Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks
2017-07-02 On the Paradox of Self 47:14
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves On Awakening

2017-07-02 Mindfulness of the Body: Grounding in Bodily Awareness (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 6:15:17
Ajahn Karunadhammo
The first of the Four Establishings of Mindfulness - Mindfulness of the Body - is taught extensively in the Pali Canon. With various contemplations, the Buddha taught us to use the physical body and breathing as a vehicle for samatha (tranquillity) and vipassana (insight), all the way to complete liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-07-01 Transition Into Modern Life 33:15
Anushka Fernandopulle
This recording also includes Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-07-01 Cultivating the Mind - Citta and its Functions 54:17
Akincano Marc Weber
On the contemplative task - Citta as the habit of the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-07-01 Lecture 10 1:16:14
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 10 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-07-01 Awareness and what Hinders Awareness 60:01
Mark Nunberg
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom

2017-07-01 On Body 30:45
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves On Awakening

2017-07-01 Wisdom and the Awakening Factors 30:47
Kim Allen
This talk was given after a day of silent practice.
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-07-01 Morning Instructions 54:04
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-07-01 The Community of all Beings 41:31
Trudy Goodman
Refuge in relational wisdom- Embodying tender awareness in nature supporting our practice. The social networks of trees and how they share resources- redistribution of wealth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-06-30 Opening Talk 39:52
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-30 True Refuge in a Modern World 58:32
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-30 Guided Meditation on Skilful & Unskilful Intentions 36:49
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-30 Instructions On Mindfulness and How it Can be Lost (and skill when we are caught in a mind spin). 42:19
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Modeling the Dharma 44:04
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-29 Happiness, Wellbeing and Non Self 42:57
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Benefit Of Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension in Daily Life 1:24:17
Sayadaw Vivekananda
This talk includes a section on clear comprehension in talking.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-29 Cracking the Code - Meditation Instructions on Vedana or Feeling Tone 34:36
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Viharas, Chanting 44:28
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Day 3 Morning Sit with Instructions: Mindfulness of Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:29
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Still I Rise: An Insight Meditation Retreat for Communities of Color

2017-06-28 The Four Noble Truths: Taking a Fresh Look at an Ancient Teaching 66:13
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-06-28 Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness 17:43
Tara Brach
This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-28 Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence 52:20
Tara Brach
When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-28 Trauma and Taking Refuge 53:35
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-06-28 Knowledge Of Equanimity Towards Formations 1:13:29
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-28 Your Body as Nature - Guided Meditation on Earth, Air, Fire, Water 43:30
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-28 Meditation Instructions on Intention 40:41
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-27 Conscient des intentions, des impacts et des inégalités sociales 62:27
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-27 Suffering, Faith and Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:14
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Still I Rise: An Insight Meditation Retreat for Communities of Color

2017-06-27 Instructions et pratique guidée 29:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-27 Dukkha & Refuge - Strain, Stress, Difficulty, Unreliability 48:54
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-27 Guarding the Sense Doors 18:36
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-27 Guided Meditation on Compassion 47:19
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 What Can I Control - What Can't I Control. 42:20
JoAnna Hardy
A way of looking at the four Nobel Truths and the eight fold path through a teen lens.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat

2017-06-26 Guided Meditation on Awareness of Emotions 33:42
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Dharma Leadership Training - Q & A 1:53:41
Steve Armstrong
Common Ground Meditation Center Dharma Leadership Training

2017-06-26 Crossing Over the Flood 27:07
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2017-06-26 Equanimity In Satipatthana Meditation 66:27
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definition, occurrence and contributing factors of equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-26 Guided Meditation on Metta Towards the Body 35:41
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Attention As a Sacrad Gift..Where Can Attention Find Refuge? 49:14
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Reflections on Mindful Eating. 13:33
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Instructions - Body-Mind Resting in Heart, Resting in Body, Resting as Earth 52:21
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Finding Refuge in the Truth 40:48
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Bigger Body Meditation 59:40
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes the previous 'Lineage & Offering' recording
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Lineage and Offering 10:27
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Healing the World by Understanding the Mind 1:11:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-06-25 Meditation Instructions (Retreat Day 1) 56:37
Anushka Fernandopulle
This recording also includes Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-24 Day 5: Guided Meditation - Lake of Loving Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:48
Diana Winston
This guided visualization meditation takes us to a lake filled with loving-kindness. It starts about 20 minutes into the recording.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-24 Equanimity Parami 53:26
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-24 Sila Parami 33:07
Shelly Graf
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-24 15 coscienza consapevolezza intuitiva nibbana bodhidhamma 1:38:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-24 14 reiki e tradizione tibetana bodhidhamma 16:50
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-24 13 guarigione bodhidhamma 34:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-24 Day 5: Guided Meditation - 3 Types of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:57
Diana Winston
In this instructional guided meditation we go from focused attention to choiceless awareness to natural awareness. Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-23 Day 4: Guided Metta: Circle of Benefactors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:14
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-23 Generosity Parami 38:13
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-23 Parami: Overview 27:51
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-23 Lecture 9 1:30:37
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 9 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-06-23 Trust in Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:25
Diana Winston
This talk explores different ways we experience awareness. Starting with focused attention to choiceless awareness to natural awareness, where we rest in the luminous qualities of our mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-23 12 gli insegnamenti nella vita quotidiana generosita gratitudine rinuncia bodhidhamma 62:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-23 Day 3 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thinking (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:56
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-22 Ways of Knowing 40:48
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-22 Discernment - 5th Key to Unlocking your Heart 7:26
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-22 Stability - 4th Key to Unlocking your Heart 11:54
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-22 Remembering/Observing - 3rd Key to Unlocking your Heart 7:22
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-22 Energy - 2nd Key to Unlocking your Heart 12:25
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-22 "How Liberating to See Clearly-- How Humbling to Still Get Caught." 64:00
James Baraz
In a moment our understanding of reality can change with new information or new perspective. Anger and ill will can be released and turn to compassion and forgiveness. And it's also true that old patterns can be activated once again in a surprising and humbling way. The process of waking up requires tremendous patience and a kind heart, especially towards ourselves.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-06-22 Trust - 1st Key to Unlocking your Heart 20:50
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-22 Questions and Answers 1:15:21
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Q&A related to wise attention, imperfections, self, purpose of labeling, latent defilements, "right perception" and breaking up of formations.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-22 Why are We Here? What are We Doing? And, What's Love Got to Do With It? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:06
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-22 11 visione occidentale del buddhismo bodhidhamma 1:12:58
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-22 The Dance of Courage and Compassion: Thursday Yoga & Meditation (Drop-in program at Spirit Rock) 2:24:31
Amana Brembry Johnson
Courage and compassion are two dancers, perfectly paired to support each other to the rhythm and melody of loving kindness. It is a fiercely courageous heart that can withstand the many hindrances that arise when opening the heart to tenderness and compassion in the face of adversity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-21 Day 2: Loving-Kindness for Self: Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:47
Diana Winston
Introduction to loving-kindness for self, three ways to practice it, Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-21 4th Noble Truth - Introduction to the Path 3:22
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-21 3rd Noble Truth - Dukkha-Free Zones 14:55
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-21 2nd Noble Truth - Craving 10:55
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-21 Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2 50:50
Tara Brach
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing failure or rejection. This is true collectively too. We have shared stories of bad “others” that fuel wars, shared stories of the value of continued growth in consumption and production that destroy our earth, shared stories of our human right to enslave and violate other animals. We have the capacity to bring the stories that separate and imprison us into the light of awareness, and with great compassion, loosen their grip. These two talks look at the ways fear-based stories create suffering, and how awakening from them reveals the freedom of our true, and universal, belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-21 Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence 23:59
Tara Brach
This guided meditation instruction includes: 1 – Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake, 2 – Further collecting the attention using a primary anchor or base, and 3 – Continuing to collect around an anchor or widening to rest in open, natural awareness – in presence with what is. Given as part of the morning guided meditation Instruction on the Spring 2017 IMCW Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-21 1st Noble Truth - Dukkha 31:57
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-21 Understanding Karma by Seeing the Mind 53:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-06-21 Perception in the Context of Satipatthana. 1:13:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definition, development and applications of perception.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-21 10 psicologia buddhista e originazione dipendente bodhidhamma 1:10:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-21 Day 2 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness Instruction: Working With Pain (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:35
Diana Winston
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness to work with pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-20 Lessons From Emptiness: Interdependence 48:24
Brian Lesage
This talk offers what we can learn for our daily lives when we use the lens of emptiness and interdependence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-20 Being Human Beings 33:15
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-06-20 Reflections on Why We Practice 40:53
Shelly Graf
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-20 Not Too Full 11:45
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-20 Mindfulness: Attitude, Attention and Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:54
Diana Winston
This introduction to mindfulness explores the elements that make mindfulness work: attitude, attention and intention. It includes many parenting examples!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-06-20 09 stati mentali salutari per la pratica bodhidhamma 56:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-20 09 Freeness in the World 44:40
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-19 Energy to Awaken 61:41
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-19 Monday Night Meditation 35:22
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-19 Appearance and Reality 64:13
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Distinguishing between concepts and reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-19 08 inquinanti mentali lavorare con la rabbia bodhidhamma 55:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2017

2017-06-19 Wisdom of Liberation 14:00
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-19 Wisdom: Right Attitude 16:02
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-19 Wisdom: Right Views 26:07
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-19 08 Meditation on all inclusive awareness 24:28
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-18 Dharma Practice as Play 58:06
Oren Jay Sofer
Spiritual practice can be a serious affair, yet having a sense of playful interest and joy is essential. This talk explores the parallels between formal meditation practice and play.
Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group

2017-06-18 Torments Released 36:51
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Awareness, Insight and Liberation

Creative Commons License