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Dharma Talks
2002-12-05 Choice Words 57:12
Steve Armstrong
the five characteristics of well spoken speech: from a friendly heart, gently, truthfully, for other's benefit and at the proper time
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-12-04 Joseph's Dharma Life Story 63:42
Joseph Goldstein
Joseph shares personal stories about his dharma journey.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-12-03 Equanimity Guided Meditation 49:44
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-12-02 The Power Of Metta: Is Insight Enough? 59:13
Guy Armstrong
Metta is a powerful tool in the journey of awakening. The practice makes the heart more responsive and also offers purification, concentration, connection to all of life, and happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-12-01 The Lion's Roar 67:25
Marcia Rose
There is great power and strength in the capacity to connect within our self and to others. Directly, clearly, patiently and fearlessly with a heart/mind that is free of ill-will and rooted in lovingkindness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-28 The Highest Blessing 49:46
Kamala Masters
This is a reading of the Mahamangala Sutta, the highest blessings, with some commentary on various aspects that relate to our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-27 Mindfulness And Metta 49:54
John Travis
The practice of mindfulness and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-26 Q&A 57:30
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-11-25 Thanksgiving 62:24
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-24 Generosity - A Powerful Medicine 62:19
Marcia Rose
An inner wealth of generosity is powerful medicine. An antidote to the anguish and confusion that's generated through the training to accumulate and fixate upon and cling to our accumulations, generosity a seamless circle - giving and receiving. It feeds and grows itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-22 The River Of Change 53:45
Kamala Masters
The direct experience of the truth of change at ever-deepening levels re-aligns our relationship with the world and enables us to let be and let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-21 Anatta Characteristic 66:30
Steve Armstrong
The Buddha instructed us to see events as "not me, not mine, not who I am." When the body, choices, personal history and the narrator are seen in this way, the happiness of peace becomes possible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-11-20 Bvihara - Mudita Practice 44:46
Marcia Rose
Instructions - Mudita Practice. Short reflection with oneself - good, helpful, skillful things we've done. Mudita phrases with - some it's easy to rejoice for/with--------and a benefactor, a friend, a family member, fellow yogi, all yogis on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-19 Relative and Ultimate Bodhicitta 53:31
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-11-18 Mudita: Joy With - Joy For 61:58
Marcia Rose
Mudita - the natural response of the heart - our capacity to see joy in relationship to another's happiness, success, beauty, goodness or well being. Exploring and recognizing the joy that has no 'self' at the center of it… the momentary joy of the pure heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-16 Opening Our Heart to Love 56:17
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Opening the heart and training the mind through the practice of lovingkindness enables one to deeply connect with the truth of life as it unfolds. This brings forths a grateful mind like serenity, calm abiding and peaceful love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-11 Dipa Ma 59:08
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-11 Transformation Of Afflictive Emotions 1:17:04
Marcia Rose
Cultivating a strong and clear mindful attention that meets the experience of the moment allows us to see the afflictive emotions clearly.. To see through them like we see through the colors of a rainbow. This 'seeing' brings with it the possibility of the transformation of afflictive states into wholesome energies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2002-11-09 Big Mind Meditation 11:03
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-11-06 Doubt, Restlessness, Sloth 61:23
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-11-05 The Judging Mind 42:26
Rodney Smith
Judgement is a defense against feeling inadequate. The belief in inadequacy is a defense against the fear of being nothing. The fear of being nothing is a defense against silence, in which our nothingness is confirmed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-04 Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not Anything 69:14
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-03 Trusting the Process Of Awakening 53:39
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Maps and poems from various traditions which remind us that awakening includes cycles of death and rebirth. How to trust and work with the difficult phases.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-11-03 Kathina talk 42:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2002-11-03 Concentration And Mindfulness 55:28
Marcia Rose
Reigning the mind in from all it's myriad distractions… cultivating the power of concentration in order to see clearly. Pay attention in a non judging, non manipulative, non grasping, non rejecting attention - the magic of mindfulness, taking us out of illusion directly into reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

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