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Dharma Talks
2013-12-21 Practice here and there. Practice Everywhere 65:09
Marcia Rose
Closing talk - A reflection of the many ways that life and practice in a retreat setting supports and protects life in a larger world outside of the retreat setting.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-21 The Pathos of the Human Condition 50:00
John Peacock
Gaia House Embodying Mindfulness

2013-12-21 Morning Instructions 41:36
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-21 The Light of the World 30:28
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-12-20 Awakening in Our Times 53:39
Amma Thanasanti
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-12-20 Christmas Talk re the Path 47:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2013-12-20 Sitting in the Center 46:33
John Travis
The talk begins with the stories and teachings of the Thai Forest meditation masters, and continues with personal stories and the teaching of 'taking the one seat'. How to work with hindrances, pleasant and unpleasant, and allow the knowing quality to shine forth; 'sitting in the center' of all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2013-12-20 Concentration and Liberation 60:10
Winnie Nazarko
A description of what makes concentration Wise concentration. How it fits into and supports vipassana practice. A description of the the two major methods of cultivating shamatha.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-20 Opening Talk 64:23
John Peacock
Gaia House Embodying Mindfulness

2013-12-19 The 7 Enlightenment Factors (retreat version) 63:53
Heather Sundberg
Using stories from the time of the Buddha to modern day, the talk takes us on a tour of the 7 factors: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity; in their ordinary and extraordinary aspects. The tour includes "side trips" to explore the 4 Noble Truths, the 4 Wise Efforts and many practical techniques.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2013-12-19 Working With Challenging Energies: A Fresh Perspective 65:46
Pat Coffey
The hindrances are not enemies to be pushed aside. Their deepest intention is to protect us...albeit in misguided ways. Attending and befriending these energies is the pathway to stronger concentration and internal healing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-19 Morning Instructions 43:03
Pat Coffey
These instructions accentuate relaxation and self compassion creating a sense of ease for the concentration practices
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-18 Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love 1:18:50
Tara Brach
This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence - in relating inwardly and in communicating with others - that awakens and frees our hearts. At end of talk - La Sarmiento shares "Holiday Dharma" as part of Solstice celebration.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-12-18 The Winter Solstice, the Dark and the Light and our Practice 62:13
Donald Rothberg
At the Winter Solstice, we can learn better to embrace the dark-in multiple ways, and to invite the light. Using poetry, stories and teachings, we explore how practicing with darkness and light can deepen and illuminate what Mary Oliver calls our one "wild, precious life."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2013-12-18 Wise Concentration 66:50
Marcia Rose
Exploring the purifying and beautiful current of concentration/Samatha...the teachings current of concentration/Samatha...the teachings and the practice. ...the basis, the process and the fruits of concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2013-12-18 What is Binding You? 38:09
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-12-17 Who is Skeptical? 47:20
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-12-17 Dependent Origination: Review 46:52
Rodney Smith
If we review where the exploration of Dependent Origination has brought us over the course of this series of talks, we will notice four perceptional shifts that Dependent Origination has encouraged. The first is that through Dependent Origination we perceive there are an infinite number of influences on every event and that existence itself arises from multiple factors, and therefore there is no separate existences. Everything is tied together through the web of relationship. But Dependent Origination moves it even further by its second perceptual shift in which it shows how the web of somethingness was generated by the mind from nothing. Out of nothing, form arises and becomes the world of connected relationships with "me" arising within it. The "how did that happen," is explained by Dependent Origination, as the links build upon themselves to reveal a world of appearances that have no inherent substance. The third perceptual change from Dependent Origination is a variation of the second in which the world arises directly from "my" projections. In essence the world does not have a fundamental existence of its own. It is dependent upon "me" and what I know, for it to be. The fourth shift is the acknowledgment of struggle that is inherent in the arising of form from formlessness. We are birthed from that struggle and ultimately must grow old and die because of it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-12-16 Two ways to Free the Mind... 62:08
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-12-16 NYI People of Color Sit with Gina Sharpe & Larry Yang 1:13:39
Gina Sharpe
This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center POC Sangha Evening

