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Dharma Talks
2020-03-04 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 16: Working with Our Psychological Conditioning 3 62:28
Donald Rothberg
We begin by pointing to how combining traditional Buddhist training with transforming psychological and social conditioning and unresolved material suggests the contours of a contemporary path of awakening. We then identify some of the main areas of the contemporary “shadow,” of unconscious, unresolved conditioning and developmental wounds, such as anger, fear, death, shame, conflict, trauma, grief, sexuality, and so on. We then give a “map” of four stages in the transformation of the shadow (particularly in a meditative context), starting with finding ways to access the shadow, then learning to be with and explore the shadow, then transforming the shadow, and then integrating the shadow work with daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-28 The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) 63:48
Tara Brach
We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.” We look at the power of mindfulness and compassion to undo resistance, and open us to the loving presence that can handle whatever energies arise. This special talk was given at the 2019 IMCW 5-Day New Year’s Silent Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2019-11-16 We Are Here To Forgive 42:16
Ayya Medhanandi
Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go, setting them free? Living harmlessly, fearless in the good and devoted to this radical healing, the face of enlightenment appears in the trenches of our own suffering.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto :  SIMT Fall Monastic Retreat

2019-11-04 Geisteszustände und schwierige Emotionen als Objekt der Achtsamkeit 47:35
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha sagt, dass gewöhnlich der Geist dem Körper voran geht. Geisteszustände und Emotionen leiten uns zu bestimmten Handlungen. Wir wollen ihnen nicht länger blind folgen, sondern entscheiden können, welchen wir folgen und welchen nicht. Ein Gewahrsein ihrer ist dafür unerlässlich. Was kann uns hierbei helfen, dass sie uns nicht davonschwemmen?
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-09-19 Working with Difficult Emotions 60:18
Guy Armstrong
Describes ways to work with difficult emotions in general. Offers particular guidance on meditating with the states of desire, anger, self-judgment, grief, and fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-09-18 Practicing with Conflict 4 1:12:15
Donald Rothberg
In our fourth exploration of how to practice with conflict, we examine four practice resources, inviting listeners to keep in mind, as we explore the resources, a conflict (whether an inner conflict, an interpersonal conflict, or a larger social conflict); conflict is understood as a difference of, or tension between, positions or values or needs. The first resource is that of the tools of our inner practice: mindfulness practice, heart practices such as compassion, lovingkindness, and forgiveness, and ways to work with difficult emotions and thoughts such as anger, fear, sadness, frustration, the judgmental mind, etc. The second resource is that of the "win-win" or "both-and" model of conflict transformation, in which the aim is to move from an "either-or" or "win-lose" framework toward the "win-win" way of meeting the underlying values or needs of both sides; at times, we may need to move away from the "win-lose" framework through "avoidance" (time outs, cease-fires, etc.) or compromise, on the way, if possible, to "win-win." The third resource is that of empathy, taken as a practice central to working with conflicts of any kind. The fourth resource is that of working with attachments to fixed views that typically arise in conflict situations of any kind, especially through through mindfulness, inquiry, empathy, and heart practices.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-09-04 Befriending Irene 58:29
Tara Brach
While Tara is away, this talk is from 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit us with fury. Dorian is now leaving its destruction behind, just as we work with our stormy weather within. Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom–the mindfulness and compassion–that free you. This talk explores how the habit of being reactive causes us suffering and the ways these tools of meditation can be applied to the inner weather systems that most challenge us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-08-20 Emotions 50:52
Charles Genoud
Cet exposé décrit comment intégrer les émotions dans la méditation, comment réaliser qu'elles ne sont que des aspects de nous-même et non pas des corps étrangers à rejeter.
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti

2019-08-14 Repair What Feels Broken – The Hardest Walk of All 37:45
Ayya Medhanandi
The path is a gradual one. Don’t go to the depths immediately. First develop the strength. Going slowly but deeply. Forgiveness, supported by patience endurance, acknowledging and seeing the breakage and repairing it regularly, repairing what has been broken or harmed, and freeing ourselves from the prison of our anger. How can we creatively counter the current of our addictions instead of gratifying it. If we do, we tap into the joy of the heart.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-08-11 Masquerade of the Hindrances - A Blameless Life 26:25
Ayya Medhanandi
Clearly see the danger of the hindrances in the mind and stop killing goodness. The story of Angulimala's life reveals the power of moral rehabilitation to end our harmful ways and urgently revert to the path of goodness, wholeness and purification. There’s no one to blame for our suffering. Instead, as spiritual warriors, we reset our moral compass, cross the floods of existence, and live blamelessly.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-08-10 How To Cross the Flood - Seven Enlightenment Practices 37:34
Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha answers a deva who wants to know how to cross the flood of sensuality, the flood of existence, and all its dangers. Walk the Middle Way, he taught, not stopping and not over-struggling with obstacles. Use the seven enlightenment practices to train our minds so that we can make this dangerous and urgent crossing. No matter how long it takes, never give up.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-06-19 Q&A 2:07:10
Ajahn Achalo
Questions are précised. Q1 0:00 - Could you explain the meaning of mind? Q2 14:29 - When watching the breath, continuous attention is difficult due to the interference of thinking. How can we overcome this? Q3 28:14 - What are the basic techniques of meditation for a beginner Q4 39:12 - Before starting meditation should we practice yoga to train our mind? Q5 40:52 During breath awareness meditation, should we take the breath consciously, or see the natural process of breathing? Q6 42:00 Can you explain the process of metta meditation and how it helps to overcome anger, frustration and resentment. Q7: 46:00 What is mindfulness meditation? How is it practiced? Can we practice it while working in the office? Q8 52:36 I have acute pain in the knees and ankles when I sit. Are there any exercises that would help? Q9 56:12 When I meditate I usually feel sleepy. Why is this? Q10 1:00:19 When I meditate I see colours and lights, hear the sounds and feel fully aware of what is happening around me. What is this state? Q11 1:02:51 When I meditate my thought processes get very sharp, and more and more very good ideas seem to come into my mind. Hence, now I know I am fond of thinking rather than meditating. Please advise me. Q12 1:13:02 How can we shift from samatha to vipassana meditation? How long will it take a beginner to practice vipassana? Q13 1:20:50 How can we identify the improvements and development of mental states we've achieved as a result? Q14 1:26:50 During meditation I see a lot of incidents / situations mentally, which I have never experienced in day-to-day life. What is this? Q15 1:29:32 When I go to bed I usually try to pay attention to my breath. Is this good or will it negatively affect my sitting meditation? Q16 1:30:29 How long one should practice meditation to achieve samadhi? May I know a program or meditation schedule in order to achieve this state? Q 17 1:33:15 I joined a new company that meditates 15 minutes before work daily. Why I didn't get this opportunity before? Was it an effect of my kamma?
Colombo

