James Baraz's Dharma Talks
James Baraz
I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.
I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.
The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.
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2017-05-18
"Courage: An Essential Quality of Practice"
2009-04-09
“Am I Good Enough?”
2017-03-23
"7 Days in Darkness"
Adam Baraz, James' son, shares his powerful experience...
2016-08-25
"A Box Full of Darkness"
2014-10-09
"A Moment of Freedom: Interrupting Negative Thoughts."
2016-09-08
"All It Takes Is a Moment"
2015-09-17
"Anchoring Our Wisdom: Embodied Awareness"
(Note: We had some trouble with...
2017-05-25
"Appreciating our Benefactors"
2014-09-25
"Behind is Just a State of Mind"
2017-01-19
"Being a Sacred Warrior in These Tough Times"
2018-02-01
"Belonging" --- (James was on retreat this day but invited two guests spea...
2007-07-19
"Calling All Bodhisattvas"
2018-04-19
"Clear Comprehension"
2017-03-02
"Connecting With the Enemy"
2017-05-04
"Emptiness is Everything"
2016-11-17
"Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times"
2016-10-06
"Finding Freedom Through Grief" ---
The talk begins with this video about...
2014-06-19
"Finding What Your Looking For"
2015-05-14
"Freedom From Worry"
The Ven. Ajahn Chandako, an American born monk ordain...
2018-03-02
"Getting Perspective On Our Perspective"
2014-11-20
"Grace Disguised as Obstacle"
2015-11-19
"Gratitude"
2017-08-17
"Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred"
2017-09-03
"Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred" (Retreat Version) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-22
"How Liberating to See Clearly--
How Humbling to Still Get Caught."
2015-10-22
"I Didn't Know I Had It In Me: A Talk on Courage"
2014-10-23
"I Just Can't Decide!" - Wise Discernment in Daily Life
2016-03-03
"Intensive Practice: Benefits and How It Works"
2009-01-29
"Letting In The Love"
2015-12-03
"Letting Your Heart Break."
2016-06-23
"Light brings out the darkness. Darkness brings out the light."
2017-12-07
"Looking At Your Life Through a Dharma Lens" By James Baraz and Kate Munding
2015-10-01
"Loving the Earth"
2015-06-18
"Nice Guys Sometimes Finish First: Barbara Weiss, Steve Kerr and Pope Francis"
2017-09-07
"Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times"
2018-03-22
"Personal and Collective Karma"
2015-08-20
"Refinement of Mind, Part 1"
2017-12-28
"Reflections of the Past ---- Facing the Future"
2010-01-07
"Refuge in the Sangha"
2017-04-27
"Relaxing Into Being, the Unfolding Journey of Somatic Meditation" by Adam Ba...
2018-04-12
"Remembering What We Know"
2016-03-24
"Sacred Activism Part. 2: We Don't Know What We Don't Know"
2016-03-31
"Sacred Activism Part. 3: Working with Anger and Frustration" often natural r...
2016-10-20
"Schadenfreude: Working with Your less than Noble Thoughts"
2015-06-25
"Seeing the Big Picture"
2018-01-25
"Struggling is Extra"
2016-11-03
"The Big Shift: Learning to Open to Experience"
2016-03-10
"The Brightness of Awareness: An Evening with Catherine Ingram"
2018-03-08
"The Buddha’s Words on How to Skillfully Give Feedback."
2015-03-26
"The Choice Is Ours"
2016-09-29
"The Four Faults of Natural Awareness"
2016-09-22
"The Issue of Othering"
2017-11-16
"The Multiplication of Courage"
2015-01-29
"The Payoff in Suffering"
2016-12-08
"The Power of Equanimity"
2017-03-30
"The Problem With Being a Good Meditator"
2016-08-18
"The Tall Poppy and the Shrinking Violet"
2017-03-09
"This Fleeting World"
2018-01-04
"Three Principles for Living a Good Life"
2016-01-07
"Turning Ghosts into Ancestors" Guest tonight: Joe Bobrow.
