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Dharma Talks
2010-11-15 Don't Believe the Second-Hand Story 45:20
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-11-15 Dependent Origination As a Pointer to Emptiness 57:34
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination are among his most profound and challenging. This teaching clearly shows how ignorance leads to suffering, and implicit in this is the way out of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Emptiness and Letting Go 57:40
Gil Fronsdal
How emptiness is experienced through the letting go of clinging and concepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Emptying the Mind 40:25
Gil Fronsdal
Guided Meditation on emptying the mind of all concepts to the point of letting go of attachments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Dimensions of Insight 34:58
Christina Feldman
Explores the personal and universal stories we are invited to investigate and understand.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-14 What versus Why 60:16
Andrea Fella
We have a strong tendency to try to understand why things happen to us. This talk explores meeting what is happening moment to moment, which begins to reveal the "why" of the present moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-14 The Emptiness of Phenomena 57:07
Guy Armstrong
All the phenomena of our senses are empty of any solid substance or essence. It may be more appropriate to refer to phenomena as "appearances" rather than "objects." This theme is explored through the Sutta "A Lump of Foam" in the Samyutta Nikaya.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 Happiness Leads to Samadhi 57:48
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-14 Intuitive Awareness Talk 4 55:31
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-14 Putting the World Together Again 37:48
Jose Reissig
Our dedication to appropriating all that comes our way has wreaked havoc with our collective life. It has caused much collateral damage to both society and the environment, and has grievously damaged the core of our social integrity. To reverse the damage we need, first and foremost, to restore this integrity.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-11-14 The Five Aggregates Are Empty 69:57
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha often used the schema of the Five Aggregates to show that what we take to be self is actually impermanent and unsatisfactory, and that clinging to the aggregates will bring suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 Meditation on the Aggregates 45:48
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 Investigation 54:39
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-13 Dependent Origination 53:40
Gil Fronsdal
Talk on Emptiness for Emptiness: Meditation and Study retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Wise Effort 55:49
Will Kabat-Zinn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-13 Intuitive Awareness Talk 3 52:06
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-13 Divesting Ourselves of Possesiveness 39:34
Jose Reissig
Much of our life is dedicated to establishing ownership of all that comes our way: things, territory, others, etc. In so doing we end up fragmenting both the owned and the owners. To become whole we need to divest from this project. Time: 39:34
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-11-13 The Parable of the City 55:46
Stephen Batchelor
Wellington Insight Meditation Community Secular Buddhism

2010-11-13 Formation of Self-View 1:11:25
Guy Armstrong
The Buddha said many times that no self is to be found in the phenomena of our senses. But still, the sense of a self in us arises over and over. This talk explores through sutta references how this sense of self is created in the moment and how it can cease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Morning Instructions 39:34
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Reflection: The Conceit of Self 6:58
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-12 The Three characteristics as Pointers to Emptiness 58:13
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 Intuitive Awareness Talk 2 33:10
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-12 Practicing Intimacy 42:30
Jose Reissig
To practice meditation is to practice intimacy, first with ourselves, and eventually with all beings. Time: 42:30
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-11-12 Stream Entry 59:09
Stephen Batchelor
Wellington Insight Meditation Community Secular Buddhism

2010-11-12 Dharma in Brief 1:19:34
Gil Fronsdal
First talk for the Emptiness: Meditation and Study Retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 Guided Morning Instructions 42:55
Gil Fronsdal
Mindfulness of what is happening and how we relate to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 Guided Meditation 41:33
Andrea Fella
Expanding Awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-12 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1) 62:48
Rob Burbea
Through the development of various skillful means, we can unlock the innately liberating dynamism at the heart of our emotional life, allowing deep healing, freedom, and the natural unfolding of our full potential.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-12 Reflection: Faith 16:20
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-11 Introduction to Emptiness Retreat 49:19
Guy Armstrong
This talk was given on the opening night of the Emptiness Retreat. It introduces the theme of emptiness as a lack of unchanging essence or substance. This retreat encourages us to explore the possibility that things are not as they appear to be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-11 The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:31
Greg Scharf
An overview of the 7 Factors of Enlightenment - powerful, wholesome, helpful, mental factors which arise naturally in practice and directly incline the mind & heart toward liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-11 Intuitive Awareness Talk 1 57:20
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-11 The Four Noble Truths 62:34
Stephen Batchelor
Wellington Insight Meditation Community Secular Buddhism

2010-11-11 Goodness and Joy : Uplifting the Heart 53:34
Yanai Postelnik
Spiritual practice rests on a deep trust in the fundamental wholesomeness of our hearts seeking for happiness. We can learn to honour the goodness of our core motivation, even as we recognise our need to deepen the skill and wisdom with which we pursue genuine wellbeing. This includes recognising the importance of connecting with that which brings joy to our heart as part of our spiritual practice, and honouring our own wholsesome qualities and actions.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-10 Releasing Karmic Patterns 1:20:15
Tara Brach
We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfulness can free us to live from our inherent love and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-10 Twelve Reasons Why We Practice 62:00
Donald Rothberg
Connecting with our deep motivation for practice is a crucial support. We explore a number of interwoven motivations for practicing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-10 Conditioned Arising 58:57
Stephen Batchelor
Wellington Insight Meditation Community Secular Buddhism

