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Dharma Talks
2016-07-05 4th Morning Qs and As, Recognizing and Working with Mental States 18:15
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-05 4th Morning Instructions: Supporting Awareness with Skillful Views 7:54
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Skillful Understanding of Dhamma and Insight 55:51
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Third Morning Qs and As 22:50
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-04 Third Morning Instructions: Working with Difficulties 11:17
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Sharing experiences with the precepts in daily life. Anushka Fernandopulle, JoAnna Harper, Bonnie Duran and Vance Pryor (trainee)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-03 Right Views and Working with Challenging Mental States 56:08
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Dependent Origination Understood in a Relational Context: Part I (of IV) 44:23
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community

2016-07-03 Second Day Afternoon Qs and As 59:12
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-03 Day 4: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 64:37
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-03 The Pure and Beautiful Mind 55:04
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-03 Why Meditate? 44:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-07-03 Day 4: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 50:38
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Encouraging Counsel: Commentary on Mahasi Sayadaw's Admonition 60:39
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-02 Day 3: Afternoon Instructions and Sitting Meditation 59:26
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 1: Intro & meditation 28:32
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 1: Intro talk and opening meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 2: walking meditation instructions 12:26
Ajahn Pasanno
Walking meditation instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 3: Q & A 1:12:50
Ajahn Pasanno
Q & A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety 62:00
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 4: talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-02 Day 3: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 51:08
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 First Day Instructions 10:51
Steve Armstrong
Primary and predominant object, relaxed body & mind, remember to observe & recognize
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-01 Day 2: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:25
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Three Refuges as Aspirations 54:03
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Awareness and Wisdom

2016-07-01 "I Have Your Back" 32:44
Jean Esther
Guided Compassion Practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat

2016-07-01 Day 2: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 53:01
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Bringing Equanimity to Experiences 1:11:28
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-01 Perception 1:19:44
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-07-01 Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 45:30
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-06-30 "Patience" 53:55
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-06-30 Kamma 64:58
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-29 Inner Ethics, Yoga on the Park 57:02
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation, Yoga on the Park 32:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-29 Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 1 1:15:16
Tara Brach
Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way of relating to stress determines our happiness, and invites listeners to engage with practices that radically shift our response to stress and bring a healing and freeing evolution of consciousness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-06-29 Silence and Fire 59:25
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Passion and Dispassion

2016-06-29 Anatta 66:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-29 Transforming the Judgmental Mind Part 5 - The Four Stages of Transformation (Part 2) 63:59
Donald Rothberg
After a review of what we've covered in past talks, we explore the four stages of transforming the judgmental mind, focusing more on the 2nd through 4th stages.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-28 Le bonheur et comment ne pas en faire l’expérience 48:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-28 Instructions et méditation guidée 28:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-28 Council Description and Practice 15:28
JoAnna Hardy
Brief description of council practice.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-27 Maha Nidana Sutta : Great Discourse on Causation Part 1 59:02
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaNidana Sutta in four parts.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-27 Going home with equanimity 58:27
Gina Sharpe
Developing the skill of equanimity in daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-27 Evening Talk: What Can I Control/ What Can't I Control 29:51
JoAnna Hardy
A secular talk on the wisdom of letting go that which we can't control (aging, death, others, etc.) and which we can through our words, actions and thoughts.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-27 Reflections on Dispassion 51:49
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Passion and Dispassion

2016-06-27 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 2 61:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity

2016-06-27 Hand gestures of the Buddha and the Dhamma lessons we can learn from them 1:20:04
Bhante Khippapanno
The earth touching hand gesture and the moment of great enlightenment. The turning of the wheel of Dhamma gesture and the Four Noble truths. More on the inside knowledge is of quote body and mind" and "cause and effect"
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-27 Heart Practic Day Two 29:41
Erin Treat
Kindness to self, kindness toward the land and receiving from the land.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-27 Dissolution of Formations 65:52
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-27 Morning Instruction 23:32
JoAnna Hardy
How stabilizing and collecting our mind helps us open up to our greater wisdom and seeing.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-26 Liberation through non-clinging 61:51
Joseph Goldstein
Impermanence and non-self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-26 The Love of Being Yourself: Reflections on LGBT Pride 62:25
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-06-26 The Power of Patience 43:32
Kamala Masters
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-06-26 Metta for a difficult person 48:11
Gina Sharpe
Metta based on wisdom develops the heart/mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-26 First day Heart Practice 23:42
JoAnna Hardy
Light intro into loving our own tender hearts.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-26 Equanimity 67:37
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-26 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Equanimity: Week 5 40:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-06-26 Morning instructions 58:44
DaRa Williams
Feeling Tone
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-26 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 10 33:53
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-25 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 9 48:42
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-25 The Three Characteristics of Teaching 51:15
Mark Coleman
How do the three characteristics of existence - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not self, apply to the teaching experience and how we hold that as a practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-25 First Evening Reflections 26:30
Erin Treat
An exploration of mindfulness and its capability to help us see clearly.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators

2016-06-25 Understanding Equanimity 67:07
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2016

