2011-07-30 The Five Hindrances 50:32
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How we develop a wise and compassionate approach to all aspects of our lives through learning how to have a wise and compassionate relationship to the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2011-07-13 The Five Hindrances and Doing vs. Being 57:23
Grove Burnett	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: Meditation in Nature Retreat

2011-07-09 Gradual Training 1:14:16
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Tentative elaboration of the gradual Training found in the suttas. Starting with Sila and Samadhi and sub-divisions. Simple description of guarding the sense doors. Full understanding and the five hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-07 The Five Hindrances 26:24
Grove Burnett	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-06-25 Meeting the Challenges - Working with the Hindrances in Meditation 62:53
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
A reflection on how to work with the challenges we all encounter in meditation. Craving, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and sceptical doubt are challenging but temporary visitors which obscure our deeper truth. By recognising them as such and learning to work skillfully with them we can free ourselves from their grip, revealing the natural purity and radiance of our heart and mind.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2011-06-16 The Great Departure into the Unknown 56:19
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Departing from the conditioned patterns of our lives, the hindrances and renunciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

2011-06-15 Hindrances - Discussion - Q&A 26:59
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Meditation II on the Hindrances, Bodhi Mind Center
Shakti Vihara

2011-06-15 Hindrances - Guided Meditation 28:57
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Meditation II on the Hindrances, Bodhi Mind Center
Shakti Vihara

2011-06-15 Hindrances - Introduction 39:23
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Meditation II on the Hindrances, Bodhi Mind Center
Shakti Vihara

2011-05-16 4. The Hindrances The Psychotherapy of Vipassana 53:53
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mahasi 9 Day Retreat

2011-05-07 The Hindrances are Mara 45:34
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Working with the hindrances in retreat and in our lives. Kindness as a main antidote.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-01 Letting go of Disturbance, Deepening Stillness 60:07
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
To deepen our meditation practice we need to work skillfully with whatever is a disturbance -- whether it's the gross forms of the hindrances, or the subtlest manifestations of restlessness. This subtle restlessness often comes from a primal anxiety. We need to recognize this and find the stillness in our experience. Then we can truly be with things as they are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2011-04-08 The Hindrances 1:37:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2011-03-13 Forms of Desire and the Hindrances 1:14:25
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Stillness and Insight

2011-03-07 Reading The Book Of The Heart 37:16
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Two great oxen: samatha - calming and vipassana - insight- meditation; each supports the other . Hindrances as teachers.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-06 The Prisoner 44:43
Thanissara	Download Listen
The light awareness illuminates the dark. Working with hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-12-30 Instructions on Vedana and The Hindrances 36:16
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The New Years Retreat

2010-12-21 Letting Go: Crossing the Creek 54:25
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
After recently returning from six months of study and practice in Asia, Heather shares a few stories from her trip, weaving the themes of the outer journey and the inner journey of retreat. Teachings and practice tips focus primarily on working with strong emotions, the five hindrances and the process of letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Solstice Retreat

2010-12-13 The Five Hindrances 54:22
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A discussion of the difficulties we encounter in our practice and some suggestions for how to work with them skillfully.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-11-21 Hindrances and Such 56:19
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-05 Practicing with the Hindrances 40:09
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The meditative journey involves understanding and dispelling the veils of mental states that cloud the radiance of the mind.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-03 Tending the garden of the heart and mind 50:52
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Just as we garden, tending out plants and pulling weeds, so we need to cultivate the ground of heart and mind. Uprooting obscurations and dealing with hindrances are part of this work.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of the Body

