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Dharma Talks
2013-02-21 Four Truths To Live By 58:36
Thanissara
Buddha's journey to awakening. Entry into Buddha's insight through core teaching of the four Noble Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-21 Anicca: The River of Change 59:38
Heather Martin
Allowing the unreliability of it all to uncouple our grasping, while encouraging calm, kindness, gratitude and collectedness to keep us afloat...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-21 Brahma Vihara Practice 46:45
Kate Munding
Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-21 The Power of the Five Spiritual Faculties 57:21
Heather Sundberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-02-21 Morning Reflection: Agendas in Meditation 15:22
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-21 This Is Peaceful 37:03
Kittisaro
Sariputta's instruction "Turn you mind to the deathless". Relinquishment of acquisitions. Shurangama (durable) samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-21 Practicing with Thought 47:01
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-20 Délicatement retirer la poussière, enseignement et méditation guidée 56:58
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-02-20 Radical Reflection 57:31
Kittisaro
Profound insight arises from seeing impermance. Dispassion. Realization of Nibbana. Home territory
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-20 Caring for Self, Caring for Other 60:06
Matthew Daniell
Using the Sedhaka sutta as a guide mindfulness and loving kindness are explored as tools for making our practice inwardly nourishing, and deeply relational and sensitive to fullness of our life.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-02-20 Beyond the Interpreted World 1:20:51
Tara Brach
Hildegard of Bingen writes, "An interpreted world is not a Home." This talk explores the suffering that arises from believing in an interpreted reality, and the love, aliveness and freedom that becomes accessible as we challenge beliefs and awaken into living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-02-20 Insight Ripens Into Wisdom - The Blade & The Bell 56:56
Tempel Smith
Through calming and gather our hearts and minds, we open to deeper insights. Over time these insights mature in wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-20 The Joy of Training the Mind 54:35
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-20 Afternoon Brahma Vihara - Karuna 40:53
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-20 What Inspires Us 66:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-20 Three gateways to liberation and a message from Luang Poo Doon 13:51
Akincano Marc Weber
Luang Poo Doon's reframing of the 4 Noble Truths: "The mind that goes out in order to satisfy its moods is the Cause of Suffering (samudaya). The result that comes from the mind going out in order to satisfy its moods is Suffering (dukkha). The mind seeing the mind clearly is the Path leading to Cessation of Suffering (magga). The result of the mind seeing the mind clearly is the Cessation of Suffering (nirodha). Luang Poo Doon หลวงปู่ ตูลย์ (trnsl. A. Pasanno)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-20 Mindfulness Of Feeling 38:11
Thanissara
Investigation of feeling and mind states. Wise reflection, not creating more pain. Guided meditation on feeling.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-20 One Breath at a Time 55:03
Martine Batchelor
Exploring creative awareness and the building blocks of meditation: samatha and vipassana.
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-19 Vipassana: Investigation of "Dhammas" 53:51
Thanissara
Introduction to insight meditation. Working with difficulty and the development of wisdom. Seeing into the body - A sky burial.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-19 Unentangled Knowing 62:37
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-19 What Can I Give to the World Today? 41:27
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-02-19 Dependent Origination: Co-Dependent Arising (2) 63:07
Rodney Smith
As we move through the links of Dependent Origination, one of the key areas for exploration are the linkages of craving, clinging, and becoming. What starts out as a simple feeling of pleasantness suddenly erupts into a needy and tumultuous sense-of-self. Dependent Origination explains the causal factors and conditions that led to full addiction and the reaction that followed. D.O. shows us how we carry over the remembrance of previous encounters that sets us up for our current display. Once the present is colored with the past, we carry the momentum of the past into that current relationship. An object is no longer seen for what it is (always neutral) but for what it has become through memory. We then chase after our memory like a cat would chase his tail, believing that the object is the same as the memory.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-02-19 Brahma Vihara Practice 26:20
Sally Armstrong
Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-19 Morning Reflection: Sati infused. The Brahmavihāras for meditators 27:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-19 Making Our Practice Even 38:48
Kittisaro
Working with "orphans of consciousness" Guided breath/body meditation. Use of BUD-DHO mantra.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-19 Opening Talk for Meditation For Life 54:08
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Meditation for Life

2013-02-18 Inspired Leadership 64:03
Jack Kornfield
How Aung San Suu Kyi, Ram Das and Nainoa Thompson all embody the Dharma of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-18 Clear comprehension - Sati's friend. On sampajañña. 52:09
Akincano Marc Weber
A perspective from both the sutta and commentarial traditions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-18 Touching The World Lightly 50:24
Kittisaro
Use of imitation to go beyond imitation. The "terrorists" of the mind that rob well being. Samadhi: when the mind is composed, it sees things as they are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-18 Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2 60:29
James Baraz
Suffering itself can lead to genuine well-being and happiness when we know how to transform it. Other wholesome states: how to have metta for self and letting go into simply being are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-18 Questions & Answers 29:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-18 Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination - Week 6 64:29
Mark Nunberg
Aggregate of Suffering
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination

2013-02-18 Afternoon Bhrama Vihara Practice - Compassion 46:18
Guy Armstrong
Compassion practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-18 Morning Reflection - Orientation: attention and intention as factors of practice 45:19
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-18 Training For Times Of Intensity 28:51
Thanissara
Mindfulness: an evolutionary skill, moving out of destructive and addictive patterns, samadhi: being "here now"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Before you react... 51:30
Thanissara
Mindfulness - the gate keeper. When the passions hit the heart - A golden idol falls - Building capacity to enable wise response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Goodness as Liberating Motivation 55:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-17 The Power of Mindfulness - A Morning Introduction 2:57:42
Mark Coleman
This recording includes Dharma talks, Q&A, sitting practice, and walking meditation instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-17 Mindfulness - Pathway to One 42:50
Kittisaro
Introduction to mindfulness. Why Mindfulness? Supporting conditions for mindfulness. Walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-17 Textures of Love 18:02
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-17 Textures of Love - Q&A 25:24
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-16 Opening Talk: Introduction to Retreat and protection chants. 41:10
Thanissara
Using the retreat form to deepen "here and now" awakening. Paritta (protection and blessing) chants.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-02-16 Awakening of Faith 53:11
Max Erdstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Transforming the Mind 56:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-16 Afternoon Brahma Vihara -Metta for All Beings 30:50
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Morning Reflection: Patience 12:39
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-16 Morning Instructions 7:30
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-16 Unburdening the Mind Finding Peace 1:59:40
Anam Thubten
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-02-16 Letting go of an insane world 30:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-16 Letting go of an insane world - Q&A 13:22
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-02-15 Wisdom and Insight 56:39
Andrea Fella
An exploration of ways we experience wisdom and insight in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-15 The Dharma Dance 57:22
Heather Martin
Balancing on the many fine lines of practicing skillfully
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Finding Truth Through Truth 1:15:58
Chas DiCapua
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-15 Generous Presence 61:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-15 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions - All Sentient Beings 41:46
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Renunciation 50:59
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-15 Morning Instructions - Day 12 13:08
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection Day 5 15:01
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-15 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 5 14:07
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-14 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 2, Part B 60:15
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-14 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 2, Part A 46:09
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-14 Tasking Love Into The World 45:59
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how do we bring Metta (love) into the world and all the places that Metta is needed in our lives
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-02-14 Quenching the unquenchable thirst 55:52
Sally Armstrong
The 2nd Noble Truth tells us that the cause for our suffering is craving - the desire that holds on to or pushes away experience. Letting go brings ease and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-14 The Asavas: Avoiding and Removing 49:35
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-14 The Spring of Basic Goodness 41:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Winter 2013 Holy Spirit Retreat

2013-02-14 Morning Reflection: Continuity of Mindfulness 16:34
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-14 Morning Instructions Day 12 45:10
Guy Armstrong
"Choiceless Attention"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-14 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection Day 4 22:08
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-14 The Asavas: Enduring (brief reflection and reading) 11:29
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-13 L'équanimité et ce qui la cause 34:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-02-13 Méditation guidée sur l'équanimité 22:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-02-13 Dharma Talk 54:22
Andrea Fella
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-02-13 The Wings of a Liberating Presence 1:17:07
Tara Brach
No matter what is happening in our lives, if we relate to our experience with mindful recognition and an allowing presence, it becomes a portal to freedom. In this talk we explore how the cultivation of these wings of presence awakens us from the identification with an egoic self, and reveals the awareness and love that is our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-02-13 The Asavas: Restraining and Using 48:00
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-13 Conditioned and the Unconditioned 56:47
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-13 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice 33:47
Sally Armstrong
The Difficult Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-13 Practical Wisdom for Everyday Mindfulness 11:29
Kamala Masters
Sangha News February 2013 Interview
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2013-02-13 Concentration, loving kindness, and peace. 55:27
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-13 Morning Reflection: Mindfulness, voluntary & involuntary attention. 4 stages of focus 17:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-13 Morning Instructions, Day 10 24:29
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-13 Marcia Rose: Metta: The Heart’s Release 68:03
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-13 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection Day 3 17:07
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-13 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 3 25:34
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Essential Dharma, Part 2, Week 6, B 46:21
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 2

2013-02-12 Maps of cultivating the mind: Satipaṭṭhāna and 4 distinct phases of meditation 56:58
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-12 Contentment with Pleasure and Pain 56:23
Tempel Smith
The mental Factor of Vedana (pleasure, pain and neutrality) arises in every moment. Through the practice of Mindfulness we can separate our deep sense of contentment no matter the pleasure or pain aspect of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 The Asavas: Seeing and Developing 52:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-12 Brahma Viharas - Forgivness 46:25
James Baraz
Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 Morning Reflection: Body – object- and field-awareness; 3 dimensions of sensation. 19:44
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-12 Morning Instructions, Day 9 9:27
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflections Day 2 21:42
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 47:11
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 13:19
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-11 Seeing The Asavas 62:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
The Sabbasava Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya 2 (All the Taints), deals with the eradication of the three taints: desire for sensual pleasure, desire for being, and ignorance. The taints are defilements brought about and strengthened by unwise attention. The seven methods are: Seeing, Restraining, Using, Enduring, Avoiding, Removing and Developing. This talk begins a five part series on this sutta. It addresses Seeing.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-11 Living with heartfull presence 58:41
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how mindfulness and metta (love) work together – so we meet ourselves/others and life with wisdom, awareness, and love
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-02-11 Cultivating Wholesome States, Part 1 63:55
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that the cultivating of wholesome states (Kusala) creates conditions for awakening. This talk explores the importance of this cultivation, its place is Wise Effort and how to "maintain and increase" these states as he encouraged.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-11 Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination - Week 5 1:30:41
Mark Nunberg
Understanding the Cycling of Suffering
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination

2013-02-11 Morning Reflection: Breath – up close and personal. With 5 questions 21:13
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-11 Morning Instructions, Day 8 12:55
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-11 Greg Scharf: Walking The Path 58:02
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

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