2017-11-09
"We are all Connected: Interconnectedness Within and Between Us"
2017-01-26
"What Are You Going To Do Now?"
2015-03-05
"What Do They Really Think About Me"
2016-05-26
"Who Are You Anyway - Attachment to Identity"
2011-03-17
1. Mindfulness (sati)
2013-04-18
1st Part: Working with our Habits ----
2nd Part: Boston Marathon Bombings
2011-03-24
2. Interest/investigation (dhamma vicaya)
2015-10-24
2015-10-24 The Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thupten
2010-05-10
3 Principles of Awakening Joy
2011-03-31
3. Energy/effort (viriya)
2011-04-07
4. Joy/rapture (piti)
2018-01-28
5 Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-04-14
5. Calm/tranquility (passaddhi)
2011-04-21
6. Concentration (samadhi)
2011-04-28
7. Equanimity (upekkha)
2010-03-18
A Life Well Lived
2009-02-10
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2000-02-25
A Path With Heart
2012-10-18
A Simple Twist of Fate
2013-09-12
A Star at Dawn: A Buddhist Perspective on Loss
2012-12-20
A Time For Healing
2010-02-15
Abundant Enoughness: The Practice of Contentment
2001-07-18
After the Honeymoon, the Marriage
2001-07-18
After The Honeymoon, The Marriage: Plateaus In Practice
2013-02-08
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions
2013-02-25
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita for All Beings
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 1
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 2
2016-06-09
Ajahn Chandako from Austraila with James
2005-09-05
Aligning Our Life With The Dharma
2012-01-26
Amazing Grace
2013-02-04
An Ode to Mindfulness
2008-11-20
Anapanasti
2000-11-21
Angulimala Sutta
2015-01-15
Anything Can Happen At Any Time
2012-03-29
Anything can happen at any time.
1999-11-01
Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness
2012-06-14
Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point
2012-06-14
Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point: Concern for the Planet as Dharma P...
2011-06-02
Atammayatta: The Last Word and Final Sword of Buddhism
2006-09-26
Awakening Joy
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy
2010-02-19
Awakening Joy
2010-03-03
Awakening Joy
2010-07-20
Awakening Joy and Mudita
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy Daylong PM Session
2016-09-15
Awakening Joy for Kids: Bringing the Dharma to the Next Generation
2016-01-12
Awakening Joy in Practice as a Path of Happioness
2010-01-28
Awakening Joy, the book.
2011-10-05
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2011-09-30
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 1
2011-10-06
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 2
2011-09-04
Awakening Joy: The Buddhist Path to Happiness
2004-02-20
Awakening To Joy - part 1
2004-02-25
Awakening To Joy - part 2
2013-09-14
Awareness as Basis of Connection to Self and Others
1992-04-09
Balance
1984-08-01
Balance And Patience
1994-04-16
Balance Of Effort
1998-11-25
Balance Of Effort
2011-12-01
Balancing Contentment With Aliveness
2009-01-22
Barack Obama's Inauguration In The Context Of Dharma Practice
2012-04-19
Be the Awareness
2009-08-27
Being the Awareness
2016-01-19
Being Your Own Authority
2017-06-15
Benefactors: Part 2, Helping Others Shine.
2015-03-19
Berkeley Community's Own New Green Committee
2008-06-23
Beyond Belief
2006-09-09
Beyond The Judging Mind
2008-09-04
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #5: Not Causing Harm, Gathering Virtue, And Benefit...
2008-09-11
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #6: Working With Anger
2008-09-18
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #7: Enthusiasm, Zeal Or Heroic Perseverance
2008-10-23
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #9: Dedication Of Merit
2008-07-31
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 1: Benefits Of Bodhicitta
2008-08-07
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 2: Preparing The Ground
2008-08-14
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 3: What Are We Committing To?