2010-11-10 Mindfulness Part 2 61:05
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-09 Your Basic Goodness 46:49
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-11-09 Reflections on Death 49:04
Susan O'Brien
How reflecting on our own impermanence can be a support in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-11-09 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Neutral Feelings 58:18
Rodney Smith
Neutral feelings pervade our life when we try to maintain a high level of intensity for our life's purpose and meaning. Busyness is an indication of this dependency, but as soon as the energy decreases below an established threshold, our mind wonders, and we become dull, listless, and uninterested. Awareness has not waned in the slightest, but we have been conditioned to stop paying attention.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-11-09 What is Secular Buddhism 54:19
Stephen Batchelor
Wellington Insight Meditation Community Secular Buddhism

2010-11-09 Recollection of the Dhamma-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice 54:00
Shaila Catherine
The Triple Gem: Recollection of the Dhamma—The Liberating Teachings. This is the second installment in a three part series on the three jewels or three refuges. This talk introduces the practice of contemplating the Dhamma (dhammanusati) as a meditation practice that enhances joy, delight, energy, and faith in the efficacy of the path. The reflection considers the Dhamma as good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, pure in its meaning and in its detail, immediate, timeless, inviting one to come and see, worthy of application, to be experienced by the wise.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice

2010-11-09 Mindfulness Part 1 1:25:12
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-08 Developing the Parami' Part 2 61:43
Mark Coleman
This talk continues an exploration of the Buddhas teachings in the Paramis - specifically focusing on the Parimi of Love ( metta) energy, persistence, truthfulness and morality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-08 The World Led by Mind 32:37
Christina Feldman
Cultivating mindfulness of thought and how it shapes the world.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-07 Not Self and Selfing 57:10
Andrea Fella
An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on anatta (not Self) and how we can understand this teaching by observing what we take to be self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-07 Understanding Joy in Meditation Practice 51:13
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-07 Attributes of Inner Beauty: Wisdom 53:34
Steve Armstrong
Maui, Hi :  Daylong Meditation, Maui Hawaii

2010-11-07 The Path Ahead: Integrating Our Life into our Practice 41:49
Sharda Rogell
A talk given on the closing morning of retreat that lays out the way to live with wise intentions for liberating our habitual tendencies and living an awakening life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-07 Seasons of the Heart: the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 49:49
Yanai Postelnik
This talk reflects on ways of practicing skillfully with mind states and emotions. These sometimes challenging areas of experience are a gateway to deepening clarity and opening the heart, when met in the present moment with understanding, acceptance and kindness.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-06 Relaxing the Fixated 'I' 52:52
Sharda Rogell
Unless we understand how we cling to the conditions of our mind and body as "me", we will live within a narrow and confined view and miss the revelation of our true beingness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-06 The Spiritual compost 48:04
Winnie Nazarko
It is clear that spiritual practice is aimed towards the development of wholesome states. Yet our mind-streams have currents of greed, hatred and delusion - how can we use these very states to our own benefit?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-06 The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 69:19
Rob Burbea
The contemplation of vedana, the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, provides a powerful tool to dismantle suffering; it can also reveal surprising and profoundly liberating truths about the nature of reality.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-06 Concentration 68:02
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Wise Concentration Weekend

2010-11-05 Our Strategies Aren't Working: the Arising of Compassionate Heart 59:16
Sharda Rogell
A simple and clear exposition on the Buddha's insights into releasing, grasping and suffering. This is the release that opens our heart to great compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-05 How the Dharma Saved My Life 64:49
Bob Stahl
How to work with self-loathing and doubt. How the Noble truths lead to freedom. How the Buddha guides us on the eight-fold steps on how to live our lives, train our minds and grow in wisdom. The Dhamma is most excellent in the beginning, middle, and end.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-05 Gratification - Danger and Escape 56:04
Rebecca Bradshaw
Relating to sense pleasures in a way that leads to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-05 Practicing with the Hindrances 40:09
Christina Feldman
The meditative journey involves understanding and dispelling the veils of mental states that cloud the radiance of the mind.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-04 Ascending and Descending Movements of Dharma Practice + Buddhist Global Relief 1:11:40
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses the Five Spiritual Faculties, the ascending factors that lead toward enlightment and the Four Brahma Viharas, the descending factors that lead toward engagement in the world.

