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Dharma Talks
2012-05-11 Talk and Meditation on Mindfulness of Emotions 63:43
Phillip Moffitt
Skillful and unskillful ways to be mindful of emotions. Common misperceptions that make working with emotions difficult in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-11 Advice For Taking Awareness Home 23:53
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart 32:05
Thanissara
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Study-Practice Program

2012-05-10 Group F #4 1:50:46
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 Group E #4 1:49:05
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 Practicing With Feeling 56:37
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of the implications of mindfulness. Of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, and suggestions of concrete ways to practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-10 Morning Instructions 19:47
Carol Wilson
Reminders about the quality of awareness and commitment that we can, and need, to continue our practice beyond the form of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Engaged Stillness 40:05
Larry Rosenberg
Breath awareness, glass in hand and clear seeing.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-09 Dharma Teachers Group 69:51
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Part 1 - The Lion's Roar 1:18:46
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

2012-05-09 Appreciating Goodness 62:10
Myoshin Kelley
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-05-09 Becoming Bodhisattvas II--Ethical Practice 67:58
Donald Rothberg
We look at one of the primary training areas of a Bodhisattva, one who connects inner practice and helping others ethical practice. We consider an expansive understanding of the five lay precepts, and the challenges of ethical practices.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-09 Group D #4 1:47:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Group C #4 1:52:44
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Right view 20:51
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 The Kind Heart 36:49
Mark Coleman
Kindness is the cornerstone of the spiritual path. This talk explores how it is developed in ordinary and beautiful ways in our life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-08 Group B#4 1:37:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Working with Fear. 58:53
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of the nature of fear and of going beyond our comfort zones in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-08 Meditation and the Emotional Landscape 4:42:12
with Doug Slakey, Jennifer Dungan, Leah Weiss, Robert Cusick, Shaila Catherine, Sharon Allen
This collection of talks given at Insight Meditation South Bay discusses the nature of emotions. Topics include how to work with shame, dread, fear and anger.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-05-08 The Dukkha of Praise and Blame 38:40
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-08 Dynamics of Emotion 44:27
Shaila Catherine
Meditation can reveal the dynamic process of emotional life. In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores relationships between mind and body, between thoughts and emotions, and between present moment experience and concepts. Emotions are not avoided in meditation, instead we engage in a balanced and wise investigation of emotions and see their changing, impermanent, and empty nature. Transformative insight into impermanence may come through understanding the functioning of mental states, without worry about difficult emotions such as anger, grief, or fear. We will learn to respond, act, and speak with wisdom as we learn to open to the full range of emotional life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Meditation and the Emotional Landscape