2019-06-19 Intention and the Power of Thought 46:18
Shaila Catherine
How are we using our minds? Where do our thought incline? The Buddha's teachings focus on the practical application of intention and the power of thought, rather than ritual, as the potent force behind action. Working with thought, we see how habits and tendencies develop and form patterns known as kamma (karma). We must be honest with ourselves and see any conceit, agitation, anger, greed, or restlessness that might be lurking as tendencies of mind. We can learn to use our thought skillfully, and guard the mind with diligent mindfulness. Wholesome and unwholesome thoughts are explored. There is nothing to fear from wholesome thoughts such as intentions toward renunciation, letting go, loving kindness, compassion, and generosity, and yet a concentrated mind will bring deeper rest. The path of liberation and awakening includes the development of morality and virtue, and also calmness, concentration, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2019-05-29 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 3 52:57
Tara Brach
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-05-22 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 5: Opening to the Awakened Heart 57:02
Donald Rothberg
After a brief account of the ten parameters of transformation that we’re considering in this series, we look at one of them--the ordinary habitual “heart,” our emotions and our access (or not) to kindness and care. We examine many factors that block or limit the awakened heart of kindness and love, including greed, hatred, and delusion; several dimensions of social and historical conditioning; the split between mind, body, and emotions; unhealed wounds; emotions like fear and anger; and attachment to views. We point to some of the ways, including in meditation practice, to access the awakened heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-05-01 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 54:51
Tara Brach
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-22 The Face of Holiness 31:28
Ayya Medhanandi
Through the lens of Truth, mindful and attentive, we pierce anger, sorrow, fear and complacency. We are on the cusp of realizing who we are. Clear present awareness leads us inwards. We are on track to let go, relinquish and abandon all that is harmful. Discarding ancient beliefs one after another with microscopic insight, we empty out the rubbish from the mind. Radical awareness directly knows the impersonal, imperfect and empty nature of all that we experience. Now we see the face of holiness. Giving our hearts to truth, we are set free.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-17 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 1 51:52
Tara Brach
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-10 Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 2 49:22
Tara Brach
It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-03 Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 1 50:29
Tara Brach
It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-06 Brahma Vihara: Metta (Lovingkindness) 2: Metta Mandala Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:13
Heather Sundberg
This "Sacred Circle of Well Wishing" Guided Meditation includes visualization & somatic metta practice working with the main categories in Metta Practice - Self, Benefactor, Good Friend, Familiar Stranger, Difficult Person and All Beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-02-15 Morning Reflection: Excerpt from ‘Conversations with Nadia Boulanger’ French composer, conductor & teacher 5:58
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-01-31 Metta – An Inner Path to Peace 56:38
Ariya B. Baumann
Metta – An inner path to peace; some reflections on the drawbacks of anger and the benefits of patience
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 5th Annual Metta Retreat: 1st Session

2018-11-14 Friends, Enemies, and Strangers 48:51
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-11-02 The Dharma Lives in You 47:16
Erin Treat
Nurturing faith in awareness, removing the thorn from our hearts, the danger of deadening our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-08-01 Is there Love in Anger? 43:03
Nathan Glyde
With French Translation. Recorded in a tent in the rain. Exploring anger, and fear, in an attempt to find the love and benefit within them, and within us.
SanghaSeva Dharma Yatra 2018

2018-07-25 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life 21:52
Tara Brach
We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness, creativity and love our natural being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-12 A psychological take on bhāvanā: Four Dimensions of meditation practice. 67:01
Akincano Marc Weber
Sutta quote: Directed and Undirected Meditation (S 47.10 The Bhikkhuni’s quarter.) The four main aspects and their respective stuck places are described in psychological terms. A digression on the nature of dissociation, its uses and dangers and some of its telltale signs in meditators is offered.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-05-03 Disarming our Hearts: Letting go of Blame 63:29
Tara Brach
Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by releasing chronic blame can we free our hearts to truly give and receive love. This talk looks at the difference between healthy anger and the trance of blame, and through a set of reflections, teachings and stories, guides us in healing and freeing our hearts. (from the Spring 2018 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat – previously unpublished)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-04-26 Guided Metta: Those We Overlook 24:46
Oren Jay Sofer
A brief guided meditation on cultivating good will towards a "neutral" person or stranger.
Sacred Stream Center :  Mindful Communication: A Wise Speech Retreat

