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2012-03-18
Purificare la mente dagli impedimenti, Purifying the Mind of Hindrances
2010-02-07
Skillful Attitudes in Life and Practice
1994-11-20
"...See Here How Everything Leads Up To This Day..."
1994-10-29
"...Turn On Your Live Light"
1991-10-21
"A Box Of Rain" - Reflections On Death
2010-06-09
"Not Who I Am" - Anatta Characteristic
1994-10-01
... It Could Be An Illusion
1994-10-15
... One Way Or Another ...
1994-11-12
... That's Where I'm Going To Make My Happy Home
2009-04-05
1st AM Qs & As, Labeling, Guarding Sense Doors, Eye Contact, Noticing ...
2009-04-15
1st AM Qs & As, Working with Sleepiness, Noting the Sequence of ...
2009-04-16
2nd AM Qs and As, Working with Wandering Mind, Pain, Cognitive Activities ...
2009-04-07
3rd AM Qs & As
2009-04-14
4th AM Qs and As: Dhamma bingeing/taking practice home,working with pain,"Not me, ...
2010-07-09
A Life of Dhamma: Renunciation, Generosity
2012-08-09
A Life Style Of Awareness
2012-06-09
A Yogi's Job
2012-06-11
A Yogi's Job in Working with the Defilements
1990-11-20
Anatta
2002-11-21
Anatta Characteristic
2009-03-11
Anatta: Non-Sé: "Non Io. Non ciò che è mio. Non chi Io ...
2010-04-01
and Hla Myint Qs and As
1996-07-01
Another Way Of Working With The Hindrances
2008-08-20
Arousing And Tranquilizing Factors Of Concentration
2009-07-01
Aspiration, Knowledge, Wisdom
2010-10-08
Attributes of Inner Beauty / Gli attributi della Bellezza Interiore
2010-11-07
Attributes of Inner Beauty: Wisdom
1997-10-16
Aversion
2009-06-15
Awakening and Developing Faith
2012-04-16
Awakening to the Laws of Nature
2010-09-14
Awareness
2012-07-06
Awareness as a Lifestyle
2013-04-20
Awareness as a Lifestyle
2012-06-15
Awareness is a Lifestyle
2012-04-15
Awareness of and Understanding the Defilements
2013-04-03
Awareness Of the Four Noble Truths
2011-07-25
Awareness of the tsunami's of your life
2006-11-15
Awareness Practices For Home, Work And Play: Qualities Of A Good Human ...
2012-05-07
Awareness: The Five Faculties In Action
2010-10-09
Awareness: The Mirror of Inner Beauty / Consapevolezza: lo specchio della Bellezza ...
2010-07-06
Beautifying Life with Mindfulness
1997-09-23
Beginning A Retreat
2003-08-15
Big Sky Mind Guided Meditation
1998-10-02
Birth, Death And Practice
1999-08-01
Blessings, Aspirations, Renunciation, Mindfulness
2001-08-01
Chanting And Sharing Of Merit
2010-09-17
Chanting Refuges and Five Retreat Precepts
2011-10-21
Characteristics of Inner Beauty
2002-12-05
Choice Words
1995-07-23
Clear Cutting Of Difficulties
1994-11-26
Commentary On "Jumping Mouse"
2011-03-18
Commentary on Mahasi Sayadaw's Admonition
2007-08-11
Commentary On The Paramis
1991-11-02
Confusion Of Clarity Of The Body
1997-10-23
Death And The Deathless
2011-07-30
Developing a Dhamma Lifestyle with Paramis
2010-07-25
Developing the Middle Way
1991-12-10
Development Of Paramis: What A Long Strong Trip
2006-11-08
Development Of Wise Understanding
2011-08-06
Dhamma Lesson #1 - "Upon First Hearing The Dhamma"
2011-08-07
Dhamma Lesson #2 - "No Doubt, Oh Poor Me!"
2011-08-08
Dhamma Lesson #3 - "Itching Heat and Snakes"
2011-08-09
Dhamma Lesson #4 - "Ananda Practice to Sleep"
2011-08-10
Dhamma Lesson #5 "Metta For The Military"
2011-08-11
Dhamma Lesson #6 "Taking Refuge In Sangha"
2011-08-12
Dhamma Lesson #7 "Compassionate Wisdom"
2011-08-13
Dhamma Lesson #8 "Rippling Benefits"
2013-04-06
Dhamma Lesson -
2013-04-02
Dhamma Lesson - Cultivating Equanimity Through Advisersity
2013-04-05
Dhamma Lesson - Taking Refuge
2013-03-30
Dhamma Lessons - Complementary Practice Traditions
2013-03-31
Dhamma Lessons - Shwe Oo Min Lineage
2013-04-05
Dhamma Lifestyle Practice - Genorosity
1997-11-27
Dharma Blessings
2012-08-10
Dharma Lesson - A Special Monk
2012-08-09
Dharma Lesson - Faith and Refuge In Sangha
2012-08-08
Dharma Lessons - Monastic Memories
2012-08-07
Dharma Lessons on The Power Of Metta
1994-07-07
Difficult Daze Of Dullness - Doubt
2013-04-18
Disentangling from Self-Pity
2012-04-17
Dissolving the Illusion of Self
1993-04-01
Distractions Of Pure Mind
2009-03-13
Domande e risposte: La Pratica a casa. La Dana. Etc. [Q's & ...
1997-10-30
Eightfold Noble Path
2010-04-01
Eightfold Noble Path: The Wisdom of Insight Practice
2011-07-22
Encouraging Counsel
2012-04-13
Encouraging Counsel
2011-08-06
Encouraging Counsel - Practicing Generosity
2011-04-08
Encouraging Counsel - Refuges and Precepts
2012-03-16
Encouraging Counsel Opening Talk
2009-04-06
Equanimity and the Defilements
2010-07-08
Escape from Samsara
2010-04-23
Escape from Samsara: Dependent Origination
1999-09-10
Essential Dhamma #1: Three Refuges
1999-09-11
Essential Dhamma #2: Three Pillars Of Dhamma
1999-09-12
Essential Dhamma #3: The Good Fortune Of Mindfulness
1999-09-13
Essential Dhamma #4: Four Noble Truths
1999-09-14
Essential Dhamma #5: Anatta
1999-08-08
Essential Dhamma #6: Noble Eightfold Path
2011-08-13
Establishing A Dharma Infused Lifestyle
2010-10-27
Fifth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 5
2010-10-28
Fifth Morning Questions & Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 5
2010-10-24
First Morning Commentary on Walking Practice / Ranni komentar k Meditaci v ...
2010-10-24
First Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce
2010-10-24
First Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov.
2010-10-26
Five Spiritual Faculties / Pet Duchovnich Schopnosti
1992-11-04
Five Spiritual Faculties: Concentration
1999-08-16
Five Spiritual Faculties: Effort
1993-03-06
Five Spiritual Faculties: Mind
1992-10-28
Five Spiritual Faculties: Mindfulness
1992-10-03
Five Spiritual Faculties: Spiritual Confidence
1992-11-14
Five Spiritual Faculties: Wisdom
2008-08-13
Four Noble Truths
2009-04-17
Four Noble Truths
2009-08-13
Four Noble Truths
2010-04-21
Four Noble Truths
2010-07-03
Four Noble Truths
2010-08-12
Four Noble Truths
2010-09-16
Four Noble Truths
2010-12-01
Four Noble Truths
2010-10-27
Four Noble Truths / Ctyri Vznesene Pravdy
2011-07-26
Four Noble Truths: Essential Dhamma
2003-07-19
Four Protective Reflections
2010-10-27
Fourth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 4
2010-10-27
Fourth Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 4
1975-01-01
Full Sitting And Walking Instructions
2007-08-04
Further Sitting And Walking Instructions
2011-10-02
Generosity
1994-11-29
Guided Equanimity Meditation
1991-11-26
Guided Meditation: Equanimity
2001-08-28
Guided Meditation: Nature Of Mind
1997-10-29
Guided Metta Meditation
1994-09-25
Happiness: An Overview Of Dharma Practice
1998-11-06
Hindrances As Opportunities
2010-09-18
Householders' Practice of Paramis: Abandoning Craving
2010-12-04
Householders' Practices of Letting Go
1999-08-20
Identity + Insight
1999-08-22
Identity + Insight
1996-08-24
Identity + Insight
1999-08-18
Identity + Insight: Comparing Mind
2011-09-30
Inner Beauty and Well-Being
2011-10-25
Inner Resolve Supports Energy
2012-04-14
Insightful Awareness
2011-04-14
Instruction and Q&A Day 6
2011-04-12
Instructions and Guided Meditation - Day 4
2011-08-07
Instructions and Q&A Day #2
2011-04-15
Instructions and Q&A Day 7
2010-08-07
Instructions Day 1 Primary Object
2010-08-08
Instructions Day 2 : Right attitude - Predominate objects.
2010-08-11
Instructions Day 5
2010-08-13
Instructions Day 7
2008-08-09
Introduction To Meditation Practice
2012-08-03
Introduction to Retreat - Yogi's Three Jobs
2012-06-13
Investigating the Dhamma
2012-05-03
Investigating The Object, Practice and Understanding
2012-07-04
Investigating with Awareness
1990-11-11
Jhana Factors vs Hindrances
2009-07-04
Jumping Mouse, Commentary on a Native American Story of Spiritual Transformation
2001-08-26
Kamma
2010-06-07
Kamma
2010-07-01
Kamma: An Opportunity for Future Well-Being
2008-07-22
Kamma: A Lesson From The Past, An Opportunity For The Future
2010-09-17
Kamma: An Opportunity for the Future
2010-08-10
Kamma: Opportunity For The Future
2009-03-09
Karma: Una Lezione dal Passato. Una Opportunità per il Futuro [Kamma, A ...
2009-03-07
La Natura al Lavoro (La Consapevolezza e La Comprensione) [Nature at Work ...
2009-03-13
La scelta del Linguaggio: 5 Condizioni per la Retta Parola [Choice Words, ...
2012-03-23
Le Parami, il sentiero che pone fine a Dukkha, Paramis The Path ...
2013-04-21
Life's Unfair - It Can Be Dealt With.
2009-03-11
Mattina - Domande e risposte (Le 4 Realtà Fondamentali: Condizionate e Incondizionate) ...
2009-03-08
Mattina - Domande e risposte [Day #1 AM Q's & A's]
2009-03-10
Mattina - Domande e risposte [Day #3 AM Q's & A's]
2009-03-12
Mattina - Domande e risposte [Day #5 AM Q's & A's]
2009-03-08
Mattina - Istruzioni 1° giorno [Day #1 AM Instructions]
2009-03-10
Mattina - Istruzioni 3° giorno con Intenzioni [Day #3 Instructions with Intentions]
2009-03-11
Mattina - Istruzioni 4° giorno con gli Stati Mentali [Day #4 AM ...
2009-03-12
Mattina - Istruzioni 5° giorno [Day #5 AM Instructions]
2011-08-10
Meditation Instructions - 5th Day with Q&A
2011-08-11
Meditation Instructions - Day 6 With Q&A
2013-04-01
Meditation Instructions - Instructions for Awareness
2011-08-06
Meditation Instructions Day #1 with Q&A
2010-10-24
Meditation, Awareness & Understanding / Meditace, Uvedomovani a Chapani
2010-11-29
Meditation, Awareness and Understanding
1996-08-13
Meditative Insights
2012-05-05
Meeting The Hard And Soft Brick Wall Of Practice
1991-10-09
Mental Factors Of Concentration
2010-09-18
Metta Chant
1996-06-02
Metta Chanting In Pali
1993-07-27
Metta: Lovingkindness
2009-09-27
Mind as Medicine
1997-07-14
Mindful Awareness Of Five Great Escapes
2010-06-29
Mindfulness for Insight
1993-03-21
Mindfulness In Daily Life
2007-08-04
Mindfulness: Tranquility, Insight, Understanding
2009-07-04
Morning Chanting of Three Refuges and Eight Practice Precepts
2008-08-14
Morning Instructions
2008-08-11
Morning Instructions
2013-04-03
Morning Instructions
2012-08-06
Morning Instructions - Day #3 with Q&A
2012-08-09
Morning Instructions - Day #6
2012-08-11
Morning Instructions - Day #8
2010-10-14
Morning Instructions / Istruzioni del mattino
2007-08-07
Morning Instructions / Q&A / Walking Instructions
2012-08-04
Morning Instructions Day #1
2010-10-12
Morning Instructions Overview / Revisione delle istruzioni del mattino
2007-08-09
Morning Instructions Q&A
2007-08-11
Morning Instructions with Q&A
2007-08-10
Morning Instructions with Q&A
2009-08-09
Morning Instructions with Q&A
2009-08-10
Morning Instructions with Q&A
2009-08-14
Morning Instructions, Guided Sit, Q&A
2009-08-15
Morning Instructions, Guided Sit, Q&A with Kamala
2001-08-01
Morning Sitting Instructions with Kamala Masters
2008-07-19
Nature At Work
2010-07-06
Nature of Mind Guided Meditation
2009-08-07
Opening Talk
2007-08-03
Opening Talk - The Power Of Purification Retreat
2009-10-02
Opening Talk: "Aspiration, Practice as Training, Preparations for Practice"
2009-10-11
Opening Talk: Aspiration, Format, Training, What you need to know
2010-10-25
Opportunity Over Obstacles / Prilezitost nad Prekazkami
2009-08-15
Parami - A Life of Dhamma
2009-07-30
Parami: A Life of Dhamma
2009-10-08
Parami: A Life of Dhamma
2001-08-12
Paramis Series #2: Morality
2001-08-20
Paramis Series #3: Renunciation
2001-08-27
Paramis Series #4: Wisdom
2001-08-09
Paramis Series #5: Energy
2001-08-29
Paramis Series #7: Truthfulness
2010-08-14
Paramis: Householders' Practice of Renunciation
2010-10-29
Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Parami: Laicka praxe 2.Vznesene ...
2010-10-15
Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Paramis: le Pratiche quotidiane ...
1993-09-24
Peace Of Sanctuary
2009-10-04
Practice with Right Attitude
2011-04-12
Practicing Awareness
2011-04-15
Practicing Well-Being: Living A Dhamma Lifestyle
2010-09-13
Preparations for Practice on Retreat (Mahasi Sayadaw Preparations)
2011-03-24
Progress of Knowledge: Arising and Passing Away, Equanimity, Nibbana
2011-03-22
Progress of Knowledge: Conditionality, Three Characteristics
2011-03-20
Progress of Knowledge: Discerning Mind and Materiality
1991-10-02
Purification Of Mind/First Day Hardest
2011-04-13
Q&A Day 5
2001-08-01
Questions & Answers In The Morning
2007-05-18
Questions And Answers
2012-05-08
Refuges and Eight Precepts Chanting
2010-10-23
Refuges and Precepts (Call and Response) / Utociste a Predsevzeti (vedeni a ...
2013-04-22
Remember Your Aspiration: The Power of Resolve
2009-04-10
Renunciation
2001-11-03
Renunciation Paramis
2011-10-04
Resolve and Energy
2010-03-30
Right Samadhi: Collectedness of Mind
2012-05-09
Right view
2010-10-25
Second Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 2
2007-08-05
Second Morning Instructions with Q&A
2010-10-25
Second Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 2
1993-10-13
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of A Pure Mind - part I
1993-10-20
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of A Pure Mind - part II
1993-11-13
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of Absorption In Love
1993-10-13
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of Ethical Conduct
1993-10-02
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of Generosity
1993-11-27
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of Insight Knowledge
1993-12-09
Series On Happiness: Happiness Of Peace
1995-12-02
Settling On The Path
2009-06-17
Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2009-06-27
Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2010-10-29
Sixth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 6
2010-10-29
Sixth Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 6
2010-08-07
Skillful Attitudes For Awareness Practice.
1997-07-05
Spacious Empty Mind
2012-07-17
Straight Talk on the Defilements
1990-12-11
Taking Refuge In The Sangha
2010-10-23
Taking Refuges as a Practice / Prijeti 3-Utociste jako praxe
2010-11-26
Taking Refuges as Practice
2009-04-18
Taking The Practice Home, From Dhamma Bingeing to a Dhamma Lifestyle, Qs ...
2012-08-11
Teaching Support For Dana
2011-10-23
The Beauty of Generosity Infused with Compassion
2012-04-18
The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice
2012-06-29
The Benefits of Practice
1993-11-14
The Body: Heaven Or Hell?
1998-07-03
The Five Aggregates
1994-10-22
The Five Elements Of Right Effort
2001-08-11
The Four Noble Truths
2004-02-23
The Four Protective Reflections
1994-07-05
The Gift Of Solitude
1997-11-20
The Great Debate: "Who Am I?"
