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Dharma Talks
2013-03-17 The Importance of Vedana, 1 of 2 1:51:56
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-17 Afternoon Session 2:06:16
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-17 An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete Guide to Practice 2:59:45
Sylvia Boorstein
We’ll use the Metta Sutta, The Buddha’s Sermon in Impartial Kindness, as the template overview for practicing liberation from suffering. We’ll have time to study the sermon, practice both mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, and have discussions and Q&A about obstacles to practice. This program is suitable for beginners.
New York Insight Meditation Center An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete Guide to Practice

2013-03-17 Instructions 52:21
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-17 Letting Go and Letting Be 43:19
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-16 The Small Crack 50:33
John Travis
Working with the wheel of Dependent Origination
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-16 Opening Talk 47:59
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-16 A Road Map from the Buddha, Guided Practice 1:21:27
Rick Hanson
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it’s suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness, quiet, and concentration. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on what happens within your nervous system. Skillful practice thus means being skillful with your own brain. This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. No background in neuroscience or mindfulness is needed, though teaching are also appropriate for health care professionals. We’ll cover: --- Implications from brain research for steadying the mind... quieting it... and bringing it to singleness --- The brain during the jhanas or other states of deep concentration --- How to help lay the neurological foundation for liberating insight
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-16 Neural Factors of Mindfulness, Guided Practice 1:49:29
Rick Hanson
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it’s suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness, quiet, and concentration. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on what happens within your nervous system. Skillful practice thus means being skillful with your own brain. This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. No background in neuroscience or mindfulness is needed, though teaching are also appropriate for health care professionals. We’ll cover: --- Implications from brain research for steadying the mind... quieting it... and bringing it to singleness --- The brain during the jhanas or other states of deep concentration --- How to help lay the neurological foundation for liberating insight
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-16 The Buddha's Path 54:14
Norman Feldman
A very brief summary of the Buddha's early life, with an outline of The Four Noble Truths and discussion of The Three Characteristics.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-15 Part 2: Not Stealing, Lying and the Pabhassara Citta 48:30
Trudy Goodman
An exploration of the fifth and third precepts from a contemplative perspective: what intoxicates? What nourishes and sustains our practice?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-15 Opening Talk for the Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 61:30
Norman Feldman
This talk also includes Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-14 Buddhism & 12 Steps Week 6 (B) 60:27
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-14 Buddhism & 12 Steps Week 10 (a) 60:27
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-14 The Five Reflections 50:07
James Baraz
The Five Reflections from the Upajjatthana Sutra are: 1 - I am subject to old age, 2 - I am subject to illness, 3- I am subject to death, 4 - I must be parted and separated from everyone and everything dear and agreeable to me, 5 - I am the owner of my karma and the heir of my karma.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-14 Five Rivers Running Through 63:16
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-14 Morning Instructions 46:11
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-13 Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness 69:39
Tara Brach
Part 1: In this two part series we explore the evolution of consciousness through the lens of three key capacities: A forgiving heart, inner fire (conscious aspiration toward freedom) and self-inquiry.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-03-13 Compassion to Wisdom 48:55
Lila Kate Wheeler
Deeply conditioned clinging to self does not survive investigation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-13 Distortions of the Mind & the 3 Gateways to Liberation (with Q & A) 1:23:34
Akincano Marc Weber
How does ignorance operate? On the distortions of mind (vipallāsa) as the psychological mechanism of not-knowing / confusion (avijjā). The 4 objective and 3 subjective modes of distortion. Three gates of liberation on the basis of practicing with the characteristics of anicca, dukkha, anatta.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-03-13 Renunciation 50:38
Christina Feldman
Exploring the process of letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-12 La quête et ses questions 61:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-03-12 Compassion 56:48
Jack Kornfield
How to hold the whole path of awakening with the great heart of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-12 The Clear Light of Your Existence - In Memory of Carlos Ramirez 44:47
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-03-12 Dependent Origination: Ignorance 65:04
Rodney Smith
Ignorance, or "ignoring" the facts, begins the conditioned chain of events known as Dependent Origination. Our refusal to acknowledge and look is the essential first cause of the sequencing of conditions that leads to struggle and separation. To reverse this process all we have to do is be amenable to seeing what is in front of our eyes. This, together with our willingness not to turn away from the implications of what we see, are the sole requirements necessary for the interruption of the links of causality. Awareness ends the belief that the world is static and fixed. We usually gloss over the continual unfolding and disarray we call, "our living experience," so we can use ignorance as a life preserver and steady our position by fixing it within the world. How much of this unfixed universe we are willing to see will be determined by our sincerity, but the seeing, and therefore the ending of struggle, is always possible.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

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