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Dharma Talks
2012-12-01 Morning Session The Five Aggregates Are Empty and Q&A 0:00
Sally Armstrong
(Recording not available) 
The Buddha instructed us to bring awareness to the five aggregates of form, feeling tone, perception, mental formations and consciousness and to notice how we cling to and identify with them. If we cling and identify we will suffer. Non-clinging = Non-suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-01 Metta 45:18
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Boundless Friendliness

2012-11-30 Renunciation 52:43
Greg Scharf
Renunciation speaks to the very heart of the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores the power of renunciation - the very substance of freedom. Available to the general public with some rights reserved
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-11-30 Dependent Origination 47:15
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-30 Formation of Self-View 1:12:25
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-30 Opening Talk for Boundless Friendliness 52:36
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Chris Cullen
Gaia House Boundless Friendliness

2012-11-29 Returning To The Marketplace 63:43
Winnie Nazarko
Letting go of the renunciate life at the end of a long meditation retreat. How it is possible to practice as a lay person in the world. Reconnecting to the life left behind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-11-29 From the Three Characteristics to Emptiness 57:42
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-29 The Dharma in Brief 67:51
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-29 Who we really are 49:28
James Baraz
Who You Really Are Walt Whitman wrote: “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness." A key aspect of genuine awakening is realizing the basic goodness that is our true nature (when we're not confused or lost in our stories). What gets in the way of accessing this basic goodness? What supports it?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-11-28 The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 2 of 3 1:38:31
Gina Sharpe
The Fourth Noble Truth expounded by the Buddha is that there is a Path to Freedom, to Liberation, to the sure heart’s release. He said that freedom is possible, and that if it were not possible, he would not ask us to walk the path to it. How can we use all of our life, its 10,000 joys and its 10,000 sorrows, as the ground of liberation, of freedom? By understanding the three pronged path of Meditation, of living a life of Integrity, and of developing Wisdom and putting our understanding into action, liberation is not a distant goal, but a present moment experience. Through practice, reflection and inquiry, we will deepen our understanding of the Path, its obstacles and its realization.
New York Insight Meditation Center The Noble Eightfold Path
In collection: The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 1 of 3

2012-11-28 Sakkayaditthi 56:52
Ajahn Sumedho
39 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2012-11-28 Seeing the Limitations of the World is Liberating 54:12
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-11-28 Four Foundations of Mindfulness V- The Third Foundation; Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions 62:24
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the First and Second Foundations, we explore the Third Foundation: 1. as mindfulness of thoughts and emotions, and 2. as mindfulness of the presence or absence of greed, hatred and delusion, offering a number of practices for both.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-11-27 Speech - Wise And Not So Wise 62:54
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-11-27 It Should be Like This 50:49
Ajahn Sumedho
38 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2012-11-27 The Divine Abodes - Week 1- The Naturalness of Lovingkindness (Metta) 1:29:14
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-11-26 Transforming Suffering 55:06
Mark Coleman
How to work with the inevitable challenges and vicissitudes of life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-11-25 The Heart of the Dharma 58:46
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2012-11-24 Finding Joy and Happiness Through Renunciation 48:27
Chas DiCapua
How the correct view of sense pleasures and the correct view of renunciation leads to freedom from suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-11-24 Being Benevolence, Intro and Guided Meditation 45:15
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-11-23 Inclining the Mind to Gratitude 54:30
Mark Coleman
How to turn the attention to gratitude and appreciation as a support to turn the mind away from wanting and deficiency.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2012-11-23 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Appreciation 59:13
Rodney Smith
Many of us do not realize the accessibility of the heart. We think it is distant and attainable only through hard work. But it is as close as a pause in our thoughts, a hesitation in our busyness, and is the natural response of awareness to life. Our thoughts cover the heart with a foggy distraction, but when we interrupt the stream of our thinking the heart response with a gentle appreciation for living. In that moment life is acknowledging itself with gratitude. During this season of Thanksgiving, look deeply and silently to call forth this natural appreciation for living.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-11-23 What is Needed Now 42:13
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain. Retreat was November 18 - 23, 2012
Shakti Vihara Porthole to Pure Presence - Nov, 2012

2012-11-23 Persistence 53:42
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain. Retreat was November 18 - 23, 2012
Shakti Vihara Porthole to Pure Presence - Nov, 2012

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