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Dharma Talks
2013-01-12 You are the Nameless and the Formless 62:12
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2013-01-11 Managing the Unmanageable, Part B 42:41
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-01-11 Managing the Unmanageable, Part A 61:01
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-01-11 The Power of Compassion 53:11
Mark Coleman
Through practice, the heart flowers by integrating mindfulness and metta (loving kindness) and through turning toward our suffering with kind attention and loving acceptance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2013-01-10 In The Footsteps of The Buddha 62:26
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2013-01-10 Shifting perspectives 47:46
James Baraz
When life is difficult or frustrating the teachings advise us to practice equanimity. One simple but potent way to do that is to take a step back and hold things with a wider perspective. We'll be exploring different practices that incline towards equanimity through this method.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-01-09 Aligning Our Thoughts with the Path 25:09
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Hartford Street Zen Center)

2013-01-09 The Barriers to Loving Presence 1:15:18
Tara Brach
You might reflect on someone important to you, and ask: "What is between me and loving fully?" Notice what happens. This talk explores the ways we create separations from others, and the power of inquiry and presence to awaken an unconditionally loving heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-01-09 The Liberating Power or Mindfulness 54:17
Mark Coleman
What is mindfulness? How does it function and most importantly how does it allow us to be present to our experience and bring about a spacious, non-reactive response to the moment, that facilitates freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2013-01-09 Pas moi, pas mien 1:10:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-01-09 Four Foundations of Mindfulness IX: Fourth Foundation III 56:21
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the Fourth Foundation, particularly through the frameworks of the Five Hindrances and The Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-01-08 The Four Attachments 37:22
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 2

2013-01-08 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Embodied Action 45:09
Rodney Smith
Insights remain a dormant potential but not a formative actuality until they are put into action. Action validates the insight and establishes our intention to move in line with its truth. Action overcomes doubt and aligns our cognitive system with our spiritual transformation. It is the essential component for moving our spiritual journey forward. Too often our insights get lost within our conditioned habits and are never brought into the light of day, and therefore never fully position our mental and physical systems to the Dharma.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2013-01-08 The IP Happiness 46:05
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara TiE at Innovation Pavilion

2013-01-07 What Is Intention 53:09
Mark Coleman
What is it's place in our lives. How do we cultivate it and what hinders clarity of intention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-01-06 The Truth 39:44
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-01-06 S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday: Jan 6, 2013 1:30:40
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, sometimes followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and often a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2013-01-05 Morning Reflections 16:24
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-05 Highest Happiness 31:59
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-01-04 The Great Heart Of Life 60:35
Yanai Postelnik
Our human heart has a great capacity to deepen in kindness and understanding - and we can learn to trust this even in the face of danger and suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-04 Morning Reflections and Instructions -Day 7 55:14
Catherine McGee
Resting in the naturalness of the knowing mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-03 Embracing Change 52:20
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-01-03 Factors of Awakening - Equanimity 57:19
Sharda Rogell
Equanimity is both our practice and the goal of the teaching. We start where we3 are with an attitude of welcoming all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2013-01-03 Morning Instructions - emotions and mindstates 55:34
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-02 Compost and Fertile Ground 39:16
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2013-01-02 Finding True Refuge 1:31:30
Tara Brach
This talk explores the three classic gateways to peace and freedom and includes a living ritual that invites us to bring a conscious, sincere dedication to our awakening on the spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-01-02 Factors of Awakening - Concentration 59:02
Adrianne Ross
Developing wise concentration leading to liberating wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2013-01-02 Metta Meditation 39:36
Yanai Postelnik
Offering Loving Kindness to the neutral person and to oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-01 A New Year's Day of Practice: Talk and Guided Visualization 31:07
Donald Rothberg
For "A New Year's Day of Practice: Resting and Re-Visioning," this talk in the afternoon pointed to ways that our practice can work with the three aspects of time: with training in present-centeredness, with studying and eventually letting go of the negative patterns from the past, and with aspiring in the future (in this New Year) to develop in ways that are helpful for both the personal and universal dimensions of awakening. A guided visualization helps us particularly with letting go and being in touch with what calls us from our depths for the next period of time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-01-01 The Way Things Are 59:02
Yanai Postelnik
Seeing the way things are subject to change, unable to give lasting satisfaction, and empty of inherent separate self, offers a gateway to transformation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-01 Importance of Resolution plus 45:47
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2013-01-01 Factors or Awakening - Tranquility 55:09
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2013-01-01 Transcendence, Connection to the Timeless, and New Year's Intentions 42:28
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-01-01 Questions and Answers 50:19
Rodney Smith
Rodney Smith answers questions from the sangha.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2013-01-01 Morning Instructions - Getting Caught In The Eddies 49:55
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-01 Never Give Up 31:57
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Retreat Center

2013-01-01 How We Meet Experience 41:43
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2013-01-01 Equanimity 60:40
Christina Feldman
Equanimity the noble quality of the heart that allows us to meet an unpredictable world, complex relationships and change without being shattered. Also explores the way the Buddha used equanimity as a description of liberation.
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-31 Turning Towards The Light - New Year Reflection 60:37
Greg Scharf
Reflections on loving kindness, forgiveness and Bodhicitta on New Years Eve.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 Wholeness and Love 42:11
Max Erdstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2012-12-31 Renewal and Reconciliaton 47:14
Molly Swan
True North Insight 2012 New Year's Retreat

2012-12-31 Path: Classical and Post-Modern 41:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, No Self, No Problem: An Exploration of Self-View 5:20:30
Howard Cohn
On this day of Insight Meditation practice, we will learn how to relate to ourselves wisely, lovingly and skillfully. We will try to weaken the unwise and unkind ways that we often relate to ourselves. Finally, we will understand that everything is marked by non-self. seeing through the illusion of self we can see through the illusion of the so-called "other".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-31 Skilled Meditator 2:01
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Guided Metta Practice- easy person, self and body 44:45
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 Guided Meditation: Awakening Compassion - Tonglen 29:52
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-31 Big View, Big Mind - Guided Meditation 29:52
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Day#3 - Morning Reflections and Instructions 45:58
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 Dharma Talks 28:43
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-12-31 The Necessity of Fantasy 68:38
Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Year Retreat
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2012-12-30 Factors of Awakening - Joy 53:18
Sharda Rogell
We find joy in sensual pleasure but the true joy comes when we relax into the present moment and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2012-12-30 The Nature of Mind 62:19
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Year End Retreat: Purifying the Mind 57:45
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-30 Letting Go 47:03
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Suffering & Non-Suffering - Guided Meditation 38:54
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Guided Meditation: The Freedom of a Forgiving Heart 36:00
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Forgiveness - Guided Meditation 32:00
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Morning Meditation and Instruction 41:58
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Morning reflection and Guided Meditation 55:25
Greg Scharf
Meditation as the science and practice of happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-30 Living in the Light of Death 49:50
Jenny Wilks
Some reflections on how awareness of the transience of our life helps us to appreciate its preciousness and clarify our priorities.
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-29 Dharma Reflections 50:28
Yanai Postelnik
Practice as an entry into the wilderness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-29 Dharma and the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence 46:40
Matthew Brensilver
This talk examines ways that the dharma can support two key developmental tasks of adolescence: exploring the nature of happiness and developing a healthy sense of self without getting stuck in it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat (Walden West)

2012-12-29 The God Whom I Love is Inside 59:15
Tara Brach
Our suffering arises from unlived life--the fears and loneliness and hurt that we have been unable to digest and include in our heart. This talk explores our conditioning to become dis-embodied and the blessings of spiritual realization that arise as we inhabit our aliveness fully.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-29 Year End Retreat: Cultivating Wholesome Activities 65:11
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-29 Hindrances - Guided Meditation 41:41
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-29 Meditation: Lovingkindness 42:43
Hugh Byrne
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-29 Feelings/Mind Objects - Guided Meditation 36:42
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-29 Beginnings and Endings 1:11:33
Mark Coleman
Stillness and Motion: The Dance of Life, with Vinn Marti
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-29 Morning Instructions - Reflections and meditation instructions - mindfulness body breathing 1:11:04
Catherine McGee
Samatha as a "standing in the stream" and not being "taken by the stream"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-29 Staying Open 31:03
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2012-12-29 Dimensions of Desire 58:45
Christina Feldman
a talk focussing on the desires that are helpful and wholesome and those that lead to the re-creation of pain and distress.
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-28 Factors of Awakening - Investigation 57:12
Adrianne Ross
How balanced investigation reveals things as they really are, bringing energy to our practice and ways of developing skilful inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2012-12-28 The Transforming Power of Mindfulness 67:49
Hugh Byrne
What we accept we go beyond: when we bring a kind and non-judging awareness to our experience we align ourselves with the truth of how things are and open to liberating insights that lead to release from suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Heart wood of spiritual life 54:00
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Lovingkindness - Instruction and Meditation 33:46
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 No blame/breath - Guided Meditation 29:25
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Metta and body - Guided Meditation 43:41
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Body scan - Guided Meditation 34:17
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Instruction: Walking Practice 7:46
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Instruction/Question/Response 11:09
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Morning Instruction in Meditation 29:48
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Being With What Is 12:10
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2012-12-28 Reflections on Joy and Happiness 52:25
Chris Cullen
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-27 Past, Present and Future. 54:44
James Baraz
As 2012 comes to a close, this is a time to reflect on the lessons from the past year, where you are now and what your vision is of the New Year.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-27 Factors of Awakening -- Mindfulness 61:36
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

2012-12-27 Year End Retreat: Throw Nothing from Your Heart 40:21
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-27 Introduction to Meditation Refuges & Precepts 42:33
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-27 Opening Talk for New Year Retreat 35:47
Christina Feldman
This talk also includes Chris Cullen, Jenny Wilks, and Rob Burbea
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2012-12-26 Balance as Refuge 55:56
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth - pt 2 2:32
Donald Rothberg
This is a short wrap up of this talk. A few minutes between parts 1 and 2 were missed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth 50:13
Donald Rothberg
We review the Four Foundations with continued emphasis on the Fourth, including attention to a number of practical situations. Pt 1 of 2. *There are a few minutes missed between pt 1 and 2. Part 2 is the wrap up of the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-22 Practice Here And There - Practice Everywhere 67:59
Marcia Rose
Exploring what we learned in this retreat and how it translates as good support and protection in out lives in the larger world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 Practice Instructions 41:01
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 What's With All This Meditation Then? 48:30
Paul Burrows
Gaia House Insight Meditation: A Path of Freedom

2012-12-21 Dissolving Storyline 51:47
John Travis
In usual fashion, one of John's poems followed a teaching on dissolving the four types of mental fixations and opening to the radiant mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-21 The Buddha's Way to Happiness - Interview 4:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2012-12-21 Challenging Energies: How To Attend and Befriend 42:48
Pat Coffey
In practice we are often beset by challenging energies. Cultivating a skillful relationship to them is key to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 A Time For Healing 51:58
James Baraz
Dealing with the tragedy of Newtown, Conn.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-20 Metta - The Heart's Release 1:14:58
Marcia Rose
There is tremendous fullness of energy constituted by great confidence, strength and very clear straight forwardness that comes from a loving heart... that comes from the heart of Metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 Christmas Talk re the Path 47:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

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