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Dharma Talks
2010-05-22 Right Livelihood 40:32
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Work Retreat

2010-05-21 Sacred 68:24
Gina Sharpe
The journey we undertake in practice - How to navigate the stages of our meditative journey.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Body, Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Weekend

2010-05-21 Treasuring our Longing for Happiness by Uncovering its Obstacles 58:43
Arinna Weisman
Treasuring our longing by uncovering the obstructions to happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-21 Closing Day 42:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-21 The Five Aggregates 42:29
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Work Retreat

2010-05-20 Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 4, with guest Kevin Griffin. 59:01
James Baraz, Kevin Griffin
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 4, with guest Kevin Griffin. Beginning introductions of Inquiring Mind publisher Alan Novidor and editor Barbara Gates.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-05-20 Vesakha Puja 24:34
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2010-05-20 Love and Equanimity 57:55
Jean Esther
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-20 Day 6 Part 1 19:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-20 Day 6 Part 2 50:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-20 Guided Meditation 49:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-20 Path to Joy 37:12
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2010-05-20 The Five Hindrances 42:21
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Work Retreat

2010-05-19 Guided Joy Meditation 22:01
Arinna Weisman
Directing the wishes that our virtues and beautiful qualities continue to strengthen and bless us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-19 Cultivating Joy 51:21
Arinna Weisman
The eleven practices for cultivating joy and rapture as outlined in the Visudimagga, including contemplating one's own virtue and generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-19 Desire and Spiritual Freedom 1:18:31
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of "wanting mind," trancing back desire to its source, and radical non-clinging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-19 Compassion and the Judging Mind 58:40
Eugene Cash
The judging mind helps hold the sense of self as a static entity. Compassion allows us to be with all manifestations, however painful, allowing for healing and release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2010-05-19 Day 5 Part 1 39:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-19 Day 5 Part 2 58:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-19 Death and Beyond 25:52
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-19 Death and Beyond - Q&A Session 30:08
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-19 Opening Talk for Work Retreat 33:13
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Work Retreat

2010-05-18 Doubt and Aversion: Understanding How They Influence our Practice and our Lives 53:36
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-05-18 Sacred Longing 63:36
Trudy Goodman
Stories and teachings about the Buddha's one fortunate attachment
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-18 The Hero’s Journey - The Return - Dogen 'Fanning' 54:46
Pamela Weiss

2010-05-18 Demands, Defenses and Distractions: Exploring Obstacles to Presence 51:03
Martin Aylward
We get pulled away from ourselves in different ways. This talk explores both the mechanisms of how we get disconnected from being present, and how come those mechanisms exert such a powerful pull on our consciousness. The exploration encourages a careful and caring investigation of those obstacles, as the way to understand, and liberate them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2010-05-18 Day 4 Part 1 40:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-18 Day 4 Part 2 29:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-18 Day 4 Part 3 56:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-17 Forgiveness 66:43
Jack Kornfield
The art of forgiveness and the skillful means to practice the transformation of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-17 The Alchemy Of Thirst 62:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Second Noble Truth
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-17 Working with Judgment 52:25
Arinna Weisman
The mechanisms of judgment, shame and blame are misguided attempts to protect ourselves when we have no other resources. We can now see how they are unskillful and connect with our inherent beautiful qualities as a resource to meet these energies and let them go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-17 Metta Instructions 53:25
Trudy Goodman
Neutral Person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-17 Day 3 Part 1 19:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-17 Day 3 Part 2 36:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-17 Day 3 Part 3 39:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-16 Why Connect With What Is Difficult? 49:10
Chas DiCapua
Explains why we would want to do such a thing, how it relates to the path of awakening and practical advise on how to do it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-16 Metta Instructions 43:42
Gina Sharpe
Benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-16 Day 2 Part 1 40:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-16 Day 2 Part 2 35:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-16 Sunday Evening Talk 40:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-15 Metta - Part 2 56:24
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-05-15 Metta Instructions 54:16
Gina Sharpe
Benefactor/Dear Friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-15 Befriending Yourself and Others 35:09
Lila Kate Wheeler
An early low key metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire

2010-05-15 Day 1 Part 1 36:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-15 Day 1 Part 2 37:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-15 Day 1 Part 3 43:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-15 Day 1 Part 4 1:28:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-14 Introductory Evening Part 1 23:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-14 Introductory Evening Part 2 36:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Harnham Retreat

