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Dharma Talks
2012-07-06 Experiencing The Dharma 55:35
Bhante Khippapanno
How to experience the Dharma and its benefits.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-07-06 On Unconditional Friendliness, Concentration and Other Things 66:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart: a Metta Retreat

2012-07-06 Instructions on Working with Thought 48:10
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-06 Guided Meditation on Loving Kindness Towards All Phenomena 41:59
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-06 Turning To Our Nature 60:42
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-05 Karma and Sila as Gaia Practices 53:57
James Baraz
This is part 3 of the series 'Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point' that began 6/14. In this talk, James discusses the first three of the five transformational commitments in Bob Doppelt's book From Me to We:

1. See the systems you are part of
2. Be accountable for all the consequences of your actions
3. Abide by society’s most deeply held universal principles of morality and justice

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point

2012-07-05 Equanimity 68:20
Kamala Masters
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness

2012-07-05 Karma, Rebirth and the Eight Fold Path 1:16:52
Ayya Tathaloka
Karma, Rebirth and the Eight Fold Path by Ayya Tathaaloka. Stephanie Tate closes the night with a Metta meditation.
Dhammadharini

2012-07-05 Instructions and Guided Meditation on Knowing Mindstates 45:25
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-05 Short Chanting Session and Guided Meditation on Compassion 43:02
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-05 Instructions: Views of Self and Aspects of Freedom 57:06
Kirsten Kratz
this talk explores how we can use the teaching on Not-Self as a liberating way of seeing in how we relate to our stories, history and often painful self images.
Gaia House Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-04 Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step 57:54
Tara Brach
This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our true nature - inquiry and letting go.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-07-04 Investigating with Awareness 56:52
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness

2012-07-04 The Bodhisattva and the Second American Revolution: Reflections on the Fourth of July 62:58
Donald Rothberg
We explore on this July 4th 1. The beauty and power of the vision of the 4th of democracy, equality, compassion, and happiness, 2. the contemporary problems that imperil the realization of this vision; and 3. a contemporary vision of addressing these problems and their inner and outer roots, inspired by the vision of the "new Bodhisattva."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma

2012-07-04 Obstacles On the Path 62:20
Bhante Khippapanno
Explanations of various obstacles on the path with more emphasis on restlessness, sloth and torpor and self doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-07-04 18. Taking Precepts 29:45
Thanissara
the value of ethics as a foundation for practice and as a protection of all beings
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 17. Daily Life Practice 31:29
Thanissara
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 35:17
Thanissara
drawing on themes of the 4 brahma viharas - kindness, compassion, joy & equanimity - infused with the divine bodhicitta of Kuan Yin
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 15. Divine Within Human 53:57
Thanissara
4 brahma viharas & bodhicitta
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 14. Original Mind 35:36
Thanissara
guided meditation pointing out 'mind'
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 13. Leap Beyond 54:29
Thanissara
heart sutra and kuan yin
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 12. Practice of the Four Truths 33:45
Thanissara
where there is samsara is nibbana
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 11. Four Truths 42:10
Thanissara
contemplation and practice of the 4 truths
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 10. Training of Mind 37:52
Thanissara
practice as preparation for when the hindrances hit - vitakkasantana sutta - skilful training of thought
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

2012-07-04 9. Contemplating Change & Worldly Winds 30:45
Thanissara
reflecting on change - the doorway into the changeless - maintaining well being in the face of change through wisdom
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Embodied Dharma

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