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Dharma Talks
2015-04-01 Metta-Day 1 35:01
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-04-01 Taking Everything as Learning pt2 15:12
Donald Rothberg
As our practice matures, we increasingly intend, and have the capacity to take whatever arises in our lives as part of our practice. We explore what makes this intention hard to implement and what supports taking everything as part of a learning process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-04-01 Taking Everything as Learning pt 1 44:50
Donald Rothberg
As our practice matures, we increasingly intend, and have the capacity to take whatever arises in our lives as part of our practice. We explore what makes this intention hard to implement and what supports taking everything as part of a learning process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-04-01 Buddhism & 12 Steps class series 53:09
Walt Opie
Introduction & Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-01 Buddhism & 12 Steps class series 55:14
Walt Opie
Step 10 & 11
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-04-01 Instructional Sit--Day One 1:14:21
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-03-31 Cultivating Wise View 43:18
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-03-31 Les états d’esprit, cours du mardi soir 1:23:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-30 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 4 60:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-29 The Way 57:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-03-29 Listening to the Heart - Sun 2:46:34
Kittisaro, Thanissara
This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and practices of freedom while deepening support of ourselves within community. Besides drawing from classical teachings of Dharma and meditation, we will also focus on practices and teachings from Kuan Yin bodhisattva of deep wisdom and compassion, who is a metaphor for our true heart. There will be Dharma teachings, meditation practice, discussion, chanting, ceremony and cultivation of authentic inquiry.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Sensitivity and Openness 53:23
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Path of Insight Meditation

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 10 57:09
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 9 38:19
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 8 31:02
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 7 30:10
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 6 28:17
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 5 36:56
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 4 46:18
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 3 23:17
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 2 11:43
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Anapanasati - A Daylong for Experienced Students - Part 1 15:09
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-28 Listening to the Heart - Sat. PM 64:23
Kittisaro, Thanissara
This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and practices of freedom while deepening support of ourselves within community. Besides drawing from classical teachings of Dharma and meditation, we will also focus on practices and teachings from Kuan Yin bodhisattva of deep wisdom and compassion, who is a metaphor for our true heart. There will be Dharma teachings, meditation practice, discussion, chanting, ceremony and cultivation of authentic inquiry.
New York Insight Meditation Center Life, Death, Etc. ...All in a Year!

2015-03-28 Morning Instructions - last full day 45:17
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-28 Listening to the Heart - Sat. AM 2:25:28
Kittisaro, Thanissara
This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and practices of freedom while deepening support of ourselves within community. Besides drawing from classical teachings of Dharma and meditation, we will also focus on practices and teachings from Kuan Yin bodhisattva of deep wisdom and compassion, who is a metaphor for our true heart. There will be Dharma teachings, meditation practice, discussion, chanting, ceremony and cultivation of authentic inquiry.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-27 Practicing in All the Parts of Our Lives: "Let Your Practice and Life Be One" 59:03
Donald Rothberg
On this last evening of our monthlong retreat (two months for some), we explore how to bring our practice out in our daily lives in the world. We examine (1) the nature of the archetypal "return" in the spiritual journey; (2) the figure of the bodhisattva; and 3) some suggestions for foundational, intermediate, and advanced modes of daily life practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-27 The magic of awareness 1:23:03
Anam Thubten
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-03-27 Listening to the Heart: Evening Talk & Book Signing - Friday 1:27:11
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Join Kittisaro & Thanissara for the launch of their new book, "Listening to the Heart" for this Friday evening talk. The Buddha taught “Be a light unto yourself.” He also encouraged the development of spiritual friendship for mutual support along the path. Tonight we invite you to join us in friendship and celebration of the Dharma in our lives that ever guides us as we “Listen into the Heart.”
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-26 Metta Chant (call & response) 9:08
Winnie Nazarko
Metta chant using five traditional ways of describing "all beings." Done call and response style at the end of a one month practice period.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-26 Moving Like the Sweet Stream 53:51
John Travis
Stories of hope, fear and the Eightfold Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-26 "The Choice Is Ours" 59:17
James Baraz
The Buddha said that hatred never ceases by hatred, but only by love. How can we heal from interactions with others that have hurt us or closed our heart? Once we learn to hold what has happened in a wise way, the heart can open and transform the hurt into compassionate understanding.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-03-26 Living In The Light Of What we Know 53:09
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-26 Guided Meditation - Exploring the Four Satipatthanas 39:49
Bhikkhu Analayo
In what follows Bhikkhu Analayo explores the practice of the four Satipatthanas, based on combining understandings gained through academic and traditional modes of learning.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Attached Files:
  • Exploring the Four Satipatthanas by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2015-03-26 Morning Instructions 45:35
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-25 Buddhism & 12 Steps Weekly class series 47:07
Kevin Griffin
Step 6 & 7
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-25 Buddhism & 12 Steps Weekly class series 61:03
Kevin Griffin
Meditation & Intro talk - Week 5
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-25 How To Describe It? 38:17
Winnie Nazarko
How people coming to the end of a long meditation retreat describe their experience to others, and to themselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-25 Engaged Dharma in a World On Fire 60:41
Thanissara
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-25 Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 - Forgiveness 1:12:54
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