2012-05-08 Group A #4 1:43:41
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Morning Instructions 15:38
Carol Wilson
How to begin to include speaking and listening as equal objects of awareness with sitting, walking and everything else.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Refuges and Eight Precepts Chanting 2:44
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Taking Practice into Life 12:21
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Sayadaw is giving instructions - 10 days into the retreat - for including speaking and listening in the practice of momentum of awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Truthfulness and Sila 40:33
Anna Douglas
A talk given at the third retreat of the Mindfulness for Yoga Teachers training in 2012.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-07 Group F #3 1:49:06
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Group E # 3 1:47:05
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Awareness: The Five Faculties In Action 16:54
Steve Armstrong
Confidence, perseverance, remembering, stability of mind, right view are all involved in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Group D #3 2:03:10
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Group C #3 1:55:17
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Morning Instructions 20:38
Carol Wilson
Appreciating that with uncompromising commitment to right view and steady awareness - wisdom is the natural effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 The Second Noble Truth 36:59
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-06 Possibility of Being Awake 37:00
Amma Thanasanti
Buddha's Birth, Death, and Enlightenment day -- Full moon May 6th, 2012 Shakti Vihara
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-06 Possibility of Being Awake - Q&A 24:32
Amma Thanasanti
Buddha's Birth, Death, and Enlightenment day -- Full moon May 6th, 2012 Shakti Vihara
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-06 Patterns of Mind, Ethics, Oneness of Mind, Wisdom 64:07
Catherine McGee
which patterns of mind are wholesome and which lead to more suffering? Sila and Samadhi as a basis for presence and the wisdom that sees into the nature of things.
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-05 The Power Of Patience 58:11
Kamala Masters
Remembering and reminding ourselves how "patience is the highest virtue", as the Buddha has said.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-05 Group B #3 1:55:35
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Group A #3 1:59:19
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Meeting The Hard And Soft Brick Wall Of Practice 9:41
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Connecting or Letting Go? 50:19
Kirsten Kratz
Many of us have a yearning for deeper connection and intimacy. How does this human longing relate to the teachings of "letting go" and "not clinging". This talks reflects on how these, at first sight seemingly contradictory, movements of the heart may support each other, dancing a mysterious dance that will lead to increased freedom and understanding."
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-04 Group F 2 1:40:42
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Group E #2 1:59:17
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Morning Instructions 21:30
Christina Feldman
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-05-04 Third Morning Instructions 19:25
Carol Wilson
Mind, awareness and attitude in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Opening Talk for Connection and Letting Go 65:30
Catherine McGee
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-03 Equanimity 51:04
Christina Feldman
Explores equanimity in relationship to life events, in human relationships and in liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-05-03 ThuPM-Bodhicitta: Awakening Human Potential 56:15
Pat Coffey
Bodhicitta: Awakening human potential Blurb The energy of bodhicitta, the awakened heart/mind, is a beautiful counterbalance to the energies of the three poisons; greed, ill will and delusion. This talk begins with a short analysis of the institutionalization of the three poisons in our culture and then explores the inherent power of bodhicitta to help ameliorate suffering on all levels.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-03 ThuPM-Meditation-on-Equanimity 27:16
Eric Kolvig
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-03 Dhamma Everywhere: Why and How? 39:27
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-03 Group D #2 1:55:12
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-03 ThuAM-Guided-Meditation-Backward-Step 24:04
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-03 Investigating The Object, Practice and Understanding 19:39
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-02 Karma 57:28
Joseph Goldstein
How Can We Be Happy In Our Lives?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-02 WedPM-Be-Who-You-Are 62:13
Tara Brach
By bringing a surrendering presence to mental, emotional and physical domains, we undo the trance of separation and discover our true nature. This talk explores the practices that cultivate the non-resisting space of presence, and the flavors of our essential being that are revealed: open awareness, love and a vibrant flow of awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 Meditation - Inner Space: Gateway to Awareness 28:51
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 WedPM-Guided-Meditation-In-the-Garden 28:15
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 Becoming Bodhisattvas 61:39
Donald Rothberg
In the context of a unit to Occupy Oakland, reflections on the importance for our times of developing our lives to connect inner and outer transformation, and of the inspiration to be bodhisattvas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-02 WedAM-Guided-Meditation-Exploring-Vedanna 19:07
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 WedAM-Instructions-QA 10:31
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 ThuAM-Instructions-Question/Response 13:07
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-02 Group A #2 1:47:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-02 Morning Instructions 22:00
Christina Feldman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-05-01 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 50:45
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-01 Q.&A session: Family Distractions : Selfish to Meditate : Negative Emotions : Suffering on Identification 38:11
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-05-01 Joy 52:10
Christina Feldman
Dimensions of Joy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-05-01 TuePM-Awareness-Dissolves-Suffering 48:04
Eric Kolvig
“In separation,” the Buddha said, “lies the world’s great misery.” This talk shows how awareness dissolves our personal sense of being separate selves. It also shows how awareness deconstructs the misery-making effects of social constructions that cause us to feel separate, and that we also take to be “self”: race, gender, sexual identity, and class.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-01 Soothing the Anxious Heart 38:32
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-01 Q&A Group F #1 1:46:23
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-01 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Generosity 57:07
Rodney Smith
Why is generosity a fundamental dharma issue? The dharma opens us beyond our self-limitations, and generosity is the essential direction of that opening. There is a balance between staying within ourselves and our understanding without idealizing the dharma while working with our edges that keep us contained within ourselves. Generosity is the authentic journey out of that container where we realize we were never alone or isolated. Generosity is the manifestation in action of connectedness and is the fundamental conduit of a life lived from the heart.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-01 TuePM-Meditation-RAIN-of-Compassion 37:04
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-01 TueAM-Instructions-Q-A 14:28
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-01 TueAM-Guided-Meditation 24:16
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-05-01 The Texture of Being 37:59
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-30 Misconceptions of Awakening 52:23
Mark Coleman
The mind makes many ideas, views & misconceptions about the process of waking up - this talk points to the importance of understanding that awakening is a process, not a state...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-30 MonPM-Guided-Heart-Forgiveness-Compassion 30:51
Eric Kolvig
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-30 Q&A Group E #1 1:46:27
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-30 Creativity 1:11:03
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Dedicated Practitioner's Program 4 (Retreat 3)

2012-04-30 Q&A Group D #1 1:56:07
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-30 MonAM-Instructions-QA-EricKolvig-JFoust 27:07
Eric Kolvig
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-30 Morning Instructions 43:20
Christina Feldman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-04-30 Q&A Monday Morning 45:46
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-30 Opening Our Hearts 59:25
Yanai Postelnik
We can at times feel our hearts closed or hardened into a sense of distance, or disconnection from life. As we feel deeply into our experience, we can learn to meet our pain, fear, anger and reactivity, with acceptance, kindness, and courage. In this journey, our heart naturally begins to soften, revealing its natural sensitivity and the profoundly connected openness of our life.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-30 Opening Talk 64:14
Yanai Postelnik
Opening talk for the meditation and yoga retreat
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-29 Metta 50:59
Christina Feldman
Exploring Metta - Boundless Friendliness as an insight practice and path of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2012-04-29 Tranquility and Insight - Questions & Answers 34:03
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-04-29 Q&A Group C #1 1:52:44
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-29 SunPM-Guided-Heart-Lovingkindness 31:25
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-29 Q&A Group B #1 1:58:07
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-29 Q&A Group A #1 1:44:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-29 SunAM Q and A 11:22
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-29 SunAM Guided Meditation 21:52
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-29 The First Noble Truth 41:09
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-04-29 Practice Here, There and Everywhere 63:31
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2012-04-28 SatPM-Why-and-What 47:10
Eric Kolvig
Why do we do or spiritual practice, and what exactly do we do? In this talk Eric Kolvig attempts to sum up the living essence of the Buddha’s teachings and practice in the vipassana tradition, so that we have a clear motivation for our practice and can make clear effort in it.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-28 Tranquility and Insight - 3 58:34
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-04-28 SatPM-Instructions-and-Metta-Meditation 39:55
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-28 SatAM-Meditation-Instructions 11:21
Eric Kolvig
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-28 SatAM-Meditation-and-Walking-Instructions 50:21
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-04-28 Dhamma Everywhere: Why And How? 53:27
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Introductory retreat instruction including right view, awareness, continuity - the yogi's job.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

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