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Dharma Talks
2008-04-08 Let It Cut More Deep 37:13
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-04-07 03. Vipassana Instructions 1:10:56
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Three-Month Retreat

2008-04-07 Mindfulness Part 1 64:44
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2008-04-07 Interest, Curiousity and Investigation of States 55:31
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-04-06 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 2) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #36 1:18:46
Larry Rosenberg
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching of Mindful Eating and the Flowering of Wisdom
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center CIMC Wednesday Talks

2008-04-06 Crisis in Tibet, Lama Gosananda, The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman 49:36
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-04-06 02. The Benefits of Metta 55:40
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Three-Month Retreat

2008-04-06 Unfabricating Reality 43:00
Jose Reissig
The first step to unfabricate reality is to catch the mind in the act of fabrication. When we drop all this make-believe, we discover that our mind is naturally and awesomely spacious.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2008-04-06 Being Touched By Life 53:13
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-04-05 Finding Freedom from Fear 1:17:38
Myoshin Kelley
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-04-05 01. About Metta 67:26
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Three-Month Retreat

2008-04-05 Purity Within Form 41:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2008-04-05 Looking Forward 38:39
Jose Reissig
The future is make-believe. We take up residence in it under the misconception that it's secure. The only true security is in opening to the real.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2008-04-05 Authentic Action 49:25
Rodney Smith
What is action when it is not related to conditioning and fear? This talk explores action from stillness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-04-05 Metta as Right Effort 55:58
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-04-04 The Buddha's Way To Happiness 67:28
Howard Cohn
The Buddha's evolving understanding of happiness and his awakening based on his life experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-04 The Pool And The Cesspool 47:24
Jose Reissig
Segregation from pollutants is not enough to keep our bodies free from infection, nor our minds free from impurities. We also need to foster healing.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2008-04-04 Satipatthana Sutta - Clarification Of Basic Terms 53:25
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Satipatthana Sutta Series

2008-04-04 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and QiGong 37:00
Norman Feldman
Opening Talk for a retreat where the silence, sitting and walking of Insight Meditation and the movement of QiGong are seamlessly woven together into a form that invites us to gently explore the ways in which we define and limit ourselves, allowing insight into our true nature to arise, freeing us to live in a woser and more compassionate relationship with ourselves and the world.
Gaia House Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-04-03 Suffering And The End Of Suffering 61:58
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-02 A Wise Understanding Of Desire 1:13:30
Tara Brach
We lose huge swaths of our life when caught in wanting experience to be more and different. Yet if we bring a mindful presence to the thoughts and feelings of wanting, we discover a portal into full aliveness and freedom. This talk explores how to recognize and investigate wanting mind; how by tracing longing back to it's very source we discover that what we long for is already here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-04-02 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 34 1:14:52
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2008-04-02 Practicing in Daily Life: Speaking and Listening With Wisdom 53:24
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-04-02 The Clarity And Promise Of Mindfulness 63:49
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-02 The Governing Laws Of The Mind 48:46
Rodney Smith
When the sense of “I” is seen as a mental process, suddenly the laws of the mind become obvious.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-04-01 Karma, Dependent Origination, Virtue and Liberation 43:05
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

