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Dharma Talks
2003-12-17 The Dharma of Difficult People 1 68:01
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-12-16 One Fortunate Attachment 59:38
Sarah Doering

2003-12-13 The Ox Herding Pictures 52:13
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-12-13 I Just Wanted Some Toothpaste 35:17
Ayya Medhanandi
The way out of pain is not in sense pleasure. But suffering can be a ticket to Nibbana – maybe not the one we asked for, but it's in our hands. So we try. Taste the moment just as it is. Choose love when there is every reason to hate. Trust when there is every reason to despair. Be patient when anger is burning within. Faced with terror or far from peace, let go. Being still in the very midst of fear, we can know non-fear. All is fleeting, not what we are, and nothing to hold onto. There, in the silent flow of the breath, the heart will soften in a tender wave of unconditional love.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2003-12-13 Five Spiritual Powers 47:05
Sarah Doering
These five qualities of heart and mind lead to understanding and love without limits.

2003-12-12 Loving Kindness 45:41
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-12-11 Final Q&A 58:56
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-11 Q&A 56:16
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-10 Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom 28:03
Ayya Medhanandi
In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberated. Likewise, those who rightly love wisdom and contemplate death without fear see the emptiness and impermanence of all conditioned things. Realizing the futility of all clinging and the inevitability of death, our wisdom and faith in the Dhamma ripen and reveal the doors to the Deathless. This is the path of awakening.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2003-12-08 Joy 58:40
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-12-07 Taking The Refuges and Precepts 51:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-06 Dynamics - Locked States 46:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-06 Big Mind Meditation 47:28
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-06 The Dynamics of Breathing 65:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-05 Unseating the Inner Tyrant; Guided Meditation 1:29:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-05 Coming to Our Senses, Part 2 of 2 31:16
Jon Kabat-Zinn

2003-12-05 Coming to Our Senses, Part 1 of 2 1:27:18
Jon Kabat-Zinn

2003-12-03 Spiritual Friendships 61:19
Carol Wilson
The Buddha often said that keeping company with lovely and wise people is one of the most supportive qualities for our path of awakening. One of the first of our sincere practices, where we can also begin, is to be lovely friends for others in this world. How our practice is developing the qualities that make a spiritual friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-03 The Buddha's Journey: The Sacred Journey 60:41
Joseph Goldstein
The meaning and significance of the Buddha for our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-02 Guided Equanimity Meditation 43:25
Joseph Goldstein
a guided meditation recognizing the spacious and balanced unfolding of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-01 Qualities Of The Heart 69:01
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Metta Forest Monastery

2003-11-29 Release 66:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-11-28 The Power Of Metta 58:52
Guy Armstrong
The practice of metta brings five wonderful qualities into our Dhamma practice. It makes the heart softer and more responsive; it purifies the heart; it brings us into connection with all of life; it develops concentration; and it leads to happiness. Lovingkindness is the quality of friendliness toward oneself and others developed through the practice of metta. This talk describes how the practice works as a protection, a healing, a purification of heart, and a boundless state of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-27 Dana - The First Of The 3 Pillars Of The Dhamma 31:03
Kamala Masters
How to develop the virtue of generosity in oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2003-11-27 Lust And Hate 68:34
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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