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Dharma Talks
2012-05-26 Instructions 1 Part Dieu 2012 10:42
Charles Genoud
Introduction à l'attitude méditative
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 The Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 65:57
Kamala Masters
The clear message of the Buddha is that this holy life has as its end the unshakable deliverance of mind. (The Simile of the Heartwood, MN 29 and 30). This talk is about what is to be cultivated in our lives so that this deliverance is actualized. The cultivation of dana (generosity), sila (living a virtuous life), and bhavana (developing the mind through concentration and insight)….these three lead one securely in the direction of nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-25 What is Non-Duality? 55:53
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 The Five Hindrances or Obstacles to Meditation Practice 49:44
Grove Burnett
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-05-25 Right Action2 - Morning Session 63:22
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Buddhism and Ecology 43:32
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 Right Action 1 - Morning Session 22:45
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind 29:59
Martin Aylward
Anupadana, meaning non-clinging (often translated as letting go), is the very essence of Dharma practice. This introductory talk looks at the specifics of cultivating a non-clinging attitude with respect our physical, emotional, and mental experience.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-24 Institutions and Poisons 1:10:17
David Loy
Our economic system institutionalizes greed; our militarism institutionalizes aggression; the media institutionalizes delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-24 Right View and Dependent Origination 1:34:51
Tempel Smith
The teaching on Dependent Origination shows us how craving and suffering arise from wrong understanding and a lawful process of cause and effect. By bringing wisdom and awareness to each step in this chain reaction, we uproot craving and bring an end to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00
Tara Brach
"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-23 Right Speech and Listening 1:25:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Practicing with Views and Judgments in the Context of Service and Social Action 53:50
Donald Rothberg
For many Western Buddhists, it is challenging and often confusing to know how to work with views, theories (whether spiritual or social) and the judgmental mind. We explore the nature of views and judgements and how to practice with them, especially in the context of service and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-23 Sangha as Refuge 52:21
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-23 The "Lack" of Self 54:02
David Loy
Our most problematic dukkha is due to our sense of a separate self, a dukkha usually experienced as a sense of lack.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism - Vignettes, Challenges, Possibilities 45:49
Donald Rothberg
A second overview of socially engaged Buddhism is offered, through vignettes and stories of engaged practices, a discussion of some of the challenges of connecting inner and outer transformation, and a sense of the great creative possibilities of such an approach. With Q&A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Dhamma as Refuge, the Aggregates 1:10:53
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Tuesday Evening Dharma Talk, May 22nd, 2012 1:20:58
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-05-22 Practicing the Dharma with Others 42:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism: Personal Transformation and Social Justice 40:40
David Loy
"The mercy of the West is social revolution. The mercy of the East is insight into the basic self/void. We need both" (Gary Snyder)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 36:07
Anushka Fernandopulle
Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path during the Living Dharma Study Retreat. Subsequent sessions discuss each step on the path in greater depth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-22 Guided Meditation: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral 46:19
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Instructions: Mindfulness of Dukkha 19:14
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Dhamma as Refuge, the Path 51:44
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Instructions: Continuity of Mindfulness 17:30
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 The Buddha's Life 52:16
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-20 Buddha as Refuge 52:54
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Guided Meditation: Body Scan 44:50
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Instructions:Mindfulness of Pain and Breathing 26:05
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Mindfulness of Intention 33:22
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-19 Seeing Through The Self Illusion 63:57
Howard Cohn
Learning to recognize the self view and be kind to the vulnerability that come with being "someone"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-19 Opening The Heart To Mystery 58:33
Mary Grace Orr
On not knowing as the path to awakening...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-18 On Meditation 25:53
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2012-05-18 The River Of Life; the River Of Impermanence 47:01
Kamala Masters
Opening to the understanding of impermanence is freeing on many levels.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-18 The Four Resolves 54:35
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-18 Equanimity 65:24
Lila Kate Wheeler
Non self and various equanimity modes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-17 The Eightfold Path and Liberation 58:50
Andrea Fella
An exploration of how the noble eightfold path is a lived path and lends to the ending of greed, aversion and delusion -- liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-17 How Wonderful to See Defilements in the Mind: Practicing with U Tejaniya 58:09
James Baraz
On his return from a 2-week retreat at IMS in Barre, MA, with Burmese Master Sayadaw U Tejaniya, James shares the essence of U Tejaniya's unique approach to practice and the impact it has on one's life.

Teachings by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Retreat at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA, April-May 2012
Workshop at Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, CA, June, 2007
23-points for Right Attitude for Meditation
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-17 Buddha's Way To Happiness 59:39
Howard Cohn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-16 Opening Talk 1:12:50
Lila Kate Wheeler
Welcome to the experience of retreat, how to get the most from your time including refuges and precepts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-16 Part 2 - The Lion's Roar 1:13:31
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that faith--trust in our true nature--is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant and full.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-16 Vulnerability and The Good Heart 45:08
John Travis
Stories help point to the possibility of opening to what is difficult and what is beautiful.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-16 Becoming Bodhisattvas III: Practicing with Views and Concepts 57:00
Donald Rothberg
In the context of connecting inner and outer transformation, we explore how to train to be wise and skillful in using views, concepts, and theories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-15 How Does the Heart Let Go? 50:32
Mary Grace Orr
Being with things as they are and letting go are very difficult. The friendly and open heart support us in this work.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-15 Clear Comprehension. 57:49
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding the larger context of our actions and the application of clear knowing in our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-15 Taking Refuge in the Laughing Buddha 38:23
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-15 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise View 59:12
Rodney Smith
Wise view is fundamental to everything we do in the dharma. Having adirection establishes a context for all dharma activities. Without it weflounder and move in the direction of our conditioning toward pleasureand ease. Simply stated, wise view is the view that our thoughts distortour perceptions away from the inherent interconnection of all things.Working in clear alignment with interconnection allows us the courageand intention to move toward the difficult, toward that which seems toseparate, and confirm the truth of oneness. All dharma activity must bein accordance with that intention, or it will further support theconditioned sense of separation.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-14 A Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche- Open Heart, Open Mind 1:56:08
Jack Kornfield
A Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche- Open Heart, Open Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-14 This - Here - Dharma 56:08
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Retreat

2012-05-13 The Art of Retreating 46:49
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-05-13 What is What 45:51
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-12 CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 4 of 4 30:38
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012

2012-05-12 CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 2 of 4 66:06
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012

2012-05-11 Faith 55:23
Kamala Masters
Faith in our ability to understand what supports us in our practice
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-11 Renunciation as a Path to Joy 51:57
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the paramis of wisdom and renunciation - specifically how to renounce the various thoughts, views, habits and actions that cause pain and inhibit joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-11 Talk and Meditation on Mindfulness of Emotions 63:43
Phillip Moffitt
Skillful and unskillful ways to be mindful of emotions. Common misperceptions that make working with emotions difficult in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-11 Advice For Taking Awareness Home 23:53
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart 32:05
Thanissara
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Study-Practice Program

2012-05-10 Group F #4 1:50:46
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 Group E #4 1:49:05
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-10 Practicing With Feeling 56:37
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of the implications of mindfulness. Of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, and suggestions of concrete ways to practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-10 Morning Instructions 19:47
Carol Wilson
Reminders about the quality of awareness and commitment that we can, and need, to continue our practice beyond the form of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Engaged Stillness 40:05
Larry Rosenberg
Breath awareness, glass in hand and clear seeing.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-09 Dharma Teachers Group 69:51
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Part 1 - The Lion's Roar 1:18:46
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that faith--trust in our true nature--is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant and full.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-09 Appreciating Goodness 62:10
Myoshin Kelley
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-05-09 Becoming Bodhisattvas II--Ethical Practice 67:58
Donald Rothberg
We look at one of the primary training areas of a Bodhisattva, one who connects inner practice and helping others ethical practice. We consider an expansive understanding of the five lay precepts, and the challenges of ethical practices.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-09 Group D #4 1:47:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Group C #4 1:52:44
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-09 Right view 20:51
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 The Kind Heart 36:49
Mark Coleman
Kindness is the cornerstone of the spiritual path. This talk explores how it is developed in ordinary and beautiful ways in our life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-08 Group B#4 1:37:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Working with Fear. 58:53
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of the nature of fear and of going beyond our comfort zones in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-08 Meditation and the Emotional Landscape 4:42:12
with Doug Slakey, Jennifer Dungan, Leah Weiss, Robert Cusick, Shaila Catherine, Sharon Allen
This collection of talks given at Insight Meditation South Bay discusses the nature of emotions. Topics include how to work with shame, dread, fear and anger.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-05-08 The Dukkha of Praise and Blame 38:40
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-08 Dynamics of Emotion 44:27
Shaila Catherine
Meditation can reveal the dynamic process of emotional life. In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores relationships between mind and body, between thoughts and emotions, and between present moment experience and concepts. Emotions are not avoided in meditation, instead we engage in a balanced and wise investigation of emotions and see their changing, impermanent, and empty nature. Transformative insight into impermanence may come through understanding the functioning of mental states, without worry about difficult emotions such as anger, grief, or fear. We will learn to respond, act, and speak with wisdom as we learn to open to the full range of emotional life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Meditation and the Emotional Landscape

2012-05-08 Group A #4 1:43:41
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Morning Instructions 15:38
Carol Wilson
How to begin to include speaking and listening as equal objects of awareness with sitting, walking and everything else.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Refuges and Eight Precepts Chanting 2:44
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Taking Practice into Life 12:21
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Sayadaw is giving instructions - 10 days into the retreat - for including speaking and listening in the practice of momentum of awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Truthfulness and Sila 40:33
Anna Douglas
A talk given at the third retreat of the Mindfulness for Yoga Teachers training in 2012.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-07 Group F #3 1:49:06
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Group E # 3 1:47:05
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-07 Awareness: The Five Faculties In Action 16:54
Steve Armstrong
Confidence, perseverance, remembering, stability of mind, right view are all involved in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Group D #3 2:03:10
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Group C #3 1:55:17
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Morning Instructions 20:38
Carol Wilson
Appreciating that with uncompromising commitment to right view and steady awareness - wisdom is the natural effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 The Second Noble Truth 36:59
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-06 Possibility of Being Awake 37:00
Amma Thanasanti
Buddha's Birth, Death, and Enlightenment day -- Full moon May 6th, 2012 Shakti Vihara
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-06 Possibility of Being Awake - Q&A 24:32
Amma Thanasanti
Buddha's Birth, Death, and Enlightenment day -- Full moon May 6th, 2012 Shakti Vihara
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-06 Patterns of Mind, Ethics, Oneness of Mind, Wisdom 64:07
Catherine McGee
which patterns of mind are wholesome and which lead to more suffering? Sila and Samadhi as a basis for presence and the wisdom that sees into the nature of things.
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-05 The Power Of Patience 58:11
Kamala Masters
Remembering and reminding ourselves how "patience is the highest virtue", as the Buddha has said.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-05 Group B #3 1:55:35
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Group A #3 1:59:19
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Meeting The Hard And Soft Brick Wall Of Practice 9:41
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-05 Connecting or Letting Go? 50:19
Kirsten Kratz
Many of us have a yearning for deeper connection and intimacy. How does this human longing relate to the teachings of "letting go" and "not clinging". This talks reflects on how these, at first sight seemingly contradictory, movements of the heart may support each other, dancing a mysterious dance that will lead to increased freedom and understanding."
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-04 Group F 2 1:40:42
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Group E #2 1:59:17
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Morning Instructions 21:30
Christina Feldman
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

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