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Dharma Talks
2010-03-11 What Remains? 47:54
Kittisaro
Support for insight. Turning to the deathless. The unborn. Language gives a sense of thing-ness. The waves and depths of the ocean are all water.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-11 Compassion and Courage 57:27
Kamala Masters
Helping ourselves, helping others through compassion and courage.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-11 Just A Handful Of Leaves 41:28
Kittisaro
Awakening through reflection of the four Truths. The five focuses of the grasping mind. The Khandas and non self. A taste of peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Handful Of Leaves 54:15
Thanissara
A teaching for humans, suffering or its end. Asking the world to give us more than it can. Letting be, a gateway to Nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Delight in the Dharma (Liberative Dependent Arising 3) 56:46
Donald Rothberg
Delight (or joy or gladness, pamojja) is the second factor that emerges as we shift away from repetitive cycles of suffering. We explore how delight manifests as delight in practice, in our integrity, the "bliss of blamelessness," and in other ways. We also look at how to cultivate delight, how delight or joy support the deepening of our practice, and what makes delight difficult to access.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-10 "Wisdom is Wisdom"- Mindfulness Part 1 67:03
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-10 Skill With Thought 32:54
Thanissara
Five skills to overcome obsessive and negative thought patterns. Skill in relationship with feelings. Working with "just this much".
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-10 Cessational Insights Within Pliable Boundaries 40:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-09 Waterfall Of Impermanence. 50:12
Kittisaro
Working with disturbance. When the use of will fails. Leaning from sickness. Characteristics of existence. The island.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-09 Following Faith to Liberation 48:39
Mary Grace Orr
The Buddha teaches both about the cycle of suffering and another cycle leading to liberation. When we willingly encounter our suffering directly, conviction arises and leads us deeper into our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-09 Dhamma As Nature 39:52
Kittisaro
Contemplating the nature of things. Transformation through seeing the nature of hindrance. Balance of samatha and vipassana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-09 Cultivating Lovingkindness Toward the Body-Guided Meditation 16:12
Arinna Weisman
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series

2010-03-09 Cultivating Lovingkindness Toward the Body 40:53
Arinna Weisman
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series

2010-03-08 Discerning Mind and It's Activity 51:01
Thanissara
Bowing as inner attitude and as skillful means. A gathered heart and meeting obstruction. Compassion as capacity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-08 Walking Meditation 51:25
Susan O'Brien
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-08 The Four Truths 58:10
Heather Martin
How the first two Noble Truths describe Samsara and the circular chain of Dependent origination, and how the third and fourth Truths have been expanded to form Transcendental dependent arising, which beautiful topics will be further explored during this month - long retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-08 The Second of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment - Investigation 66:01
Gina Sharpe
Exploring the Seven Factors of Enlightenment or Awakening (Monthly People of Color Sangha Sitting).
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-08 It Is Not As It Should Be. 40:55
Thanissara
Connecting with the actuality of body. Breath as a basis for samadhi. Cultivating support for stability here and now. Middle ground between pleasure and pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-07 Awakening 51:45
Kittisaro
Meeting ourselves. Limitations of success and sense pleasure. The great reversal. The Buddha's journey. Knowing pleasure, pain, and beyond. Return to the original brightness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-06 The Eight Streams of Blessings. 54:49
Thanissara
A gradual path. Practice as preparation. An alignment with refuge here and now. Sangha as the relational field. Beyond morality. The chanting of ethics.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-06 Dependent Co-Arising 54:15
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-06 Deconstructing Buddhism 65:16
Stephen Batchelor
Based on an examination of early discourses found in the Buddhist Pali Canon, we explore the question: "What did the Buddha teach that was distinctively and originally his own?" By differentiating the Buddha's Dhamma from the ideas of Indian religion and metaphysics that prevailed at his time we seek to uncover a clearer sense of the Buddha's message and then consider what relevance it still has for people living in the modern world.
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-06 How Is It Now? 41:49
Thanissara
Training in samadhi. Samadhi as healing. Gathering the three steams of energy, body, mental and heart into awareness. Gently training attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-06 Three Modes Of Practice 52:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-06 Emptiness 49:43
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who you Are

2010-03-05 The Template and Blessing Chants 51:58
Kittisaro
Arriving into a retreat and working within limitation. Being more "here". Calling on the ancestors, devas and earth spirits to bless and protect as the boundary of the retreat is set.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2010-03-05 The Risk of Being Present 47:25
Sharda Rogell
Our practice invites us to return to the present moment - yet in order to be here, we must let go of everything and enter this moment unburdened. Are we willing? If so, we will discover our true refuge - that which is utterly reliable.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-05 Lay and Monastic Practice 37:33
Amma Thanasanti
Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-05 Questions and Answers 17:43
Amma Thanasanti
Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-04 Patience, The Highest Virtue 55:13
Kamala Masters
The benefits and strong support of remembering to be patient with your practice from beginning to complete liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-04 The Hindrances 53:43
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-04 Confession of Buddhist Atheist (Book launch, hosted by Tricycle Magazine and New York Insight) 1:20:02
Stephen Batchelor
Stephen’s new book, "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist", tells the story of his thirty-seven-year quest to understand the meaning of Buddhism. It recounts his life as a monk in India and Korea and concludes with his search to discover the historical Buddha. Stephen talks about the writing of the book and reads selected passages.
New York Insight Meditation Center New York Insight 2010 Talks

