Gaia House :  Loving What Is

2012-02-24 Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path to Freedom 58:55
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
This powerful teaching form the Upanisa Sutta shows us how suffering when understood with wisdom leads to faith and is the beginning of a natural unfolding of beautiful qualities of the heart which provide the foundation for the mind to turn to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-24 Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind 5:01
Thanissara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat