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Dharma Talks
2012-12-28 Lovingkindness - Instruction and Meditation 33:46
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 No blame/breath - Guided Meditation 29:25
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Metta and body - Guided Meditation 43:41
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Body scan - Guided Meditation 34:17
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Instruction: Walking Practice 7:46
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Instruction/Question/Response 11:09
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Morning Instruction in Meditation 29:48
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Being With What Is 12:10
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2012-12-28 Reflections on Joy and Happiness 52:25
Chris Cullen
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-27 Past, Present and Future. 54:44
James Baraz
As 2012 comes to a close, this is a time to reflect on the lessons from the past year, where you are now and what your vision is of the New Year.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-27 Factors of Awakening -- Mindfulness 61:36
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2012-12-27 Year End Retreat: Throw Nothing from Your Heart 40:21
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-27 Introduction to Meditation Refuges & Precepts 42:33
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-27 Opening Talk for New Year Retreat 35:47
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Chris Cullen, Jenny Wilks, and Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-26 Balance as Refuge 55:56
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth - pt 2 2:32
Donald Rothberg
This is a short wrap up of this talk. A few minutes between parts 1 and 2 were missed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth 50:13
Donald Rothberg
We review the Four Foundations with continued emphasis on the Fourth, including attention to a number of practical situations. Pt 1 of 2. *There are a few minutes missed between pt 1 and 2. Part 2 is the wrap up of the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-22 Practice Here And There - Practice Everywhere 67:59
Marcia Rose
Exploring what we learned in this retreat and how it translates as good support and protection in out lives in the larger world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 Practice Instructions 41:01
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 What's With All This Meditation Then? 48:30
Paul Burrows
Gaia House Insight Meditation: A Path of Freedom

2012-12-21 Dissolving Storyline 51:47
John Travis
In usual fashion, one of John's poems followed a teaching on dissolving the four types of mental fixations and opening to the radiant mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-21 The Buddha's Way to Happiness - Interview 4:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-12-21 Challenging Energies: How To Attend and Befriend 42:48
Pat Coffey
In practice we are often beset by challenging energies. Cultivating a skillful relationship to them is key to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 A Time For Healing 51:58
James Baraz
Dealing with the tragedy of Newtown, Conn.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-20 Metta - The Heart's Release 1:14:58
Marcia Rose
There is tremendous fullness of energy constituted by great confidence, strength and very clear straight forwardness that comes from a loving heart... that comes from the heart of Metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 Christmas Talk re the Path 47:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-12-20 The Five Aggregates of Self. Mindfulness, meditation and compassion practices to open up to no-self. 59:06
Heather Sundberg
Talk explores many doorways of investigating the te4achings on self and no-self including developing a healthy sense of self. the four S's of self 1. simple sense of self 2. solid sense of self 3. self-interested sense of self 4. social sense of self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-20 Guided Concentration/Samatha Sit 43:12
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Samadhi: Gateway to Freedom 62:43
Pat Coffey
The cultivation of samadhi is more than just focusing the mind. The tranquility of deep samadhi is the foundation for insight and awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Turning Toward the Light 1:12:34
Tara Brach
This solstice talk explores how, in the face of darkness - unconsciousness, ignorance, violence - we can call on the light that is within us. The two pathways are to courageously look directly into the places of suffering, and to include in our gaze, the intrinsic goodness in all beings, in life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-12-19 Entering the Dark, Entering the Light 58:55
Donald Rothberg
In the context of the winter solstice, we explore how to open up to different aspects of darkness (stopping and stillness, not knowing and mystery, difficulty and creativity) and how we, in doing so, open to light.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-19 Healing the Mind 56:28
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-19 Morning Meditation Instructions 48:26
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Sitting and Walking Instructions 20:03
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Meditation Instructions: Tranquility 5:56
Pat Coffey
Emphasis in instructions is the cultivation of ease, relaxation and tranquility. Note: power failure interrupted recording
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-18 Opening Talk - Welcome 1:16:47
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-18 Troisième caractérisque libératrice 1:10:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2012-12-18 The Divine Abodes - Week 4 - Equanimity (Upekkha) as a Beautiful Emotion 1:29:03
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-17 Winter Solstice; Transforming Darkness 1:15:50
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-16 Doubt 41:03
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-12-16 Determination 35:34
Donald Rothberg
We look at both a "deep" determination and various ways to practice moment to moment determination, pointing to examples from the Civil Rights movement and Aung San Suu Kyi. We also explore the difference between skillful and unskillful determination.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-16 Healing and processing the Connecticut Tragedy - Discussion 28:57
Amma Thanasanti
A guided meditation on healing and processing the tragedy that happened with the shooting in Connecticut, with a discussion after
Shakti Vihara

