2014-08-11 I Give You My Bread 24:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
There is no final cure for the body, but the mind can be freed. No matter how much craving, anger, sorrow, fear or obsessive negative thoughts keep storming the mind, don’t let discouragement become another hindrance. Every new moment is a chance to see these hindrances for what they are with pure awareness itself. Patient, courageous and wise, we are ready to receive the gift of ‘bread’ and to win back the boundaries of our hearts.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-07-22 The Rebellious Path of Freedom from Habits of Mind 42:49
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." Vipassana takes our untrained mind as a starting point -- with its unruliness, hindrances, clinging and aversion -- and gives it a clear and systematic way of developing awareness. With practice, this awareness of what's happening within us and around us in any given moment is the key to not being a slave to our thoughts. It also teaches us to rebel against, or turn away from, our mind's tendencies towards greed, hatred and delusion; and instead, to incline our mind towards openness, freedom from attachment, freedom from suffering, loving-kindness, compassion, wisdom, and equanimity. This is the liberating power of awareness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-07-14 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Mind Objects (Dhamma)--the Five Hindrances 56:44
Bhante Khippapanno	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-07-03 Just the Hindrances 65:34
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2014-06-23 Working with the Five Hindrances and How the Dhamma Informs Mindfulness Based Approaches 52:56
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
How to work with the five hindrances and how the Dhamma informs mindfulness based approaches.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2014-06-11 Meeting the Challenges, Working with the Hindrances 46:56
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga

2014-05-15 Investigation of dhammas 35:39
Thanissara	Download Listen
Balance of samatha and vipassana. Investigation of hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-05-11 The Five Hindrances & Clear Mind 46:46
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat - Listening to Natural Law

2014-04-21 The Ancient City - Brambles on the Path Hindrances and Faculties 33:12
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks

2014-04-17 Wise Responses to Hindrances 52:48
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  A Path of Freedom

2014-03-30 Dharma Series - The Five Hindrances 6:29:09
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 7 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center
The Five Hindrances - Series Introduction 56:42 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Practice and the Hindrances 47:20 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Using the Hindrances as a Map 59:18 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Aversion 58:25 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Dullness and Sleepiness 58:13 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Restlessness 56:37 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Doubt 52:32 Download Listen

2014-03-08 Hello, It's You Again...Meeting the Five Hindrances 58:39
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
This talk explores how we can approach the five hindrances as just another aspect of our human experience we can pay attention to, and as something we can learn and gain deeper understanding from.
Gaia House :  The Wise and Loving Heart

2014-02-09 The Hindrances 1:11:46
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart’s Release with Marcia Rose and Winnie Nazarko

2014-02-05 Unexpected Insights While Dancing with the Hindrances 51:19
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Developing skill in meditation involves making peace with mental states so that we can investigate them properly and understand them correctly.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Integrated Study & Practice Program, Session 2 (1314ISPP2)

2014-02-04 Understanding and Abandoning 59:19
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
A perspective on working with the hindrances...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-01-15 The Difficulties Are the Gifts: Metta, Compassion and Their Hindrances 56:11
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
How to bring your metta practice alive in the midst of the inevitable cycles of difficulty and purification. Stories, poems, practices and tools to help us "keep going".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2014-01-12 Understanding The Obstacles To Meditation 53:09
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the hindrances to meditation - how do they manifest and how do we develop a skillful compassionate and wise relationship to them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2013-12-20 Sitting in the Center 46:33
John Travis	Download Listen
The talk begins with the stories and teachings of the Thai Forest meditation masters, and continues with personal stories and the teaching of 'taking the one seat'. How to work with hindrances, pleasant and unpleasant, and allow the knowing quality to shine forth; 'sitting in the center' of all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2013-12-19 Working With Challenging Energies: A Fresh Perspective 65:46
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
The hindrances are not enemies to be pushed aside. Their deepest intention is to protect us...albeit in misguided ways. Attending and befriending these energies is the pathway to stronger concentration and internal healing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-11-17 Hindrances, Right View, and Resting in the Field of Merit 59:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-15 The Hindrances and Their Mythology 68:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-02 Wise Responses to the Hindrances 53:29
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2013-10-26 Unhindered 64:30
Max Erdstein	Download Listen
Discovering independence from the five hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-20 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 2 - Practicing with the Five Hindrances 52:50
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Talk, guided meditation, and discussion, with some attention to the model of the six internal and external sense bases.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-18 Doubt and Aversion: Two of the Five Hindrances 60:39
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
How to recognize and work with these common hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-16 Hindrances and Introduction to 32 Parts of the Body 52:37
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
What are the hindrances and how to work with them and an introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2013-09-15 The Five Hindrances - Part 1 61:58
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The hindrances are forces that obstruct or divert the current of our awakening. This talk discusses sense desire, sleepiness and restlessness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-15 The Hindrances 44:19
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening the Heart Through Training the Mind

