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Dharma Talks
2017-06-09 Maranasati: Dying and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Eugene Cash
Exploring what we think death is and it’s role and function as part of Buddhist meditation and realization. We examine the role of death in our conventional lives with the arising and passing of roles, worlds we’re involved with & times and stages of our life that pass. What happens as we normalize the dying process as part of the great letting go. How does letting go reveal the awakened heart?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-09 Lecture 7 1:24:56
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 7 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-06-08 The Wisdom of Nature Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:46
Mark Coleman
Nature is a perennial teacher. This talk explores the natural wisdom and insight that arises when we spend time outdoors with mindful awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation

2017-06-08 The Role Of Effort In The Contemplation Of Phenomena 68:20
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definitions of ardent effort. Wholesomeness and unwholesomeness. Ardent effort - Its application and development.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-07 The 4th Foundation of Mindfulness, Going from a Contracted Mind State to an Expansive One 1:30:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-07 In Such hard Times 62:35
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
An exploration of the challenges and possibilities we encounter as modern lay yogis trying to make progress and have impact outside of intensive retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-07 The Possibility of Freedom 34:33
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-06-07 Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness 16:58
Tara Brach
This guided practice establishes a kind, friendly attention with the image and felt sense of a smile, and evokes an embodied presence. We open to the awake awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing sounds and sensations; and then the awake awareness that experiences our own heart. We end with a lovingkindness prayer for ourself and the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-07 Happiness Is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 49:45
Tara Brach
There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find liberation, I would not teach about it.” In this two part talk, we will look at the conditioning that blocks happiness and two primary pathways of practice that evolve our consciousness and free our hearts. “We rarely pause when we see something that’s delicious or beautiful or that brings up wonder. We barely pause and just take it in. We really don’t pause much, which is really the essence of savoring…”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-07 Developing Observational Skills 64:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda
This talk teaches what to pay attention to.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-07 Compassion for Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:06
Kamala Masters
Contemplations on opening to the 1st Noble Truth
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-07 Committed Action, Non-Attachment to Outcome 2 (Drop-in Program at Spirit Rock) 67:39
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-06 Contracté ou décontracté 56:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Trois niveaux de compréhension 31:09
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Being Present: The Fundamentals (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:49
Grove Burnett
A practical discussion of the basics of the practice of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation

2017-06-06 Honouring Life 39:51
Helen Stephenson
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Instead of measuring our progress we engage in the practice with our entire being. This opens us up to the "light" that is in us and around us and we can experience a joy and connection with life that is beyond measure.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-06 Six Sense Door Equanimity Practice 45:44
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-06 Un esprit pré-conceptuel 61:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Wisdom of Aging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:49
Eugene Cash
What is it to age and how do we apply, learn and discover the dharma at this phase of life? We recognize the difficulties and joys of aging. Having lived a long life can bring a mature equanimity as the basis of our practice and life. Dharma points us to the simplicity of life and practice highlighted in Buddha’s instructions to Bahiya.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-05 Understanding the Four Foundations of Mindfulness from an Early Buddhist Perspective 51:42
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Dharma talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-05 Le coeur contracté décontracté 1:20:56
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-05 A Different Understanding Of Self 62:10
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses investigation of self and not self in our moment to moment experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-05 Change and Impermanence 59:26
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-05 Guided meditation on the insight dimension of Satipatthana - 4 Foundations of Mindfulness (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 38:28
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-05 Knowing how to observe objects. 64:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mindfulness and its different qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-04 The deep reassurance of the seven factors of awakening 60:42
Michele McDonald
Cultivating spiritual AIR investigation, courageous energy, joyful interest, and equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-04 Here I Am, What a Mess! 47:03
Helen Stephenson
The way we think, feel and experience on retreat is not different from the ways we approach our experience in daily life. Whatever shows up is met with kindness - nothing is excluded. Our difficulties then become the manure for our transformation.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-04 This is Being Known 1:27:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 5 -- Peace 15:07
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 4 -- Fearlessness 27:16
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 3 -- Why Challenging 19:15
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 2 -- Responses to Change 45:28
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 1 -- Intro and Guided Med 66:19
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Goodness, Presence & Wisdom - the Foundations of Happiness 52:57
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-03 The 3 Common Features of All Phenomena, Art & Science of Meditation retreat 64:16
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-03 Metta, Karuna, and Mudita in all directions 42:28
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-03 Three Qualities of the Heart that Awaken Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock 63:55
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 8: Equanimity with the Outcome 54:00
Oren Jay Sofer
Closing talk: Developing wisdom to find equanimity with the outcome/results of our decisions; includes guided equanimity practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 2: Opening Talk 34:30
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 1: Opening Reflection 17:14
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:14
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-02 Equanimity & Compassion, Guided meditation, Art & Science of Meditation retreat 32:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 The Present Moment: Come for the peace, stay for the war. 59:37
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
How to fulfill our practice when it feels like a war.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 Lecture 6 1:31:37
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 6 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-06-02 Taking The First Few Steps 1:18:59
Sayadaw Vivekananda
This talks focusses on: balanced practice, restraint of senses, slowing down, intensity of practice, obstacles and attitudes
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-02 Contraction & Expansion, Art & Science of Meditation Retreat 66:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Guided Appreciative Joy - Mudita. 43:55
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation on how to practice appreciative joy/gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 Second Morning Instructions, The Art and Science of Meditation retreat 57:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Detailed Meditation Instructions 53:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-02 Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:23
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-02 Finding Refuge and the Wise Heart in Challenging Times (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 6:39:51
Mark Coleman
In every era of human history, people have encountered social upheaval and struggles. From the perspective of the Dharma, what is our response? Buddhist teachings provide a sense of refuge amidst any circumstance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-02 Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:17
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Q and A - June 2017 42:38
Kim Allen
Monthly session with Q&A. Topics include planning/anxiety, Buddhist personality types, and responding to the stress and pain of world events.
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-01 Opening Talk 43:37
Sayadaw Vivekananda
As global relatives, samsara relatives and dhamma relatives - we are inspired by the Candana Sutta and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-01 Four Steps in Transforming the Judgmental Mind 1:10:14
Donald Rothberg
We explore one model of how we follow the trail of judgments, studying them closely, and eventually accessing their generation by (relatively) unconscious limiting beliefs. At a later point, the transformation of these limiting beliefs and the integration of such transformation in daily life become possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2017-06-01 Finding Our Steady and Graceful Heart. 59:51
Rebecca Bradshaw
An exploration of developing equanimity by engaging with grasping, aversion and feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-01 "The Dharma of True Friendship" 47:57
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-06-01 Parami: Resolve 45:57
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-01 Dhamma Talks 08 - Practicing with a Broken Heart 1:44:10
Ajahn Achalo
2017, exact date unknown
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2017-06-01 Turn Your Existence Into Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:39
Howard Cohn
Exploring the Buddha's path and understanding of happiness and the causes of happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Practical Tips on Opening Up to Suffering and Exploring Generosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:37
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:31
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-31 Intention and Mindfulness as the Basis for Awakening Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:51
James Baraz
Developing true well-being begins with the heartfelt intention and commitment to do so. Mindfulness is the basic tool that will help manifest that intention by weakening unwholesome states, cultivating wholesome ones and amplifying the latter when they arise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-31 Parami: Generosity 42:30
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-31 Nothing Missing in the Lost and Found 25:42
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-31 Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 1 50:36
Tara Brach
There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find liberation, I would not teach about it.” In this two part talk, we will look at the conditioning that blocks happiness and two primary pathways of practice that evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-31 Parami: Intro: Contingency Plans for the Trouble Ahead 26:19
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-31 Our Human Tangle 53:40
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-31 Internal and External Mindfulness 55:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-31 Radical Integrity (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:27:49
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-31 Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:12
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-30 Partie 2, 4e fondement de l’attention 56:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 69:54
Donald Rothberg
An overview of the nature of the judgmental mind, the distinction between judgment (in the sense of being "judgmental") and discernment, how the judgmental mind is transformed, and some of the tools and perspectives important in this process of transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2017-05-30 Meditation Mathematics 61:17
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
The incalculable nature, of the path of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-30 Going Against the Stream: Cultivating Wisdom, Compassion and Peace from the Inside Out 1:15:51
Martin Aylward
2500 years ago, Buddha taught meditation and inner inquiry as a revolutionary practice; Training the mind and freeing the heart to turn against the streams of greed, negativity and confusion that we see habitually affecting both our own inner lives, and driving the dominant forces of society. How can we genuinely explore and deeply understand how these currents and habits operate, so as to find an inner freedom and ease, and to make a wise and effective response to the world we live in?
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Going Against the Stream: Guided Meditation 34:59
Martin Aylward
2500 years ago, Buddha taught meditation and inner inquiry as a revolutionary practice; Training the mind and freeing the heart to turn against the streams of greed, negativity and confusion that we see habitually affecting both our own inner lives, and driving the dominant forces of society. How can we genuinely explore and deeply understand how these currents and habits operate, so as to find an inner freedom and ease, and to make a wise and effective response to the world we live in?
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Partie 1, 4e fondement de l’attention 29:47
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Cours du mardi midi 63:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-29 Teaching From The Metta Sutta - Part 1 55:38
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-29 Parami: Renunciation Part 2, By Training 24:37
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-29 D’un esprit affligé vers un esprit libéré 1:19:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-29 Parami: Renunciation: Part 1, By Choice 37:07
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-29 Paying Attention to What We Pay Attention To (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 63:32
Sally Armstrong
Sally Armstrong Monday Night Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-05-28 Bringing Dharma Into Interpersonal and Communal Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:12
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-28 Day 6 Metta Sit: (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Genetic-Temperature-Conditioned=Metta=Warm-up!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-28 Torments Part 2: Released 24:53
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-28 Torments Part 1: Revealed 32:30
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-28 Seeing Things as They are Through Vipassana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Nikki Mirghafori
When we see the nature of reality as impermanent, not inherently satisfying and impersonal, we don't take it all so personally. There can be more ease and freedom when we make peace with the way things are. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-28 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 47:51
Michele McDonald
How to practice Metta with an anchor, the easiest being or place where one can find - and with oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-28 Vesak talk 49:25
Ayya Tathaloka
Dhammadharini

2017-05-28 Day 6 Morning Instructions: SN: "The Lump of Foam" and the 5 aggregates as bubbles, etc. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
Includes Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:32
Brian Lesage
This talk explores some ways to navigate the feeling of unworthiness that can arise in our lives and in our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Day 5 Guided Metta: Radiating Metta for All, Including Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:39
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Rest and Courage 55:07
Michele McDonald
Connecting our attention to the truth: giving birth to insight nd wisdom nd the monarch butterfly.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-27 Wisdom: Right View: Wise Understanding 21:48
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-27 Wisdom: Right Thought: Intention & Attitude of Mind 38:24
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-27 Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:06
Brian Lesage
Compassion Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Perception as Conditioned and as Conditionee (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:52
Sayadaw U Jagara
Sanna (pere arise together with feeling (vedana) and is a "marker" of sign and a "recognition" of the mark (sign). It can be used to protect/develop and understand mind's dynamic. What is needed for a beginner = mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Compassion & Equanimity in Difficult Times, Daylong Retreat: Afternoon 66:35
Joseph Goldstein
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-27 Love and Emptiness 1:28:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
This is the afternoon guided meditation and talk by Ayya Anandabhodi from the monastic daylong program Entering the Heart of Practice with Ayya Santacitta and Isabelita Papa (Qigong)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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