2008-08-28
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 4: Using Our Intelligence
2002-10-02
Body of Fear Mind of Wisdom
1996-11-14
Bothicitti
2015-02-06
Brahma Vihara Day #6: Forgiveness
2015-02-20
Brahma Vihara Day 20
1989-11-27
Brahma Viharas
2013-02-12
Brahma Viharas - Forgivness
2015-02-15
Brahma Viharas Day 15
2010-04-29
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 1
2010-05-06
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2
2010-05-13
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 3
2010-05-20
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 4, with guest Kevin Griffin.
2011-07-22
Bringing Metta into the World
2011-04-18
Bringing Practice Into Daily Life
2014-07-17
Bringing Your Metta Practice into the World
2014-08-31
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2015-09-06
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2015-10-15
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2012-11-01
Buddha Dharma as a Path of Happiness
1995-04-22
Buddha's Advice On Working With Thoughts
2009-09-06
Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness
2008-05-22
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 10: The Ease Of Being
2008-03-13
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 1: Intention
2008-03-20
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness
2008-03-27
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 3: Opening To Suffering
2008-04-10
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 4: Gratitude
2008-04-24
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 6: Letting Go
2008-05-01
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 7: Lovingkindness Toward Ourselves
2008-05-07
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 8: How Compassion Awakens Joy (inc...
2008-05-15
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 9: The Mystery Of Connection
2007-11-29
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Buddhadasa
2007-11-01
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Chah
2008-02-07
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Dhammadharo
2008-02-14
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien
2007-12-13
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Naeb
2007-11-08
Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing
2008-01-24
Buddhist Master Series: Mogok Sayadaw
2007-11-15
Buddhist Master Series: Sunlun Sayadaw
2008-01-10
Buddhist Master Series: Taungpulu Sayadaw
2008-01-31
Buddhist Master Series: U Ba Khin
2012-11-15
Cast Aside the Costume
2015-06-04
Castles Made of Sand
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 2 of 4
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 4 of 4
2017-04-20
Celebrating Earth Day: Calling All Eco-Sattvas
2008-11-06
Change
2013-05-09
Change is Possible
2014-12-18
Change Is Possible
2014-12-07
Chanting and close of evening
2009-10-01
Cleaning Our Slate
1989-12-01
Clear Comprehension
2002-02-16
Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice
2000-11-30
Closing Talk
2015-10-04
Closing the Day
1996-11-07
Commitment In Practice
2013-03-21
Community Sharing: Questions and Answers
2012-02-13
Comparing Mind
2002-03-04
Comparing Mind
2010-09-23
Compassion is a verb
2013-09-28
Compassion, Equanimity and the Joy of Simply Being
2009-04-16
Confidence
2016-12-03
Connecting Mind and Heart: Awakening Joy
2009-06-25
Contentment
2012-02-27
Contentment
2013-03-02
Contentment
2014-02-17
Contentment
2011-10-20
Contentment: The Peace of Not Wanting What You Don’t Have
1984-08-01
Course Closing
1991-12-03
Creating Your Reality
2011-12-15
Cultivating a Bodhisattva Heart
2001-05-26
Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas
2013-02-18
Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2
2013-02-11
Cultivating Wholesome States, Part 1
1993-03-25
Curiosity
2018-03-29
Dalits Buddhist in India
(formerly Untouchable Caste)
1985-04-19
Dana, Sila, Bhavana
2018-02-06
Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2016-02-12
Day 13 Morning Instructions: Cultivating the Wholesome
2018-02-09
Day 13: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2018-02-11
Day 15: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-16
Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Compassion: Neutral and difficult person
2016-02-18
Day 19: Morning Instructional Sit: Breath Concentration
2018-02-15
Day 19: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2017-11-28
Day 1: Morning Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-29
Day 2 - Morning Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-23
Day 23 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity: Benefactor and Dear Friend
2018-02-19
Day 23: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit...