2018-03-04 Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:28
Brian Lesage
This talk shares reflections on how to navigate emotions such as Irritation, annoyance, and anger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-19 Anger/Hatred 26:35
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on navigating the anger and hatred that can arise in our lives.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-01-10 Adhesion & its Dangers, Dharma Talk 59:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-12-19 Feeling Emotions on the Meditative Path of Awakening 41:31
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine discusses the importance of developing mindfulness of emotions and mental states. Human beings have the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions—they may be subtle or intense, unwholesome or wholesome. Working with emotions requires energy and courage to be willing to face the raw fact that this mental state is present. We can become aware of, and work skillfully with, any emotional state including anger, hate, gratitude, fear, sadness, calmness, insecurity, contentment, grief, tranquility, lust, compassion, loneliness, jealousy, envy, restlessness, peacefulness, faith, love. Emotions are changing mental states that arise in conjunction with every perception. When we are mindful of emotions we drop the conceptual narrative of the story line and investigate how the mind operates. What conditions nourish each mental state, and what conditions cause them to end? How do these mental states affect the clarity of our perception? We can observe the dynamic interaction of emotions and the body, and learn to work with emotions in conjunction with their somatic manifestations. We might gather ideas for investigation by reviewing the detailed Abhidhamma categories of mental states and the factors that constitute each state, or we might simply observe the arising and ceasing of mental states in activity and our meditation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2017-12-09 Working with Hindrances in Meditation: A Guided Meditation Instruction 25:21
Shaila Catherine
This 25-minute guided meditation by Shaila Catherine explores ways of recognizing and working with the five classic hindrances that arise in meditation: sensual desire, anger, sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt. We observe how hindrances arise, and learn how to respond wisely to them.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2017-10-25 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting 53:22
Tara Brach
Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention to the unmet needs that underlie angry reactivity. When we learn how to pause and connect honestly with our inner experience, we are then able to respond to others from our full intelligence and heart. “Getting angry with another person is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned.” Buddha
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-23 Meeting Greed With Mindfulness and Wisdom. 64:33
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Through the practice of mindfulness and wisdom, we can begin to understand the gratification, danger and escape in case of sensual pleasure.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-14 Workshop: The Discipline and Freedom of Wise Speech 2:42:52
with Mark Nunberg, Wynn Fricke
The Buddha has much to say about wise speech as a cause for living with integrity and building wholesome community, and as a direct opening to what the Buddha calls the bliss of blamelessness. In this workshop we will look at the Buddha’s teachings on wise speech in terms of all the relationships we navigate in our lives. We will explore the radical question, what does speech look like when it is not being motivated by greed, anger or delusion? The Living the Practice Workshop Series is designed for people who have an ongoing mindfulness practice and want to integrate the practice more thoroughly into all aspects of life.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2017-09-07 "Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times" 52:12
James Baraz
The Buddha spoke of the power of non-harming as a support for inner peace and outward harmony. But how can we both commit to being peaceful while courageously and passionately standing up for what we feel is right and make a difference in the world? This talk includes some of the Buddha's words on peace and non-harming as well as two clips of Julia Butterfly Hill speaking about "Anger v. Love" and "Fierce Compassion".
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-09-03 "Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred" (Retreat Version) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:46
James Baraz
With so much greed and hatred and cruelty in our world, it is easy to react with anger and ill will; but that only adds to the negativity. There is a better way to respond and bring more consciousness to this situation leading to effective action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

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

2017-06-14 Understanding and Working with Anger 68:31
Chas DiCapua
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-22 On the Look Out 33:59
Ayya Medhanandi
Venerable Punna was one of the great bhikkhus of the Buddha’s time, known especially for his fierce faith, practice skill, and his fearlessness. When the Buddha hears that Punna plans to wander on foot in a remote and dangerous frontier region, he questions Punna how he would respond to the inevitable perils and violent ways of the native people of that place. Their dialogue reveals Venerable Punna’s remarkable courage, wisdom, and selflessness.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

