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Dharma Talks
2007-12-01 A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 49:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path Of Peace And Happiness Dana Retreat

2007-11-30 Tasting The Unconditioned 60:22
Kittisaro
The heart already Radiant gets confused by what moves through it. If it shouldn't be this way, it wouldn't be this way. Unfolding into the 4 Noble Truths, realizing the unshakable heart tasting the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-30 Getting 37:22
Jose Reissig
In the habitual process of getting, the main point is not getting this or that, but getting "the getter" -- that is, becoming somebody.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat with Jose Reissig

2007-11-30 Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 55:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path Of Peace And Happiness Dana Retreat

2007-11-29 The Dharma Is Not The Dharma 60:04
Thanissara
Buddhism + the Dharma is the peel left behind. The immediacy of here and now Dharma. Disenchantment as a doorway is the transcendent. The irritation that rubs to the pearl. The immovable suchness of Being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-11-29 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Buddhadasa 55:21
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-29 Wings of Awakening 52:10
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-29 Wise Attention 65:43
Carol Wilson
The Buddha spoke of wise attention as the tool that uproots the underlying tendencies of our minds that cause suffering. This talk discusses various means the Buddha taught for practicing wise attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-28 Questions And Answers 65:20
Joseph Goldstein
Questions and Answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-28 The Mysterious Power Of The Breath 53:19
Eugene Cash
Often the power of mindfulness of the breath is underestimated. This talk illuminates the depth of breath as skillful means to develop samadhi, oneness, intimacy, mystery and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-28 Requisites For Enlightenment 1:11:10
Myoshin Kelley
The 10 paramis or requisites for enlightenment that bring a meaningful application of our practice to how we live our lives. This talk explores some of the ways these qualities get strengthened.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-27 Faith & Interrelatedness : Practice in Action 43:50
Ajahn Metta
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-11-27 Guided Meditation On Equanimity 45:49
Sharda Rogell
This is a 45 minute introduction and a guided meditation on Equanimity. By repeating certain phrases, we can decondition our reactive attitude and open our heart to the way things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-26 Third Noble Truth & Nibbana 61:06
Guy Armstrong
This talk explores the third noble truth, or the end of suffering, also described as Nibbana. Nibbana is seen as a transcendent dimension of our being accessible in any moment. Practices that approach this unconditioned element are described also.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-25 The Awakening Factor of Rapture 34:37
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-11-25 Questions and Answers 56:01
Eugene Cash, Thanissara
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-25 Internalizing The Retreat 40:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-25 Sakkaya Ditthi: Who Do I Take Myself To Be? 58:00
Sharda Rogell
Our mind becomes obsessed with three views that define who we take ourselves to be, me, mine and myself. Born from confusion about the way things are, we see ourselves and others in a narrow, contracted way and lose contact with our deepest nature. This talk is a clear and candid exploration that encourages practicing with awareness to find out what is true about this person I take myself to be.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-24 The Gift Of Dhamma 45:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-24 Exploring Vedena - Feeling Tone 51:01
Andrea Fella
Exploring the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feeling tone of our experience, we have the opportunity to witness the birth of reactivity to that feeling tone, which allows us to deeply understand the nature of our suffering. In this understanding of suffering are the seeds of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-24 Living Life In Silence 57:25
Robert K. Hall
Living life's path with openess to all of it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-24 Cleaning Up Our Act 50:51
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines the Buddha’s Teaching on intention. It walks through how we identify with all the five aggregates.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-24 Time and the Emptiness of Time 56:55
Rob Burbea
Time is one of the fundamental aspects of existence we usually take for granted, leaving its seeming ‘reality’ unquestioned. But Dharma practice and inquiry can puncture and shatter our belief in the real independent existence of time – both the past/future and the present/the ‘Now’, and, in so doing, open awareness up to a truly inconceivable and immeasurable liberation.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-23 Guided Metta Meditation 40:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-23 Sexual Desire - Meditation In Relationship 50:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-23 Transcendent Dependent Origination 58:46
Sally Armstrong
In the teaching on Transcendent Dependent Origination, the Buddha gives us a map for our spiritual journey, beginning with the common human condition of suffering, which, when opened to with wisdom, leads to faith and many other beautiful qualities. These qualities support the deepening that leads to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-23 Be Here Wow Again 59:18
Wes Nisker
Be Here Wow Again
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-23 The Fruits of our Practice 58:18
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-22 Buddhanatur 27:45
Fred Von Allmen
Freiheit und Mitgefühl entdecken
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-11-22 Ending Of Programs 42:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-22 Developing The Big Heart 55:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-22 Faith/Devotion 61:58
Carol Wilson
“In the moment of love, the empty nature dawns nakedly” reflections on loving awareness.