2015-03-25 An Appropriate Response - 4 Principles 35:47
Pamela Weiss

2015-03-25 Brahma Vihara Day 25 Equanimity 40:21
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-25 Morning Instructions Day 24: Working with the Sense of Self 3:27
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month 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

2015-03-24 Thinning the Self - Practicing with Anatta (Not-Self) 60:53
Donald Rothberg
After some reflections on some of the reasons why anatta (not-self) can be confusing, we explore especially how to practice with anatta: (1) opening to a sense of flow increasingly without a sense of self; (2) exploring the many ways in which there is a "thick" sense of self, both appearing in experience and sometimes hidden to immediate experience; (3) further meditative ways to "thin" the self; and (4) ways of thinning, especially as our practice deepens, the "meditative self."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-24 Shift Happens 40:08
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-03-24 Plaisir, déplaisir, cours du mardi midi 62:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-24 Communication, Cooperation and Respect 39:33
Helen Stephenson
By turning inward we meet our shadows that we so easily can see outside of us and around us. Only by meeting our own shadow with love we can create integration and better social worlds. Looking at the body we can see how each part is communication, cooperating with each other.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2015-03-24 Brahma Vihara Day 24 Equanimity 37:33
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-24 Morning Instructions 22:03
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-23 Integrating Insights and Other A-Ha Moments in the Practice 62:58
Heather Sundberg
This innovative talk describes the process and advanced practice of Integrating our Insights, including types of insight, what the mind does immediately after an insight, teasing apart the clinging & the natural impulse to integrate insight, how to test the insight, how to include & purify 'the clinging that remains', and learning to live the insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-23 Not Knowing 48:10
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2015-03-23 The Ground On Which We Stand 57:00
Christina Feldman
The creative tension of waking up
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-23 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 3 1:27:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-23 Brahma Vihara Day 23 Equanimity 41:09
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-23 Morning Instruction Day 22 2:02
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-22 Opening Talk 48:45
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-22 Cultivating the Heart of Inclusivity 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein
The talk includes the three most important phrases in the Metta Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-22 Understanding Detachment 37:46
Helen Stephenson
To practice detachment we have to understand the outward looking pleasure seeking and the inward looking nature of our mind. By moving into the body we can find joy and peace.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2015-03-22 Wise Speech 57:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-03-22 Brahma Vihara Day 22 Equanimity 21:06
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-22 Abiding in Emptiness 34:00
Jose Reissig
Dropping our self-centeredness is a requirement for becoming partners with the world. And true partnership requires also that we, eventually, dismantle our sense of inhabiting a separate life.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-22 Morning Instructions Day 21 2:12
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Presence and Understanding 53:40
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2015-03-21 Seven Factors of Awakening 38:39
John Martin
These seven treasures of the practice are to be known, cultivated and brought into balance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Brahma Vihara Day 21 Equanimity 38:07
Winnie Nazarko
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Seeing the World Afresh 21:50
Jose Reissig
Our practice is meant to capture the flow of the real. The practice of "choiceless awareness" is most helpful for that.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-20 From the Valley to the Mountain 64:25
John Travis
Using metaphors and imagery talk outlines Dependent Origination and Transcendental Dependent Arising.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-20 Being Dharma - Destined to Wake Up 61:14
Kittisaro
A gradual awakening with the "here and now" Dharma. "Suchness" Power of giving. Have you hugged your monsters today?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-20 The Compulsion to Compartmentalize 26:19
Jose Reissig
We tend to deal with the world by fragmenting it and stowing each fragment into a separate compartment of our mind. In so doing, we distance ourselves from the flow of life.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-20 Dwelling With The Divine 36:56
Thanissara
