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Dharma Talks
2010-05-11 The Path of Joy 43:59
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 On Anger 29:31
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Path in Daily Life 47:39
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Just This Moment 4:40
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 What are the Priorities 58:40
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Dismantling Who I am 17:36
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Compassion and Attention 15:30
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Right Intention 43:12
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-10 3 Principles of Awakening Joy 60:51
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-10 Tendencies, Defilements and Hindrances 46:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-09 The Judging Mind 48:33
Myoshin Kelley
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Renunciation & Courage 35:27
Ayya Santacitta
A talk from a daylong retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Encounter with Courage and Renunciation 38:07
Ajahn Metta
A talk given at the Renunciation & Courage daylong.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Morning Reflection 26:28
Ajahn Amaro
The Dharma is always with us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-09 Technique Mahasi Vipassana Interview 57:08
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-08 Metta - Part 1 46:22
Greg Scharf
This talk discusses the cultivation of of Loving-kindness both for its own sake, and as a powerful support for the practice of liberation. Includes a detailed discussion of the near and far enemies of Metta, and how to work with them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-05-08 The Bodhisattva Way 61:22
Jack Kornfield
How to live in this world lightly, with a compassionate heart and the spirit of the Dharma in all things you do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-08 Chanting: Mind Abiding In Divine Abodes 4:49
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-08 Overview of BuddhaDhamma 47:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House

2010-05-08 Definition and Purpose of Awareness 30:35
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-07 An Intentional Life 44:28
Christina Feldman
The cultivation of Wise Intention transforms an accidental life into a life guided by our deepest aspiration for compassion and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-07 Loving The House That Ego Built 67:48
Howard Cohn
Putting our trust in awareness and getting to know and embrace our different self views, and the feelings that accompany them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-07 Chanting: Buddhist Words On Living Kindness 3:31
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-07 Opening Talk for Mahasi Retreat 1:18:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-06 Intention: The Last Stronghold Of Self-View (Chanting and Talk) 1:27:27
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Explains how intention operates and how it is not self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-06 Guided Heart Meditation - In Dyads 39:39
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Guided Metta Meditation 40:05
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 The Path in a New Paradigm 40:27
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 Satipathana Sutta Fourth Foundation 18:01
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 Morning Instruction - Question & Response 13:46
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Meditation--Radiance-Sutra 5:58
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2 45:46
James Baraz
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-05-06 Chanting and Morning Reflection 69:25
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-05 Fearless Kindness 49:25
Christina Feldman
Kindness is one of the foundations of awakening enabling us to meet the forces of fear that can distort our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-05 The Hero's Journey - The Return 47:12
Pamela Weiss

2010-05-05 Q&A 2 37:09
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Guided Forgiveness Meditation 31:53
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Introduction to Forgiveness - Guilt vs Remorse 8:49
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Guided Meditation Unfolding in Awareness 40:26
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Obstacles & Skillful Means on the Path 47:22
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Four Reflections That Turn Us to Deeper Practice, II 66:10
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the Tibetan based teaching of the Four Reflections (or reminders) which help us turn more fully to the Dharma, giving a brief review of 1) the preciousness and rarity of human life, and 2) impermanence and suffering, then moving to examine in more depth 3) how our actions and thoughts matter and leave imprints- or karma, and 4) the importance of knowing and turning always from our habitual tendencies leading to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-04 Evening Prayer 1:24
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-04 Becoming - why public speaking is more terrifying than worldwide nuclear destruction 65:30
Ajahn Amaro
The uncertainty of perception and memory, the urge to become, how becoming ceases.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-04 Turning the Wheel of Dharma - Part Five: The Fourth Noble Truth - The Path to Awakening 56:40
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Turning the Wheel of Dharma