2013-12-15 Recognizing Unawareness 58:38
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally #2 The two truths: Futility and fullness 28:50
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- #1 Present moment awareness of endings and beginings 17:51
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 Natural Law 37:44
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- #5 - Feeding the hungry heart relaxes self-ing 68:42
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- #4 - Self in the brain, allocentric networks, opening into allness 1:26:00
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally- # 3 - Cultivation, craving, self-ing 1:47:55
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-15 Union of Wisdom and Compassion - Letting Love In 26:27
Amma Thanasanti
Retreat held in Santa Barbara, CA - December 2013
Shakti Vihara

2013-12-15 Union of Wisdom and Compassion - Who knows 27:31
Amma Thanasanti
Retreat held in Santa Barbara, CA - December 2013
Shakti Vihara

2013-12-14 Guided Gratitude Meditation 56:59
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holding Your Life with Kindness, Gratitude, and Contentment: A Weekend Retreat

2013-12-14 Eating Meditation Instructions 24:02
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holding Your Life with Kindness, Gratitude, and Contentment: A Weekend Retreat

2013-12-14 Morning Instructions - Day 4 17:44
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-14 Union of Wisdom and Compassion - Wisdom knowing body 31:39
Amma Thanasanti
Retreat held in Santa Barbara, CA - December 2013
Shakti Vihara

2013-12-13 Dharma & Recovery, Step 12, Part B 48:15
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-13 Dharma & Recovery, Step 12, A 1:10:43
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-13 Guided Meditaion 27:29
Pascal Auclair
Evening Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-13 Guided Metta Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
Evening Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-13 The Loss of Dignity Through Ownership 48:24
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-13 Closing Talk 64:41
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holding Your Life with Kindness, Gratitude, and Contentment: A Weekend Retreat

2013-12-12 Fourth Foundation 43:29
Rodney Smith
Fourth foundation shifts our paradigm into the formless
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2013-12-12 Morning Instructions - Day 2 41:44
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-11 Metta Guided Meditation 25:40
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-11 The Voice of Another 44:39
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-11 Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love 1:27:04
Tara Brach
This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence—in relating inwardly and in communicating with others—that awakens and frees our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-12-11 Engaged Disenchantment 61:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-12-11 Meeting the Moment for What It Is 45:17
Larry Yang
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-11 Ubuntu - A Tribute To Nelson Mandela 57:44
Pamela Weiss

2013-12-11 Touching Stillness 15:54
Sky Dawson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2013-12-11 The Anatomy of Ignorance 6 - Spiritual Ignorance and Insight into the Three Characteristics 62:26
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the theme of ignorance, we explore how we don't often see the deep nature of things - as impermanent, leading to suffering if grasped and empty of an independent self and how to practice to see deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-12-10 Integrating Your Life into Your Practice 38:46
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-12-10 Second And Third Foundation 48:20
Rodney Smith
How does the past form within the present and how do we form within the past?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2013-12-09 Stepping into the Heart of Petals and Blood, Talk, at Spirit Rock 59:23
Gavin Harrison
Stories, Dharma And Poems of Ecstasy, Awakening and Annihilation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-09 Stepping into the Heart of Petals and Blood, Daylong, at Spirit Rock 6:53:59
Gavin Harrison
Stories, Dharma And Poems of Ecstasy, Awakening and Annihilation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-12-08 The First foundation 48:25
Rodney Smith
The spiritual journey is the movement from form to formless, and the First foundation Of Mindfulness begins that process by questioning deeply what the body is.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2013-12-08 Mind Understanding Mind 60:02
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-08 Closing Talk - Loving Kindness for all Beings 58:55
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-08 Instructions - Forgiveness and Metta for the Difficult Person 42:52
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-08 Morning 46:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-07 The Heart of Lovingkindness 55:31
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-07 Closing: Taking Practice into the World - Part 2 53:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-07 Ryokan: The Human Face of Awakening 62:26
Eugene Cash
Celebrating the Zen poet Ryokan, his life and teaching: "What is the heart of this old monk like? A gentle wind beneath the vast sky."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intimate With All Things