2008-04-01 The Pure And Luminous Mind 60:40
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-03-31 Karma 55:40
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk discusses the natural law of Karma – cause and effect – restraining from unwholesome actions and cultivating wholesome actions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-30 Questions and Answers 49:47
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-30 Right Effort And Wise Effort 49:19
Rodney Smith
Right effort is the effort the self makes towards its liberation but is that effort wise?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-03-28 The Doors To The Deathless 39:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-27 Innewohnende Natur 49:25
Fred Von Allmen
Mitgefühl, Mitfreude, Gelassenheit
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-03-27 The Four Brahmaviharas 41:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-27 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 3: Opening To Suffering 52:13
James Baraz
This is the third of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. This first week we’ll explore the theme of Opening to Suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-27 Zen Quotes Explored 48:25
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-26 Pradnidhana und Adhitthana 37:03
Fred Von Allmen
Vision und Entschlusskraft
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-03-26 The Two Wolves 69:37
Tara Brach
Empathy and aggression are both part of our evolutionary survival equipment. We awaken spiritually as we bring awareness to the vulnerability that drives aggression, and discover that we can directly cultivate our capacity to experience loving connection.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-03-26 Working With Difficult States Of The Mind And Heart - part I: Limiting Beliefs 60:43
Richard Shankman
East Bay Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-26 Starting All Over Again Part Three 46:27
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-25 The Spirit of Service - Session 4 1:45:09
Frank Ostaseski
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-25 Practice Q and A 58:10
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-03-25 Morning Teachings, Track 1 Of 2 64:27
Ajahn Jamnian
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-25 Morning Teachings, Track 2 Of 2 42:50
Ajahn Jamnian
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-25 All Beings Cheer You On 51:04
Anna Douglas
This talk, given at the end of a month long retreat, puts our practice in the context of a larger stream of awakening occurring on the planet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-25 Ten Ox Herding Pictures 45:19
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-24 Evening Teachings 63:38
Ajahn Jamnian
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-24 Touching Into Goodness 35:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-24 "The Spatula By The Toilet Shines With Light" 61:10
Eugene Cash
The Dharma opens us to a mystery--the mystery of awakening, of practice, of each moment. When we see through the eyes of mystery, the world reveals its inherent luminosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-24 Equanimity 55:42
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk explores this “highest kind of happiness” of being able to be with life as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-24 Starting All Over Again Part Two 63:33
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-23 Freude 50:43
Fred Von Allmen
Wie Freude im Sinne des Dharma als heilsam und wünschenswert gesehen wird
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-03-23 Retreat Questions and Answers 55:21
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-23 The four Vows 52:07
Martine Batchelor
What is it that we dedicate and aspire to when we enter the path of practice? An exploration of compassion, afflictions, learning and awakening.
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-22 Faith - The Foundation For Practice 29:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-22 Starting All Over Again Part One 60:00
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2008-03-21 Geist und Herz von den Hemmnissen befreien 54:56
Fred Von Allmen
Umgang mit den fünf Hemmnissen: Verlangen, Abneigung, Müdigkeit, Ruhelosigkeit und Zweifel
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-03-21 Clearing The Way 53:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-21 The Buddha's Song Of Awakening - "Achieved Is The End Of Craving" 60:13
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of the painful fires of craving and the experience of awaking.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-20 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness 54:47
James Baraz
This is the second of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. This first week we’ll explore the theme of Mindfulness as a path for well-being. We will share some practical exercises to use in daily life as well as understand why mindfulness is called by the Buddha “the most direct way to overcome sorrow and despair and realize the highest happiness.”
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-20 Lists 42:30
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-03-19 Our Heart's Aspiration 1:13:51
Tara Brach
This talk weaves two teachings that are key to awakening. "The most important thing is remembering the most important thing" helps us be guided by the compass of our heart in living our lives. And discovering that "what we long for is already here" lets us trust that the love or peace we seek is found in the fullness of presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-03-19 Practicing in Daily Life: Sila and Wise Sexuality part 2 57:15
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-03-19 Awareness Is Like The Unconditioned 61:34
Guy Armstrong
This is a condensed version of two earlier talks in 2008: “The Five Aggregates” from January and “Consciousness, Awareness & Nibbana” from February.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-19 Us As The World And The World As Us: The Two Truths 43:07
Trudy Goodman
This is a talk about form, manifested as the personal, and emptiness, the vast universal activity of the Dharma - the two truths express in our lives as our practice deepens more and more clearly
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-18 The Spirit of Service - Session 3 2:14:15
Frank Ostaseski
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-18 Morning Meditation "Big Sky" 44:33
Joseph Goldstein
Morning Meditation "Big Sky"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-17 Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation 57:27
Joseph Goldstein
Working with doubt and aversion in the context of the nature of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-16 The Flavors of Retreat 41:17
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-15 The Stilling Of The Conditioned 46:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-03-15 The Attitude Of Awareness 54:07
Guy Armstrong
The right attitude for meditation is one free from greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also defines some key terms in practice: consciousness, mindfulness, awareness, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-14 Brahmavihara Retreat 12:39:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
The brahmaviharas are four mental states that the Buddha encouraged for the practice of meditation. They are loving -friendliness (metta), compassion, sympathetic joy (rejoicing in the happiness of others), and equanimity. Through these practices we develop a loving heart, concentration, self-acceptance, fearlessness and happiness. These practices also establish our fundamental connectedness to all life.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Brahmavihara Retreat

