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Dharma Talks
2015-04-20 Discomfort 57:49
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-04-20 Instructions - Great Questioning and Effortless Effort 34:27
Martine Batchelor
The two ways to look at doubt in meditation practice, questioning 'What is this?' while cultivating effortless effort.
Gaia House Son Retreat

2015-04-20 Meditation - Vipassana with Instruction 27:39
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-20 Morning Q and Response - Working with Trauma 13:11
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-19 Transformation through Awareness 56:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-04-19 The Four Vows in a Modern Context 45:18
Martine Batchelor
What does it means 'to save all beings', remove all obstacles and attain the way nowadays?
Gaia House Son Retreat

2015-04-19 Morning Reflection 7:41
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-19 Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (with instructions) 34:15
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-19 Instructions - Dwelling in the Breath 30:25
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2015-04-18 The Power of Loving Kindness (Introduction to Metta Practice) 2:00:15
Sharon Salzberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-18 Challenging Energies 57:29
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-18 Lovingkindness 21:02
Sharon Salzberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-18 Standing and Walking Meditation Instructions 10:36
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-18 Question/Response - Working with Pain and with Recurring Thoughts 9:05
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2015-04-17 The Path To An Open Heart 46:30
Winnie Nazarko
In loving-kindness practice, we learn to gradually extend goodwill to those we don't organically like. Insight (vipassana) practice follows a parallel progression, as we learn to include more of our "stuff" as meditation objects.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-04-17 Mindfulness Part 2 67:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-17 Morning Reflection 10:38
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-16 "The Heart Sutta" 51:08
Kate Munding
Talk on the Heart Sutta, which contains the Buddha’s teaching on not-self and relate it to our day to day existence.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-04-16 Morning Reflection 64:32
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-15 True Happiness - Realizing Well Being 1:15:02
Tara Brach
Well being is the deep contentment that arises from a relaxed, wakeful presence. This talk explores the beliefs and habits that contract us away form presence, and several key ways we can nourish our natural capacity for happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-04-15 The Practice of Impartial Kindness - Part 1 of 3 52:17
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-04-15 Guided meditation 28:53
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-04-14 Opening Talk 42:58
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-04-14 Guided meditation 36:36
Sally Armstrong
Australian Insight Meditation Network (MIMG)

2015-04-14 Relax a little bit 33:39
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-04-14 The practice of contentment 46:05
Caroline Jones
This talk points to some of the ways we can cultivate a contentment that is not reliant on sense pleasure.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-04-14 Mindfulness Part 1 1:29:58
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-14 Morning Reflection 64:12
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-13 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 6 62:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-04-13 Willingness to be in a zone of discomfort 45:21
Sally Armstrong
Australian Insight Meditation Network (MIMG)

2015-04-13 Samvega Spiritual Urgency 67:03
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage April 2015 Month Long Hermitage