2017-02-22
Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-06-01
Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-29
Day 2: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-02
Day 3 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-20
Day 3 Sitting/Instructions
2017-11-04
Day 3: Guided Meditation Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-03
Day 4 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor
2017-12-01
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-03
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-07
Day 8 Morning Instructional Sit: Vedana
2016-02-08
Day 9 Brahma Viharas: Dear Friend
2018-02-05
Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-27
Deepening & Expressing Our Practice
1992-06-11
Devotion
2014-05-29
Devotion in Dharma Practice
2014-06-05
Devotion in Dharma Practice, Part 2
2007-12-07
Devotional Practice
2012-02-16
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-02-11
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2017-02-10
Dharma Practice as a Path to Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2014-05-22
Discussing some of the provocative articles from the current Inquiring Mind i...
2014-05-15
Discussing some of the provocative articles from the current issue of the Inq...
2011-01-17
Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And...
1993-07-30
Doing And Being
2010-04-22
Earth Day: 40th Anniversary
2017-02-20
Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-03-25
Elders (including his Mom)
2014-10-18
Emaho! How amazing! Wonder and Awe
2013-09-05
Emaho!: How Amazing!
2011-05-19
Embodying Passion Through Expression
2013-01-03
Embracing Change
2012-01-19
Embracing Resistance
2009-01-08
Emotional Awareness
2012-11-08
Empathy: The Key that Unlocks the Heart
2011-01-13
Enlightenment Part 1.
2011-01-20
Enlightenment Part 2.
2011-01-27
Enlightenment Part 3
2011-02-03
Enlightenment Part 4
2013-05-18
Equanimity with Things As They Are
2017-02-16
Equanimity: Bringing Balance to our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-24
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice
2009-09-17
Eve Decker: Talk and Song of the Importance of Self Love
1992-04-24
Expressing The Dharma
2012-03-22
Facing in the right direction
2013-03-28
Facing in the Right Direction
2013-08-08
Facing in the Right Direction
2013-05-23
Faith
2009-06-05
Faith and Confidence
2008-06-09
Faith And Devotion
2009-02-20
Faith In The Dharma
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
1993-09-05
Fear As Practice
2012-02-20
Fear as Practice
1985-08-30
Feminine Aspects Of Practice
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
1997-04-08
Five Hindrances
2005-04-22
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2007-02-08
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2017-01-30
Five Spiritual Faculties: Understanding how Intensive Practice Works (Retreat...
1984-09-01
Flavors Of Experience
2013-08-22
Follow Your Heartbreak
1983-06-09
Forgiveness
1984-08-01
Forgiveness
2007-07-16
Forgiveness
2014-06-12
Forgiveness
2014-07-12
Forgiveness
2016-12-02
Forgiveness Practice
2005-07-11
Forgiveness: The Doorway To An Open Heart
2009-09-28
Forgiveness; Cleaning Your Slate
1994-04-07
Four Noble Truths
2011-11-10
From Cynicism to Love
2017-11-06
From Me to We:
How Inter-Connectedness Manifests Intra-personally, Interper...
1999-12-15
Generosity As A Source Of Happiness
2008-12-03
Getting Unhooked
2012-03-01
Gifts of Practice
2005-02-12
Gladness Of The Wholesome - Awakening Joy
2016-12-29
Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017: Reflecting on What We've Learned and Where We're He...
2014-07-16
Gratitude
1985-04-15
Growth Through Experience
2014-06-15
Guided Meditation
2017-10-17
Guided Meditation - First Breath, Last Breath
2017-09-23
Guided Meditation on Refinement of Mindfulness on the Breath
1985-09-02
Guided Metta Meditation
2013-04-29
Guided Metta Meditation and Question/Response
2006-02-08
Happiness - part 1: Wise Effort And Wholesome States
2006-02-14
Happiness - part 2: Opening To Suffering As Well As To Joy
2006-02-22
Happiness - part 3: Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-02-27
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2006-07-19
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2008-06-28
Happiness: Not Forgetting The Gladness Of Heart In Practice
2008-06-28
Happiness: Not Forgetting The Gladness Of Heart In Practice
2016-05-21
Heart Practices for Awakening Joy
2009-10-15
Heaven or Hell: The Choice is yours.
