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Dharma Talks
2009-03-02 Four Thoughts That Turn The Mind Towards Dharma 55:46
Myoshin Kelley
Looking at 4 contemplations that help to inspire and realign ourselves with that which is of value.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-03-02 Turning Over A New Leaf Now - The Urgency Of Self Discovery - part II 48:30
Larry Rosenberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-03-01 Tending The Silence 42:40
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-01 Buddha Day Address with Refuges and Precepts 34:41
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2009-03-01 Transforming One's Relationship To Thought 50:48
Michael Grady
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-03-01 Guided Meditation - Put Aside and Stabilise 48:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2009-02-28 Turning Over A New Leaf Now - The Urgency Of Self Discovery - part I 42:01
Larry Rosenberg
To start practice, Vipassana meditation is to radically change your relationship to experience and to learn about yourself. Such self discovery is the gateway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-02-28 The Metta Sutta: How Not To Die Of Bitterosity 57:37
Sylvia Boorstein
This has the Metta Sutta as the basic text; but includes a discussion of the Paramitas and the resolve I made with Sharon Salzberg years ago to spend our time "when we are old" in "sitting around praying for people".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-26 The Power Of Renunciation 51:03
Rebecca Bradshaw
How simplicity and renunciation add focus and strength to our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-02-26 Practice Here, There and Everywhere 51:00
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2009-02-25 Compassion And Emptiness 61:22
Carol Wilson
Emptiness and compassion are like two sides of the same coin -- they support and balance one another. How can we open to the beauty and suffering in this world; and how can we respond with wise intention?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-25 Noble Wealth 39:58
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The inner quialities that provide wealth for the mind - a sense of freedom and security - regardless of outside conditions.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center CIMC Wednesday Talks

2009-02-25 The Divine Abodes: Joy 1:18:31
Tara Brach
Lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equinimity, are natural expressions of our awakened heart. In this series of four talks, we will examine what arouses these qualities of a wise heart. Each talk will include guided reflections. Joy naturally arises from the heart space that welcomes all that is. This talk describes four pathways of discovering and inhabiting this intrinsic openness of Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-02-24 Ten Paramis: Virtue (1) 58:46
Rodney Smith
Virtuous behavior comes spontaneously with interconnectedness. When we see from oneness, there is no impulse to hurt.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-02-24 Creative Wise Compassion 55:43
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2009-02-23 Power Of Compassion 58:58
Mark Coleman
The place of compassion in our lives & practice - What supports the heart to open & what hinders compassion from opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-02-23 The Joy Of Mindfulness 51:40
Sylvia Boorstein
Based on the concept that mindfulness cultivates insights which lead to wisdom to manifest as compassion that is experienced as joy, this talk is about 1) the joy of awakened physical awareness, 2) the joy of psychological clarity, 3) the joy of knowing universal truth, 4) the joy of service and 5) the joy of realizing the basic goodness of human beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-23 Awareness of the Thinking Mind 56:52
Myoshin Kelley
Turning our relationship with thoughts from the menace of meditation to a support for sustained awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-02-23 Creative Engagement 52:25
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2009-02-23 Through the Looking Glass: The Reality of No-Self 63:00
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2009-02-22 Wise Speech 48:34
Caroline Jones
This talk explores ways of practicing speech that are true, useful and timely. By learning to speak and listen with mindfulness, kindness, restraint and honesty, we deepen our understanding of how to bring more happiness and less suffering into the world.
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2009-02-21 From Ignorance Come Impulses 62:16
Guy Armstrong
The first two links of dependent origination say that ignorance gives rise to volitional formations or impulses. The talk describes succesive layers of obscurations that form from ignorance, to a belief in self, to afflictive emotions, to unskillful actions. The path undoes these layers by focusing, in order, on virtue, mediation, and wisdom, finally penetrating to nibbana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-21 What the Body Knows 39:57
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2009-02-21 Creative Awareness 53:52
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2009-02-20 Faith In The Dharma 60:39
James Baraz
Faith is one of the Five Spiritual faculties. This talk explores the elements of faith, sources of our faith and the ingredients we bring to deepen our trust and faith in the Dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

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