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Dharma Talks
2009-06-10 Life Experiences Along the Path 1:27:27
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-06-10 Practicing with Anger, Pt I 60:12
Donald Rothberg
For many of us, it is hard to know how to practice with anger. We explore some of the reasons for confusion about anger, including the mixed messages we get about anger in many settings, the different connotations of what is translated as "anger" East and West, and the conditioning around anger. We then outline three ways of more "inner" work with anger, through 1) mindfulness, 2) reflections and 3) heart practices like lovingkindness, compassion and forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-10 The Magic Show of the Mind 34:58
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-10 The Regal Tree 48:09
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-09 Equanimity 41:43
Shaila Catherine
This talk explores equanimity as the fourth of the four qualities called Brahma Viharas. Previous talks in this series addressed loving kindness, compassion, and appreciative joy. Equanimity allows us to remain present and awake with the fact of things—equally close to the things we like and the things we dislike. It is important to develop equanimity in two arenas: 1) in response to pleasant and painful feelings, and 2) regarding the future results of our actions. Equanimity develops in meditation and in life. We can use unexpected events that we cannot control to develop this quality. Our job is not to judge our experiences, but to be present and respond wisely. Equanimity is a beautiful mental factor that can feel like freedom, but if "I" and "mine" still operate, there is still work to be done. Many suggestions are offered for cultivating equanimity.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Four Brahma Viharas
In collections: Four Brahma Viharas, The Ten Paramis

2009-06-09 Practicing with the Four Noble Truths 60:04
Howard Cohn
The Buddha's awakening and prescription for practicing the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2009-06-09 The Heart Sutra 57:49
Kittisaro
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-09 The Second Arrow 41:31
Kittisaro
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-09 Desire & Aversion 25:40
Thanissara
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-09 The Heart Sutra 57:49
Kittisaro
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-09 The Second Arrow 41:31
Kittisaro
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-08 Wise Speech in Daily Life 60:39
Mark Coleman
How to cultivate wise speech so out words bring harmony, clarity & truth. Following the Buddha's guidlines on speaking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-08 We Can't Always Get What We Want on Retreat 57:16
Anna Douglas
The vipassana retreat form encourages a particular way of learning about ourselves. How can we best use the conditions of this retreat form - silence, solitude, and simplicity - as vehicles for awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings Part 2

2009-06-08 Mindfulness - Exploring The Universe Within 62:10
Greg Scharf
An introduction about how I came to meditation, followed by a description of the characteristics and function of mindfulness as a tool for exploration and insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-08 Teaching of This Moment 50:15
Thanissara
Entering the Four Truths
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-08 Perceiving the World Through Chanting 49:49
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-06-08 Mindfulness of the Body 1:18:13
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-08 Contemplation of Desire and Aversion 25:40
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-08 Meeting Dukkha 50:15
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-07 Understanding the Practice of Generosity 49:48
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
The talk includes stories about learning generosity through giving to monks and nuns during the daily dawn walk (pindapad) in Thailand … that is, eeing how this opens a logjam in the heart and one experiences the sheer joy of giving. This talk also outlines and gives examples of the different kinds of giving as listed in AN 8.31 and 8.33.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program II, 2009-2010, Study Retreat 1

2009-06-07 Collaborative Talk: Eugene Cash & Students 40:51
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-06-07 Breaking the Spell 50:46
Kittisaro
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-07 An Easeful Abiding - Samadhi and the Jhana Factors 1:24
Kittisaro
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-07 Breaking the Spell 50:46
Kittisaro
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-06 The Five Indriya's 52:40
Thanissara
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-06 Being present to body & breath 42:48
Thanissara
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-06 Samvega or Spiritual Urgency 52:44
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-06 Being Present to Body Breath 42:48
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-06 The Five Indriyas 52:40
Thanissara
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-05 Practice in Daily Life 35:07
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practice in Difficult Times

2009-06-05 Faith and Confidence 43:01
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practice in Difficult Times

2009-06-05 The Wings of Awakening 69:21
Kittisaro
From Practice of Dhamma to Being Dhamma
Gaia House The Wings of Awakening

2009-06-05 Vipassana Instructions 1:22:44
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-05 From Practice of Dharma to Being Dharma 69:21
Kittisaro
Gaia House Wings of Awakening

2009-06-04 Generosity - an expression of loving kindness. 60:06
Greg Scharf
The practice of Dana (generosity) as a foundation for insight includes an exploration of the concept of merit sharing the power and goodness that arises from out practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2009-06-04 Practice in Difficult Times 26:01
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practice in Difficult Times

2009-06-04 Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 3 56:43
James Baraz
Tonight James finishes his series on the Faith Mind by the 3rd Zen Patriarch of China. One of the most meaningful lines in this section is: ”To live in this (highest) realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.” Cultivating that attitude is a key to freedom. To let ourselves be perfectly imperfect.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-06-03 The Responsive Heart 60:40
Rebecca Bradshaw
Turning the open heart of metta towards suffering, happiness, and peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2009-06-03 The Attitude that Perpetuates Suffering 1:10:46
Tara Brach
Our conditioning is to conclude that "something is wrong" when we encounter difficulty. This way of relating to experience binds us in a trance--it locks in the identification with a separate, victimized, self; it leads to unwise action and it removes us from presence. This talk guides us in recognizing our often unconscious attitude towards what is happening, and arriving in the unconditional presence that is the source of love, wisdom and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-06-03 Four Ways That the Noble Person Speaks 1:14:24
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-06-03 Aware of the Passing of Time 1:48:57
Sylvia Boorstein
No description given.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-02 Appreciative Joy 44:02
Shaila Catherine
Appreciative joy (sympathetic joy, mudita) is the third of four qualities called Brahma Viharas (divine abodes) which are the subjects for this 4-part lecture series. Appreciative joy is presented as an extension of the loving kindness (metta) practice. Joy refers to the ability to delight and rejoice in the success and good fortune of others. Mudita overcomes the hindrances and obstacles of conceit, comparing, envy, avarice, jealousy, aversive criticism, resentment, competitiveness, and boredom.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Four Brahma Viharas
In collection: Four Brahma Viharas

2009-06-02 Connecting With Things As They Are Because We Care 57:48
Michele McDonald
Exploring our ambivalence around connecting with things as they are and discovering and trusting the deep quiet abiding that is always here
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2009-06-01 Natural Resources of Mindfullness 1:10:12
Ajahn Liem Thitadhammo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-01 Loving Kindness - Cultivating the Wholesome 59:24
Greg Scharf
Begins with the history of the Karaniya Metta Sutta, followed by a description of qualities and characteristics of loving kindness; and the benefits of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2009-06-01 There is no separation between vipassana and ordinary daily life 53:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

2009-06-01 Practicing Mindfulness Of Mind 59:22
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-06-01 Natural Resources of Mindfulness 12:10
Ajahn Liem Thitadhammo
This is Part I, it has an introduction to Ajahn Liem and the Thai Forest Monastery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-01 A Pilgrimage as Practice 67:02
Amma Thanasanti
Dhamma Threads -2009, date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2009-06-01 The Way Things Are 51:03
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2009-06-01 The Way Things Are 51:03
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2009-05-31 Güte, Mitgefühl und Gelassenheit 44:04
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-05-31 Finding Joy 48:49
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2009-05-30 Coming Home 51:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2009-05-29 Questions and Answers 1:21:03
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-29 Opening Talk for Yoga and Meditation Rereat 36:37
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2009-05-28 Big Mind Meditation 37:40
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-28 The Storytelling Monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri 55:24
James Baraz
Affectionately known as “the Storytelling Monk,” Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri is a French-born Kriya Yoga teacher and founder of the Hariharananda Mission in the USA and in India, and the Ark of Love in South America. For the last sixteen years, he has traveled around the globe teaching Yoga, composing and chanting sacred chants, and providing education and shelter to poor children, widows, and senior citizens in India and South America.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-05-28 Spiritual Awakening 25:19
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-28 Missing 40:38
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-27 Celebrating Vesak: Oh Nobly Born 1:12:28
Tara Brach
Vesak is the Buddhist holiday that celebrates the Buddha's birth, enlightment and death. What links these events is the radical and powerful message of all Buddhist teachings: We each have the potential to realize and live from and awakened heart and mind. This talk explores how the key mythological, psychological and spiritual junctures of the Buddha's life are entirely relevant to our own transformation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-05-27 Questions and Answers 23:40
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-27 Guarding the Senses 51:16
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-27 Have you trained your heart to love. - Talk Not Recorded 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein
(Recording not available) 
talk was not recorded.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-05-26 Basic Goodness 63:36
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-26 Compassion 22:19
Shaila Catherine
Compassion, karuna, is the intention of non-cruelty. It is the aspect of loving kindness (metta) that responds wisely to pain, and wishes to alleviate suffering. Compassion training helps us to remain present with pain. There is no need to fear pain, no need to consider pain bad or wrong. A compassionate self-acceptance allows us to remain present and responsive in the face of life's most difficult moments. With compassion we can ask "How can I help?" and stay present to respond.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Four Brahma Viharas
In collection: Four Brahma Viharas

