2011-03-01 The Potential of the Conditioned World 52:13
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Each of us is an open-ended process, matrixed with everything else. The very open-endedness of our nature allows for transformation in the direction of happiness, once we understand the lawfulness of things and act on that understanding. The fact that we are matrixed with other beinigs/things means our individual development has positive effects on others, beyond what we can directly observe/know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-01 Forgetting and Remembering 42:26
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-01 1. Indulgence 17:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-02-28 Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media 53:01
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-28 Emptiness and Compassion 61:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-28 Buddhist Studies Course - 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 63:39
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - (2011) 7 Factors of Awakening (Note: an updated course was offered in 2017)
7 Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - Meditation - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 25:46 Download Listen 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - Talk - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 39:54 Download Listen

2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-27 Questions and Answers 55:25
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-26 Resting The Weary Heart And Mind 54:54
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
What are the reasons for our hearts and minds not being at rest? How can we bring our hearts and minds into a state of rest and ease?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Resting the Weary Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Weekend

2011-02-26 We Live in Illusion and the Appearance of Things 58:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Delusion, one of the three kilesas, is in some ways the fundamental cause of our suffering -- because we don't see clearly the way things truly are. Our experience of ourselves and the world is distorted by our conditioned views and perceptions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-26 Reasonable Devotion (Sat.Talk) 54:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-25 Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment 56:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Purification of Motivation 43:43
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our minds have many mixed motivations, and they can be at play in meditation practice. This talk discusses some of the common "ulterior motives" which can be present, how to recognize them and how to re-frame them to make them into skillful supports-not distractions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Introduction to the class series 10:15
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-24 Step One: Powerlessness 34:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-23 When We are Lost 1:19:30
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also our capacity to recognize our trance and choose presence. This talk explores how the practice of pausing and arriving in the aliveness of our senses opens us to our natural compassion and wisdom, and enables us to experience the great mystery we are part of.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 23:22 Download Listen When We are Lost 56:07 Download Listen

2011-02-23 Exploring the Nature of Craving with Wiusdom 62:15
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-23 How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven 56:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We step back to look at how we develop the three meditative path factors separately, and how, as practice deepens, the factors become interwoven, and we move forward a kind of mindful, concentrated, effortless effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-23 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 3) 49:49
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-22 You are Indescribable 39:43
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-02-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Aversion 57:47
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Aversion and desire work together to entrap the mind within its own projections and divide the whole into parts. The opposite of what I desire is feared and visa versa. Because the mind is a single whole, when we pit what we like against what we do not, repetitive aversive and desiring images noisily dance through the mind in opposition to the contentment of the abiding wholeness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-22 Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances 37:22
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-22 Its Empty-Be Empty 46:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-21 The Joy of Wholesome States 61:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
How the practice is a path of real happiness through cultivating wholesome states and being present for them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-21 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 2) 50:45
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-21 Four Levels Of Insight 51:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-20 The Five Aggregates & the Search for Self 61:01
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-20 Guided Meditation: form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form 60:28
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-20 Joy 57:00
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-19 Metta: Tenderness & Connection 62:07
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows that sentient beings are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-19 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part1) 47:31
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-19 Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) 1:28:18
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-19 Generous Cultivation (Sat. Talk) 41:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-19 Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom 43:53
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Young Person's Retreat - Ethics, Meditative Calm and Wise Understanding

2011-02-18 The Truth in Ordinary Things 54:39
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our lives are the raw material for liberating insight to arise. Even outside of meditation, the three characteristics of conditioned things -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- are present in all experience. Understanding this directly and continuously, in the context of the Buddha's core teachings, leads to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-18 Contentment Gratitude 27:21
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
02 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2011-02-18 Happiness No Matter What 40:59
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Center

2011-02-18 Not Me, Not Mine as Compassion 56:48
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-18 Honouring The Ceased-(Magha Puja) 58:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-17 Working with the Judging Mind 64:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
A reflection on the comparing and judging mind highlighted with stories and readings. Includes a useful practice based on a quote from the 3rd Zen Patriarch: "The burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness." The evening ends with a brief discussion with the sangha. This talk was also given at the February 2011 month-long retreat at Spirit Rock: Working with the Judging Mind
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2011-02-17 Transforming Difficult Emotions -- From Poison to Medicine 61:48
Susie Harrington	Download Listen
When difficult emotions arise in our practice, developing a skillful and willing relationship is an important part of the path. Emotions are the natural human response, and a natural and important part of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-17 Letting Go 33:11
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-02-17 Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta 51:19
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-17 Stilling The Bounce 31:09
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-16 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 2 1:16:14
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 24:19 Download Listen The Sure Heart's Release - Part 2 51:55 Download Listen

