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Dharma Talks
2010-10-30 Balance, Alignment & Attention - Guided Meditation 38:04
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Kinds of Joy 22:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Relaxing into Body, Sitting & Breath - Guided Meditation 19:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Working with Anxiety 26:31
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-30 Sitting Meditation - Guided Meditation 38:19
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Standing Meditation - Guided Meditation 13:12
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Introduction to Meditation 16:49
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-29 Through The Looking Glass - The Reality Of Not-Self 1:10:40
Marcia Rose
This talk points out in a number of ways, that what is asked of us in practice is to simply recognize that everything we think of as 'our self', everything we believe to be 'our self'; everything we think of and believe to be other 'selves' simply just doesn't exist in any independent, permanent, unchanging, solid or substantial way.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-29 Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Parami: Laicka praxe 2.Vznesene Pravdy 65:01
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 The Perfection of Wisdom 58:55
Spring Washam
How the Parami of Wisdom cuts through the deluded mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-29 Three Pillars of Dhamma: Dana/Generosity / Pilire Dhammy: Dana/ Stedrost 52:40
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Big Mind Meditation 44:10
Mark Coleman
A meditation on the nature of awareness and how all phenomena appear and are known effortlessly in the natural knowing of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-29 Sixth Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 6 41:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Sixth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 6 8:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Blessings, challenges and new model 41:03
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley, Easthampton, MA
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-29 Blessings, challenges and new model - Q&A Session 37:57
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley, Easthampton, MA
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-29 The Heart of Dharma 52:52
Yanai Postelnik
In our hearts we all long to be released from the ongoing suffering inherent in unsuccessfully seeking satisfaction through sensory experience. The liberating heart of dharma is revealed when we come to rest in the realisation that what we are looking for has been right here all along.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-28 Vipassana Insight Knowledge / Znalost vipassanoveho vhledu 1:16:52
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-28 Fifth Morning Questions & Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 5 17:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-28 Body and Mind 60:24
Andrea Fella
An exploration of the elemental nature of the body helps us discern the distinction between physical and mental experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-28 Inner Radiance 54:42
Leela Sarti
A talk about our innate goodness and the natural radiance of the mind; loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. The talk reflects on relationships and living with integrity.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-27 Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - Introductory Series 1:14:00
Tara Brach
The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discern if thoughts are imprisoning us in fear or serving healing and freedom. The second is recognizing when we are in the virtual reality of thinking, and learning to "come back" to living presence. It is by inhabiting this non-conceptual presence that we have access to the love, wisdom and freedom that we cherish.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-27 Fourth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 4 9:55
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-27 Four Noble Truths / Ctyri Vznesene Pravdy 1:20:31
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-27 "Presents of Mind" 53:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-27 Fourth Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 4 16:45
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-27 Fifth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 5 7:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-27 Leaps of Faith 24:47
Amma Thanasanti
Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-27 Leaps of Faith - Q&A Session 38:53
Amma Thanasanti
Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-27 Loving Kindness Guided Meditation 35:49
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-27 Vulnerability and Freedom 57:34
Yanai Postelnik
Recognising the insecurity of our life can compel us to endlessly seek control, or invite us to learn to be at ease with our vulnerability and enter it consciously as a gateway to freedom.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-26 Embracing your Mollyness 44:21
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-10-26 The Essence Of Life 64:49
Ariya B. Baumann
Generosity, virtue and meditation are the essences that we can extract from our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-26 The Perfection of Love 63:54
Mark Coleman
An exploration of the quality of love: what is it, how it manifests on the meditative journey and the exploration between emptiness and love; how love unfolds as we lessen identification with a sense of separation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-26 Third Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 3 9:19
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-26 Third Morning Questions & Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 3 14:46
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-26 Five Spiritual Faculties / Pet Duchovnich Schopnosti 1:15:40
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-26 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 6 of 6 1:21:08
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-26 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Unpleasantness Leading to Divisiveness 58:06
Rodney Smith
Once a moment is avoided, a world view of division and separation springs forth, accompanied by a compelling narrative that justifies the aversion. Now we are in full armor with the world as our adversary, tying us to a ceaseless argument with it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-10-26 Questions and des Questions Plus 1:30:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Paris and Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-26 Desire and the Sacred Impulse 46:04
Leela Sarti
There is more to desire than suffering. Can we make a gradual change in how we relate to desire, without rejecting our vitality but with a capacity to tolerate the inevitable failure of all grasping?
