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Dharma Talks
2005-05-05 Questions And Answers 67:18
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-02 Carrying The Blessings 62:26
Ajahn Amaro
Strategies on using the insight and peace from Retreats and regular practice through out our daily lives. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-01 One Step and One Kiss 47:39
Molly Swan
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-01 A Mind Like Fungi 59:20
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro recollects his past year on Sabbatical in India, the value of not having to be anybody, and the skillful use of thought in reflective meditation. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Permanence 37:51
Jose Reissig
This talk starts with an introduction on the futility of amassing knowledge. It then examines the genesis of our implicit belief in the permanence of things, and explores ways to unlearn it.
Philadelphia Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Clinging 34:39
Jose Reissig
Unlearning clinging is a corollary of unlearning permanence. This is so because clinging is futile as long as what we cling to is impermanent.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Me 45:51
Jose Reissig
As the Buddha showed, clinging gives birth to the I. The I, in turn, keeps puffing itself up by further clinging. When we understand that this generates nothing but suffering, we are ready to unlearn the I, that is the "Me."
Philadelphia Meditation Center

2005-04-30 Home 55:50
Trudy Goodman
Closing talk about leaving home and being home—a home for the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2005-04-30 How, Not What - Life As Rhythm 36:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping experiences life as "things." This brings stress. To handle radical insubstantiality, we attune to rhythm, energy—breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-29 Meditation Processes 57:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding a base in the present and releasing into the flow of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-28 Deepening Daily Life Practice 69:41
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-28 Cleansing The Heart Of Impression 1:19:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Contact brings impressions into the heart, which gets retrained at an involuntary level and affect our immediate response to life in terms of fear, mistrust, desire. There are ways of clearing this—the result is joy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-28 Satipatthana Sutta - part 18 - Mindfulness Of Dhamma: Hindrances - Restlessness 57:04
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Satipatthana Sutta Series

2005-04-27 The Journey 50:56
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-27 Velcro Mind, Teflon Mind, Releasing Difficult Emotion 59:10
Adrianne Ross
How to work with and transform difficult mind states and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2005-04-27 Working With Sankhara 64:50
Ajahn Sucitto
We experience life through somatic, emotive, & psychological sensitivity that adopts patterns. Practice is about releasing old afflicted patterns.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-27 Signs To Annul Negativity 55:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2005-04-26 Morning Instructions: Tactile & Somatic Awareness 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
An aspect of our Kammic patterning is the mode of consciousness that is selected to process experience—normally this is visual or conceptual. If we use the tactile consciousness it has an emotive resonance and truer response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Wisdom, Courage and Compassion 55:07
Donald Rothberg
Our practice "flies" through the two wings of the dharma - wisdom, clear seeing, and insight into the 4 truths; and compassion, the awakening of the heart. In between is the body of courage, that supports our action in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-25 Wisdom, Courage, & Compassion 55:31
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-25 The Bodhisattva Path 62:06
Tara Brach

2005-04-25 Embodied Language - The Elements 53:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Embodiment: Handling Dukkha 61:26
Ajahn Sucitto
By spreading awareness through the "field" of the body, we can establish a ground to limit, curtail and discharge the Dukkha of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Giving Ourselves Permission 43:39
Anna Douglas
FOR CREATIVITY RETREATANTS ONLY ----- Giving ourselves permission to explore and disvoer all aspects of body and mind in a direct and immediate fashion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-24 Breathing - The Kamma Of Meditation 49:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation as a way of purifying Kamma - brings clarity, assurance, and good heart in a simple, intimate way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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