Guided meditation on loving benevolence. Integration of divine into human dimensions of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-19 Berkeley Community's Own New Green Committee 57:02
James Baraz
James along with Kerry Nelson, who is with Spirit Rock's Green Group and Sean Munding, from our community, are the speakers. Sean will be enthusiastically heading our Berkeley Community's own new Green Committee. We will be exploring using our practice to meaningfully address the issue of climate change.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-03-19 The Prototype Turning 37:00
Gregory Kramer
Turning point on the path, seeing patterns with clarity
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-19 Mindfulness, Great Mindfulness, Wisdom and Release 60:46
Heather Sundberg
In this talk Heather shares some of her personal connection with the Thai Forest Tradition, followed by offering a map of practice from the tradition. Sati (Mindfulness) - MahaSati (Pure Awareness) - SatiPanna (Mindfulness- Wisdom) - PannaVimudhi (Wisdom Leading to Release).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-19 Path of Transformation 60:36
Thanissara
Living from an authentic human heart through the journey of the shadow
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-19 Brahma Vihara Day 19 44:04
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-19 The Unobstructed Heart 40:26
Kittisaro
The inter-relationship of wisdom and compassion. How the power of kindness can melt the walls of the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-18 How Practice Creates Happiness 52:50
Winnie Nazarko
Buddhism describes conditioned experience as being dukkha (unsatisfying/suffering) in the First Noble Truth. Yet practice leads to happiness - how does this paradox resolve? This talk describes how happiness arises in/through the Eightfold Path of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-18 The Art and Study of Practice 1:17:25
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-18 Freedom from Fear-Based Beliefs 1:13:28
Tara Brach
This talk looks at how we get imprisoned in fear based, limiting beliefs. We then explore key meditative steps that help release these veils and reveal the fullness and goodness of our essential being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-03-18 Mindfulness of the breathing body 44:30
Gregory Kramer
Anapanasati 1. In silence, guided: Int, Ext, Both; 2. Internal�A-B-AB; 3. External--A-B-AB; 4, Int + Ext�B-A-AB; 5. Open awareness; 6. How was practice
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-18 An Integrated Awareness: Reflections on Taking Refuges and the Three Jewels 46:08
DaRa Williams
A further reflection on the three refuges and what it is to engage with taking refuge in a conscious present refuge - as practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-18 Brahma Vihara Day 18 Mudita 37:30
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-18 Development of Moral Courage 56:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-03-18 Becoming Nobody Part II 1:28:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-18 Orginal Mind - Guided meditation 38:38
Thanissara
Noticing peace, Nature of awareness, Knowing the patterns of self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-17 You Who are the Richest 33:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-03-17 Support for Waking Up in Daily Life 35:31
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-17 Cours du méditation du mardi soir 1:19:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-17 Equanimity 56:52
Donald Rothberg
With poems, stories, haikus, and teachings, we explore the nature of equanimity, how to practice to cultivate equanimity, and some of the challenges of in our development of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-17 Taste Of Peace 59:39
Kittisaro
Opening the Dharma Eye, radical reflection. Realization of Nibbana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-17 Brahma Vihara Day 17 Mudita 36:12
Winnie Nazarko
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-17 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, March 2015 1:11:06
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

2015-03-17 Cours du méditation du mardi midi 63:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-17 Opening To Reality 38:50
Kittisaro
Knowing Dukkha. Working the balance of calm and insight. Noticing change and peace
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-16 Staying in Your Seat 40:34
John Travis
One seat in the center of the room - the windows of the sense doors - the door of the mind. "Your only job is to stay in your seat." Ajahn Chah
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-16 Qualities of Practice 49:20
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-16 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 2 56:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-16 Establishment Of Right View. 57:07
Thanissara
This Practice is an Integrated Awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-16 Brahma Vihara Day 16 - Mudita 37:06
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-16 How To Deal With The Inner Critic 60:59
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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