2011-02-16 The Power of Generosity 62:19
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-16 Understanding Self and Freedom from Self 57:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-16 Concentration Practice III 55:28
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review our previous exploration of concentration practices with further treatment of 1) wise effort, 2) how concentration deepens toward the Jhanas, and 3) the relationship of concentration and insight practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-16 Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4) 1:21:12
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-16 Seeing & Knowing The Floods 38:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-15 Working with the Judging Mind 56:07
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-15 This Body, The Path 58:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-02-15 Where Two Worlds Meet 43:57
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-15 Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha 39:28
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-15 Subtle Activities 35:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-14 True Love-Romantic Love 55:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is romantic love & how does it compare to metta/boundless love that is the heart's true capacity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-14 The Striving Mind 47:34
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha took effort to its far point, bringing himself close to death in the pursuit of awakening. Then he had a change of understanding, let go of self-punishment and awoke. We too need to discern when our effort is skillful, and when we are out of balance in striving. How to recognize and let go of unskillful striving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-14 Tranquility 27:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-14 Tranquility as a Factor of Awakening 34:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-14 Reflections on Commitment and Ardency 57:51
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-14 Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3) 1:14:54
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-13 The Dhamma Gate of Restlessness 55:04
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-13 Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca 1:11:52
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-12 The Seven Factors of Awakening 62:22
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-12 Equanimity In challenging Times 61:22
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Finding Joy and Inner Calm in Challenging Times: Insight Meditation Weekend

2011-02-12 Contact and The Construction of Self 60:09
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-12 Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness 34:58
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-12 Making Space for Fear 47:31
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
We naturally want to reject, ignore, deny, our unpleasant experience. In this talk Martin both encourages us and shows how to turn our attention "fearwards", daring to look deeply and to see clearly through our defenses and distractions, to freedom from fear.
Gaia House :  Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)

2011-02-12 Establishing Perfection(Sat.Talk) 60:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2011-02-11 Reflections on The First Noble Truth 55:34
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The First Noble Truth, that of "Dukkha" -- is to be understood, so said The Buddha -- yet often when we think about it, our reactions can tend towards aversion: "life is suffering." I feel this is an inaccurate reflection of the freeing potential of understanding this teaching.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-11 Staying at ‘contact’ 66:34
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-11 Opening Talk for Loving What Is (whether we like it or not) 46:52
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk explores maintaining an open and inquiring attitude to all that arises. We are reminded that there is no wrong experience, no feeling we shouldn't have; that all experience is worthy of our caring, curious, contactful attention.
Gaia House :  Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)

2011-02-10 Practicing With Compassion In The World 52:46
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Going home with practices of metta, compassion and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-10 Humility and Confidence 57:37
James Baraz	Download Listen
How being humbled can deepen our capacity to open to all of our experience and strengthen our confidence and trust.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-10 Four Kinds of Love 52:37
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
In honor of Valentine's Day, Wes reflects on everybody's favorite 4-letter word. As usual, he provides an insightful and entertaining perspective on the topic illustrated with a wealth of poetry. A discussion with the sangha ends the evening.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2011-02-10 Question and Answer Session 2 1:21:06
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-10 Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 43:37
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-09 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 1:23:46
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation 24:12 Download Listen The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 59:34 Download Listen

2011-02-09 Inner Cultivation, Outer Expression 55:03
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-09 Freedom from Self-Drama 55:04
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-09 Concentration Practice II- and discussion 55:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the basics of concentration practice,and then focus on concentration practice as a path of purification, and then on wise effort in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-09 Metta Instructions - Difficult Person 53:25
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-09 Ending Blame 54:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-09 Fourth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 54:22
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-08 compassion 50:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Compassion is a beautiful quality of the heart that allows us to meet our humanness and all of our struggles and pain with a kind and embracing love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-08 Metta - Reteaching a Thing its Loveliness 43:19
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-02-08 Introduction to Mindfulness Week 4 - Working With Obstacles 1:18:46
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-08 8. Virtues of a Good Spouse 14:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Chapter IV : The Happiness Visible in the Present Life - Buddha's Teaching for Lay People

2011-02-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Desire 54:27
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Desire forms the sense of self by fracturing the mind into what it wants compared to what it has. In moving with what it wants, it has to dismiss or resist reality (what it has) and form its own imaginative response. The sense of self is part of that fantasy buildup and has a central role in keeping it going.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-08 Awareness Pure and Simple 13:08
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  IMS Audio Files

2011-02-08 Instructions In Metta 51:31
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Expanding instructions for metta practice to the neutral person.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-08 Third Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Reflections on Including the Friend in Metta 47:25
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-08 Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) 62:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-07 The Middle Way 62:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Application of the Middle Way in meditation practice and daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-07 The Way Of Balance 49:52
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Equanimity, one of the four Brahma Vihara, can be practiced to bring balance to practice and life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-07 Where Does Happiness Come From? 55:37
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to at least five routes to different levels of happiness for lay people: sense pleasures, merit, concentration, insight, and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-07 Buddhist Studies Course - 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 5 - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 1:27:46
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - (2011) 7 Factors of Awakening (Note: an updated course was offered in 2017)
7 Factors of Awakening - Week 5 - Meditation - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 26:00 Download Listen 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 5 - Talk - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 62:13 Download Listen

2011-02-07 7. Use of wealth for Happiness 17:53
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Chapter IV : The Happiness Visible in the Present Life - Buddha's Teaching for Lay People

2011-02-07 Holding Yourself Dear 61:01
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)