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

2017-02-09 "Anger and Hate...but here comes Kwan Yin" 58:16
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-01-29 Practicing With Anger and Uncertainty 56:55
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-01-19 "Being a Sacred Warrior in These Tough Times" 49:13
James Baraz
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." As we enter a time of uncertainty and, many are experiencing a swirl of emotions from apprehension and fear to anger and ill. How can we use our dharma practice to acknowledge and transform our negative emotions into wise effective response coming from understanding and love?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-31 Q&A: A Pearl of Hatred and the Phantom of Perception 56:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on anger and revenge for past hurts; wholesome grieving; resistance to letting go of unskilful behaviours
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-21 Practicing Loving the Stranger 1:53:09
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-20 Redemption 30:51
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we be free of anger? To cross a river, walk over it. From a burning house, escape. So too, when your heart is on fire, stay present, forgiving and compassionate. Balance and cleanse the mind to stop it from spinning with fear, to see deeply, to heal. We direct the mind to what is great – the very source of unsurpassed joy arising as we awaken to the blessed Dhamma.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-18 Look Within and Wake Up 22:01
Ayya Medhanandi
What are we, and what are we doing on this planet? We easily get lost in the dream of the world. It is a very good time to wake up. Right here in your own heart is the greatest adventure possible. See the danger and look inwards into the centre of the storm for sanctuary. That is how we shall bring forth a wave of awakening in this world.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 68:50
Tara Brach
The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” - the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cynicism that is resisting and opposing life. In this talk we explore how to evolve our consciousness by bringing “yes” - clarity and loving acceptance - to the parts of our being we have been unwilling to feel. This loving “yes” reconnects us to our basic goodness and helps others do the same.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-10-17 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 5 1:28:22
Mark Nunberg
We have now completed half of our course examining our experience of sensuality. As we have begun to reflect on the limitation of sense experience we want to specifically look into the limitations of what we might consider wholesome experience. What danger, if any, is associated with wholesome experiences? At the end of MN 13, The Discourse on the Great Mass of Stress the Buddha uses the example of meditative peace as a sense experience with the allure of gratification, with drawbacks and with an escape. So if even the deepest states of meditative peace have drawbacks what about the pleasant wholesome states that our minds are still dependent on? Are these experiences a set up for disappointment, stress and suffering? What has our experience taught us? Let's notice the ephemeral quality of our wholesome moments. Are they stable enough to provide lasting satisfaction?
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality

2016-09-18 Working with difficult emotions. 62:07
Guy Armstrong
This talk describes how to find greater freedom in relation to the emotions that are usually the greatest source of suffering, desire, fear, sadness and anger
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 1

2016-08-12 Do Everything with a Mind That Lets Go 55:26
Kittisaro
Seeing states of mind turn rather than being turned by them. Skillful relationship with primary elements of experience. Insight into change. Danger of making others . The Buddhas conversation with the deva Sakka. The mark of I.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality

2016-07-16 Across the River of Pain 28:03
Ayya Medhanandi
We long to be free from this wandering, to go beyond all suffering. The body is our raft to cross from one side of the river of pain to the other. And there we leave the raft. But we don’t leave it until we cross, until we realize the Deathless – when no one ‘dies’ but we know the death of greed, of anger, of delusion. As we cross, we end the pain, grief, rage, vulnerability, fear – every form of distress. And where we were once inflamed by these troubles, they give way to the infinitudes of love and compassion.
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community

2016-07-07 Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts 4:55:25
with Angie Boissevain, Ayya Santussika, Drew Oman, Shaila Catherine
This series will explore virtue as the indispensable foundation of Buddhist practice. The series will emphasize the five training precepts, and explore action, ethics, kamma, and cause-effect dynamics. The precepts are not rules to be obediently followed; they serve as guidelines for the intentional development of compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom. These five precepts offer us a joyful method to cultivate the heart, nurture harmony in relationships, and free the mind from inner forces of greed and anger that if unrestrained may cause suffering to ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-06-13 Evening Q&A - Dealing with Anger (and Afflictive Energies) 47:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Beyond Time and Space

2016-06-09 Mindfulness with Breathing 1:13:48
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine gave the first talk in a four-week series titled "Cultivating Mindfulness." This talk focused on using the breath as the meditation object. When we observe our breath, our mind is free from unwholesome states, such as anger, greed, or doubt, because we are simply connecting with the very ordinary experience of breathing. We are not being pushed or pulled by desire or aversion. In fact, when we connect with the breath, we experience ease and happiness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Cultivating Mindfulness

