2005-01-13 Knowing Death - Revealing Mind 42:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2004-11-26 Fear And Fearlessness 63:13
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explores fear as a form of craving and also several particular fears, such as death, judgement, and emptiness. It concludes with practical instructions on working with fear in meditation, which can lead to a fearlessness with all difficult states.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2004-03-07 Old Age, Illness & Death 58:07
Sarah Doering	Download Listen
Aging, illness and death have been called treasures for those who understand them. For in facing their issues and learning how to die we are in fact learning how to live.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2004-01-10 I Am Asleep, But My Heart Is Awake 51:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The talk explores how metta practice restores the heart to wakefulness over and over again. When it is startled, scared or confused by life and death, danger, criticisms and woodpeckers making holes in our homes metta practice restores the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-12-10 Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom 28:03
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberated. Likewise, those who rightly love wisdom and contemplate death without fear see the emptiness and impermanence of all conditioned things. Realizing the futility of all clinging and the inevitability of death, our wisdom and faith in the Dhamma ripen and reveal the doors to the Deathless. This is the path of awakening.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2003-08-02 Reflections on Death 58:32
Sarah Doering	Download Listen

2003-06-02 Nachiketa - Lord of Death 63:39
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-12-22 Desire for Enlightenment 53:00
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Desire is usually described as a hindrance to meditation, but to realize deathless liberation we must want to be free. A burning desire to awaken opens the heart and mind to a possibility of freedom otherwise not known. This talk examines the force of desire as both a form of craving that perpetuates suffering, and as a necessary and wholesome factor that supports the realization of nibbana (nirvana) and the end of suffering. We examine hindrances, pain, and obstacles from which we want to be free in order to realize unconditioned awakening. Working with desire has some risks, but it is a powerful force that encourages curiosity, investigation, and openness to possibility—the possibility of discovering a profound fearlessness, and enduring happiness, the possibility of enlightenment.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks

2002-11-03 Trusting the Process Of Awakening 53:39
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Maps and poems from various traditions which remind us that awakening includes cycles of death and rebirth. How to trust and work with the difficult phases.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-10 Impermanence 64:43
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
A talk on death and how we meet it, the possibility of it each day.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-10-10 Stories On Death and Dying 46:48
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Integrating experiences of death and dying in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-22 Gratitude And Trust 52:43
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How to be in the moment in the face of life difficulties. How to live “into life” in the presence of loss and death. The power of gratitude and trust, and ways to cultivate them as mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-03-18 Cultivating Equanimity 63:25
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Stories of different ways to cultivate peace, balance and calm in the midst of life and death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-06 Death, The Great Motivator 43:04
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-04-13 Living With The Reality Of Aging, Sickness And Death 52:41
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Our society emphasizes fitness, strength, youth, and vitality, and yet the body runs its own course. We can do things to keep it strong and healthy, but these types of measures are limited. We are blessed to have the Buddhist teachings because they encourage us to come to terms with aging, sickness and death -- fundamental truths of our existence.

2000-12-30 The Deathless 59:10
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-11-02 Awareness of Death and Letting-go 58:53
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2000-04-13 Living with the Reality of Aging, Sickness and Death 52:35
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Our society emphasizes fitness, strength, youth, and vitality, and yet the body runs its own course. We can do things to keep it strong and healthy, but these types of measures are limited. We are blessed to have the Buddhist teachings because they encourage us to come to terms with aging, sickness and death -- fundamental truths of our existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2000-03-23 Death, Grief and Practice 29:17
Eugene Cash	Download Listen

2000-02-02 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 11 1:26:13
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-11-17 The Way Of Love: Embracing Life & Death 55:13
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Cultivating the courage to love unconditionally.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

1999-09-08 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 10 1:29:43
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-06-23 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 9 1:26:39
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-06-16 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 8 1:29:40
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-04-17 Gates To The Deathless 67:57
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
realizing the potential of our true nature
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

1999-04-15 Death As Inspiration For Practice 33:06
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The death of loved ones fires our passion for transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

1999-04-08 Is There Life Before Death - Part III 48:00
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
When we connect with the intimacy of our practice, the "I" falls away and we give life the breathing space it needs to teach us all that we need to learn.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Is There Life Before Death Album

1999-04-06 Is There Life Before Death - Part II 40:22
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
This practice offers us a training in honesty: to see the way it is, to see the obstacles we need for growth, and the foolishness that can make us wise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Is There Life Before Death Album

1999-04-04 Is There Life Before Death - Part I 43:16
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Just as we cannot force our breathing, neither can we force our life: it is what it is. Our challenge is to live wholeheartedly and intimately with all that comes our way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Is There Life Before Death Album

1999-04-04 Is There Life Before Death Album 2:11:39
Larry Rosenberg	Listen to tracks Show 3 Tracks
Are we fully alive now? How do we limit our aliveness? These talks illustrate many examples, both ordinary and dramatic, about experiencing intimacy will all of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Is There Life Before Death - Part I 43:16 Download Listen Is There Life Before Death - Part II 40:22 Download Listen Is There Life Before Death - Part III 48:00 Download Listen

1999-03-24 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 7 1:32:24
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-02-17 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 4 1:23:55
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-02-17 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 5 1:31:22
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1999-02-03 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 6 1:31:55
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1998-12-16 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 3 62:16
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1998-11-15 The Way of the Mystic 56:25
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
A reflection on the tale of Patacara’s meeting with the Buddha after the deaths of her sons, husband, and parents and how she attains equanimity in the face of great suffering. A talk given at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK, Death & Dying Retreat.
Amaravati Monastery

1998-10-02 Birth, Death And Practice 58:27
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
the conditioning influences of the past and the future are seen through practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-07-11 Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part IV 68:07
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Tape Four
In collection: Samvega

1998-07-08 Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part III 42:15
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Tape Three
In collection: Samvega

1998-07-06 Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency To Practice - Part II 46:49
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Tape Two
In collection: Samvega

1998-07-04 Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part I 42:19
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Tape One
In collection: Samvega

1998-07-04 Samvega 3:19:31
Larry Rosenberg	Listen to tracks Show 4 Tracks
Reflection on aging, sickness and death can arouse more zeal to practice. (Four tapes - not available separately.)
Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part I 42:19 Download Listen Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency To Practice - Part II 46:49 Download Listen Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part III 42:15 Download Listen Life, Death And Samvega - The Urgency Of Practice - Part IV 68:07 Download Listen

1998-06-17 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 2 1:43:27
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1998-06-03 Shining the Light of Death on Life, Part 1 1:30:50
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

1998-03-26 Death Be Not Proud 46:53
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Death brings up the entire range of our humanity where, even though the "I" is the loser, our sense of connectedness remains.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

1998-03-07 Birth, death and deathlessness 1:17:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

1998-01-01 Contemplation On Death And Dying - I 40:40
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Reflecting on our own death allows us to orient ourselves to the way things are and gives us the courage to take risks.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Contemplation Of Death And Dying

1998-01-01 Contemplation On Death And Dying - II 44:54
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Explaining why we fear death and introducing the Maranasati Sutta.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Contemplation Of Death And Dying

1998-01-01 Contemplation On Death And Dying - III 38:55
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Death is the ending of time.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Contemplation Of Death And Dying

1998-01-01 Contemplation On Death And Dying - IV 45:30
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Countering our denial of the fact that all things end by opening to death.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Contemplation Of Death And Dying