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Dharma Talks
2009-03-26 Ritual in Soto Zen 27:54
Tanto Meiya Wender
Gaia House Soto Zen Forms and Ceremonies - The Practice of Deep Intimacy

2009-03-25 Part 2 - The Body as a Gateway to Full Presence 1:20:28
Tara Brach
We have strong conditioning to take false refuge in our mind, and disconnect from our senses. These two talks explore the pathways and gifts of coming home to embodied awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-03-25 Aloneness and Interconnectedness 43:57
Christina Feldman
These are the two pillars of freedom and compassion cultivated moment to moment in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-25 Bodhisattva Path 60:48
Pamela Weiss

2009-03-25 Cultivating Mudita (Appreciative Joy) pt I 49:16
Donald Rothberg
We explore the practice of Mudita in the context of the other three Brahmaviharaas; seeing how it goes again both self-centered joy and tendencies to focus on problems or what is "wrong" in a situation. There is some guidance in the formal mudita practice, as well as more general cultivation of joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-03-25 Touch The Earth, Find Your Ground 49:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Learning to stay with the flow of experience in a non-conflicting way is quite difficult. Recollecting how the Buddha called on the Earth for support when confronted by the host of mara, we too can find support in the ground of our presence and virtue.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-03-24 Wise Intention II 59:34
Adrianne Ross
How moment-to-moment awareness of the 3 wise intentions leads to wise action and happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-24 Ten Paramis: Renunciation (1) 57:49
Rodney Smith
Pausing to see what is important, and appreciating the space the pause offers.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-03-24 Getting Impermanence 29:37
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha’s last words were: ‘All sankhārā are impermanent; make an effort with diligence.’ Is there a place where self, other, past, future don’t happen? That’s what we meditate for. It takes us under the froth to the root of where the turbulence is coming from. These formative patterns have energy, but through bearing presence, they gradually lose their intensity and dissolve.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-03-23 Disempowering the Judging Mind 58:45
Myoshin Kelley
Looking at the comparing mind and the conceit of "I am"
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-03-23 The Practice and Fruition of Renunciation 41:27
Christina Feldman
Renunciation is taught in this tradition as the practice of happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-22 The Joy of Sila Parami 53:04
Trudy Goodman
Understanding sila as the foundation of Karma and inspiring stories. How sila as respect and love can become a default setting for us -- The Buddha said sila is his dharma heir, our teacher.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-22 Quarterly Refuges & Precepts 31:17
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-03-22 Absolute Honesty 28:48
Ajahn Sucitto
People talk about absolute truth, but what about absolute honesty? Honesty about craving and clinging. Craving and clinging focus on pleasure, but through following that we get addicted. To get off that, the recommendation is to cultivate enlightenment factors for support. Develop an inner axis, use one’s collectedness as a prop.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-03-21 7 Factors 56:00
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-21 Spaciousness 51:22
Christina Feldman
Spaciousness, born of understanding the nature of contracted, is the climate of the heart prevaded with ease and kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-21 Volition and The Rut of i am 46:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Generally, mind becomes tangled with concerns for the future, planning, wanting things to be completed, finished. But nothing is solid or definite; it’s never quite right. This is the First Noble Truth. In meditation we take attention off the topic to how am I handling the topic: how am I affected, does this lead to more suffering or less? Open, soften, let it travel through.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-03-21 A Path of Peace and Happiness 55:43
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Happiness

2009-03-20 Energies of the Heart 53:24
Marie Mannschatz
In the heart the beauty of the human spirit comes alive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-20 Unencumbered 19:12
Ayya Medhanandi
Fire is our teacher - the fire of pain, the fire of persevering through difficulty and the fire of going beyond what we think we are capable of. For we are greater that we know and our journey is one of learning to trust what is right and true. When the heart’s compassion, wisdom, and generosity mature, there is no space for fear. All the dross of the world melts away in the silence of pure presence. Here is the absolute sanctity of awareness, unencumbered, and joyous in the knowledge of pure love itself.
Ottawa Buddhist Society (Sisters of St. Joseph Convent)

2009-03-20 Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness Retreat 56:16
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Happiness

2009-03-19 2009 Monthly Sitting Group, Month 3: How the Jhana Factors Neutralize the Hindrances, and Concentration Practice as Purification of Mind 1:13:58
Tina Rasmussen
Includes: Jhana factors overview; how hindrances relate to jhana factors; the role of sila / wholesomeness in this practice; how concentration practice leads to purification of mind; meditation instructions; and Q&A
Various

2009-03-19 Interested Awareness 56:31
James Baraz
This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness.”
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-03-19 The True Test of Wisdom 50:22
Trudy Goodman
Truthfulness Parami and what the Buddha taught is the test for wisdom - how to purify the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-19 Ice Melts 40:57
Ayya Medhanandi
We can know freedom from suffering when the light of dhamma (or truth) arises. This illumination will melt the impurities formed by unwholesome mind states. Oh, what a freedom! A talk given during a 10 day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada in 2009.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

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