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Dharma Talks
2002-04-28 Closing Guided Meditation: Sharing Awareness 43:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-27 Alignment to Wholeness 1:13:23
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-27 Resonance and Mindfulness 68:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-26 Skillful Means and Pure Awareness 54:05
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-26 Guided Standing Meditation 46:05
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-25 Emptiness - It's Just This 66:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Distilling the salient forms that are settling. Handling material. The ground of relative emptiness—”it’s just this.” Kamma formations, self, the making much of “do, do, do” and emptying that. Pleasure and protection, taking what you need. Subjectivity as opposed to self. Panic—do we have the spaciousness to learn?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-25 Timeliness 66:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Embodied time - a sense of timeliness - is a useful reference; by relaxing into it, we move out of hyper and hypo states and return to grounded awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-24 Questions and Answers 1:15:13
Ajahn Sucitto, Amma Thanasanti
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-24 The Rapturous Ground Of Being 63:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Describes the “ground of being” as the enlightenment factors. Rapture is a key to the support and uplift of this ground.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-24 Body, posture, breathing 49:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2002-04-23 Sparklers For Them 48:03
Willa Thaniya Reid

2002-04-23 Body - Posture - Breathing 46:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions on establishing the posture for full and easeful breathing. Instructions on maintaining awareness through breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 The Ground Of Relative Emptiness 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto
This ground is empty of hindrances, the underlying ground of the enlightenment factors. It is accessible through samatha practice, vipassana practice, or just in being present.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 It's Good To Be Home 64:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Presence, being totally here, is a shared and sharing experience. Before committing to the “doingness” of meditation, check in with the “here-ness.” It is the underlying home of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 Gratitude And Trust 52:43
Phillip Moffitt
How to be in the moment in the face of life difficulties. How to live “into life” in the presence of loss and death. The power of gratitude and trust, and ways to cultivate them as mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-04-21 Layers Of Conditionality 1:10:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Our experience of identity can be classified on terms of bodily, emotive, cognitive processes/structures. The cognitive layer especially gets distorted with compulsions and judgements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Embodiment and Disembodiment 1:17:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Tonality As The Key To Awakening 60:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Overview of the process of awakening of which meditation forms a part - not the whole. All awakening processes are accompanied by a wholesome tonality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-19 Opening Talk with Beginning and Ending Chanting 62:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-16 Compassion And Wisdom 66:05
Martine Batchelor
This talk looks at the intimate connection between wisdom and compassion. Insight into the three characteristics leads to compassion. Compassion needs to be tempered by wisdom so it does not become misguided or superior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-15 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 62:07
Jack Kornfield

2002-04-14 Non-Grasping 69:37
Martine Batchelor
This talk explores the process of grasping, which limits and reduces us. It also looks at non-grasping in various areas or our life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-12 The Four Great Efforts 46:15
Rodney Smith
Balancing between cultivating wholesome qualities and not pursuing them as ends in themselves is the art of Buddhism.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-11 Reflections On Emptiness 50:28
Christina Feldman
The Buddha described emptiness as the abode of the great person. It is an understanding, seen so clearly in nature, that is possible for us to see in our own nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-10 Working With Thoughts - Papanca 1:10:43
Mark Coleman
Working skillfully with the thinking mind. Understanding how perceptual distortion and mental proliferation obscures the truth and takes us away from the present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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