2010-05-13 Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 3 53:46
James Baraz
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 3
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-05-13 Metta: The Web of Belonging 50:46
Nina Wise
As the mind stills, the heart opens. As the heart opens, we discover how we belong to this earth and live in a web of connection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation Retreat

2010-05-13 The Buddha's World View 47:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-12 Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind" 1:20:19
Tara Brach
While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the ways we get hooked, and offer a deep, mindful attention to the energies of craving and clinging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-12 The Refuges, Precepts, and Spiritual Faculties 52:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-11 Turning the Wheel of Dharma - Part Six: The Path to Awakening: Wisdom 57:33
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Turning the Wheel of Dharma

2010-05-11 Ground of Being 47:43
Nina Wise
When we recognize our Buddha Nature, the boundless awareness at the heart of our being, lovingkindness arises effortlessly as an innate characteristic.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation Retreat

2010-05-11 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Body in Movement 61:37
Rodney Smith
Movement integrates our insights into living reality rather than theoretical assumptions. When the insights become part of the living tissue of our body, a natural spontaneity arises.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-05-11 Taming the Tigers 47:01
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 The Peace of Letting Go 50:05
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 The Path of Joy 43:59
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 On Anger 29:31
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Path in Daily Life 47:39
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Just This Moment 4:40
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 What are the Priorities 58:40
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Dismantling Who I am 17:36
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Compassion and Attention 15:30
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-11 Right Intention 43:12
Amma Thanasanti
date is uncertain
Shakti Vihara

2010-05-10 3 Principles of Awakening Joy 60:51
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-10 Tendencies, Defilements and Hindrances 46:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-09 The Judging Mind 48:33
Myoshin Kelley
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Encounter with Courage and Renunciation 38:07
Ajahn Metta
A talk given at the Renunciation & Courage daylong.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Renunciation & Courage 35:27
Ayya Santacitta
A talk from a daylong retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Morning Reflection 26:28
Ajahn Amaro
The Dharma is always with us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-09 Technique Mahasi Vipassana Interview 57:08
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-08 Metta - Part 1 46:22
Greg Scharf
This talk discusses the cultivation of of Loving-kindness both for its own sake, and as a powerful support for the practice of liberation. Includes a detailed discussion of the near and far enemies of Metta, and how to work with them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-05-08 The Bodhisattva Way 61:22
Jack Kornfield
How to live in this world lightly, with a compassionate heart and the spirit of the Dharma in all things you do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-08 Chanting: Mind Abiding In Divine Abodes 4:49
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-08 Definition and Purpose of Awareness 30:35
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-08 Overview of BuddhaDhamma 47:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House

2010-05-07 An Intentional Life 44:28
Christina Feldman
The cultivation of Wise Intention transforms an accidental life into a life guided by our deepest aspiration for compassion and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-07 Loving The House That Ego Built 67:48
Howard Cohn
Putting our trust in awareness and getting to know and embrace our different self views, and the feelings that accompany them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-07 Chanting: Buddhist Words On Living Kindness 3:31
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-07 Opening Talk for Mahasi Retreat 1:18:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Gaia House Mahasi Retreat

2010-05-06 Intention: The Last Stronghold Of Self-View (Chanting and Talk) 1:27:27
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Explains how intention operates and how it is not self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-06 Guided Heart Meditation - In Dyads 39:39
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Guided Metta Meditation 40:05
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 The Path in a New Paradigm 40:27
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 Satipathana Sutta Fourth Foundation 18:01
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-06 Morning Instruction - Question & Response 13:46
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Meditation--Radiance-Sutra 5:58
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2 45:46
James Baraz
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-05-06 Chanting and Morning Reflection 69:25
Ajahn Amaro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat

2010-05-05 Fearless Kindness 49:25
Christina Feldman
Kindness is one of the foundations of awakening enabling us to meet the forces of fear that can distort our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-05 The Hero's Journey - The Return 47:12
Pamela Weiss

2010-05-05 Q&A 2 37:09
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Guided Forgiveness Meditation 31:53
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Introduction to Forgiveness - Guilt vs Remorse 8:49
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Guided Meditation Unfolding in Awareness 40:26
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2010-05-05 Obstacles & Skillful Means on the Path 47:22
Amma Thanasanti
Exact date of talk is uncertain.
Shakti Vihara Four Foundations of Mindfulness

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