2016-04-27 Evening Q&A 56:46
Ajahn Sucitto
The Subtle Body; Balance of Body and Elements; Stillness in Meditation; Anger; Resolving and Releasing Difficult Emotions; Releasing Kamma; Practicing while Listening to Dhamma
Padmasambhava Peace Institute :  Body, Heart and Mind: Embodying Citta

2016-03-31 "Sacred Activism Part. 3: Working with Anger and Frustration" often natural responses to news". 56:00
James Baraz
Hello Friends, I'll be continuing the series of Sacred Activism talks on how to bring our dharma practice to working skillfully with current events. We've explored compassionate action ("The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative") and humility ("We Don't Know What We Don't Know"). I hope you join us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-23 The World Was Not More Dangerous Today Than It Was Yesterday 1:44:42
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-01-08 Group B Interview 2 67:30
Ajahn Sucitto
1. On daily life: dealing with anger and hatred, and calming down. 2. On a balanced approach? 3. On overwhelming thoughts 4. On negativity towards others 5. On rapture 6. On being attracted to samsara. Renunciation? 7. Do I need to get more disenchanted? 8. On stress in spiritual friendship 9. Does the citta connect to other cittas? 10. What to do with the unknown? 11. Is the citta “the self”? 12. On “awareness” and “citta”.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand

2015-12-15 Working with Anger and Aversion 48:47
Caroline Jones
This talk offers some helpful perspectives and approaches to working with these mind states.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-11-22 Fictitious Noodles 21:21
Ayya Medhanandi
What are we doing on this planet? How do we cope with feelings of fear? Can we observe wisely and penetrate through the fictions of the mind? To abandon them, we must understand them. Ayyā Medhānandī coaches us to investigate emotions like fear and anger, viewing their characteristics as tiny fragments of physical sensation and learning how to refresh the mind in one instant. Then we touch the space of non-fear, serenity and joy within us. A talk given at Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community in 2015.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2015-11-18 Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom 53:36
Tara Brach
While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the capacity to pause, and instead deepen attention and connect to our natural wisdom and empathy. This talk looks at how we can directly engage in this evolutionary adaptation when we encounter trauma related conflict in our personal lives, and in a parallel way when groups of people who have been part of traumatizing conflict seek reconciliation and healing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-11-11 Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom 1:23:20
Tara Brach
Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get hijacked into emotional reactivity that creates suffering in our individual and collective lives? This talk explores the U-turn that enables us to offer a healing attention to the feelings and unmet needs under anger. Once present with our inner life, we are able to respond to those around us with wisdom, empathy and true strength.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-11-05 "On Anger" 62:50
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-04 Sustained by the Gladness of the Wholesome 28:28
James Baraz
Wise effort includes developing and maintaining and increasing wholesome states. When anger and outrage are the source of our action we’re headed towards burnout and despair. When we come from caring and love, our actions are not only energizing for us but magnetizing for others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-09-30 Practicing with Anger 64:39
Donald Rothberg
After looking at the multiple sources of confusion about anger for western Buddhist practitioners, we examine a number of perspectives and ways of practicing with anger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-14 Suffering and the End of Suffering 61:36
Mark Nunberg
Understanding the path from suffering to the release of greed, anger and delusion through the insights of the Four Nobel Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-24 Contentment 39:28
Jason Murphy
This talk was given as part of the series "Eight Great Thoughts" (Anguttara Nikaya 8:30). Can we be at ease with whatever the situation is, whether it is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral? In this day and age of discontentment, effort put into this practice gives us hope of realizing contentment. We can realize contentment one breath at a time. We have the power to shape our minds. We have the ability to feel and know suffering and be liberated from it. And it is up to us to do the practice, for one who is content is free from greed, anger and delusion.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Eight Great Thoughts

