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Dharma Talks
2017-05-16 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 34:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-15 Walking the Path of Metta: How We Cultivate Love in our Life and Practice (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 57:06
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Dharma talk with Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-05-15 le 2e fondement de l’attention (et un peu du 1e) 1:25:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-15 Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:19
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-14 8FP -- Wise Concentration 2 15:13
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-05-14 8FP -- Wise Concentration 1 47:06
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-05-14 The Two Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:47
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How can we recognize and learn from relative and absolute reality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-14 Brahmaviharas: Mudita 49:39
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-13 Knowing That Fish Need Water 18:51
Dhammadīpā
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-13 Balancing 5 Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:52
Kamala Masters
How to be aware of 5 Spiritual Faculties and their balancing qualities
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-12 Working with Dysfunctional Strategies that Cause Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:56
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-12 How Practice Works 59:44
Lila Kate Wheeler
Ethics, Concentration and Wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation Through Non-Clinging – The Art of Letting Go: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-12 Lecture 4 1:33:20
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 4 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-05-11 Faith, Wisdom, and Prayer 42:19
Kim Allen
A talk on balancing faith and wisdom, in honor of Vesak
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-05-11 "Crazy Wisdom Meets Politics" 55:30
Wes Nisker
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-11 Mindful Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:52
Deborah Ratner Helzer
What does it mean to be mindful?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-11 Malaika Morning Instructions 8:28
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-10 Vesak Reflection 10:25
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-10 Vesak Reflection 16:03
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-10 Exploring Mindfulness 53:49
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-10 Closing Dhamma Talk 58:43
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-10 Morning Reflection: Joy and Contentment 8:04
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-09 Joy and Freedom 35:42
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-05-09 Bringing Our Practice to Our Current Crises: Training in Wisdom, Meditation, and Ethics (Santa Fe, NM) 69:01
Donald Rothberg
An overview of the importance and nature of engaged practice in our times, using the traditional Buddhist framework of training in wisdom, meditation, and ethics. We point to what such training means traditionally as well as to several aspects of each of these dimensions of engaged training.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2017-05-09 Dhamma Talk: Generosity 1:16:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-09 Four Noble Truths in the Light of Death (Class series at Spirit Rock) 48:49
Anna Douglas
Dharma talk from Year to Live series at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-09 Morning Reflection: Equanimity 63:54
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-08 The Beauty of Integrity, Monday night drop-in class at Spirit Rock 54:43
Oren Jay Sofer
Monday night drop-in class at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-08 Equanimity on the cushion and in the world. 1:12:18
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-08 Le 1e fondement de l’attention 1:28:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-08 Contingency Plans for Trouble Ahead--Generosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:35
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-08 Q&A on taking the practice home. 1:23:44
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Awareness of mental and physical phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-08 Morning Reflection: Faith 12:48
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-07 Wise Intention Arises Naturally from Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-07 End of Retreat Reflection 11:25
Ayya Santacitta
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-07 End of Retreat Reflection 13:11
Ayya Anandabodhi
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-07 Guided Meditation Instructions and Q&A 61:22
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and love working together.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Wisdom and Love Working Together 60:30
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Workshop - Meditation as an Act of Love 3:40:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
When we develop meditation as loving awareness, we cultivate a beautiful way of living that supports wisdom and balance. We pay attention well to what we love and we learn to be present with a warm, open gaze for whatever shows up. This kind, gentle awareness brings mindfulness and metta (lovingkindness) practice together as one. Join us to explore meditation as an act of love
Common Ground Meditation Center

2017-05-06 Dhamma Talk: Wise Concentration 1:12:23
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-06 Guided Metta Meditation - Oneself, Benefactor Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Difficult Person 65:27
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Liberating the Heart 37:58
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-06 Awareness Of Please And Pain 63:52
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Morning Reflection: Continuity of Practice 6:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-05 Seven Facets for Cultivating the Mind 34:27
Ayya Santacitta
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-05 Suffering and Its Causes 58:53
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The first and second noble truths: the three flavors of dukkha and the three varieties of craving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-05 Loving the Stranger - Talk 52:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle leads Friday night Metta Practice Group at Common Ground Meditation Center.
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
In collection: Loving the Stranger