2010-05-04 Equanimity: The Ocean of Experience 64:16
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-04 Satipathana Sutta Second & Third Foundations 25:17
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-04 Guided Sound of Silence Meditation 42:18
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-04 Three Marks: The Buddha's Facts of Life 51:37
Trudy Goodman
The Buddha taught three characteristics of all life as a doorway to freedom, to the pure heart's release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-04 Guided Third Foundation Meditation 42:35
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-04 Introduction to Third Foundation 8:24
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-03 Freedom from suffering - The Buddha's 3rd Noble Truth 56:22
Mark Coleman
Understanding how mindful awareness supports acceptance, letting go and finding peace amidst all conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-03 Contentment 50:57
Christina Feldman
Contentment forms part of the fabric of a liberated heart - cultivated in all moments of craving, restlessness and doubt.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-03 Healing The Heart 58:04
Noah Levine
The process of accessing loving-kindness and compassion through forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-03 Forgiveness Practice 40:25
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-03 Warriors for Truth 45:32
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-03 Guided Meditation Working with Pleasant & Unpleasant 41:04
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-03 Guided Meditation Noticing Pleasant & Unpleasant 38:25
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-03 Introduction to Second Foundation 9:34
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-03 Morning Instruction 8:22
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-03 Morning Reflection 31:58
Ajahn Amaro
Refuge in the attributes of our own being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-02 Evening Chanting 11:00
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-02 Self-Compassion 61:52
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-02 The Four Determinations 55:00
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-05-02 Being Bodies 43:32
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-02 Satipathana Sutta Overview & First Foundation 21:51
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-02 Guided Meditation Staying with the Breath 37:55
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-02 Q&A 1 20:40
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-02 Meditation with Instruction 28:01
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-02 Coming Home (Part 2) 51:55
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Coming Home

2010-05-02 Practice Here, There and Everywhere 54:48
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2010-05-01 Tracing Back The Radiance 56:46
Ajahn Amaro
How distraction works, tracing it back.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-01 The Body and the Three Characteristics 36:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

2010-05-01 Holding Life with Kindness 66:49
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-01 The Way Out Is In 48:12
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-01 Guided Breath Meditation as Internal Massage 31:52
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-01 Guided Walking Meditation Instructions 3:18
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-01 Guided Standing Meditation 13:04
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-01 Guided Body Meditation 27:01
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-01 Mindfulness Of The Body 51:42
Ajahn Amaro
Morning Reflection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-01 Coming Home (Part 1) 55:27
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Coming Home

2010-04-30 Opening Talk: Refuges and Precepts 53:16
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Refuges and Precepts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-04-30 Opening Talk 13:55
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-04-30 Introduction 47:44
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-04-30 Opening Talk for Coming Home Retreat 53:20
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Coming Home

2010-04-29 Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 1 52:15
James Baraz
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 1
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-04-29 A Wise Relationship with the Judging Mind 52:49
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-04-29 Transcendent 33:29
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-04-28 Embodied Spirit 1:12:55
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our body, and the pathways of homecoming.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-04-28 The Healing Power of the Dharma 60:28
Larry Yang
Mindfulness, the four noble truths, and freedom
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-28 The Hero’s Journey - The Awakening Part 2 58:26
Pamela Weiss

2010-04-28 Four Reflections Which Turn us to Deeper Practice- Part I 64:12
Donald Rothberg
We explore the first two of the traditional Tibetan "mind-turning" reflections on the preciousness of human life , and on impermanence and death, with suggestions on how to practice these reflections and how this may quicken and deepen our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-28 Compassion 1:14:06
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2010-04-27 Awareness as Love 59:31
Mark Coleman
How do the practices of mindfulness, metta and compassion weave together and support our journey in wholeness, healing and the end of suffering. This talk also relates how these practices support the work of psychotherapists and healers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-27 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Image of the Body 56:54
Rodney Smith
We continually misrepresent the body by forcing it to be governed, controlled, and defined by the mind. When we set the body free from imposed boundaries we find a natural and intelligent life energy that knows its way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-04-27 Kamma 56:38
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2010-04-26 Turning the Wheel of Dharma - Part Four: The Third Noble Truth - The End of Dukkha 58:28
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Turning the Wheel of Dharma

2010-04-26 Seven Factors of Awakening, Part 2 - The Mind that Smiles Unprompted 60:19
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana Retreat with Mindful Movement

2010-04-25 Part 5 of 5- Discussion (pm) 29:37
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 4 of 5- Working with Emotions 29:00
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 3 of 5- Discussion (am) 29:57
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

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