2015-03-05 Metta for the familiar stranger (neutral person) 34:47
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2014-11-05 Working with Anger and Other Difficult Emotions 47:30
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-10-25 Gratification, Danger and Escape 55:20
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Seminario Vescovile Di Bedonia) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2014-09-18 The Contagion of Goodness 51:02
James Baraz
Just like anger and fear are contagious so is goodness. In fact, that is our true nature and there's a place in us that longs to come home to it. We just have to tune into all the goodness around us to remember.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-08-19 Mindfulness in Close Relationships 41:37
Matthew Brensilver
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." A real place for us to check our practice is in our relationships. After all, we are deeply relational beings. Sometimes, our deepest grooves in our minds are only stimulated in relationships. Defilements and habits of mind, such as greed, anger, and delusion, arise in ways that they don't in other situations. In other words, forces of suffering that are latent in other situations can arise in the context of close relationships. Fortunately, this is actually not bad news. Rather, it offers us opportunity to practice, to see ourselves more clearly, to become more free, and to see how we can untangle the love from clinging.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-08-13 The Dhamma of Snow 26:04
Ayya Medhanandi
In the grip of painful feelings such as fear, anger, grief, or despair, we are in danger of allowing these to subdue the mind. Discernment and clear awareness help us to see through our pain to the ending of pain – not only for ourselves, but for all beings. We ascend the highest Everest of the spiritual realm. That might seem impossible from where we sit now. But if we trust this process, just like the sudden vanishing of winter snow, we realize a transcendent interior melting of all sorrow.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  2014 Chapin Mill Retreat

2014-08-11 I Give You My Bread 24:26
Ayya Medhanandi
There is no final cure for the body, but the mind can be freed. No matter how much craving, anger, sorrow, fear or obsessive negative thoughts keep storming the mind, don’t let discouragement become another hindrance. Every new moment is a chance to see these hindrances for what they are with pure awareness itself. Patient, courageous and wise, we are ready to receive the gift of ‘bread’ and to win back the boundaries of our hearts.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-07-16 Practicing with Challenges 2 - Practicing with Difficult Thoughts and Emotions. 64:19
Donald Rothberg
After a review of understanding our practice most generally and deeply as developing responsiveness, we examine how to practice with thoughts and emotions, including difficult ones such as those connected with the judgmental mind and anger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-07-09 Forgiveness: Freeing the Heart of Anger 54:02
Rebecca Bradshaw
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2014-07-01 Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living 7:06:03
with Andrea Fella, David Cohn, Jason Murphy, Margaret Gainer, Matthew Brensilver, Misha Merrill, Robert Cusick, Shaila Catherine, Sharon Allen, Tony Bernhard
This series of talks provides insight and practical advice as to how to take the wonderful and serene mind that we develop during our meditation practice into our daily lives, into our relationships with others. Sometimes, the deepest grooves in our minds are only stimulated in our relationships to others. Defilements and habits of the mind, such as greed, anger and delusion, arise in ways that they don't in other situations. Fortunately, these daily life encounters offer us opportunities to practice, to see ourselves more clearly, and to become more free. This is the liberating power of awareness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-06-23 Working with Anger 52:51
Matthew Brensilver
Developing skill and open-heartedness in the midst of intense feeling.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-06-22 Meeting Anger and Hatred 48:06
Martin Aylward
Martin explores different personality styles of resistance and rejection, the ways anger functions and the importance of letting ourselves feel negative emotions as a way of freeing them up and letting go of our personal hard luck story. He also explores the way practice can transform anger into fearlessness as an important force against injustice, oppression and inequality.
Gaia House Intimacy and Infinity

2014-06-21 The Hungers 30:33
Gregory Kramer
Gratification and danger of three hungers
Insight Dialogue Community (Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2014-05-07 The Heavenly Messanger of Death 47:57
Molly Swan
True North Insight Aging, Sickness and Death

2014-05-05 The Heavenly Messanger of Illness 48:27
Molly Swan
True North Insight Aging, Sickness and Death

2014-05-03 The Heavenly Messangers 41:06
Molly Swan
True North Insight Aging, Sickness and Death

