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Dharma Talks
2012-06-04 Cultivating the Boundless Mind 60:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity form where sympathetic awareness (anukampa, aka primal sympathy) meets the mind. These are a natural expression of an Awakened heart.
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Parami - the Support for Attention 1:40:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Attention and intention carry awareness to an object. They can be trained and nourished. The Ten Parami are a collection of skilful ways to do this, a way that leads to the end of kamma.
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Effort, Skill And Grace 56:16
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Wise Kind Awakeness 55:24
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-06-03 Morning Instructions 66:12
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Resonating Positive Sensitivity Through the Body; Dhamma Talk: Meet What Arises 1:28:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Through meeting the pattern (not the topic) of what arises, a place and a means for release are established.
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Standing Meditation Instructions 12:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Welcome, the Entry to Dynamics 53:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Dynamic as distinct from structure, refers to energetic and empathic processes such as breathing, Qi (body);welcoming and acceptance (heart); and assessment (head). Supported by structure, these processes clear and transform obstructions.
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-02 Joy in Self, Community & the World 43:45
Arinna Weisman
Arinna Weisman and Shahara Godfrey
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-02 Closing Remarks 2:35
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Loving Kindness - Guided Meditation 17:55
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Discussion on Embodiment 34:55
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Qualities Of Mindfulness (Sati) 65:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Synonyms, definitions, role of Sati in Abhidhamma, illustrations for Sati.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Additional Meditation Instructions 58:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Detailed meditation instructions regarding sitting, walking practice, general activities, instructions and interviews.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Introduction To Mindfulness Retreat, Sitting and Walking 66:08
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-06-02 Basic Structures of Holistic Awareness 67:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Holistic awareness is the synchronicity of the bodily, heart and conceptual intelligences. To begin with we look into the structural aspects of these three.
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-02 Chanting; Guided Meditation; QiGong Session 1:26:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Holistic Awareness

2012-06-01 Introduction To Vipassana Retreat 1:13:27
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-06-01 Mindfulness : Time 63:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-06-01 The Heart's Innate Kindness 52:47
Mark Coleman
This talk explores some principles and practices of kindness via the metta practice, its obstacles and what helps to open the heart to oneself and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Weekend Retreat

2012-06-01 Psychologische Entwicklung und Spirituelle Praxis. 1:22:52
Akincano Marc Weber
Geschichte und Verhältnis von entwicklungspsychologischen Modellen und spirituellen Ansätzen.
Atammaya Köln

2012-05-31 Melting into Love 51:49
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-30 Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love 67:10
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioning blocks us from these expressions of inner freedom, and the understandings and practices that enable us to inhabit our full potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-29 Compassion Is A Verb 53:16
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of empathy, compassion and engaged response in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-29 The Urgency To Love 58:21
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
How do we love a world so prone to disappointment? Investigating the purifying relationship between love and disappointment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Rest in the Mind's True Nature 33:55
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-29 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise Intention 58:43
Rodney Smith
Wise intention is the energy that moves all spiritual practices forward. We mistakenly think it is our willpower, but it is always and only our intention. There are two expressions of intention: the primary intention associated with the longing to be free and the secondary intention for gain and acquisition. The secondary is formed by the mind from the primary intention, and that is the reason we believe that satisfaction can come through desire. The mind tells us that. For the energy to be reinvested back into the primary we have to prove to ourselves that secondary gains will never be truly fulfilling. That is what is left for many of us to do.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-29 Guided Six Sense Door Metta Meditation 15:33
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A form of loving kindness integrated with our traditional mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart 38:48
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the way we respond to life when consciousness is not caught in obsessions or reactivity. Martin explores 4 specifically different dimensions of love (Brahma Viharas) and invokes their commonality in dissolving our sense of separateness; beckoning us into an exquisite intimacy with life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-28 Memorial Day Healing 62:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-28 The Confluence Of Love And Wisdom 56:49
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-28 On Clinging to Existence and Non Existence: Freedom From Self and Not-Self 44:14
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the inevitability in language of either reifying or negating existence; "It (self) exists" or "it doesn't exist", and how either view is problematic, inviting us in the living immediacy of life, to discover the middle way beyond existing or not-existing.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-27 The New Bodhisattva path 59:52
David Loy
Notes for a Buddhist Revolultion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-27 The Cause of Suffering and the Unconditioned 57:33
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-27 Présence absence 42:57
Charles Genoud
Ou sommes nous quand nous ne sommes pas présent
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-27 On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self 45:50
Martin Aylward
Martin explores how our various views condition our experience, and keep us locked into viewing and reacting to life in all too familiar ways. We look at the way our views limit our experience of who we are, and how investigating those views can lead us into a more ambiguous, and more liberated sense of our participation in life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-26 Genuine Love, Genuine Wisdom 58:35
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-26 Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts 56:56
Donald Rothberg
We look at several ways to practice when strong, difficult emotions and thoughts are present. 1) Finding antidotes - ways to get unstuck if we are stuck; 2) mindfulness using various tools; and 3) wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 The Practice of Recovery: A Buddhist Approach to Healing Addiction 2:46:58
Kevin Griffin
In this daylong retreat we’ll explore the uses of Buddhist practices and teachings in recovery. Blending mindfulness and the12 Steps we will see how fundamental Buddhist teachings like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Lovingkindness, and others can be used as fundamental tools in a program of recovery. The day will include lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises, as well as an introduction to mindfulness meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-26 Why We Love War 30:16
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 Renunciation as Right Intention 3:16:53
Tempel Smith
Of the three forms of right intention, renunciation helps overcome greed, craving and clinging. Renunciation also helps with cultivating simplicity and ease, and allows us to taste the deep contentment born out of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-26 What's Happening 58:20
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering 27:49
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering - Q&A 33:27
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Instructions 1 Part Dieu 2012 10:42
Charles Genoud
Introduction à l'attitude méditative
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 The Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 65:57
Kamala Masters
The clear message of the Buddha is that this holy life has as its end the unshakable deliverance of mind. (The Simile of the Heartwood, MN 29 and 30). This talk is about what is to be cultivated in our lives so that this deliverance is actualized. The cultivation of dana (generosity), sila (living a virtuous life), and bhavana (developing the mind through concentration and insight)….these three lead one securely in the direction of nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-25 What is Non-Duality? 55:53
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 The Five Hindrances or Obstacles to Meditation Practice 49:44
Grove Burnett
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-05-25 Right Action2 - Morning Session 63:22
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Buddhism and Ecology 43:32
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 Right Action 1 - Morning Session 22:45
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind 29:59
Martin Aylward
Anupadana, meaning non-clinging (often translated as letting go), is the very essence of Dharma practice. This introductory talk looks at the specifics of cultivating a non-clinging attitude with respect our physical, emotional, and mental experience.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-24 Institutions and Poisons 1:10:17
David Loy
Our economic system institutionalizes greed; our militarism institutionalizes aggression; the media institutionalizes delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-24 Right View and Dependent Origination 1:34:51
Tempel Smith
The teaching on Dependent Origination shows us how craving and suffering arise from wrong understanding and a lawful process of cause and effect. By bringing wisdom and awareness to each step in this chain reaction, we uproot craving and bring an end to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00
Tara Brach
"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-23 Right Speech and Listening 1:25:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Practicing with Views and Judgments in the Context of Service and Social Action 53:50
Donald Rothberg
For many Western Buddhists, it is challenging and often confusing to know how to work with views, theories (whether spiritual or social) and the judgmental mind. We explore the nature of views and judgements and how to practice with them, especially in the context of service and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-23 Sangha as Refuge 52:21
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-23 The "Lack" of Self 54:02
David Loy
Our most problematic dukkha is due to our sense of a separate self, a dukkha usually experienced as a sense of lack.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism - Vignettes, Challenges, Possibilities 45:49
Donald Rothberg
A second overview of socially engaged Buddhism is offered, through vignettes and stories of engaged practices, a discussion of some of the challenges of connecting inner and outer transformation, and a sense of the great creative possibilities of such an approach. With Q&A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Dhamma as Refuge, the Aggregates 1:10:53
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Tuesday Evening Dharma Talk, May 22nd, 2012 1:20:58
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-05-22 Practicing the Dharma with Others 42:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism: Personal Transformation and Social Justice 40:40
David Loy
"The mercy of the West is social revolution. The mercy of the East is insight into the basic self/void. We need both" (Gary Snyder)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 36:07
Anushka Fernandopulle
Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path during the Living Dharma Study Retreat. Subsequent sessions discuss each step on the path in greater depth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-22 Guided Meditation: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral 46:19
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Instructions: Mindfulness of Dukkha 19:14
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Dhamma as Refuge, the Path 51:44
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Instructions: Continuity of Mindfulness 17:30
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 The Buddha's Life 52:16
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-20 Buddha as Refuge 52:54
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Guided Meditation: Body Scan 44:50
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Instructions:Mindfulness of Pain and Breathing 26:05
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Mindfulness of Intention 33:22
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-19 Seeing Through The Self Illusion 63:57
Howard Cohn
Learning to recognize the self view and be kind to the vulnerability that come with being "someone"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-19 Opening The Heart To Mystery 58:33
Mary Grace Orr
On not knowing as the path to awakening...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-18 On Meditation 25:53
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2012-05-18 The River Of Life; the River Of Impermanence 47:01
Kamala Masters
Opening to the understanding of impermanence is freeing on many levels.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-18 The Four Resolves 54:35
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-18 Equanimity 65:24
Lila Kate Wheeler
Non self and various equanimity modes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-17 The Eightfold Path and Liberation 58:50
Andrea Fella
An exploration of how the noble eightfold path is a lived path and lends to the ending of greed, aversion and delusion -- liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-17 How Wonderful to See Defilements in the Mind: Practicing with U Tejaniya 58:09
James Baraz
On his return from a 2-week retreat at IMS in Barre, MA, with Burmese Master Sayadaw U Tejaniya, James shares the essence of U Tejaniya's unique approach to practice and the impact it has on one's life.