1999-09-02
How Suffering Can Lead To Faith
2015-09-03
How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
2010-06-24
How to get what you want...and not get what you don't want.
2010-09-16
How We Hold Ourselves with Others
2012-05-17
How Wonderful to See Defilements in the Mind: Practicing with U Tejaniya
2011-02-10
Humility and Confidence
2008-03-06
I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out!
2004-02-15
Inclining Our Mind Towards Freedom: The Power Of Intention
2010-07-01
Independence Day: True Independence and Its Wider implications
2014-06-13
Inner Harmony, Outer Contribution
2017-06-02
Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2000-05-22
Intention
2016-05-18
Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy
2017-05-31
Intention and Mindfulness as the Basis for Awakening Joy (Retreat at Spirit ...
1986-09-07
Interest
1986-09-07
Interest
2009-03-19
Interested Awareness
2009-08-10
Intersecting Realities
2009-08-06
Intersecting realities
1998-06-26
Intimate Relationship As Spiritual Practice
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-10-04
Introduction to A Day of Connectoin
2017-09-15
Introduction To Metta Practice - Self and Benefactor
1993-04-01
Investigation Of Truth
2013-10-24
Is There a Place for God in Buddhist Practice?
2012-04-12
It's Already Here
1993-04-06
It's Okay (Equanimity)
2012-07-10
It's Really Possible!
2016-05-12
James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe. She has developed the ...
2008-12-18
James' Son, Adam's, First Dharma Talk
2015-05-28
Just Like Me
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 1 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 2 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 3 of 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 1
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 2
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 4
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2012-07-05
Karma and Sila as Gaia Practices
2009-03-26
Kind Awareness
2013-08-01
Kindness
2001-01-01
Learning To Love Yourself: A Bodhisattva Act
2009-01-12
Learning To Open To Experience
1999-01-01
Learning To Ride The Roller Coaster: Dealing With The Unexpected
2001-10-27
Letting Go Of Knowing
2012-03-08
Letting Go of Spiritual Views
2011-07-14
Life Coming Together As You
2014-01-09
Like Minded Friendship
2000-03-23
Losing It: How Being Humbled Can Lead To True Humility
2016-12-01
Love, Serve, Remember = Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2013-05-15
Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older
2016-06-11
Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thubten
2008-11-13
Making A Difference Together: Deepening Sangha Bonds
2016-11-29
Making Friends with Ourselves: Working with Judging Mind
2016-02-06
Making Friends with the Judging Mind
2012-05-31
Melting into Love
2017-10-13
Metta For the Difficult
2016-11-29
Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor
2011-07-19
Metta Instructions: The Neutral Person
2016-09-03
Metta Practice - Self and Dear Friend
2016-09-01
Mindfulness with Attitude
2015-02-12
Morning Instructions #12
2014-02-02
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2014-02-08
Morning Instructions - Day 7
2017-09-17
Morning Instructions - Shifting the focus of attention
2015-02-06
Morning Instructions Day #6
2015-02-01
Morning Instructions Day 1
2014-02-13
Morning Instructions Day 12
2013-02-05
Morning Instructions, Day 2
2013-02-12
Morning Instructions, Day 9
2014-02-16
Morning Instructions: Day 15
2011-07-19
Mudita
2016-01-05
No Comparisons - Working with The Judging Mind
2012-10-04
No Credit, No Blame.