2016-06-25 Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: Procesos Mentales 57:38
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-25 I Is a Movement 48:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The average person operates under the assumption they are a person having experiences. If we look more deeply, we recognize it’s just experience, and experience creates the sense of a person having experiences. The ‘I’ who does things is the movement of kamma. ‘Myself’ is the results of what I hold into – what I incline to becomes the fundamental quality of ‘me.’
Cittaviveka

2016-06-25 Meditación Guiada: Las Sensaciones 42:56
Andrea Castillo
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-25 Introduction to Insight Meditation 5:43:22
Howard Cohn
Imagine feeling at home wherever you are. Imagine feeling that your life is so complete - right here, right now - that you do not wish to be anywhere else. This daylong talk will provide the tools to experience this meditative presence wherever you are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-25 Morning instructions 58:23
Joseph Goldstein
Review of meditation instructions and working with thoughts and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-25 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 8 26:03
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-24 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 7 53:50
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-24 Courage: A Tribute to Sayadaw U Pandita 51:06
Diana Winston
This talk weaves together the theme of courage--in our practice and our lives--with stories about Ven. Sayadaw U Pandita who passed away in April, 2016. Diana shares personally about her complex and powerful experience as his student.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-24 Doubt and aversion 59:36
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding and working with these two hinderances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-24 The Seven Factors of Awakening 1:10:10
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2016

2016-06-24 Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: Sensaciones 46:33
Andrea Castillo
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-24 Lovingkindness: self and benefactor 48:28
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-24 The Contemplation of Impermanence 64:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-23 "Light brings out the darkness. Darkness brings out the light." 49:08
James Baraz
It seems that the interplay between ignorance and consciousness is an on-going dance--within ourselves, in our relationships and within our society. Understanding this dance can help us hold it all with greater equanimity. (At the time of the talk James was under the impression that the UK vote in process would have the country remain in the EU. As it turned out the vote ended up the other way.) This link below goes along with the theme for this week’s talk: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/broadway-stars-orlando-tribute-song_us_5768ea6de4b0fbbc8beb8b7b?sectio=
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-06-23 The Fourth Noble Truth- The path 54:38
Sally Armstrong
The fourth noble truth describes the whole path of practice from how we live our lives, develop our meditation practice and deepen wisdom.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-23 TheTeachings on Mana (Conceit) 51:27
Bonnie Duran
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2016

2016-06-23 Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: Estados Mentales 61:25
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-23 Conventional truth an ultimate truth 61:22
Bhante Khippapanno
Noting the intention is one of the ways to develop the insight knowledge of cause and effect. The importance of the wholeheartedness and devotion in Vipassana meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-23 Opening metta instructions 53:40
Joseph Goldstein
Working with self and benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-23 Metta: The Heart’s Release 1:11:47
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-23 Meditación Guiada: Los Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena 37:10
Andrea Castillo
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-23 Welcome home– breath and body meditation instructions 60:55
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-22 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 6 37:25
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-22 Reconnecting with our Lives - Healing from Dissociation 1:14:29
Tara Brach
Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natural for enduring certain situations, the ongoing habit of dissociation cuts us off from our full aliveness, creativity, and capacity for love. This talk explores the process by which we disconnect from our bodies and feelings - individually and collectively - and the practices that directly enable us to include the “unlived life" - the fear and shame, passion and loneliness - that we’ve pushed away. By including the raw energies we’ve been avoiding, we come home to a fullness that can embrace others and the whole of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-06-22 Patience 67:02
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2016

2016-06-22 Inner Disarmament 47:56
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-06-22 Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: El Cuerpo 50:59
Andrea Castillo
Insight Retreat Center :  Insight Retreat en Español

2016-06-22 Three Wholesome Roots: Wisdom 1:12:00
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-22 How Broken Heartedness Cultivates a Limitless Heart: Practicing Compassion 1:56:50
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-06-21 La conscience qui s’échappe et la conscience d’elle-même 52:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Instructions et méditations guidées 29:50
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Mindfulness: The Movement and the Practice 51:31
Diana Winston
This talk overviews the larger mindfulness movement--the science, the ways mindfulness has been incorporated into society, and the definitions. The second half explores the practical elements of mindfulness and how to practice it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-21 The Solstice and the Light of Awareness 40:33
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-06-21 Third Noble Truth & NIbbana 57:49
Guy Armstrong
Explores the relationship of the Third Noble Truth to Nibbana. Describes the traditional understanding of Nibbana in Theravada and the stages of enlightenment. Suggests some classical approaches on meditation practice.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-21 The Eightfold Path 55:21
Bonnie Duran
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2016

2016-06-21 The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life 45:38
Martin Aylward
This talk was given on the Summer solstice, and the teachings were held outside under the large Plane tree in the Gaia House gardens. Martin explores 3 facets of awareness practice, seeing how they can be applied in any moment, both within the formality of meditation and moment by moment in our wider lives. The 3 are Embodied Presence, Exploration and Inquiry, and Openness to the Nature of experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-21 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry - June 2016 64:42
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Day 2: Morning Instructions - Working with Pain (REVISED 7/7) Retreat at Spirit Rock 61:42
Diana Winston
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness to work with pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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