2010-10-17 Going Beyond the Hindrances 56:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-08 The Third and Fourth Foundations of Mindfulness 1:22:25
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Mindfulness of mind-states, of the Five Hindrances and of the Five Aggregates
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-10-03 The Five Hindrances 52:01
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-09-20 Am I OK? 54:16
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Though we receive lots of instructions for our meditation practice on retreats, let’s face it – we spend a lot of time thinking. What do we think about? At the heart of these movements of the mind is answering the questions, “Am I OK?”, “Was I OK?”, and “Will I be OK?” Our obsession with these questions is the cause of a huge amount of restlessness. Restlessness is one of the major hindrances to calming the mind and deepening our meditation, and can be seen as both the cause and the effect of all the other hindrances. The Buddha also talked about this kind of thinking, and called it unwise attention that leads to all kinds of suffering. We need to look at the core issues that lead us to dwell on these questions if we are to create a more skilful relationship to our thoughts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-14 The Judging Mind 51:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Mindfulness and investigation are doorways to understanding the inner critic as a compound of hindrances and self view.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-08-18 Skillful Means for Concentration 63:22
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Cultivating the skill of concentration includes recognizing and working with those qualities that both support and hinder concentration. This talk explores ways to let go of the hindrances, and ways to cultivate the factors of concentration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2010-08-01 Subliminal Inclinations, Defilements and Hindrances 55:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2010-06-25 Dhammanupassana Satipatthana I 64:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Introduction; hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-06-05 Knowing Hindrances Through Body Awareness 62:55
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2010-05-31 The Five Hindrances 55:07
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A discussion of the difficulties we encounter in our practice and some suggestions for how to work with them skillfully.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2010-05-20 The Five Hindrances 42:21
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Work Retreat

2010-05-10 Tendencies, Defilements and Hindrances 46:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mahasi Retreat

2010-03-21 Morning Instructions 38:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-03-04 The Hindrances 53:43
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March 2010 Month Long

2010-02-10 Mind Only and The Hindrances 1:53:50
John Peacock	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
Gaia House :  Meditation on Emptiness (2010)

2010-02-09 Transforming Hindrances Through Love 64:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and metta and how we work with obstacles to meditation that arise doing metta (loving Kindness) practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2010-01-15 Uncovering the Luminous Mind - Working with the Hindrances 54:58
John Teasdale	Download Listen
The hindrances not only obstruct meditation practice, but stand between us and our inherent potential for clarity, wisdom and compassion. Ways of working with the hindrances to reveal that potential are discussed.
Gaia House :  An Exploration of Mindfulness MBCT/MBSR Retreat

2010-01-09 What we're doing here 50:58
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Mettafying the hindrances to death! This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness. How we maintain the self through excluding our vulnerability. The protection of inclusion, no one left out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2009-12-13 Reading the Book of the Heart 38:13
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Hindrances as the teacher, cultivating trust. Mindfulness is the path to the deathless. That which knows doubt isn't doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-11-18 The Cure for Pain Is in the Pain 65:58
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Working with the difficult mental states, especially the 5 hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-02 Mindfulness - What It Is and What Makes It Difficult 64:30
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
On this first evening of the retreat, we explore the nature of mindfulness in general and how we practice mindfulness of the body in particular. We then examine the five "difficult energies" (nivarana or "hindrances"), and how they make mindfulness difficult and how to practice when they are present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-10-29 Five Hindrances 57:21
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Two-Month Retreat

2009-10-01 Hindrances and Aggregates - The Right Response 28:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We can use the suffering that arises from the hindrances as a means for clearing kamma. Rather than getting hooked by our habitual reactions, track the experience through the lens of the aggregates. Set aside the topic, get underneath it. Work with it on an energetic level, feel it in the body. It isn’t easy, but over time confidence builds that this is where it ceases. Then these hindrances have taught us a powerful lesson we won’t get anywhere else.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat

2009-09-28 The Hindrances 53:04
John Teasdale	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation

2009-08-19 Hindrances as a Door of Awakening 65:55
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Yoga

2009-08-12 The Joy of Hindrances 67:37
Dori Langevin	Download Listen
Difficult mind-body states can be a gateway to freedom if we bring a sincere interest and an open, spacious and kind presence to grasping and aversion in all of their forms.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adult's Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-07-20 The Five Hindrances 63:45
Bhante Khippapanno	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge