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Dharma Talks
2012-02-29 Sitting on the Edge of the World 27:30
John Travis
Transition talk for two month retreatants. Change and the loss of one monthers. Supporting the stillness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-29 Refuge In What Is Real 59:16
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-29 One Auspicious Day 41:38
Ayya Santussika
at San Jose Insight
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2012-02-29 Birth, Death and Vision for an Amazing Future in a technology world. 66:48
Sylvia Boorstein
With special guests: Jack Kornfield, Johan Wikman and Susan Felix.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-28 4 of This and 5 of That 60:58
Pascal Auclair
A few words on body awareness, 4 elements and the 5 aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-28 Live a Life that Leads to Freedom 47:52
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-02-27 Contentment 59:02
James Baraz
The Buddha called contentment "the greatest wealth." Contentment, "santutthi" in Pali, supports many other wholesome states including, renunciation, equanimity, peace, gratitude and generosity. We can cultivate contentment on and off the cushion while not being complacent or lazy in our dharma practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Patterns of Becoming 5: the End of Karma 57:38
Guy Armstrong
The fifth and last in a series of talks discusses the troublesome patterns of mind and volitional action that we identify as self, and how we can step out of them with the tools of dharma practice. The Buddha said that one who is fully awake has found an end to karma, and end to compulsive formations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-25 A Human Journey 51:32
Thanissara
Working with the material of our life. Withstanding and transforming intensity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00
Carol Wilson
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-25 Cultivating A Heart Of Kindness 37:51
Kittisaro
Being with all things with kindness. Guided Metta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Happiness - Beyond Differentiation 49:46
Martin Aylward
However we describe our practice, we are longing for happiness and ease. This talk explores how we get in our own way with that, pursuing ideas of happiness while missing something fundamental about our very existence which can bring us back into the freedom of being which beckons us. Like the Sufi poet Hafiz says, "Ever since Happiness first heard your name, it has been running through the streets crying out to you."
Gaia House Loving What Is

2012-02-24 Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path to Freedom 58:55
Sally Armstrong
This powerful teaching form the Upanisa Sutta shows us how suffering when understood with wisdom leads to faith and is the beginning of a natural unfolding of beautiful qualities of the heart which provide the foundation for the mind to turn to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-24 Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind 5:01
Thanissara
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-24 Contemplation Of Mind 25:05
Thanissara
Vinnana, Manas, Citta. Mind reacts to its own projections. Fundamental nature of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-24 Opening Talk for Retreat Entitled Loving What Is 1:11:14
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Loving What Is

2012-02-23 The Buddha's Core Teaching 49:03
Thanissara
The Buddha's Awakening. The four noble truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-23 Not Two 33:32
Kittisaro
Leaning on circumstances, conditions loss. The importance of disillusionment, seeing impermanence reveals the undying.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-22 Giving Everything Back 60:52
Kittisaro
Entering limitation for the sake of realizing the unlimited. Journey to the monastery. "If you know one thing, you know everything" Ajahn Chah. The peace of the unconditioned
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-22 Loving One's Enemies I 60:40
Donald Rothberg
We explore the meaning of developing a love or loving kindness toward all, including one's "enemies," using both Christian and Buddhist resources. Four foundational practices are outlined: 1.Ffollowing ethical guidelines 2. Mindfulness 3. Metta, and 4. Wisdom practices to help contemplate emphathically the causes and conditions of difficult interactions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-22 Understanding the Power of Ritual 26:02
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-22 The Flood Stopper 29:36
Thanissara
Balance and samatha, samadhi and vipassana. Full development of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-21 No Desire, No Path 50:11
Thanissara
One who knows the hindrances isn't hindered
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

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