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Dharma Talks
2016-04-22 Healing the Cracks 1:27:01
Ajahn Sucitto
compassion for and working with our daily life challenges, relationships
Prasada

2016-04-21 Compassion 1:11:42
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-04-15 The Path of Compassion 41:30
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2016-04-12 Encouraging Compassion 50:27
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat

2016-04-05 Mindfulness Externally: Compassion in Action 39:46
Jenny Wilks
This is the second talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion."
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-31 "Sacred Activism Part. 3: Working with Anger and Frustration" often natural responses to news". 56:00
James Baraz
Hello Friends, I'll be continuing the series of Sacred Activism talks on how to bring our dharma practice to working skillfully with current events. We've explored compassionate action ("The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative") and humility ("We Don't Know What We Don't Know"). I hope you join us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-30 The Power of Loving-Kindness 37:16
Ayya Medhanandi
When universal love leading to liberation of the heart is ardently developed, unrelentingly resorted to, it becomes the foundation of our life. We travel in a divine vehicle, our inheritance from the Buddha, the sublime abiding of mettā, loving kindness. This is our shelter from unwholesome states, a true salve for impure and damaging mental afflictions. More and more as we purify the mind, it triumphs over hateful feelings and forgiveness and compassion are perfected. Indeed, by the power of loving kindness, we are crossing the stream to the farther shore, awakening to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat

2016-03-29 Mindfulness Internally: Insight and Freedom 39:56
Jenny Wilks
This is the first talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion." According to Jenny Wilkes, "mindfulness" is becoming such a commonly used term that its depth and liberating potential may be underestimated or misunderstood. The Buddha's teaching on establishing mindfulness (the Satipatthana Sutta) invites us to cultivate mindfulness both "internally" i.e., a deep awareness of our inner experience in order to cultivate liberating insight; and "externally" i.e., an open-hearted awareness of others in order to cultivate an ethical and compassionate response. The two-part talk explores how together these can support our mindfulness practice so that it becomes, as the Buddha described, a "direct path to awakening."
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-29 Two Forms of Compassion 24:01
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-03-24 "Sacred Activism Part. 2: We Don't Know What We Don't Know" 59:04
James Baraz
In our response to unsettling news we can easily react with self-righteousness, sure that our "dharmic" view is the "right one" and feeling superior to those who act in ways we don't understand. But the Buddha asked us to put aside any such arrogance. Through genuinely trying to understand another's perspective, we can cultivate true humility for our ignorance of their reality and greater understanding about the thinking behind their actions. Then our response, which might be one of fierce compassion, is not coming from hatred and ill will but from compassion and wisdom. This talk includes some thoughts on white privilege as well as Andrew Harvey's brilliant audio clip on Sacred Activism.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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