2014-10-18
No Doing
2012-09-27
No Place to Land
1996-04-18
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
1995-12-01
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
1996-12-06
Nourishing Healthy Seeds: Compassion, Mudita And Equanimity
2012-06-23
Obstacles to Connecting in Relationships
2009-07-16
On Metta
2014-12-03
Opening (with Jill) - Basic Attitudes for Intensive Retreat Practice
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2017-02-05
Opening to Experience: How and When (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-26
Opening to Suffering as a Path to Happiness
2016-05-20
Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness
2009-03-05
Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot
2011-03-02
Opening to the Moment
2010-02-09
Our Greatest Protection
2011-03-10
Overview of the 7 Factors of Awakening
2003-02-19
Passion For Practice
1999-03-09
Passion for Practice
2012-12-27
Past, Present and Future.
2013-12-26
Past, Present and Future: The start of a new year.
2004-12-27
Past, Present, Future: A Journey Through Time
1995-04-16
Path Of Purification
2010-09-09
Personal and Global Responsibility
1990-09-02
Personalizing The Dharma
2016-02-17
Planting Seeds of Happiness: Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion
1998-11-21
Power of Intention
2017-06-01
Practical Tips on Opening Up to Suffering and Exploring Generosity (Retreat a...
1985-04-11
Practice & Skillful Action
2009-02-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness
2015-02-11
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2015-10-12
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-09-04
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2017-10-03
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2
2017-10-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 3
2017-10-22
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 4
2004-04-26
Practice As A Path To Happiness
1987-12-06
Practice As Purification
2012-12-13
Practicing With Difficult Emotions.
2012-09-20
Praise and Blame
2015-05-21
Q & A on Daily Life Dharma Practice
2014-06-15
Q&A
2000-02-26
Questions And Answers
2001-03-22
Refinement Of Mind - part 1
2001-03-29
Refinement Of Mind - part 2
2015-08-27
Refinement of Mind, Part II.
2001-04-11
Refinements of Life 1 and 2
2010-11-18
Reflections on Bhikkhunis
2007-06-28
Reflections On Money
2009-06-11
Reflections on our Deepest Truths
2007-07-12
Reflections On Power
2007-07-05
Reflections On Sexuality
2017-11-02
Refuge in Sangha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-01-02
Refuge in the Sangha
2010-01-21
Refuge in the Sangha & Kalyana Mitta
2010-01-14
Refuge in the Sangha part 2
1999-01-01
Refuge In The Sangha: Importance Of Like-Minded Friendship
2009-03-12
Relaxed Awareness
2010-09-02
Relaxed Interested Kind Awareness
2002-02-12
Reporting To The Mother Ship: Wonder, Awe, Interest, Investigation
2010-06-10
Responding to the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
2002-03-20
Resting in Awareness
1984-09-01
Retreat Opening
1998-10-15
Right Thought: Creating An Inspiring Vision
2016-03-17
Sacred Activism Part 1: The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative
2016-04-14
Sacred Activism Part 4: Holding a Vision
2016-04-21
Sacred Activism Part 5: The Seven Laws of Sacred Practice
2008-10-13
Samsara -The Wheel Of Birth And Death
2004-11-20
Saturday Night Closing Session
2011-12-08
Seeing Beyond Appearances
2014-07-24
Seeing Everyone as Your Benefactor
2018-02-23
Seeing Our Practice in a Wider Context (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-13
Seeing the Good-Inside and Out
2012-06-28
Seeing the System You Are Part Of
1999-11-27
Seeing Through Limiting Beliefs
1999-03-16
Seeing Through Our Stories
2013-01-31
Seeing Through Views.
2013-09-27
Seeing Who You Really Are Beyond the Comparing Mind
1987-11-25
Self-Image/Hindrances
2017-11-27
Setting the tone for Magic of Awareness Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2003-02-10
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2013-01-10
Shifting perspectives
2011-06-16
Shifting the Focus: From In Here to Out There
2009-12-10
Shower the People with Love
2018-01-18
Special Guests: Harold Hedelman, Lee Ballance and Mary Selkirk from Citizens ...