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-25 Wise And Balanced Effort 62:31
Andrea Fella
The Skill and art of meditation lies in learning how to use energy and effort wisely.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-25 Parami of Truthfulness - Living the Truth 64:43
Lila Kate Wheeler
The power of truthfulness in life and how it infuses meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-25 Second Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 2 12:37
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-25 Second Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 2 24:06
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-25 Opportunity Over Obstacles / Prilezitost nad Prekazkami 68:19
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-25 Progres et d'autres sujets 67:11
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Paris and Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-24 Patience and Determination Make Change Possible 64:30
Phillip Moffitt
Patience and Persistence (Determination) are the paramis that can bring change to our practices and to our lives. They are the perfect twins-they support and empower one another. Each is to be developed separately but needs the other for fruition. Together they create possibility unto-fore unimagined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-24 Mindfulness 62:52
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the balance of concentration and mindfulness, present time nonjudgmental awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-24 First Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 13:34
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 First Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 21:31
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 First Morning Commentary on Walking Practice / Ranni komentar k Meditaci v chuzi 12:03
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 Meditation, Awareness & Understanding / Meditace, Uvedomovani a Chapani 68:37
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-24 Supporting Samadhi 57:52
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Les Bases de Vipassana 47:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Paris and Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 2 1:17:06
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 1 48:19
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Part 2 Instructions - Day 1 66:34
Joseph Goldstein
Mindfulness Of Breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-24 The Turn 51:33
Leela Sarti
A talk on the liberating power of mindfulness and how to turn towards the teeming flow of experience in body, heart and mind and the capacity to be awakened by all things.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-24 Meditation Instructions - Walking and Sitting 58:13
Yanai Postelnik
These instructions also given by Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-23 Joyous Equanimity 61:48
Spring Washam
Freedom and equanimity in the midst of challenges and change. The Buddha's teachings on equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-23 Taking Refuges as a Practice / Prijeti 3-Utociste jako praxe 56:19
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Refuges and Precepts (Call and Response) / Utociste a Predsevzeti (vedeni a odezva) 4:07
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Vier Ebenen des Glücks 52:46
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2010-10-23 Hard Things That Open the Heart 46:46
Rick Hanson
AM Middle Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 The Hard Things That Open The Heart 34:51
James Baraz
Opening AM Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 Le Kamma de la Liberation 49:14
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-23 Leaning On Noble Supports 54:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Moneyyos Pabbaja 6:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Opening Talk for the Awakening Heart 38:57
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-22 Kamma - Karma 58:43
Marcia Rose
Exploring kamma as a very accessible aspect of the Buddha's teaching... kamma as intention or motivation, which includes will, choice and decision... the mental impetus that leads to actions... both creative and destructive actions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-22 Nous causons de la souffrance pour nous meme 54:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-22 Emptying The Path 18:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-21 Buddha's Advice on Becoming Free from Latent Tendencies 64:10
Carol Wilson
A brief talk on the 2nd sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-21 Metta Bhavana Bienveillance 27:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-21 The Big E. What does it mean to you? 50:25
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-10-21 Dignified Unwinding 20:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-20 Compassion 55:51
Joseph Goldstein
Engaging with the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-20 Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series 1:24:15
Tara Brach
Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecure. In this class we explore how to free ourselves from this suffering by bringing a mindful and kind awareness to the stories and feelings that make up our emotional life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-20 Wisdom Everywhere 51:16
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-20 Self and Others 60:51
Stephen Batchelor
Concluding remarks: recap. on namarupa/consciousness, and reiteration that, as a way of embracing dukkha, this account of experience is prescriptive NOT descriptive; example from literature that illustrates the poignancy of this view of life; reflection on Dhammapada v. 80 to illustrate how the self is a project to be realised, a middle way approach that avoids both eternalism and nihilism; reflection on three suttas that provide a foundation for ethics and one's relation with others; how to tend to the Buddha entails tending to those who suffer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-20 Portals To The Deathless 23:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-19 Stepping Out of Our Identities 40:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-10-19 Diligence 57:28
Ariya B. Baumann
The Buddha rated diligence (appamada) as foremost among all the wholesome qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-19 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 of 6 1:30:49
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-19 Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings 46:58
Winnie Nazarko
Reflections on the power and value of loving-friendless practice, and its place on the road to awakening. Guided metta practice for all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-19 Nameform / Consciousness 67:43
Stephen Batchelor
Recapitulation on the principle of conditioned arising; the 6, 10, and 12 "links"; an analysis of the passage where the Buddha declares that consciousness is conditioned by nameform [namarupa] and nameform by consciousness; the meaning of term namarupa in Brahmanic thought; a phenomenological account of each of the nama factors (contact, feeling, perception, intention and attention) and their role in consciousness.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-19 Crucible Of Samadhi 29:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-18 Baby Blessing - October 18, 2010 5:55
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Choegyal: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma. 69:13
Jack Kornfield
The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Rinpoche: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma 29:58
Jack Kornfield
Part 1 of 2: The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 Continuing the Momentum of the Retreat in Daily Life Practice 33:54
Donald Rothberg
We explore a number of resources, support structures, and guiding perspectives that can help our daily life practice come alive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-18 Entering the Stream 61:33
Stephen Batchelor
The parable of the ancient city as a template for a secular Buddhism, i.e. how the four truths and conditioned arising provide a framework for a new culture or civilisation; further reflection on "fully knowing dukkha" in terms of its cognitive, affective and aesthetic implications; how stream entry entails autonomy, as well as confirmed confidence in Buddha, dharma and sangha; the humanised Buddha as the appropriate model for one's practice of the dharma not the arahant.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-18 Stillness and Movement 53:46
Catherine McGee
Sometimes we long for stillness and for all activity to come to rest. Sometimes we long for movement and can't bare to be still any longer. In using the practices of stillness and movement of body we start to study this dynamic, and we see the inner life of stillness and movement and how suffering arises through not fully understanding this play: either we get hooked into the things that move because they catch our attention, or we want to reject them for the same reasons. Coming to a wise relationship with stillness and movement brings more rest in a world of things that move.
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-18 Holistic Acceptance 23:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-17 Going Beyond the Hindrances 56:28
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-17 Embracing Dukkha 60:55
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Buddha's first sermon: how the four noble truths are a translation of the principle of conditioned arising into a way of life; the middle way as avoiding the two dead ends of worldliness and religiosity; the four truths as prescriptions rather than descriptions, as a sequence of tasks to perform rather than a set of doctrines to believe; the first truth as fully knowing dukkha both in depth and breadth.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-17 Spaciousness 50:40
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-17 A Place Of Non-Reaction 27:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-16 The Great Question, Investigation and Doubt 41:54
Winnie Nazarko
The great question, our deepest personal concern, can empower our practice, and motivate investigation of reality. But doubt can undermine our commitment to practice if we do not recognize it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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