Teachings by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Retreat at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA, April-May 2012
Workshop at Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, CA, June, 2007
23-points for Right Attitude for Meditation
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-17 Buddha's Way To Happiness 59:39
Howard Cohn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-16 Opening Talk 1:12:50
Lila Kate Wheeler
Welcome to the experience of retreat, how to get the most from your time including refuges and precepts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-16 Part 2 - The Lion's Roar 1:13:31
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that faith--trust in our true nature--is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant and full.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-16 Vulnerability and The Good Heart 45:08
John Travis
Stories help point to the possibility of opening to what is difficult and what is beautiful.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-16 Becoming Bodhisattvas III: Practicing with Views and Concepts 57:00
Donald Rothberg
In the context of connecting inner and outer transformation, we explore how to train to be wise and skillful in using views, concepts, and theories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-15 How Does the Heart Let Go? 50:32
Mary Grace Orr
Being with things as they are and letting go are very difficult. The friendly and open heart support us in this work.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-15 Clear Comprehension. 57:49
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding the larger context of our actions and the application of clear knowing in our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-15 Taking Refuge in the Laughing Buddha 38:23
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-15 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise View 59:12
Rodney Smith
Wise view is fundamental to everything we do in the dharma. Having adirection establishes a context for all dharma activities. Without it weflounder and move in the direction of our conditioning toward pleasureand ease. Simply stated, wise view is the view that our thoughts distortour perceptions away from the inherent interconnection of all things.Working in clear alignment with interconnection allows us the courageand intention to move toward the difficult, toward that which seems toseparate, and confirm the truth of oneness. All dharma activity must bein accordance with that intention, or it will further support theconditioned sense of separation.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-14 A Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche- Open Heart, Open Mind 1:56:08
Jack Kornfield
A Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche- Open Heart, Open Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-14 This - Here - Dharma 56:08
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-13 The Art of Retreating 46:49
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-05-13 What is What 45:51
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-12 CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 4 of 4 30:38
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012

2012-05-12 CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 2 of 4 66:06
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012

2012-05-11 Faith 55:23
Kamala Masters
Faith in our ability to understand what supports us in our practice
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-11 Renunciation as a Path to Joy 51:57
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the paramis of wisdom and renunciation - specifically how to renounce the various thoughts, views, habits and actions that cause pain and inhibit joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

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