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Dharma Talks
2008-02-23 Big Mind Meditation 43:33
Howard Cohn
A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-23 Breaking Free of Mental Habits 61:19
Martine Batchelor
Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring the mental patterns.
Gaia House Breaking Free Of Habits

2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn
We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-21 Wise Effort 33:01
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-20 Listening Presence 69:12
Tara Brach
A full and listening presence is the gateway to genuine intimacy with our self and others. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening and the teachings and practices that guide us in developing this healing and liberating capacity.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-02-20 Practicing in Daily Life: The Taste of Freedom 57:32
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-20 What Actually Is The Truth? 58:48
Heather Martin
How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-19 Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death 49:16
Shaila Catherine
We are all vulnerable to aging, illness, and death. Everything born will eventually die. How can we contemplate death in a way that brings us to realize the deathless liberation of mind? How can we go beyond birth and death by facing the reality of our existence? Reflecting on death is one traditional way to contemplate the nature of the body. These meditations include contemplating the decaying corpse, body contemplations, noticing that our friends and loved ones perish. We are all friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn
The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

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