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Dharma Talks in English
2014-12-27 Softening the Gripped Mind 55:35
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-27 Meditation: Awakening Loving Awareness (with instructions) 47:47
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-24 Embodying Loving Presence (retreat talk) 68:24
Tara Brach
This talk looks at the evolutionary fear-patterning that creates separation in our relationships, and at the practices that open us to giving and receiving love. (NOTE: talk given at the IMCW summer residential retreat on 2014-08-02)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-24 The Practice of Just This 60:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-23 Perception: Ideas, Views, Biases 54:32
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk looks at how we tend to form views based on likes and dislikes... and how we extend our views to form value laden statements about the world, the people in it and even ourselves. We move away from the direct experience into a world of fabrication and delusion. Our ideas become more real than the experience they represent.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-22 Coming to Life: Four Noble Truths in Daily Life. 61:17
Heather Sundberg
Practical examples and tools for living these teachings in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-22 Holiday Season Reflections & Sitting Meditation 1:37:36
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-21 The Journey of Awakening 61:17
Donald Rothberg
Using as reference points Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey", the story of the Buddha's life, and our own experiences, we outline the archetypal stages of the spiritual journey from the taken-for-granted habitual life, to receiving "heavenly messengers" putting that life in question, to shifting our core life intentions, to working with challenges, to awakening, and, finally, to a return to the "ordinary" world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Taking the Center Seat 49:09
John Travis
Drawing on the Thai Forest Tradition, in particular Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Maha Boowa, we explore the image of the one seat as a pointer to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Kindness as an Act of Recollection 58:40
John Peacock
Gaia House The Practice of Befriending - A Gentle Turning Towards

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