2014-04-21 Dana: The Actions of a Caring Heart 52:50
Tempel Smith
As we free our hearts from contraction, fear, anger and selfishness, we receive the world with a tender heart. This tender heart cares for others and from this, generous actions flow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-18 Purifying the Mind with Metta 51:49
Tempel Smith
As we turn deeply into practice we can let go and move through old habits of anger, fear, and insecurity into our original purity of kindness and clarity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Metta & Qigong Retreat

2014-02-26 Part 3: A Forgiving Heart 1:21:23
Tara Brach
Anger is an intelligent emotion, a natural part of our evolutionary design that lets us know when we are endangered or impeded in our progress. But when it locks into ongoing resentment and blame, our heart becomes armored and we lose access to a wholeness of being. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing our armoring and awakening a healing compassion for ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-11-21 Climate Change, Capitalism, and Buddhadharma 57:26
Joanna Macy
An impassioned talk that includes a little known story from the suttas about the dangers of and suffering caused by the notion of private property. During the talk, winds of 45 mph buffeted the monastery, emergency sirens sounded in the distance, and three power outages occurred. Ends with a lively discussion with the sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-10-21 Working with Anger 53:58
Norman Fischer
How to practice mindfulness & use practice slogans specifically to work with anger...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-10-18 Anger 101 66:16
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Through mindfulness practice, we can cast off the traces of anger and turn it into opportunities for experiencing inner peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-01 Investigating Aversion and Anger 38:15
Shaila Catherine
This recording begins with approximately 20 minutes of teachings on anger, followed by a little less than 20 minutes of a guided meditative reflection. The talk examines the force of aversion, anger, hatred, and hostility as manifestations of what in Pali are called dose-rooted states. Rather than criticize and judge ourselves when anger arises, we extract ourselves from the story of anger, and practice seeing it as an experience of suffering—as dukkha. Anger does not happen to us; we actively engage in the process. Therefore, through clear seeing and wise inquiry, we can change the conditions that perpetuate anger in our lives. Often anger arises when there is unwise attention to an unpleasant sensory or mental contact. We can learn to work mindfully with these deeply conditioned tendencies and feeling how it manifests in the body, become aware of the feeling tone (vedana), recognize the mental state, and discern how it functions—its origin, cessation, and way leading to its cessation. The primary antidote is mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2013-09-18 Spiritual Urgency – Samvega 58:53
Marcia Rose
What brings us to spiritual practice? What has moved, inspired and urged you to find a clear and wholesome ‘other way’ than feeling overrun with old reactive habit patterns of sadness, fear, attachment, anger, and confusion.? Samvega is the movement of the heart/an inner response towards an urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-09-13 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive Emotions 1:10:18
Marcia Rose
Exploring a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience...fear, anger, unwholesome desire and attachment; also exploring some of the ways the Buddha encourages us to work with them in our practice, in the light of purification and the liberation of the mind and heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-09-06 Samvega - Spiritual Urgency 58:44
Marcia Rose
What brings us to spiritual practice? What has moved, inspired and urged you to find a clear and wholesome "other way" than feeling overrun with old reactive habit patterns of sadness, fear, attachment, anger and confusion? Samvega is the movement of the heart - an inner response towards an urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken!
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-06 The True Strength of the Heart and the Transforming of Shame 56:52
Leela Sarti
All central issues of our life are located in the heart. Having explored the heart-capacities of compassion and joy in the previous evening's talk, this talk turns to another facet of heart-presence: true strength and life zest - to be turned on to be in life, turned on to the truth. How does distorted strength, expressed as inner hardness and anger, and the flip side of strength, weakness and helplessness, relate to authentic strength? How can we harness and and make alive the lions roar of the heart? One particular area where we need some courage and guts is in the exploration and work with shame, guilt and self-judgement. What do you feel guilty about? What is unforgivable in your life? What does guilt and shame do to you, and what is a wise and skillful approach to deal with this "inner swamp-land"? How can we make our heart and mind a good place to live, free from shame and self-harm?
Gaia House The Liberating Intimacy of Being Who You Are

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