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Dharma Talks
2008-02-16 The Eightfold Path 48:27
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Young Peoples Retreat The Eightfold Path

2008-02-15 Morning Instructions 57:13
Mark Coleman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Relationship Of The Four Brahma Viharas 53:49
Sharon Salzberg
Relationship of the Four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Joy Ushers In Calm 60:36
Heather Martin
By welcoming joy we become content, so we relax, thus letting go of the need to do something - anything about it - thus calming down. Inner and/or outer joy facilitates the shift from doing to being - from trying to letting go - crucial steps on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-14 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien 53:48
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-14 Meaning 34:28
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-14 Compassion And Appreciative Joy 59:30
Mark Coleman
What is the experience of compassion, how does it arise, what are it’s obstacles. This talk also discusses the Bhrama Vihara of mudita, appreciative joy and how we cultivate this rare and beautiful quality of gladness and celebrating the joys of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-14 At The Still Point Of The Turning World 61:06
Howard Cohn
Exploring the concept of time and the way our reality is colored by the views of time that obscure the inexhaustible resource of the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 Qualities To Be Cultivated In Metta Practice 55:07
Gina Sharpe
Metta – Its value, and bring precision, gentleness and the ability to let go, to practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 Essential Dharma - part 1, week 7 - part 1 of 3 30:15
Richard Shankman
Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings

2008-02-13 Metta, Tenderness And Connection 60:06
Guy Armstrong
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 The Ethics of Sunyata 1:31:39
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-12 Morning Instructions 52:49
Sharon Salzberg
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-12 The Five Hindrances 55:02
Sharon Salzberg
The Five Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson
Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-12 The Birth of a Bodhisattva 1:13:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-11 Peacemaking In The Middle East 61:15
Jack Kornfield
The hundred beautiful seeds of peace in Israel and Palestine, as reflected in the words of the Dhammapada.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-02-11 Monday Night Talk with Jack Kornfield 61:15
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-11 The Hindrances And The Awakening Factors 60:37
Heather Martin
What obstructs us and what helps us on our journey to awakening. How these two clearly explained aspects of our experience alternatively trap us and free us over and over again, as we invite their interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-11 Exploring The Terrain Of Fear 57:37
Myoshin Kelley
Fear often drives our lives in unhealthy ways. This talk explores having a conscious and wise relationship to it.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-10 Choosing Kindness Rather Than Judging 58:58
Sally Armstrong
Many of us have internalized the message that we are not ok. To begin to be free of this distorted view, we need to understand how it became formed and why it no longer serves us. It is important to bring humor and kindness to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-10 Love and the Emptiness of Things 1:30:39
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-10 Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas 38:49
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-09 Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 47:40
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

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