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Dharma 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

2013-11-29 Questions & Answers: Consciousness/Awareness, Citta/ Mano, Craving/Clinging, Time/Space, Mindfulness of Breathing 1:16:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-29 Wise Speech 57:09
Rebecca Bradshaw
The Buddha suggestions on speaking skillfully. Includes recommendations for emailing and texting.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-29 L'attention, dans tous ses états 52:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2013-11-29 Equanimity Reflection and Guided Meditation 57:45
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-29 Action and Presence: Integration Through the Heart 45:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-29 Morning 45:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-28 Dying into the Deathless 47:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-28 Gratitude, Joy & Humility 62:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
Thanksgiving reflections on wholesome qualities including gratitude, generosity, joy humility.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-11-28 From Grabbing to Integration: Fully Understanding the Four Nutriments 57:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-28 Following Breath Energy Through the Body 1:29:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-27 The Experience of Feeling 58:31
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-11-27 The Evolving of Generosity 1:26:21
Tara Brach
This talk explores how we can open out of the habit of grasping and deliberately nourish our natural capacity for generosity, for living love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-11-27 Relative and Ultimate Bodhicitta: Compassion and Emptiness 57:15
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of the causes, obstacles and mind states of compassion in our lives and in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-27 Dharma Talk 1:16:51
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-11-27 Everything Is Given 59:27
Pamela Weiss

2013-11-27 Impromptu Interview with Korean Bhikkhuni 61:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-11-27 Samatha Supports Insight: Integrating versus Disintegrating 6:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-27 Morning 38:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-26 The Joy and Preciousness of Change 59:21
Pat Coffey
Change is the fundamental law of nature. How one learns to skillfully be with unwanted change is the difference between a life of peace and a life of anguish. Mindfulness practice addresses this directly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

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