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Dharma Talks
2012-05-29 Compassion Is A Verb 53:16
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of empathy, compassion and engaged response in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-29 The Urgency To Love 58:21
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
How do we love a world so prone to disappointment? Investigating the purifying relationship between love and disappointment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Rest in the Mind's True Nature 33:55
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-29 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise Intention 58:43
Rodney Smith
Wise intention is the energy that moves all spiritual practices forward. We mistakenly think it is our willpower, but it is always and only our intention. There are two expressions of intention: the primary intention associated with the longing to be free and the secondary intention for gain and acquisition. The secondary is formed by the mind from the primary intention, and that is the reason we believe that satisfaction can come through desire. The mind tells us that. For the energy to be reinvested back into the primary we have to prove to ourselves that secondary gains will never be truly fulfilling. That is what is left for many of us to do.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-29 Guided Six Sense Door Metta Meditation 15:33
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A form of loving kindness integrated with our traditional mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart 38:48
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the way we respond to life when consciousness is not caught in obsessions or reactivity. Martin explores 4 specifically different dimensions of love (Brahma Viharas) and invokes their commonality in dissolving our sense of separateness; beckoning us into an exquisite intimacy with life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-28 Memorial Day Healing 62:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-28 The Confluence Of Love And Wisdom 56:49
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-28 On Clinging to Existence and Non Existence: Freedom From Self and Not-Self 44:14
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the inevitability in language of either reifying or negating existence; "It (self) exists" or "it doesn't exist", and how either view is problematic, inviting us in the living immediacy of life, to discover the middle way beyond existing or not-existing.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-27 The New Bodhisattva path 59:52
David Loy
Notes for a Buddhist Revolultion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-27 The Cause of Suffering and the Unconditioned 57:33
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-27 Présence absence 42:57
Charles Genoud
Ou sommes nous quand nous ne sommes pas présent
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-27 On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self 45:50
Martin Aylward
Martin explores how our various views condition our experience, and keep us locked into viewing and reacting to life in all too familiar ways. We look at the way our views limit our experience of who we are, and how investigating those views can lead us into a more ambiguous, and more liberated sense of our participation in life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-26 Genuine Love, Genuine Wisdom 58:35
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-26 Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts 56:56
Donald Rothberg
We look at several ways to practice when strong, difficult emotions and thoughts are present. 1) Finding antidotes - ways to get unstuck if we are stuck; 2) mindfulness using various tools; and 3) wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 The Practice of Recovery: A Buddhist Approach to Healing Addiction 2:46:58
Kevin Griffin
In this daylong retreat we’ll explore the uses of Buddhist practices and teachings in recovery. Blending mindfulness and the12 Steps we will see how fundamental Buddhist teachings like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Lovingkindness, and others can be used as fundamental tools in a program of recovery. The day will include lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises, as well as an introduction to mindfulness meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-26 Why We Love War 30:16
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 Renunciation as Right Intention 3:16:53
Tempel Smith
Of the three forms of right intention, renunciation helps overcome greed, craving and clinging. Renunciation also helps with cultivating simplicity and ease, and allows us to taste the deep contentment born out of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-26 What's Happening 58:20
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering 27:49
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering - Q&A 33:27
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Instructions 1 Part Dieu 2012 10:42
Charles Genoud
Introduction à l'attitude méditative
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 The Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 65:57
Kamala Masters
The clear message of the Buddha is that this holy life has as its end the unshakable deliverance of mind. (The Simile of the Heartwood, MN 29 and 30). This talk is about what is to be cultivated in our lives so that this deliverance is actualized. The cultivation of dana (generosity), sila (living a virtuous life), and bhavana (developing the mind through concentration and insight)….these three lead one securely in the direction of nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-25 What is Non-Duality? 55:53
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

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