2009-05-26 Ten Paramis: Energy (1) 63:27
Rodney Smith
Energy is free and open, but the sense-of-self resists that open energy and distorts it towards its needs.</div>
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-05-25 Dharma God 63:07
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-25 Opening Talk 29:16
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-25 Bell 33:30
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-25 Impermanence 41:18
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-24 Humility As A Spiritual Awakening 59:18
Heather Sundberg
How do we find the place between indulgence and self-mortification, between pride and shame? This talk explores the relationship between humility and the Middle Way, through personal stories, poetry and practical techniques such as working with fear, the hindrances and the RAIN practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-24 Bugs Bowl 45:04
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-23 How Do We Change? 59:03
Kevin Griffin
Exploring mistakes in cause and effect in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma of Recovery

2009-05-23 The Path of Engagement and Its importance for our Times 56:31
Donald Rothberg
How do we find depth, focus and support for an engaged path? And why do we need such a path? Aren't traditional Buddhist paths complete and adequate for our times? In this talk, we explore these issues, identifying 1) the structure of the traditional path of training in ethics, meditation, and wisdom; 2) what an engaged path adds or extends and the way that it meets the needs of our times; and 3) five core training areas for engaged paths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Path of Engagement # 5

2009-05-23 Journey 55:38
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-22 Her Story 1:55:07
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
We always hear about the life of the Buddha, but very few of us know that his wife Yasodhara was the first and only person in the entire Buddhist canon to say “no” to the Buddha, and the Buddha accepted. This evening presentation will include a reshaping of Yasodhara’s story as well as the personal story of Ven. Dhammananda Bhikkhuni’s own journey to become ordained, and her mother’s struggles to become the first ordained nun in Thailand.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2009-05-22 Afraid So 48:55
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-05-21 2009 Monthly Sitting Group, Month 5: Actions that Support Practice; The Five Jhana Masteries; “Psychic Powers” 68:55
Tina Rasmussen
Includes: silence, breathing, timing, resolves; the masteries required in completing a jhana and moving on to the next; and what is meant by “psychic powers” and whether they are necessary; meditation instructions; and Q&A
Various

2009-05-21 Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-Tsan (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 2. 59:16
James Baraz
Tonight James continues his discussion of Verses on the Faith Mind by Sengstan (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), his favorite piece of dharma wisdom. This week one of the lines from the passage is the source of Joseph Goldstein’s book One Dharma. "There is one Dharma not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-05-21 Realizing the Nature of Mind 63:55
Rob Burbea
Through practice we can glimpse a sense of the nature of awareness as something ever present and awesomely vast, and this sense can be cultivated as a profound resource for freedom and peace in our lives. But eventually we must see even beyond this to know the ultimate nature of the mind - empty, completely groundless, and dependently-arisen - a seeing which brings an even deeper freedom. This talk explores some of the ways this realization might be encouraged and developed in meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-21 Rebirth or No Birth 46:27
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Aging, Sickness and Death