2011-05-02
The Path of Liberating Insight
2011-10-27
The Perfection of Wisdom Parami
2011-10-06
The Wisdom of a Dhamma Lifestyle
2010-10-26
Third Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 3
2010-10-26
Third Morning Questions & Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 3
2012-04-19
Three Foundations of Dhamma
2010-10-29
Three Pillars of Dhamma: Dana/Generosity / Pilire Dhammy: Dana/ Stedrost
2010-06-04
Three Refuges
2013-04-16
Through Dhamma Eyes
1991-11-14
Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: Conceit, Craving, Confusion
2007-08-06
Understanding Defilements
2007-08-10
Understanding Heartfelt Effort
2007-07-26
Understanding Insight: Dukkha And Anatta
2009-07-26
Understanding Liberation by Uprroting the Defilements
2010-08-14
Understanding Practice of Generosity
2007-07-22
Understanding The Defilements
2008-08-10
Understanding The Defilements
2009-08-09
Understanding the Defilements
2010-06-28
Understanding the Defilements
2010-09-15
Understanding the Defilements
2010-11-27
Understanding the Defilements
2011-04-10
Understanding the Defilements
2011-08-09
Understanding The Defilements
2010-10-11
Understanding the Defilements / Comprendere le contaminazioni della Mente
2007-08-08
Understanding The Four Noble Truths
2013-04-01
Understanding The Tormented Mind
2013-04-18
Understanding The Torments of Mind
2010-12-03
Understanding Vipassana
2010-10-13
Understanding Vipassana Insights / Comprendere l’intuizione Vipassana
2009-10-15
Understanding Vipassana Insights: Impermanence, Unsatisfactoriness, Not-Self
1994-07-11
Universal Insights
2010-10-28
Vipassana Insight Knowledge / Znalost vipassanoveho vhledu
2009-10-06
Vipassana Insights
2008-08-23
Vipassana Jhanas
1995-06-08
Vipassana Retreat (4 Tapes) - I
1995-06-09
Vipassana Retreat (4 Tapes) - II
1995-06-01
Vipassana Retreat (4 Tapes) - III
1995-06-04
Vipassana Retreat (4 Tapes) - IV
2010-07-05
Vipassana Wisdom
2011-08-05
Welcome, Retreat Format, Refuges and Precepts
2008-07-25
What Story Of Yourself Causes You Suffering?
2009-04-14
Where is the Middle Path in Life, in Practice, in the Mind
2013-03-30
Yogi Job - Having Right View
2012-08-05
Yogi's Job - Working With Defilements
2012-07-02
Yogi's Job to Understand Defilements
Steve Armstrong
My biding motivation for the practice of teaching is to share my interest, my understanding and my confidence in the Buddha's way for a balanced and deeply happy life. Given the pace of our culture and the direction in which it is going, mindfulness is essential to sanity. Since my first vipassana retreat in 1975, I've experienced the wisdom of sanity, peace and freedom.
Now, the challenge in sharing the dhamma is to translate the Buddha's understanding into an idiom that speaks to the whole of our lives. As practice matures, the focus in guiding others shifts from informing the skeptic, inspiring the depressed and doubtful, soothing the suffering, energizing the lazy, cautioning the ambitious to discovering the subtler sources of suffering and happiness in our understanding and behavior. With deepening vipassana insight, students joyfully and confidently disentangle their minds.
In all of this, what sustains me as a teacher is the unwavering confidence that mindfulness is the source of our healing, sanity and freedom. Vipassana practice offers us a perspective on reality that is liberating, both personally and at every level of human interaction. Initially, my unwavering commitment was to the practice. Now my commitment includes service in sharing the dhamma and wherever possible informing, inspiring and encouraging others in the practice.
2001-08-29
Paramis Series #7: Truthfulness
53:42
Speaking and acting with integrity supports social harmony, tranquillity of mind and awakening of wisdom.
Maui, Hi
2001-08-26
Kamma
60:07
The law of Kamma is an articulation of what has been observed as the mind unfolds. It offers a lesson from the past and an opportunity for the future.
Maui, Hi
2001-08-20
Paramis Series #3: Renunciation
59:34
Abandonment, conservation, growing up, restraint and understanding help disentangle the mind from the source of suffering.
Maui, Hi