2017-05-05 Loving the Stranger 1:23:43
Anushka Fernandopulle
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2017-05-05 Awareness as a Lifestyle (5 Spiritual Faculties) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:48
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-05 Lecture 3 1:24:47
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 3 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-05-05 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 58:49
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-05 The Five Hindrances ~ a Template for Waking Up 29:15
Ayya Santacitta
SBMG Retreat at Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Knowing the Mind 42:19
Ayya Anandabodhi
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Five Spiritual FAculties 63:03
Kamala Masters
Understanding the balancing factors of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Emptiness is Everything 65:46
James Baraz, Guy Armstrong
James introduces Guy Armstrong's dharma talk at IMCB.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-04 Suffering, Faith, and Refuge 60:46
Ruth King
This talk shares a personal journey of the dance between suffering and faith, and how the Bodhisattva path is cultivated by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-04 Vedanā, Sañña, and Power of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:02
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-04 Dhamma Talk: The Heart's Release 1:10:23
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-04 The Three Protections: Transforming White Fragility and other Delusions 62:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-04 Understanding Metta - Breaking Down Barriers with Kindness 52:06
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-04 Guided Loving Kindness Practice 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with dear friends and neutral beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion 32:42
Tara Brach
We are conditioned to avoid suffering - our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion. This short talk and meditation is a training in touching vulnerability, and discovering the boundless heartspace that can be a transformer of sorrows.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-04 Q and A May 2017 44:16
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-05-04 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body 47:07
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation SBMG Retreat at Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Morning Instructions: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 62:15
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-04 Guided Meditation Instructions - day two 64:39
Mark Nunberg
Including Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Morning Reflection: Brahmaviharas 14:53
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-03 Understanding The Path 59:09
Mark Nunberg
An introduction to the practice of mindful awareness and deepening experience of freedom that naturally unfolds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-03 Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part 2 63:55
Tara Brach
We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our experience. These two talks look at the emergence of the fear based “over-controller,” and explore a wise way of witnessing the suffering that comes with over-controlling, and awareness practices that naturally relax and awaken us to our whole and natural Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-03 The Living Dharma 53:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-03 The Vipallassas: Individual and Community-level Distortion of View 51:19
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-03 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 3 64:38
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-03 Metta Guided Meditation 52:35
Kamala Masters
Oneself / easy person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-03 Deepening Daily Life Practice 3--Further Foundational Practices 63:58
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the first two sessions in this series, we explore three foundational practices for deepening daily life practice, first (1) grounding in awareness of the body, and (2) taking challenges (internal and external) as practice. We then explore experientially (3) a practice of stabilizing in mindfulness and then carrying out an activity with as much awareness as possible, then returning to mindfulness, then bringing awareness to another activity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-03 Morning Instructions: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness 62:43
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-03 First Morning Instructions 63:54
Kamala Masters
Wise view of how to practice with awareness, followed by instructions, awareness of the six sense doors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-02 Let Our Hearts Not Forget 0:00
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-05-02 Impermanence 61:56
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Torments to be Known and Released (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:21
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-02 How Mindfulness Breaks the Spell of "I Am" 62:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-02 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 2 57:43
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-02 Forgiveness Practice 39:56
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat 9:44
Tara Brach
Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat (2017-05-02) - Topics include individualizing your meditation practice, working with the "tangles," forgiveness practice, and using the "nurturing" of RAIN.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation: Vedanas 4:56:44
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-02 Morning Reflection: Balanced Effort 10:37
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-01 Emptiness: A Practical Introduction for Meditators (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 62:55
Guy Armstrong
Emptiness, one of the most important concepts in Buddhism, refers to fundamental understandings of our human condition, deep spiritual insight, and the radical experience of liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-05-01 Mindfulness and Right View (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:12
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-01 Sila and the Lawfulness of Progress 53:28
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-01 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 1 60:23
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-01 Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart 36:04
Tara Brach
A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a classic three part reflection that can loosen and release the armoring around our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 AM Instruction and QA 11:48
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 AM Meditation and Instruction 29:09
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 Morning Instructions: Bringing Calm & Curiosity to the Exploration of Mind States & Emotions 60:09
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-04-30 Radical Compassion – Part 1 58:27
Tara Brach
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and others – what I call Radical Compassion – has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. This two-part talk explores the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guides us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential. A talk given on 4/30/2017 at the IMCW Spring Retreat
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-04-30 Dhamma Talk: Mindfulness Part 1 1:14:42
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-30 Can that be OK? Balancing Interest and Calm with Mindfulness 51:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-04-30 Devastation And Aliveness 40:09
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-30 Morning Reflection: Patience 9:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-29 Brief Reflection On The Relationship Of Dharma. With Q&A 60:16
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-29 Dhamma Talk: Samvega Spiritual Urgency 63:29
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

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