2012-12-16 Healing and processing the Connecticut Tragedy - Guided Meditation 13:21
Amma Thanasanti
A guided meditation on healing and processing the tragedy that happened with the shooting in Connecticut, with a discussion after
Shakti Vihara

2012-12-16 Reflections on Compassion and Guided Metta Meditation 50:54
Kirsten Kratz
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-15 Practicing in the Midst of Activity 61:56
Gina Sharpe
Practice in daily life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-15 Reflections on Loving Kindness 28:54
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-15 Reflections on Joy 42:44
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-14 Intimate Mystery 63:09
Eugene Cash
Discovering beginner's mind, not knowing and mystery on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-14 Opening Talk for Kindness, Joy and Compassion: A Metta Retreat 66:27
Kirsten Kratz
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-13 Practicing With Difficult Emotions. 61:36
James Baraz
Exploring themes from the current issue (Volume 29/Number 1/Fall 2012) of Inquiring Mind with guest editor of the issue, Kevin Griffin.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-13 What, How and Who 56:10
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-13 Workshop: Awakening Compassion, Standing With Suffering 1:54:38
Myoshin Kelley
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-12 Forgiving Our Way to Freedom 1:11:13
Tara Brach
Living with chronic blame or resentment is a trance that confines us to a limited fragment of what we are. This talk looks at the ways this trance is fueled and the process by which we release the armoring around our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-12-12 The Intimacy of Mindfulness 56:03
Larry Yang
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-12 Relating to Sense Experience with Wisdom 54:20
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness VII- Fourth Foundation I: Mindfulness of Patterns of Experience 63:05
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the first three foundations, we look at the general nature of the Fourth Foundation of the specific frameworks used and some ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-11 Deuxième caractéristique libératrice 1:14:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2012-12-11 Mirroring Meditation 50:59
Rodney Smith
Working with every image as it arises and shifts form into the formless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2012-12-11 Skillfully Responding to the Voices of Mara 49:36
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-12-11 The Divine Abodes - Week 3 - Appreciative Joy (Mudita) 1:31:25
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-10 The Power of Generosity 55:31
Mark Coleman
The Buddha spoke highly of generosity. - how does generosity open the heart and bring connection, openness and many wholesome qualities? - what supports and hinders this beautiful quality? - how to practice this in simple gradual and life changing ways?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-09 From Form To Formless 48:45
Rodney Smith
The overall arching theme of the spiritual journey is the movement out of form into the formless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2012-12-09 It's OK To Be Who You Are 40:10
Alan Lewis
A talk about the sense of self in relationship - relating to ourselves and others with honesty and integrity.
Gaia House Who Do You Think You Are?

2012-12-08 The Wise Heart 46:15
Tempel Smith
There is no greater gift then a heart that has been set free of its patterns that cause suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Weekend Retreat

2012-12-08 The Capacity to Be with What Is 42:48
Alan Lewis
The practice of being present can deepen our capacity for compassion - even in life and death situations.
Gaia House Who Do You Think You Are?

2012-12-07 Opening Talk - The Fickle Mind 41:32
Alan Lewis
All of the different voices of 'self' that appear and disappear - which one of them is the real "me"?
Gaia House Who Do You Think You Are?

2012-12-06 Darkness Calls. 56:57
Betsy Rose
Songs and reflections for the season of letting go.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-05 A Forgiving Heart - Embracing our Inner Life 1:15:43
Tara Brach
Self-aggression, whether it's low key blame or deep condemnation, prevents us from intimacy with others and discovering the truth and wholeness of our Being. This talk explores how we can release self-blame, and free ourselves to access our natural warmth and creativity in responding to our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-12-05 The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 3 of 3 1:33:13
Gina Sharpe
The Fourth Noble Truth expounded by the Buddha is that there is a Path to Freedom, to Liberation, to the sure heart’s release. He said that freedom is possible, and that if it were not possible, he would not ask us to walk the path to it. How can we use all of our life, its 10,000 joys and its 10,000 sorrows, as the ground of liberation, of freedom? By understanding the three pronged path of Meditation, of living a life of Integrity, and of developing Wisdom and putting our understanding into action, liberation is not a distant goal, but a present moment experience. Through practice, reflection and inquiry, we will deepen our understanding of the Path, its obstacles and its realization.
New York Insight Meditation Center The Noble Eightfold Path
In collection: The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 1 of 3