Following the dharma talk, Kim Behan, Executive Director of Buddhist Global Relief, gives a presentation on the founding, goals, and projects of the organization. Buddhist Global Relief is a Buddhist organization dedicated to providing relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide. Read Bhikkhu Bodhi's provocative essay that led to the founding of BGR: “A Challenge to Buddhists”

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-11-03 Part 4 - Living from Presence - Introductory Series 1:23:00
Tara Brach
Our human potential is to express the wings of presence--mindfulness and lovingkindness--through all facets of daiy living. This talk explores the practices that enable us to both serve and savor this precious life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-03 Training the Mind; Aiming Towards Love 59:21
Sharda Rogell
When we identify with our cruel inner critic, this undermines our capacity for kindness towards ourselves and others. Inclining the mind towards metta points us towards our own innate goodness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-03 Tending the garden of the heart and mind 50:52
Mary Grace Orr
Just as we garden, tending out plants and pulling weeds, so we need to cultivate the ground of heart and mind. Uprooting obscurations and dealing with hindrances are part of this work.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-03 The First Noble Truth 61:31
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding Dukkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-03 Paramitas- Each a Permutation of the Others 60:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-03 Inspiration and Ardency 34:52
Yanai Postelnik
Connecting with whatever inspires us is an essential part of practice and supports a sense of heartfelt purpose and energy in meditation, expressed as ardency. Rather than 'effort-ing' in practice, born of a sense of obligation or fear, the quality of ardency through which we are moved to engage with our spiritual journey wholeheartedly, is born out of energised love and a clear commitment to what we value and hold as most important in life.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-02 Realms of Consciousness 41:02
Anushka Fernandopulle
Mission Dharma

2010-11-02 The Fathom Long Body 57:03
Bob Stahl
An introduction to mindfulness of the body with the 32 Parts of the Body meditation and elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-02 Inner and Outer Refuge: Opening the Rose 49:29
Sharda Rogell
First we find our outer refuge in sacred spaces in the triple gem, and through establishing a ground of trust we can let go, taking refuge in awareness itself where everything we need for awakening is available.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-02 Aspiration, Expectation, Acceptance 46:27
Susan O'Brien
What inspires our practice, what obstructs it and the role of acceptance in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-11-02 An Evening with Bhikkhu Bodhi 35:37
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2010-11-01 Developing the Paramis 57:15
Mark Coleman
This talk focuses on the development of 5 of the 10 Paramis: generosity, truthfulness, equanimity, renunciation and wisdon - how they are both innate and also elemental beautiful qualities on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-01 The Kamma of Liberation 43:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2010-11-01 Working with Difficulties 33:49
Amma Thanasanti
NY Insight
Shakti Vihara

2010-11-01 Working with Difficulties - Q&A Session 24:32
Amma Thanasanti
NY Insight
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-30 Pith Practice Teachings 40:40
Winnie Nazarko
This is a brief, concise summary of: the orienting context of meditation practice; basic tasks and principles of meditation; and how to approach challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-10-30 Parami of Virtue 1:11:07
Lila Kate Wheeler
Virtue is innate and how it functions to deepen wisdom and find joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-30 Q&A 42:43
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 The World as a Monastery 23:37
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Balance, Alignment & Attention - Guided Meditation 38:04
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Kinds of Joy 22:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Relaxing into Body, Sitting & Breath - Guided Meditation 19:10
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Working with Anxiety 26:31
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-30 Sitting Meditation - Guided Meditation 38:19
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Standing Meditation - Guided Meditation 13:12
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-30 Introduction to Meditation 16:49
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Joy of Awakening

2010-10-29 Through The Looking Glass - The Reality Of Not-Self 1:10:40
Marcia Rose
This talk points out in a number of ways, that what is asked of us in practice is to simply recognize that everything we think of as 'our self', everything we believe to be 'our self'; everything we think of and believe to be other 'selves' simply just doesn't exist in any independent, permanent, unchanging, solid or substantial way.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-29 Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Parami: Laicka praxe 2.Vznesene Pravdy 65:01
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 The Perfection of Wisdom 58:55
Spring Washam
How the Parami of Wisdom cuts through the deluded mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-29 Three Pillars of Dhamma: Dana/Generosity / Pilire Dhammy: Dana/ Stedrost 52:40
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Big Mind Meditation 44:10
Mark Coleman
A meditation on the nature of awareness and how all phenomena appear and are known effortlessly in the natural knowing of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-29 Sixth Morning Questions and Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 6 41:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Sixth Morning Instructions / Ranni instrukce 6 8:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-29 Blessings, challenges and new model 41:03
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley, Easthampton, MA
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-29 Blessings, challenges and new model - Q&A Session 37:57
Amma Thanasanti
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley, Easthampton, MA
Shakti Vihara

2010-10-29 The Heart of Dharma 52:52
Yanai Postelnik
In our hearts we all long to be released from the ongoing suffering inherent in unsuccessfully seeking satisfaction through sensory experience. The liberating heart of dharma is revealed when we come to rest in the realisation that what we are looking for has been right here all along.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-28 Vipassana Insight Knowledge / Znalost vipassanoveho vhledu 1:16:52
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-28 Fifth Morning Questions & Answers / Ranni Otaz.a Odpov. 5 17:13
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-28 Body and Mind 60:24
Andrea Fella
An exploration of the elemental nature of the body helps us discern the distinction between physical and mental experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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