2010-03-04 Opening Talk for Being Who You Are Retreat 37:11
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who you Are

2010-03-04 To Fall Awake 47:13
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who you Are

2010-03-03 Mindfulness of the Body and Why It Is So Important 60:28
Donald Rothberg
Mindfulness of the body is absolutely fundamental for our practice and was for the Buddha, both a starting point and an end point. We explore (1) why mindfulness of the body is crucial both in the Buddha's teaching and especially in our highly mental culture; (2) how we practice mindfulness of breathing and mindfulness of postures and activities; and (3) how mindfulness of the body works to transform us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-03 Trusting Your Basic Goodness 1:12:58
Tara Brach
When we don't trust who we are, we are unable to be at home in our world. This talk explores how we come to be at war with ourselves and the pathway to realizing our basic goodness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-03-03 Awakening Joy 60:59
James Baraz
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-03-03 You Don't Have To Be So Solid 39:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-03-02 Why We Need Mindfulness 54:31
Heather Martin
Why our dear doomed attempts to be well need revising, and how nourishing our spirits while Staying, Loving, Opening and Wondering are the strategies that actually bring wellbeing by clearing the dust away.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Wise Effort 56:41
Rodney Smith
It is important to learn the meditation technique, but to adhere too strictly to the form of the practice can mask self-doubt. Risking doing it wrong begins the "art" of practice, and insight develops within the art of quiet observation free from the pressure of failure.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-03-02 Embracing Fear, Aggression and Sexuality on the Path to Awakening 49:07
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-03-01 Aloneness and Love 54:36
Mark Coleman
What is the relationship between love, attachment & aloneness. How does aloneness support us coming home to ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-01 Not-Self Indulgence and all 50:53
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

2010-02-28 Nourishment, Challenge, and Change 51:39
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-28 Patience: Balancing Effort and Surrender 52:06
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-02-28 Patience With Contact - The Guide To Beautiful Soup 62:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-27 What's Love Got To Do With It? 63:49
Pat Coffey
Love and Awakening are not separate. Love is available to everyone right now, it's already here and is actually not dependent on someone loving you.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center True Refuge: Realizing and Embodying Loving Presence

2010-02-27 Not Knowing 51:52
Andrea Fella
A guided meditation on expanding awareness and an exploration on the theme of not knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-27 The Path of Peace and Happiness Retreat 54:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Path of Peace and Happiness

2010-02-26 Easing into the Boundless, Just Where it Touches Us 57:25
Sally Armstrong
The wisdom of the two truths-the relative and the transcendent, points to a way of being with our experience that acknowledges the beautiful qualities of the heart while opening to the freedom that is available here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-26 Opening Talk for The Path of Peace and Happiness Retreat 64:38
Yanai Postelnik
(talk given with Kirsten Kratz)
Gaia House The Path of Peace and Happiness

2010-02-25 Basic Meditation Instructions 16:16
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center True Refuge: Realizing and Embodying Loving Presence

2010-02-25 Loving Kindness Meditation 31:13
Hugh Byrne
Guided meditation on loving-kindness with some discussion of the Brahma Viharas' Divine Abodes.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-02-25 Trusting Your Buddha Knowing 63:12
James Baraz
The source of our awakening is right inside us. As we learn to listen deeply to the wisdom and purity of heart that is connected to the truth, we are following the Buddha's instructions to "be a lamp unto yourself".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-25 Metta 28:53
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-02-24 Empty of Self / Full of Everything 63:13
Howard Cohn
Emptiness is creative expression and creative potential. Both appreciating the immediate expression of emptiness as everything as well as emptiness as creative possibility to plant seeds of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-24 Living Aligned with the Heart 1:13:21
Tara Brach
We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and others, and live from our natural intelligence and tender warmth.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-02-24 Essential Dharma Part I- Class 1, Part 2 38:54
Sharda Rogell
Essential Dharma Part I- Class 1, Part 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Part I

2010-02-24 Practicing with the Body- Part IV The Body-Mind-Heart Connection 59:43
Donald Rothberg
We review briefly our previous practices and investigations of body practices in the last three weeks. We then focus on the body's connection with mind and heart, how we practice individually with each of them, how we explore the dynamic relationship of body, mind, heart. We end by focusing on heart practices for our bodies and those of others, and on opening to the further mysteries of bodies.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-02-24 The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle for Self Discovery - Part III 55:33
Larry Rosenberg
The Four Noble Truths viewed as a prism to examine our experience in the service of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-24 Breaking Off The Mind's Stream With Insight 54:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-23 Investigation and Insight 46:58
Michael Grady
Sati-Panna - The merging of mindfulness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-23 An In Body Experience 46:32
Kim Allen
A Dharma talk about the experience of a 6-day human dissection course.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series