2013-08-15 Jhana Factors & Hindrances 61:45
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Development and cultivation of Jhana Factors as supports for concentration and as antidotes to difficult mind states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2013-07-15 Meeting The Challenges 64:54
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Working with the hindrances.
Gaia House

2013-07-14 Obstacles to Unconditional Love (Metta) 51:14
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What stops us from resting in the heart of love. What hindrances arise in meditation when cultivating metta? This talk explores the power of loving kindness, its obstacles and how to work with them top liberate the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-14 Evening Talk - The Bowl of Water 52:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the hindrances.
Gaia House :  Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat

2013-06-20 The Hindrances With a Focus on Doubt 1:15:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-06-19 Balancing the Hindrances with the Factors of Enlightenment 61:27
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-17 Working With The Five Hindrances 59:55
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The five hindrances can be overcome by the practice of mindfulness, concentration and insight meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2013-06-16 The Challenges and the Fruits of Metta Practice 59:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore 1) the spirit of metta practice; 2) some of the challenges of the practice, particularly framed in the terms of the five "hindrances"; 3) some of the fruits of the practice, as it matures.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-01 Evening Talk; Day 1 - Grow in the Master's Way 32:19
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
All conditions of this world have the nature to change: the earth, weather, governments, work, health, leisure, family, friendships and so forth. We observe these variations and consider the most critical change of all. It promises the greatest blessing – but first we must plow the interior field of goodness that yields our heart's deliverance. Faithfully, patiently, as we clear away the dust in the mind, the hindrances of greed, ill-will, fear and delusion fall away, and we abide in the clarity, serenity, and joy of the Dhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-27 Morning Instructions and Reflection 14:52
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Guided Meditation/Instructions and reflection on the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-10 Hindrances and Similies 64:57
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-05-08 The Five Hindrances 61:04
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-08 The Five Hindrances:Dharma Talk 28:18
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-05-08 Seven Enlightenment Factors 43:02
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Brightening agents to cleanse the mind of hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-06 The Five Hindrances are Not Your Fault 49:58
Noah Levine	Download Listen
The five hindrances are just part of the natural process of meditation practice. It's not what arises that is the issue, it's how we respond to it that is important.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-06 Ways of working with hindrances 57:58
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Brief summary of right effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-04-21 Hindrances to Freedom 46:44
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-03-29 Hindrances to Clear Seeing 46:49
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Clear Seeing

2013-02-06 The Five Hindrances 61:05
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The hindrances arise naturally within our practice. Developing mindfulness while the hindrances are present both brings in wisdom and transforms the underlying conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-01-24 It Might Of Been Otherwise 50:31
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Reflection on impermanence and how to work with challenges/hindrances that come up in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Steadying the Mind: Opening to Insight

2013-01-16 Reflections on Hindrances and Aggregates 33:31
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara

2013-01-16 Reflections on Hindrances and Aggregates - Q&A 32:48
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara