2004-12-10 Interconnectedness 50:38
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen

2004-12-10 Karma & The End Of Karma 62:19
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The talk explores action and its results. It also looks at how karma and not-self are a mutually necessary way to understand personality and the path of practice leading to the end of karma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2004-12-09 The Union Of Compassion And Wisdom 31:31
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Bringing together the understandings of compassion and wisdom helps us to bring together the understandings of self and selflessness. We then begin to live from a bigger, more limitless heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2004-12-09 Equanimity is a Bread Bowl 33:09
Konda Mason	Download Listen

2004-12-08 Respect And Dignity 54:22
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How freedom of heart blossoms with respect and dignity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-08 Going Into the Dark 2: Qualities That Help 41:05
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-08 Going Into the Dark, Part 2 50:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-07 Equanimity 42:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-12-07 Self-Knowledge 64:57
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Is your meditation directed toward learning about who you are? What areas do you shy away from paying attention to yourself? Where are you self-protected? Do you feel the pain associated with those areas? Become increasingly aware of one of those areas and see what difference bare attention (caring attention) makes to that pain. Offer that area metta to ease the pain of looking. The pain will ease in direct proportion to your understanding of it, and understanding is achieved through direct observation.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2004-12-06 Balance of Mind 60:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-12-06 Joy 53:35
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-06 Rightening The Mind And Heart 65:49
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2004-12-05 Unknown 53:04
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-12-05 How Do I Know I'm Deluded? 37:03
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Seeing the honest truth of the mind's delusion can teach us to develop a healthy mind and know true happiness. It is a doorway to freedom, opened through mental cultivation including loving-kindness and compassion for ourselves and all beings.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2004-12-02 Awakening "We Got What It Takes" 65:07
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The seven factors are already in the mindstream being developed by our simple practice of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2004-12-02 Opening To Our Essential Goodness, Part 2 1:14:44
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen
Hawai’i, exact date unknown

2004-12-02 The Activity Of Rejecting Ourselves 50:19
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We often compare where we are now to some ideal state and get caught in the painful habit of rejecting our experience. How do we transform this habit in order to come into connection with the truth of the way things are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-01 Spiritual Urgency - Samvega 41:25
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2004-12-01 Going Into the Dark 1 50:43
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-01 Opening To Our Essential Goodness, Part 1 1:17:36
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen
Hawai’i, exact date unknown

2004-12-01 Going Into the Dark, Part 1 55:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-11-29 Return to the Sacred 54:03
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-11-27 Working with Hindrances through Concentration and Mindfulness 52:05
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-11-27 The Seasons Of The Heart 39:49
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Relating to the gifts and challenges of the changing seasons of spiritual practice. This talk gives an overview of the continually changing terrain of practice-- the various seasons of the heart, which expose us to all sides of human experience. A question is then explored: where is progress on the path to be found if we keep cycling through the same seasons of the heart?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-11-27 Working With Hindrance Through Concentration And Mindfulness 52:09
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
This teaching begins with an overview of the Five Hindrances: Desire, Aversion, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness, and Doubt and continues with a thorough discussion of the Five Jhanic Factors: Aiming one’s mind, Investigation, Raptness, Comfort in Being, and One-pointedness which the meditator uses to effectively deal with and utilize the Five Hindrances in deepening her/his practice. The meditator gains perspective, alertness, connection, caring, and energy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2