2013-12-07 Karma und die Bedeutung einer heilsamen Dynamik 57:09
Renate Seifarth
Der Vortrag beleuchtet, was sich hinter dem Begriff Karma verbirgt, welche Komponenten einer Handlung über die Art des Karma entscheiden und inwiefern wir aufgrund von Karma unser Leben gestalten können. Weiterhin beleuchtet der Vortrag inwieweit Karma auch missverstanden werden und zu einer passiven Opferhaltung beitragen kann.
Buddha-Haus :  Vipassana Retreat

2013-12-07 Closing: Taking Practice into the World - Part 1 7:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-07 Sharing the Blessings of Our Practice 19:36
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-12-07 Guided Meditation - Lovingkindness for Ourselves and an Easy Person 28:42
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-07 Growing Up & Waking Up 31:56
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-12-07 Growing Up and Waking Up 31:20
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-12-07 Instructions - Lovingkindness for Ourselves 51:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-07 Wrap-up on Tuning In to the “Here”, Samatha, and Insight into Arising & Ceasing 27:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-07 Notes on Chi Gong Exercises 58:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-06 Opening Talk 1:16:48
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-12-06 "I Am Because We Are" 56:50
Pamela Weiss
Melting the separate sense of self reveals the web of human connectivity and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intimate With All Things

2013-12-06 Die fünf Greifhaufen oder wer bin ich? 44:53
Renate Seifarth
Über die fünf Khandha, ihre Aspekte, wie sie zusammen wirken und wie sich daraus die Illusion eines bestehenden Ichs ergibt. Durchschauen wir unsere Illusion, können wir die Fixierung lösen, finden wir innere Freiheit und existieren weiterhin als erkennbare Persönlichkeit.
Buddha-Haus :  Vipassana Retreat

2013-12-05 Surrendering to Life 46:55
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-12-05 Die fünf Hindernisse in der Praxis 55:17
Renate Seifarth
Wie Verlangen, Abneigung, Schlaffheit, Rastlosigkeit und skeptischer Zweifel uns von der Praxis abhalten können, woran wir sie erkennen und wie wir sie zu Werkzeugen auf unserem Weg machen können.
Buddha-Haus :  Vipassana Retreat

2013-12-05 Relational Field and The Four Immeasurables - Part 2 1:13:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-05 Relational Field and The Four Immeasurables - Part 1 16:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-05 Locating the Empathic Sense 35:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-05 Morning 51:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-04 Rest in the Knowing 60:07
Eugene Cash
The truth of human experience is the doorway to awakening. Awareness reveals what is know and unknown.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intimate With All Things

2013-12-04 Einführung in die Vipassana Meditation 46:58
Renate Seifarth
Buddha-Haus :  Vipassana Retreat

2013-12-04 Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence 32:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-04 Morning 44:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-03 Questions and Answers: Sankhara, Citta/Mano/Panna, Vitakka/Vicara, Empathy/Forgiveness, Becoming, Parami, Enlightenment Factors, Humor 67:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-03 Brilliant Selling of Samsara 41:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-12-03 Attending to the Felt Sense of Refuge 1:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-03 Morning 10:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-02 Cessation of Consciousness: Nirodha as ‘not running out’ 1:16:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-02 Morning 48:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence, Part 2 46:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Compassionate Service In the World 64:08
Spring Washam
How to live in the world with an open heart. How altruism and service leads to happiness for ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2013-12-01 Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence, Part 1 48:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Knowing Subjective Experience 56:47
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-01 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 57:58
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-12-01 Insight Meditation and Other Buddhist Traditions 60:27
Jenny Wilks
An outline of Insight Meditation in the context of basic Buddhist teachings, including some thoughts about what we can learn from the different emphases of some other traditions.
Gaia House Keeping Our Practice Alive

2013-12-01 Giving Space for the Enlightenment Factors Through Restraint 60:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Morning 2:52:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-30 Questions and Answers 62:54
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-30 The Great Divide 65:18
Pat Coffey
Healing separation is the heart of practice...internal and external.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-11-29 The Capacity to Feel 45:50
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

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