2009-05-20 Three Gifts That Serve Freedom 56:43
Tara Brach
There are three spiritual capacities that are essential for our freedom. The first, forgiveness, is the releasing of stories that this self, or another, is bad. It is an opening of the heart to include all parts of our own being and this world. The second, inner fire, is the energy of devotion to what most matters to us. The third, looking within to realize what we are, reveals the truth of reality itself. This talk uses an ancient Indian teaching tale and guided meditations to explore these core elements of spiritual liberation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-05-20 Practicing with the Shadow, pt III The Collective Shadow and How We Work with It 65:24
Donald Rothberg
We first revisit the exploration of the shadow, how it forms, and how we work with it, we then look into the nature of collective shadow phenomena, how the personal and collective shadow inter-penetrate, and how we work with the collective shadow. The key, as always, is to establish a relatively safe space to develop awareness, compassion and wisdom, leading to skillful action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-05-19 The Ten Paramis 4:23:42
with Shaila Catherine, Stephen Fulder
This is a collection of talks and guided meditations given at Insight Meditation South Bay on the ten paramis of generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, energy or effort, patience, truthfulness, determination, loving-kindness and equanimity.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2009-05-19 Four Brahma Viharas 2:18:08
Shaila Catherine
A collection of four talks on the immeasurable and boundless qualities of heart known as the Brahma Viharas: loving kindness/friendliness, compassion, joy, equanimity.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Four Brahma Viharas

2009-05-19 Loving Kindness 30:02
Shaila Catherine
Loving Kindness, friendliness (metta) is a clear intention and attitude of heart that supports a connected and joyful encounter with life. Metta is not sentimentality; it is not affection or attachment. It is a strong quality of heart that overcomes ill will, hatred, fear, and anger. Loving kindness practice is a way to take responsibility for our own happiness; it is a way to cultivate an attitude to life that supports deep friendship.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Four Brahma Viharas
In collections: Four Brahma Viharas, The Ten Paramis

2009-05-19 Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation 33:02
Shaila Catherine
Guided Meditation, meditation instructions
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Featured Guided Meditations

2009-05-18 Satipatthana Sutta - part 46 - The Noble Eightfold Path: Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration, Conclusion. 61:58
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Satipatthana Sutta Series

2009-05-18 The Role of Samadhi in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness 60:10
Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2009-05-17 The Song and Heart of Metta 55:07
Adrianne Ross
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2009-05-17 Mindfulness of Body 56:39
Dori Langevin
The life of the body is a tether to moment to moment experience. Cultivating an enlarged awareness, infused with kindness, plus directly contacting sensations, allows us to be with unpleasant sensations we often call "pain"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-05-16 Supports for Samadhi: An overview of the Buddha’s teachings on some of the beautiful qualities of mind and heart that lead to deepening concentration. 55:22
Sally Armstrong
The role of concentration is central to the Buddha’s teaching. This can be seen by the emphasis placed on it in some of the key Buddhist lists, such as the Noble Eightfold Path, the Five Spiritual Faculties, the Seven Factors Of Awakening and the 12 links of Transcendent Dependent Arising. This talk looks at the qualities we can develop in our practice that support concentration, such as faith, mindfulness, happiness and contentment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2009-05-15 The Path of Samadhi 66:04
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2009-05-15 Generating the Sacred in Our Lives 65:09
Sharda Rogell
What does it mean to live a holy, or sacred life in the world? This talk explores how to integrate the teachings and practices into our daily life.
Wood Acres Retreat Center :  Our Wisdom Heart

2009-05-15 No Self, No World 63:22
Rob Burbea
Anatta (‘not-self’, or ‘no-self’) is one of the Buddha’s most subtle and profound teachings, and a full understanding of it involves seeing how not only the personal self, but also the entire world of experience, is empty of any intrinsic essence or existence. This talk explores some of the possible ways a meditator might work in practice to develop and strengthen such radical and liberating insights.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-05-15 The Sufferings of the Pleasure Syndrome 49:32
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

2009-05-15 Morning Instruction 6 - Selflessness 9:19
Sharda Rogell
Wood Acres Retreat Center :  Our Wisdom Heart

2009-05-15 The Development of Virtue 51:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2009-05-14 Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 1. 46:34
James Baraz
Tonight James begins a series on his favorite piece of dharma wisdom: Verses on the Faith Mind by Sengstan, otherwise known as the 3rd Zen Patriarch of China. This is one of the best treatises on the non-dual approach to practice. A few choice lines: “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.” “To live in the realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.” During this series, James reads through the text and discusses how we can apply it in our lives. If you are interested in reading the actual text of this sutra Click Here.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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