2010-02-22 Not Self & The Five Aggregates 56:39
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-02-22 Hoping, Fearing, Seeing the Truth 45:27
Susan O'Brien
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-02-22 The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle For Self Discovery. Part II 52:25
Larry Rosenberg
The Four Noble Truths viewed as a prism to examine our experience in the service of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-21 The Obvious 58:16
Andrea Fella
We often understand our habits and patterns as having many complex layers, and think we need to dive into the midst of the layers in order to "really" understand the pattern. This talk explores a gentle investigation of what is obvious in our experience, which allows a natural, organic understanding to emerge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-21 Relaxation And Insight 48:27
Michael Grady
Cultivating a wise and open-hearted attitude in meditation practice, frees the mind to relax and see clearly.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-21 Patience: Understanding Restlessness 57:40
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-02-21 Guided Meditation 43:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-20 Clinging and Identification with I, Me and Mine 59:34
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha saw that we continually cling to and create a sense of self out of five aspects of our experience. Seeing this process clearly can lead to the possibility of letting go and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-20 The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle For Self Discovery. Part I 45:40
Larry Rosenberg
The Four Noble Truths viewed as a prism to examine our experience in the service of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-20 The Floods Of Ignorance, Sensuality, Becoming And Views 44:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-19 Awakening Joy 66:13
James Baraz
Practice is more than just opening to suffering. It is a path of happiness. We can incline the mind to open to and awaken wholesome states that lead to well-being and, ultimately, liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-19 Freshen Up, It's Your Last Day (Sanna And Impermanence) 30:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-18 Understanding Thought 59:10
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-02-18 The Awakening of Equanimity 1:10:49
Howard Cohn
Describes the development of equanimity through the vehicle of mindful attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-18 Dropping Into Gut Presence 39:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-17 Hitting the Wall of Sakhaya Ditthi 63:16
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-17 Practicing with the Body Part 3: Cultivating Wisdom 59:37
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the first two series, we focus on body practices to develop insight into 1) impermanence, 2) suffering and the roots of suffering, and 3)constructions of self. We suggest several concrete practices to develop wisdom through awareness of bodily experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-02-17 The Mind Opens By Faith 32:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-16 Impermanence 61:04
Andrea Fella
Everyone knows that "things change". Yet as the Mahabarata points out "only the surface-mind understands, the actual sense never goes into our heads". Exploring our experience deeply, we can move past the surface understanding to deeply recognize this truth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Moving the Principle Through the Application 60:54
Rodney Smith
Guiding the application of the teaching from the sense of self and not the true principle of selflessness is the single greatest mistake made in Buddhist practice and distorts all the revelations.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-02-16 Somebody Anybody Nobody-Guided Meditation 19:38
Lila Kate Wheeler
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series

2010-02-16 Somebody Anybody Nobody 41:16
Lila Kate Wheeler
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series

2010-02-16 Responsible Embodiment - Kamma 41:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-15 Love, Wisdom, and Awakening 51:37
Nina Wise
The journey and thread that weaves through each,... one begets and is of the other... how Valentines day and Presidents day can lead us to Awakening...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-02-15 Abundant Enoughness: The Practice of Contentment 61:01
James Baraz
The Buddha spoke of Nekkhama or renunciation as source of happiness. This is because it gives rise to contentment-seeing this moment as complete as it is. This talk explores the experience of inner contentment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-15 Holding The Tiger 33:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-15 The Union of Appearance and Emptiness 64:15
Rob Burbea
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
Gaia House Meditation on Emptiness (2010)

2010-02-14 Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned 69:04
Rob Burbea
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
Gaia House Meditation on Emptiness (2010)

2010-02-13 Compassion and Emptiness 62:00
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-13 Let Your Goodness Overflow 56:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2010-02-13 The Subtlety of Dependent Origination 1:11:31
Rob Burbea
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
Gaia House Meditation on Emptiness (2010)

2010-02-12 Four Brahma Viharas. 57:52
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2010-02-12 Trance of Time 65:55
Howard Cohn
Explaining concepts of time and its influence on our experience of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-12 Forgiveness 48:19
Gina Sharpe
Forgiveness as a basis of loving kindness practice with questions and answers.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2010-02-12 No Mind 1:16:51
Rob Burbea
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
Gaia House Meditation on Emptiness (2010)

2010-02-11 We Are Stardust 57:57
Lila Kate Wheeler
Mystery and the mechanics of metta - scientific basis for innate goodness and connection of all things.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2010-02-11 Agendas and Judgments 40:33
Winnie Nazarko
Human beings seek to control their experiences in order to be happy. But when we approach meditation practice with a fixed agenda, we miss the mark. Freedom and liberation comes from learning to harmonize with reality, not in trying to impose our preferences upon it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February 2010 Month Long

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