2008-03-14 The River Of Life 48:21
Pamela Weiss
Exploring the ways that insight into impermanence deepens our appreciation for the beauty and mystery of life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-13 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 1: Intention 56:51
James Baraz
This is the first of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. I intend to explore these principles from a more traditional Buddhist perspective and show how they reveal Buddhadharma as a path of happiness. I’ll be suggesting techniques that can be practiced in daily life in addition to formal meditation. This first week we’ll explore the theme of Intention. “Intending is karma,” said the Buddha. Through intention we create our reality. The clearer we are on our intention, the greater influence we have on the direction of our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-13 Faith 43:57
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-03-13 Compassion 51:43
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discussed compassion as a Brahmavihara practice and the cultivation of compassion in our vipassana practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-13 Rain - Difficult Emotions As A Path To Awakening 52:52
Trudy Goodman
This is a talk on working with difficult emotions and how they can be an expression of truth, a doorway to the Dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-12 Befriending The Deities 1:15:01
Tara Brach
The fruit of practice is releasing our identification with core beliefs and fear-based emotions, and realizing and inhabiting our Natural awareness. This is described as the N in RAIN - an acronym that can guide us in awakening loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-03-12 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 33 1:18:07
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2008-03-12 Practicing in Daily Life: Sila and Wise Sexuality part 1 56:11
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-03-12 Papanca - The Unbidden Wandering Of Mind 51:04
Anna Douglas
As mindfulness deepens, we can uncover the 4 root causes of getting lost in our thinking, as well as remembering the aliveness of being when we step aside from thinking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-11 The Spirit of Service - Session 2 45:50
Frank Ostaseski
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-11 The Three Characteristics And Their Subtle Expressions 55:25
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-10 Paradox And Awakening 62:55
Eugene Cash
How do we make sense of the differing and sometimes contradictory teachings we hear; one of the fruits of practice is the resolution of paradox.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-10 Noble Eightfold Path - part 4 - Right Intention 59:46
Myoshin Kelley
The volition to walk the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-09 On Retreat: The Skill & Art of Practice 40:30
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-08 Die vier Brahmaviharas 52:35
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-03-08 The Three Values Of Equanimity 46:07
Phillip Moffitt
Life Balance Institute

2008-03-08 Awakening 1:11:34
Rob Burbea
The Realization of Awakening is absolutely central to the Buddha's Teaching, and yet it has come to have so many different meanings, or none at all. What is our relationship to the idea of Enlightenment or Awakening? How does that affect our life and practice? Can we explore the views, assumptions and emotions surrounding it? And is a radical Awakening possible for us?
Gaia House A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

2008-03-07 What Kind Of Effort? 51:10
Anna Douglas
Exploring the different kinds of effort needed as our practice matures. This talk is meant for both senior students and those new to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-07 Death 63:39
Rob Burbea
A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
Gaia House A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

2008-03-07 Love/The Difficulties of Love 67:04
Rob Burbea
This talk begins to explore some of the challenges and difficulties we can sometimes encounter with regard to love. It also examines some possible beliefs and attitudes we may hold around love and particularly romantic love in our lives.
Gaia House A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

2008-03-06 Woman's Sacred Poetry 42:42
Christina Feldman
Woman’s sacred poetry speaks of the longing for freedom discovered through love, nature, and interconnections.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-03-06 I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out! 56:08
James Baraz
Mindfulness practice helps us see clearly how we’re creating suffering for ourselves with our insecurities, self-judgments, judgments of others or other conditioned reactions. But often seeing these isn’t enough to release their hold on us. In fact, sometimes it’s more frustrating to see them but still feel as stuck as ever. We’ll explore how to work with this predicament wisely so we 1) don’t have to be at the mercy of our lofty ideals of good practice can use some simple but effective methods for moving to a greater place of well-being.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-06 Faculties 25:45
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-03-06 Metta 57:51
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk discusses metta as a Brahmavihāra practice and cultivating metta in our vipassana practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-05 The Art Of Practice: Rain 1:19:52
Tara Brach
This second class in the Art of Practice reviews the basic components of meditation training and illustrates through several stories, the use of the acronym RAIN in awakening loving presence. The session includes a period of question/answer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-03-05 Wise Attitude and Inner Spaciousness 1:15:55
Michael Grady
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2008-03-05 Practicing in Daily Life: Contentment 58:15
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-03-05 Wisdom & The Paramitas - part 1 55:07
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-03-05 Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 37:03
Rob Burbea
Opening talk for a retreat that looks at how we may create artificial divisions between what seems 'sacred' and what seems 'worldly'; between 'retreat life' and 'everyday life', 'meditation' and work' and so seek transformation through only a small part of our lives. In opening to a profound wisdom that sees beyond such dualities, we can come to know an authentic freedom that is truly boundless.
Gaia House A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

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