2016-12-11
Spirit Rock - Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice with James Baraz
2007-02-13
Spiritual Passion
2001-02-24
Spiritual Passion: The Iddhipadas (Bases Of Power)
2012-07-19
Stewardship and Intention as Gaia Practices
1991-04-22
Strive On Lightly
2005-02-21
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation: The Purification Process
2014-09-11
Sudden Awakening/Gradual Cultivation
2010-07-08
Suffering is Grace
2016-02-26
Supports for Practice
2015-10-04
Sustained by the Gladness of the Wholesome
2014-04-17
Sutta Series: Anatta-lakkhana Sutta - The Discourse on the Not-Self Character...
2014-03-06
Sutta Series: Capala Sutta: The Buddha's Advice for Overcoming Sloth and Torp...
2014-05-01
Sutta Series: Instructions to Anathapindika (MN #143)
2014-04-03
Sutta Series: The Angulimala Sutta - MN #86
2014-03-27
Sutta Series: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts - MN #20
2014-03-20
Sutta Series: The Simile of the Saw - Majjhima Nikaya #21
2014-03-13
Sutta Series: The Vacchagotta Suttas (MN(#71, #72, #73)
2012-08-23
Teaching what we need to learn.
2001-04-11
The 2nd Refinements of Life
2011-08-25
The Advantages of Spiritual Friendship
2013-09-14
The Amazing Wonder and Awe of Awareness
2012-06-23
The Art and Practice of Connection
2009-04-30
The Bamboo Acrobats
2010-10-21
The Big E. What does it mean to you?
2009-11-19
The Body: The Storehouse of Experience
2000-02-14
The Brahma Viharas
2009-08-13
The Buddha's 5 supports for practice
2011-11-17
The Buddha's Discourse on Blessings
1999-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-07-15
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2001-02-20
The Comparing Mind
2005-02-05
The Comparing Mind
2011-09-14
The Comparing Mind
2013-02-24
The Comparing Mind
1999-03-12
The Comparring Mired
2000-02-20
The Composing Mind
2014-09-18
The Contagion of Goodness
2013-10-17
The Courage to Be Yourself
2017-09-26
The Dharma As A Path Of Happiness
2011-09-01
The Essence of Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2000-09-02
The Five Faculties
2013-03-14
The Five Reflections
2014-12-05
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2015-02-05
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2014-12-06
The Four Noble Truths
2009-02-04
The Grace Of Suffering
2009-12-13
The Hard Things That Open the Heart
2010-10-23
The Hard Things That Open The Heart
2012-01-12
The Honeyball Sutta:
The Source of Our Confusion and the Way Out
2018-02-10
The Journey of Awakening- From Personal to the Universal (Retreat at Spirit R...
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 1
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 1
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 3
2011-02-21
The Joy of Wholesome States
2010-02-04
The Lion's Roar
2010-02-11
The Lion's Roar
2014-10-16
The Magic of Awareness
2017-11-30
The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 1
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 3
2013-10-31
The Payoff From Fear
2013-01-17
The Power of Generosity
2013-04-04
The Power of Habit - Part 1
2013-04-11
The Power of Habit - Part 2
2005-09-04
The Power Of Intention
2006-09-16
The Power Of Intention
2008-06-02
The Power Of Intention
2011-09-21
The Power Of Intention
2013-09-25
The Power of Intention
2004-11-19
The Power Of Mindfulness
1999-09-05
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
1999-11-23
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
1990-05-26
The Qualities Necessary For The Journey
2011-10-27
The Race between Ignorance and Consciousness: Good or Bad News?”
2001-03-08
The Retreat Experience: Why Intensive Practice?
2010-07-29
The Secret Ingredient for Equanimity
2014-08-21
The Secret Instruction To Open Your heart And Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice
2011-09-08
The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things
2016-04-28
The Story of Devadatta: Lust for Power in the Buddha's Time
2009-05-28
The Storytelling Monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri
2017-10-10
The Trajectory Of Practice
2014-08-28
The What, Why and How of Dharma Practice
2013-08-29
The What, Why and How of Mindfulness Practice
2012-02-03
The Wise Attitude in Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2009-07-30
The Woman at the Well
2010-07-15
This Business of Wanting.
