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Dharma Talks
2012-10-28 Morning Question/Response 13:46
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Fall Residential Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-10-27 Finding the Truth Through Truth 47:40
Chas DiCapua
The path that leads to the truth that sets us free is made up of knowing the truth of each moment as best we can
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-27 Loving the Life Within Us 66:31
Tara Brach
If we don't love the life we consider "self," we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in bringing a kind, accepting presence to our inner life, and discovering the vastness of what we really are.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Fall Residential Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2012-10-27 Focus and Freedom: Introduction to the Jhanas 2:31:31
Leigh Brasington
A workshop/retreat on the meditative absorptions (jhanas) and their relationship to mindfulness and insight practice. There will be periods of instructions coupled with sitting and walking meditation along with ample time for questions and answers. Although one day is insufficient to learn the jhanas, the workshop will allow you to learn about them and to consider whether you want to pursue this study further. For people who want to read more on Jhana practice, please go to Leigh’s web site at http://leighb.com
New York Insight Meditation Center Focus and Freedom: Introduction to the Jhanas

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Unilateral Virtue 1:16:27
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Compassion and Lovingkindness Practice 18:07
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Inner Strength, including Self Compassion Practice 16:38
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Love and the Brain 22:45
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 The End of Separation 64:33
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-26 Morning Instructions - Working with Thoughts 45:39
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-26 No Self and the Great Way 61:49
Leela Sarti
This talk explores the fixation of identity, and the isolating limitation of being an "I" and how, when we become less engaged in the constructed, defended and fabricated, the great way of practice opens up. As we align with reality of the three characteristics of existence, we sense a different belonging and the vibrant intimacy of living an embodied life.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-25 The Reality of Impermanence 62:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-24 Renunciation - The Wisdom Of No 58:27
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of the practice and power of abandoning the unskillful.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-24 Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance 1:20:25
Tara Brach
If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation--actively inquiring into what is happening inside us. When we investigate with sincere interest and care, the light of our attention untangles difficult emotions and nourishes intimate relationships. As this light is turned toward awareness itself, it reveals the radiance and emptiness of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-24 Love, Revolution and Idea of Self 55:45
Anushka Fernandopulle
An exploration of how we construct identity, truth of interconnection, and the power of love. What we learn about dharma from the city, wooly mammoths, and the axial age.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-24 Relating to Sense Contact and Feeling 56:45
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-24 Four Foundations of Mindfulness II- Mindfulness of the Body 60:23
Donald Rothberg
Using the Satipatthana Sutta as a guide, we explore the first three practices of mindfulness of the body. We point to the great traditional and contemporary importance of mindfulness of the body, and suggest a number of ways to practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-24 Morning Instruction - Body, Mind-states and Q&A 44:55
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-24 Self Judgement, Inner Hardness, and Being Free 58:17
Leela Sarti
A talk on the real possibility of transforming self hate, self loathing and the force of ill-will, by making it a conscious part of your insight meditation practice.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-23 The Four Great Elements 59:10
Marcia Rose
How intimately and mindfully connected are you too these most basic and universal experiences?... This body in its elemental nature... A composite of the earth, water, Fire and air elements? This talk is an exploration of the Buddha's primary teaching and a guided meditation in conjunction with this teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-23 When We Have No Preferences 39:53
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-10-23 Loving Kindness Meditation 42:55
Winnie Nazarko
Description of the practice of loving-kindness (Metta) meditation. Brief guided meditation, questions and answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-23 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Love 61:12
Rodney Smith
Love throws many of us off a little. Some of us would like our path free oftenderness and caring because love involves a part of us that is not logical orrational. Love puts the world together in a way that can't be calculated orreasoned. The mind wants everything organized and direct, nothing cloudy orconfused, but the spiritual journey is intuitive and not mentally derived. Atsome point we must leave the crisp edges and clear surfaces of the mind and moveinto the wonders and mysteries of the heart, and love is the path that does justthat.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-10-23 Dependent Origination et Kamma 58:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-23 Body Wisdom 59:15
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-22 What Are We Doing Here 57:03
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-22 Dharma Rain: Working with Difficult Emotions 56:16
Trudy Goodman
RAIN: an acronym for a 4 - step process for using one's particular personal experience as a doorway to connect with the fullness of our awakened humanity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma - Week 6 60:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma

2012-10-22 Spiritual Bypassing 23:01
Sharda Rogell
It is possible to use our practice to keep away difficult emotions that we think are "bad" or "wrong" and this causes a split in our way of being in the world. When we practice a meditative approach to our emotions, we begin to wake up all parts of ourselves, and reclaim our humanity and our aliveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)

2012-10-22 L'Esprit Concevoir et les Empêches 53:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-22 Clear Understanding and Responding with Love 53:29
Leela Sarti
Every moment of true mindfulness is kind. This talk explores the possibility of cultivating a mind that can be with the reality of life. When we turn to experience with openness, we also become more open to insights, and our confidence in ourselves and our capacity for awakening becomes grounded in life.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-22 Instructions, and Guided Meditation on Awareness of Breathing, plus Walking Meditation Instructions 38:38
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-21 Who Are We? 51:23
Wes Nisker
How meditation can shift our sense of identity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-21 Bonheur 47:50
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-21 Empowering the Inner Teacher 43:34
Jose Reissig
The primary role of the outer teacher is to empower the inner one. And in order to let this empowerment in, we need to drop our shields and embrace freedom.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-21 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 3) 62:21
Gregory Kramer
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-21 All Pervasive Awareness 68:05
Amma Thanasanti
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Eight Fold Path in Our World 63:38
Amma Thanasanti
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Practice in Our Daily Life 60:54
Amma Thanasanti
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Opening Talk for Embodying the Awakened Heart Retreat 52:35
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Leela Sarti.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-20 Listening and Loving 47:49
Pamela Weiss
A talk about Mindfulness as respectful looking and loving listening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-20 To Be With Life 41:19
Jose Reissig
Much of our daily life is make-believe. To be with the real we have to withdraw from this charade and embrace our actual experience, including the perception of impermanence.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-20 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 2 of 3) 2:39:36
Gregory Kramer
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-19 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 61:47
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-19 Mindfulness, Identity and Incarnation 60:30
Jack Kornfield
The beauty and paradox revealed by attention to human incarnation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-19 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 1) 1:22:28
Gregory Kramer
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-18 The Practice of Surrender: Path and Paradox 67:06
Alex Haley
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-18 The Practice of Surrender: Path and Paradox:Guest Dharma Talk 27:06
Alex Haley
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-18 A Simple Twist of Fate 50:46
James Baraz
Our lives are filled with turning points that can steer us in different directions. To have found the Dharma and be facing in the direction of greater consciousness is extraordinarily good karma that can powerfully fuel and inspire our practice with sincerity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-10-17 Se sentir inadéquat, être insatisfait 55:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2012-10-17 Questions and Answers 61:38
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-17 Question and Response with Tara 1:15:58
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-17 Nature of the Mind 59:07
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem: III 27:01
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem:II 17:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem 12:45
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-16 The Liberating Embrace Of Anicca/Impermanence 1:18:12
Marcia Rose
The only thing that we can know for sure is the constancy of chance. It's the most basic fact of our existence. Realization of the truth of impermanence is a gateway out of feeling the separateness - the suffering of self-centered existence. We begin to understand that we are intimately woven into endlessly changing, reflective web of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-16 Monthly Sitting and Inquiry: Oct 16, 2012 69:51
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-10-16 Letting Go of Attachements 39:02
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-10-16 Metta For All Beings: Guided Meditation 41:08
Susie Harrington
Extending Metta beyond the individuals to all beings, everywhere - brief introduction and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-16 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Self-Uncertainty 55:44
Rodney Smith
One of the more common emotional responses to practice is that at times we feel like we are failing in meditation. Nothing seems to be going according to the instructions. We try diligently and then hear that striving will not get us anywhere. We want to like ourselves but are full of self-contempt. We would like to wish everyone lovingkindness, but we do not feel that in our hearts. All of this has us feeling like a spiritual failure. One way to sidestep the thought that our practice is not going well is to remember that our practice is about self-knowledge, and self-knowledge is always working. Like a mirror that always reflects what it sees, it may not be showing us what we want to see, but it is always reflecting back what it sees. The practice is to accommodate what we see, no matter what is reflected back. Just let the reflection show us the state of affairs. Now comes the hard part. Do not attempt to change, judge, or get over what we see. If we want to do something, relax with what we see. Let the built up tension be dispelled. If we try to get over a problem before we understand what the nature of the problem is, we will further complicate our struggle. Much of our struggle is arising from the sense of being a personal failure. In a culture built upon evaluations and comparisons, many of us feel like we are defeated before we begin. We lead with self-uncertainty and for a Dharma practitioner that is the worst possible assumption. Awakening needs everything from us, and self-uncertainty holds us back in timidity. We have to address this assumption head on to end its tyrannical rule.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-10-15 Transcendent Dependent Arising: A map of practice 60:13
Sally Armstrong
This powerful teaching form the Upanisa Sutta shows us how suffering when understood with wisdom leads to faith and is the beginning of a natural unfolding of beautiful qualities of the heart which provide the foundation for the mind to turn to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-15 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma - Week 5 1:22:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma

2012-10-15 Trauma and Freedom 66:23
Jack Kornfield
Using the cloak of mindfulness and compassion to heal trauma and awaken freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-14 Family Day - Connectedness 2:00:26
Julie Wester
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-13 Equanimity: Being at Rest in the Storms 60:14
Susie Harrington
A discussion about equanimity including what it is and is not, the contributing factors, the protection and stability it brings to our lives, and how we cultivate it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-13 Discussion 28:30
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Awakening Joy Day Long Retreat

2012-10-13 Earth walking & breathing 16:48
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Awakening Joy Day Long Retreat

2012-10-13 Beginning 6:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Awakening Joy Day Long Retreat

2012-10-13 Morning Instructions 42:34
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-13 Mindfulness and the Brahma Viharas 1:12:27
John Peacock
Gaia House The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-10-12 Living the Steps, Part 2 58:16
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-12 Living the Steps, Part 1 52:18
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-12 Resolution/Determination 60:23
Carol Wilson
One of the ten paramis - which is a fundamental support for the development of mind/heart, in and out of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-12 Awakening Joy 1:13:35
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara TiE at Innovation Pavilion

2012-10-12 Added Instructions: Day Four 11:42
Larry Yang
Walking Practice and Other Postures, Hand Movement Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-12 Morning Instructions, Day Four: Paying Attention to Emotion and Mind 30:00
Larry Yang
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Connecting to Body - Guided Meditation 23:20
Amma Thanasanti
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Joy of Breathing - Guided Meditation 23:59
Amma Thanasanti
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Joy of Eating - Guided Meditation 3:18
Amma Thanasanti
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Sublime Abodes - Guided Meditation 25:15
Amma Thanasanti
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Opening Talk for The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat 57:19
John Peacock
Gaia House The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-10-11 Metta (friends/difficult person) 28:48
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Coming Home to Refuges and Precepts 50:38
Larry Yang
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Morning Instructions (includes RAIN) 41:08
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Emotional Chaos to Clarity 64:40
Phillip Moffitt
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-10-10 Guided Metta; Self, Benefactor, All Beings 25:03
Larry Yang
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-10 Refraining From Ten Unwholesome Actions - Ill Will and Wrong View 59:25
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-10 Part 2: Wise Intention: Living in Truth 1:19:16
Tara Brach
Evolution has conditioned us to identify as an egoic self and to protect that identity. A key strategy is trying to control how others perceive us through pretense and deception. This talk explores the ways we disarm though dedicating ourselves to truthfulness, forgiving our defenses and taking a chance to name and make room for the vulnerability we have been armoring.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-10 The Teachings of Ajahn Chah 55:33
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-10 To Know the 42:10
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 To know the truth only cease to cherish opinions. 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 Morning Instructions Day 2: Remembering, Futuring 37:43
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Metta for Self 22:37
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:42
Marcia Rose
The Buddha offers us the recipe of cultivating a strong and clear concentration, mindfulness and investigation rooted in kindness that allows us to learn to experience the extremes and the subtleties of difficult emotions without getting caught by them. It's as though we learn to see them so clearly that we see through them and see their nature, just like we see through the colors of a rainbow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-09 Sharing Ideas on Practice 44:40
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Faith 43:22
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-10-09 Reverence and Our Ambivalence in Being Quiet 61:38
Michele McDonald
True North Insight Freedom Through Understanding

2012-10-09 Guided Meditation: Metta for the "difficult" person 43:15
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-09 Morning Instructions 56:39
Larry Yang
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LGBTI&GQ

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