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Dharma Talks
2009-07-14 Natural Mind - Strength, Warmth, Clarity 29:34
Ajahn Sucitto
With mindfulness there’s a deepening into mind. When established you feel the flow of natural responses. Mindfulness places us back into these fundamental qualities of basic strength, basic warmth, basic clarity. The practise is staying with that, letting confused restless energies settle into that. That’s where samadhi can arise.
Cittaviveka Vassa Retreat

2009-07-13 Five Faculties - Indriya 22:07
Ajahn Sucitto
The indriya (faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment), sometimes called the governing faculties, are capacities we already have and operate through in some rudimentary form. This teaching gives a description each, and how they can be developed to become supportive faculties. When they come together, they merge in the deathless.
Cittaviveka Vassa Retreat

2009-07-12 Lawless Order 23:57
Ajahn Sucitto
There are certain inclinations we have as human beings. These boil down to the indriya – dominating faculties – of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. They can go wrong, become sources of suffering if they’re not balanced through awareness. Various examples of how they manifest, and how to keep them in harmony are given.
Cittaviveka Vassa Retreat

2009-07-08 Part 4 - Wise Practice - Taking Refuge in Awareness 1:15:55
Tara Brach
This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover the strategies that help us arrive in presence, the key elements of mindfulness, working with difficult emotional states and the practices that awaken our heart. Each week will include guided meditations and reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-07-01 Part 3 - Wise Practice - The Heart of Buddhism 1:14:17
Tara Brach
This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover the strategies that help us arrive in presence, the key elements of mindfulness, working with difficult emotional states and the practices that awaken our heart. Each week will include guided meditations and reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-07-01 Mindfulness: On and Off The Cushion 15:40
Larry Rosenberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2009-06-25 Mindfulness As A Prayer For Peace 65:35
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-24 Part 2 - Wise Practice 1:18:00
Tara Brach
This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover the strategies that help us arrive in presence, the key elements of mindfulness, working with difficult emotional states and the practices that awaken our heart. Each week will include guided meditations and reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-06-24 Mindfulness Practice and the Jewish Year 58:37
Rabbi Sheila Weinberg
Reflection on what we seek to remember in practice, developing the capacity to see which stories serve to develop wholesome qualities and reduce suffering. The center of the talk is a tour through the Jewish year, interpreting each holiday as a form of retreat practice and the opportunity to awaken and develop heart qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-23 The Awakening Prophet 63:39
Donald Rothberg
One interpretation of Jewish mindfulness connects mindfulness with the Jewish prophetic tradition. This suggests an understanding of spiritual practice as involving both "inner" transformation toward liberation and "outer" transformation toward a liberated society; actually, the two are intimately connected. We first explore, partly through music, the prophetic tradition. We then examine how both our inner and outer practice can be understood in similar ways, following the core principles, in terms of development in wisdom and mindfulness (the mind), compassion and love (the heart), and courage and skillful action (the body).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

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