2012-02-08
This Precious Opportunity
2014-06-10
Three Paths to Joy
2017-06-03
Three Qualities of the Heart that Awaken Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock
2012-09-13
Titrating our Dukkha.
2013-09-01
Transforming Fear into Love
1993-04-21
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-03-27
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2012-09-02
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
2013-04-27
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
1999-03-23
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
1989-09-03
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
2014-12-09
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion)
2018-02-04
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1985-04-21
Transitions
2006-09-23
Tronsforming Suffering Into Happiness
2014-02-15
Trust
2016-02-21
Trust
2012-11-03
Trust and Surrender is Available in Any Moment
2014-12-08
Trusting in Your Buddha-Knowing
1998-11-29
Trusting Our Buddha Knowing
2000-03-02
Trusting Your Buddha
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2008-06-16
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-02-25
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-09-05
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2015-02-21
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2011-10-12
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2005-02-16
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
1999-08-26
Truthfulness
2016-01-26
Turning Suffering Into Happiness
2000-05-25
Unknown
2014-01-23
Update on our progress in building community and more on Bob Doppelt's climat...
2009-05-14
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 1.
2009-06-04
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 3
2009-05-21
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-Tsan (3rd Zen Patriarch of China),
part 2.
1995-01-02
Waking Up: Interesting Hobby Or Committed Vision
1998-06-19
Waves On The Oceans-Not Being Bothered By Thoughts
2013-06-06
We Are What We Think, With Our Thoughts We Make the World
2012-08-30
What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It?
1993-07-24
What Am I Doing? Why Am I Doing It?
2017-01-05
What Channel Are You Tuned To?
(Note: This talk has some occasio...
2012-06-07
What do the three refuges mean?
2003-08-28
What Is Mindfulness
2011-01-06
What really matters
1994-04-20
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
1994-04-20
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
2012-06-23
What supports Connecting?
2014-02-23
What Thought Am I Believing Right Now?
2014-08-14
What Will You Do With Your Wild And Precious Good Karma?
2009-07-21
What's Not Wrong...Mudita, Uplifting States and Looking for the Good.
2012-04-05
When bad things happen to good people.
2012-11-29
Who we really are.
2011-07-18
Whose Love is it Anyway?
2008-07-03
Why Do Intensive Retreat Practice?
2013-01-24
Why I teach Awakening Joy.
1984-09-01
Why We're Here
2009-09-03
Wise Attitudes In Practice
2005-05-25
Wise Effort
2014-02-07
Wise Effort: Finding Balance and Inclining toward the Wholesome
2000-11-25
Wise Intention
2005-04-24
Wise Intention (Sutta On The Two Kinds Of Thought)
1999-05-22
Wise Reflection And Practice In Daily Life
2017-03-16
With our guest Bhikkhu Bodhi: "Conscientious Compassion: An Engaged Dharmic...
2001-10-12
Working with Fear
2001-10-17
Working with Fear
2014-12-04
Working with the Comparing Mind
2015-02-16
Working with the Comparing Mind
2011-02-15
Working with the Judging Mind
2011-02-17
Working with the Judging Mind
2017-09-19
Working With The Judging Mind
2017-09-01
Working With the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1995-11-27
Working With Thought
2011-02-25
Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment
2011-07-07
You Have a Choice
2009-07-02
You Never Know...
2014-02-28
Your Practice Makes a Difference!
2018-02-22
“Facing the Unacceptable Without Burning Out”
(James was on re...
2015-12-10
“Mainlining Goodness”
2016-06-02
“Taking the Focus Off ME“
2015-12-17
“Tenderizing the Heart”
2015-03-12
“What Lineage Will You Choose?” or "Choose Your Lineage"