2015-04-12 The Life of the Buddha: History and Myth 51:30
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-04-12 Ethical Conduct and Sexuality 58:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-04-12 Wisdom and Love 11:41
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-12 Factors of the Path 35:42
Gregory Kramer
1. Sati in groups of 3; 2. Right view; 3. Intention; 4. Effort; 5. Whole Life
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-12 The Neuroscience of Love 1:36:24
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-12 Three Bases of Insight Dialogue 39:28
Gregory Kramer
Contemplations on Meditative Qualities of the Mind, Wisdom, and Relationship.
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-11 Purifying Our Minds/Hearts in all aspects of practice 58:52
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-11 Craving and Becoming 26:36
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-11 The Three Hungers 27:08
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-11 Adjacency; skill in practice 22:03
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-11 Morning Q&A 24:05
Steve Armstrong
Layers Of delusion; Doubt and confusion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-10 Evening Reflection - Living a Good Life 6:26
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-10 Working With Thought 58:06
Winnie Nazarko
This talk reviews how "thought" fits into meditation practice. It also examines why it is skillful to learn to practice with thought, and not attempt to cut it off completely
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-04-10 Sensitivity/Tanha 54:52
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-09 Evening Reflection: Lifestyle Of Awareness 10:04
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-09 A Lifestyle Of Awareness 59:39
Steve Armstrong
Five spiritual faculties
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-09 Mutuality of Trust; Mutuality of respect 19:30
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-09 Roles 48:58
Gregory Kramer
Practice with the guidelines Speak the Truth and Listen Deeply by contemplating roles you were born into and roles you chose.
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-09 Morning Instructions: Recognizing the qualities of awareness 60:41
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-08 Awareness Imbued With Compassion 61:22
Carol Wilson
Describing how compassion is a natural and normal response of the pure mind to suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-08 Three Liberating Gifts - Part 3 - Looking in the Mirror 1:14:41
Tara Brach
This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-04-08 Introduction to Listen Deeply/Speak the Truth - Language 40:16
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-08 Taking Everything as Learning 2 60:14
Donald Rothberg
After a review of some of main themes related to taking everything as learning, we look especially at what qualities and practices support taking everything as learning. Including mindfulness, equanimity, confidence and faith, heart practices, setting intentions and using the imagination to stay open to possibilities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-04-08 Trust Emergence 43:04
Gregory Kramer
Trust Emergence 1. Impermanence A-B; 2. TE in nature; 3. Death A-B
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-08 Cours complet, mardi midi 62:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-04-07 Feeling Your Way into Life 38:50
Alexis Santos
The very suffering of our life can become a path to freedom. A birthday wish, the meaning of life, suffering and other reflections on the "way things are".
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-07 Refuge 39:31
Caroline Jones
An invitation to explore for ourselves what taking refuge means; and to take an honest look into what happens when we try to take refuge in things that can not offer any lasting security.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-04-07 Relax/ Accept/ Allow 25:42
Gregory Kramer
Guided: Relax 1. Body A-B; 2. Accept A-B; 3. Contentment; 4. Worry
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-07 Relax: body and mind 16:17
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-07 Guided Mindfulness Of Mind 63:41
Steve Armstrong
Working with kilesas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-06 Psychotherapy and Dharma 59:55
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-06 Days Reflections 5:58
Steve Armstrong
We spent our time wisely today
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-06 Greeting Visitors to The Mind 55:48
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-06 Karaniyamatthakusalena-Metta-Sutta (Chant) 3:21
Akincano Marc Weber
This talk also includes Jaya Karen Rudgard
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-06 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 5 1:29:25
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-04-06 Introduction to PAUSE: "Why are you here?" 13:53
Gregory Kramer
Introduction to PAUSE plus Contemplation "Why are you here?"
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-06 Intro to Retreat and Sila 31:22
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Insight Retreat Center) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-04-06 Generosity and Lineage - Take Home 23:57
Akincano Marc Weber
This talk also includes Jaya Karen Rudgard
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-05 Simplicity and Honesty of Awareness 56:16
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-05 Question and Answer Session 1:21:10
Akincano Marc Weber
This talk also includes Jaya Karen Rudgard
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-05 The Path of Least Resistance 1:25:38
with Mark Nunberg, Merra Young
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-04-05 Coming Back To Life, Part 4 31:56
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-05 Coming Back To Life, Part 3 23:21
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-05 Coming Back To Life, Part 2 62:01
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-05 Coming Back to Life, Part 1 30:31
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-05 Interactive Inquiry Series - Noble Eightfold Path 1:10:18
Amma Thanasanti
Interactive Inquiry sessions on The Noble Eightfold Path
Shakti Vihara

2015-04-05 Hindrances - How They Manifest (2) 27:44
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-05 "Mindfulness Of Mind" Instructions 60:12
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-04 Evening Reflection: Today We Spent Our Day Wisely 7:05
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-04 Hindrances - How They Manifest (eve talk) 66:50
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-04 Skillful views Of Dhamma, Meditation and Liberation 59:54
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-04 Satipatthana - Orientation - Breath - 5 Qualities (morning instructions) 39:56
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-04 The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. AM 1:30:14
Martin Aylward
Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them. Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious. Martin will lead us experientially into teachings on ‘emptiness’, ’suchness’ and the fluid, ephemeral nature of experience, pointing us towards an immediate and intimate understanding of these deep and important themes. We will learn together how to approach the deep nature of experience, and how the contemplation of these themes transforms us, bringing together the personal and impersonal aspects of Buddhist practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-04-04 The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. PM 1:28:12
Martin Aylward
Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them. Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious. Martin will lead us experientially into teachings on ‘emptiness’, ’suchness’ and the fluid, ephemeral nature of experience, pointing us towards an immediate and intimate understanding of these deep and important themes. We will learn together how to approach the deep nature of experience, and how the contemplation of these themes transforms us, bringing together the personal and impersonal aspects of Buddhist practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-04-03 On Thought - Strategies of Pacification (eve talk) 66:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-03 The Way Things Are: Uncovering the Deep Truths of Experience - Friday evening 1:31:50
Martin Aylward
Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them. Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious. Martin will lead us experientially into teachings on ‘emptiness’, ’suchness’ and the fluid, ephemeral nature of experience, pointing us towards an immediate and intimate understanding of these deep and important themes. We will learn together how to approach the deep nature of experience, and how the contemplation of these themes transforms us, bringing together the personal and impersonal aspects of Buddhist practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-04-03 Attention - Body (morning instruction) 32:28
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-02 Intro to Insight 44:18
Sally Armstrong
Week 4 Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Introduction to Insight Meditation Class Series - Spring 2015

2015-04-02 Healing Water of Compassion 59:38
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the central role of compassion in Dharma practice--how we cultivate it and what fruits it brings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-04-02 Intro - Retreat Attitude - Format - Gestures 26:26
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-02 Metta-Day 2 31:30
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-04-02 Instructional Sit- Day 2 42:01
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-04-01 The Buddha and Mara are Homies 49:12
Noah Levine
The 5 Hindrances and the path of mindful awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-04-01 Love and All That 44:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2015-04-01 Three Liberating Gifts: Part 2 - Inner Fire 1:16:34
Tara Brach
This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-04-01 Reflections On Being Human 60:43
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-04-01 An Appropriate Response: 4 Principles 53:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-04-01 Cours du mercredi soir 60:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-04-01 Waking Up 51:04
Pamela Weiss

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