2012-12-05 Crossing the Flood 58:06
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-05 Foundations of Mindfulness VI: The Third Foundation II 58:36
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore mindfulness of thoughts and emotions, including the three sets of instructions in the text, and mindfulness of difficult thoughts and emotions (and what to do when mindfulness is very hard or impossible).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-05 Stories From Emptiness 1:12:19
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-04 Prémière caractérisque libératrice 57:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2012-12-04 Emptiness and Karma 59:01
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-04 Solving the Case of Mistaken Identity 48:03
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-12-04 The Divine Abodes - Week 2 - Compassion (Karuna) Letting Life In 1:34:20
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-04 Monthly Sitting and Inquiry: Dec 4, 2012 1:17:46
Gina Sharpe
Join us for a Monthly Sitting and Inquiry with NYI Guiding Teacher, 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

2012-12-04 Compassion is Empty 26:33
Sally Armstrong
There are two great proximate causes for compassion: suffering and wisdom. Suffering opens the heart and wisdom lets us see the fragile impermanent nature of all things. Q&A at end of talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-04 Guided Compassion Meditation 43:21
Sally Armstrong
The near enemy of compassion is pity; the far energy is cruelty. But more often the obstacles to true compassion are wanting to fix rather than be with suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-03 Karma & the Power of Intention 63:01
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-03 Emptiness in Buddhist History 58:47
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-03 Morning Instructions: Big Mind 42:35
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-02 Dependent Origination 54:38
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-02 S.O.S - Sitting on Sunday: Dec 2, 2012 55:33
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, sometimes followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and often a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-12-02 Emptying into Emptiness 60:22
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-02 Guided Meditation on Emptiness 41:28
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-01 The Emptiness of Phenomena 57:00
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-01 Morning Session The Five Aggregates Are Empty and Q&A 0:00
Sally Armstrong
(Recording not available) 
The Buddha instructed us to bring awareness to the five aggregates of form, feeling tone, perception, mental formations and consciousness and to notice how we cling to and identify with them. If we cling and identify we will suffer. Non-clinging = Non-suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-01 Metta 45:18
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Boundless Friendliness

2012-11-30 Renunciation 52:43
Greg Scharf
Renunciation speaks to the very heart of the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores the power of renunciation - the very substance of freedom. Available to the general public with some rights reserved
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-11-30 Dependent Origination 47:15
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-30 Formation of Self-View 1:12:25
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-30 Opening Talk for Boundless Friendliness 52:36
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Chris Cullen
Gaia House Boundless Friendliness

2012-11-29 Returning To The Marketplace 63:43
Winnie Nazarko
Letting go of the renunciate life at the end of a long meditation retreat. How it is possible to practice as a lay person in the world. Reconnecting to the life left behind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-11-29 From the Three Characteristics to Emptiness 57:42
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-29 The Dharma in Brief 67:51
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-29 Who we really are 49:28
James Baraz
Who You Really Are Walt Whitman wrote: “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness." A key aspect of genuine awakening is realizing the basic goodness that is our true nature (when we're not confused or lost in our stories). What gets in the way of accessing this basic goodness? What supports it?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-11-28 The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 2 of 3 1:38:31
Gina Sharpe
The Fourth Noble Truth expounded by the Buddha is that there is a Path to Freedom, to Liberation, to the sure heart’s release. He said that freedom is possible, and that if it were not possible, he would not ask us to walk the path to it. How can we use all of our life, its 10,000 joys and its 10,000 sorrows, as the ground of liberation, of freedom? By understanding the three pronged path of Meditation, of living a life of Integrity, and of developing Wisdom and putting our understanding into action, liberation is not a distant goal, but a present moment experience. Through practice, reflection and inquiry, we will deepen our understanding of the Path, its obstacles and its realization.
New York Insight Meditation Center The Noble Eightfold Path
In collection: The Noble Eightfold Path to Freedom - Talk 1 of 3

2012-11-28 Sakkayaditthi 56:52
Ajahn Sumedho
39 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2012-11-28 Seeing the Limitations of the World is Liberating 54:12
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

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