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Dharma Talks
2009-09-07 Compassion and Insight with Emotions 12:23
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2009-09-02 The Grounds of Living Compassion 53:04
Tara Brach
A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. This talk explores the conditioning that keeps us in reactive trance and the ways we can deepen our attention and align our lives with our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-07-22 The Beautiful Qualities of Compassion and Equanimity 55:19
Sally Armstrong
The four Brahma Viharas are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. The foundation practice is metta, or loving-kindness, which cultivates a friendly and kind attitude towards ourselves, others and all experiences. When this caring heart meets suffering, it naturally responds with compassion. But the last Brahma Vihara, equanimity, the quality of calm acceptance, is necessary keep the heart in balance and open to all the joys and sorrows of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

2009-07-18 Love and Compassion 42:49
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-07-07 Three Chants Expressing Aspects of Compassion, and Some Reflections 66:46
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2009-06-29 Wise Thought & Freedom with Bhante Buddharakkhita 66:10
Jack Kornfield
How to understand and work with the mind, to awaken compassion and understanding. Skillful thoughts and Unskillful thoughts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-27 Service as a Path of Practice 45:25
Donald Rothberg
How do we take our service as a path of practice? Most basically, we take helping others as the center (or a major part) of our lives, and we examine, in our service, what helps develop “selfless” service and the barriers to such service, especially a sense of duality between self and other. We explore how a connection between “inner” and “outer” practice structures a life of service, and how such practice can also be understood as the development of particular qualities—we focus on the development of (1) clarity of intentions, (2) generosity, (3) gratitude, and (4) compassion, and on some of the challenges that arise when cultivating such qualities, and in service generally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Volunteer Appreciation

2009-06-24 Compassion 53:28
Joseph Goldstein
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-23 The Awakening Prophet 63:39
Donald Rothberg
One interpretation of Jewish mindfulness connects mindfulness with the Jewish prophetic tradition. This suggests an understanding of spiritual practice as involving both "inner" transformation toward liberation and "outer" transformation toward a liberated society; actually, the two are intimately connected. We first explore, partly through music, the prophetic tradition. We then examine how both our inner and outer practice can be understood in similar ways, following the core principles, in terms of development in wisdom and mindfulness (the mind), compassion and love (the heart), and courage and skillful action (the body).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-22 Obstacles to Awareness of the Divine Presence 58:28
Rabbi Jeff Roth
In contemporary Jewish meditation the Divine is a reference to the interconnected unity of all being. This talk unfolds this metaphor and points out obstacles that occur in "small mind" that aggrandizes the self and cuts one off from unity, compassion and loving-kindness. A set of practice instructions proposes processes to turn the obstacles into compost for spiritual growth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

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