2007-11-22 The Obvious Of Openness 52:37
Robert K. Hall
About "the me" and more
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-21 Process Of Fullness 39:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-21 Meeting Sankharas 47:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-21 Gratitude And Generosity 1:16:09
Tara Brach
When we feel grateful, there is a sense of homecoming. We are connected with what we cherish, and in that abundance, our natural response is generosity. This talk explores two pathways that directly give rise to gratitude and generosity: full presence, and the intentional remembrance of what we love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-11-21 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 31 1:18:49
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-11-21 Self And Selfness 61:58
Joseph Goldstein
The creation of concepts and the view of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-21 Calming the Mind, Cooling the View 34:19
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-20 Metta To Others As To Myself 23:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-20 Walking In Benevolence 18:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Walking meditation can be difficult because the mind doesn’t feel concentrated, or it can feel oppressive just walking back and forth. But being with the movement of the body, it’s possible to come out of our protective and stiff states, and enjoy the carefree fluidity.
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
In collection: A Moving Balance

2007-11-20 Guided Meditation - Mudita 46:28
Sally Armstrong
Mudita or the practice of sympathetic joy opens us to the possibilities of increasing our sense of well-being and happiness. The haqppiness of others when directed towards ourselves, is manifesting as gratitude for the blessings in our life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-20 Opening/Balancing/Exploring 66:57
John Travis
Helpful ways of practice. Working with body, the seven factors, and pure awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-20 Tranquil And Alert 45:40
Myoshin Kelley
This talk explores finding the balance between tranquility and alertness and what supports each.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-19 Standing Meditation 18:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-19 Breathing Through The Basement 26:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-19 Spirit; Samadhi; Living The Dhamma with Q&A 46:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-19 Four Noble Truths 26:19
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-19 Second Noble Truth: Craving 60:31
Guy Armstrong
The second noble truth points to craving (tanha) as the origin of suffering. The talk describes three kinds of craving: for sense pleasures, existence and non-existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-19 There's Nothing More Helpful Than Mindfulness 63:24
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-11-18 Mindfulness: Faculty and Power 42:38
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-18 Belonging To The Dhamma 50:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-18 What Is True Compassion? 53:06
Sharda Rogell
We usually view difficulties in our life as obstacles or inconveniences, but when we turn toward them as our path to awakening, the expression of our understanding is Compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-17 Firming Up Through Positive Breathing 29:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-17 Why Did You Come On Retreat 39:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-17 Meeting Our Experience - Holding Awareness 37:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-17 Cultivating Joy & Equanimity In Engaged Practice 60:42
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-17 Into the Depths of Silence 59:40
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-16 Introduction 28:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-16 The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:33
Sally Armstrong
The seven factors are beautiful qualities of mind that can be developed to support our meditative practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-16 The Abode Of The Body: Mindfulness And The Body 53:15
Ann Masai
Following the Buddha's direction about using the body as a mindfulness tool, we discuss many techniques for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-16 Death the Great Motivator 52:52
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-15 Buddhist Master Series: Sunlun Sayadaw 53:59
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-15 Nature Of Insight 64:25
Carol Wilson
Nature of Insight
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-14 Lovingkindness - Living With A Wise Heart 1:19:22
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that our fear is great, but greater yet is the truth of our connectedness. These two talks examine the often unconscious habits that generate the pain of separation, and the practices that allow us to realize and live from an awake heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-11-14 Arising And Passing Away 54:13
Joseph Goldstein
The liberating wisdom of impermanence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-14 The Transformative Process In Engaged Practice 43:01
Donald Rothberg
It is helpful to identify four broad phases of transformation, whether in the context of intensive meditation practice, everyday life, or engaged practice in the world: (1) building resources (perspectives, tools, methods, the ethical “container”); (2) opening to and honoring our suffering; (3) coming to see in a new way; and (4) the integrative work of stabilizing, grounding, and expressing our insights and learning as we go forth into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-14 Who Am I? 51:31
Mark Coleman
What is the nature of the self? What did the Buddha teach about the self - the suffering that arises from our misperceptions about who we are and the freedom that comes from understanding our true nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice

2007-11-13 Awakening the Heart: The role of trust and devotion in meditation practice 48:30
Thanissara
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-11-13 Thoughts Without Suffering 57:34
Myoshin Kelley
This talk explores some of the ways we get entangled with thought and how to have a wise relationship with this natural function of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-12 Working With Difficult Emotions 61:10
Guy Armstrong
Emotions are expressed through a mood, body sensation, and thoughts. Mindfulness of these aspects is illustrated in the talk for desire, anger, sadness, and fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-12 Compassion 46:28
Adrianne Ross
Compassion as a verb. Blocks to compassion and ways through.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-12 The Four Noble Truths & The Enneagram 55:55
Mark Coleman
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching as the 4 Noble Truths and how the teachings of the Enneagram also impact self understanding when seen in the context of mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice

2007-11-11 The Four Exertions: Wise Use of Energy 54:44
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-11-11 Seeing with New Eyes: The Skills and Fruit of Mindfulness 44:45
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-11 Leaving Your Comfort Zone 55:22
Sharda Rogell
Conditions in our life are always changing and out of our control. We search for peace in the conditions rather than realizing peace comes from accepting that they change and ultimately, we cannot control the way things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-11 What Is Wisdom All About? 48:43
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk address the experience of wisdom as understanding the noble truths and the law of karma which results in a mind/heart that has replaced greed, hatred, and cruelty with non-attachment, kindness and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-10 Prejudices And Biases 46:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-11-10 What Versus Why 53:58
Andrea Fella
As human beings, we often try to understand our experience by asking the question “why”. But instead exploring “what” is happening, we can come to know the “why” of the present moment which opens to an understanding of the cause and effect nature of experience, and points towards to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-10 Tender Heart Practice 52:12
Yanai Postelnik
Cultivating a gentle and steady meditative attention we can learn to meet difficulty, pain and suffering with kindness and self-forgiveness. With the courage to feel experience deeply, we can embrace our life with a tender heart of love and openness.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-09 Working With The Judging Mind 55:46
Sally Armstrong
The voice of the inner critic is a huge source of suffering for many people. Learning to work skillfully with this voice allows us to develop an sense of respect and trust in ourselves that is essential for the deepening of our spiritual practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-09 The Mystery 65:52
Wes Nisker
Scientific story of who we are, with dharma lessons
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-08 Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing 55:01
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-08 Anger 45:10
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-08 Habits Of Mind 57:36
Carol Wilson
The practice of mindfulness is like swimming upstream against the habits of mind. We can learn to trust mindfulness rather than the habits.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-08 The Mystery Of Stillness 55:58
Phillip Moffitt
Our daily lives are filled with desire, yet desire leads to suffering. How do we reconcile the paradox between caring love and non-attachment?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-08 A Question of Faith 60:10
Rob Burbea
A probing exploration of the movements of faith in our practice. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are always placing our faith somewhere. What do we have faith in? What shapes our sense of limitation or possibility? And how do faith and confidence deepen?
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-07 Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions II: Invoking Inquiry, Wisdom, And Antidotes 65:16
Donald Rothberg
In the second session on practicing with thoughts and emotions, we complement the first session's focus on the more receptive practice of mindfulness. After a review of mindfulness, we explore three more active approaches: (1) deepening mindfulness through inquiry, (2) invoking wisdom through clear comprehension, (3) providing antidotes through invoking lovingkindness, compassion, and other beautiful states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-11-07 You Are Love 48:46
Diana Winston
This talk explores the relationship of metta to vipassana, how to deepen your metta practice, and how lovingkindness can become the fundamental ground of your being.

2007-11-07 Practising with Thought 39:10
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-06 Ansporn, Inspiration und Motivation für die Praxis 49:08
Fred Von Allmen
Wertvolle Situation, Vergänglichkeit, Karma - die Wirkung unseres Tuns, Zuflucht und altruistische Motivation
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-11-06 Four Noble Truths 59:11
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-06 Contemplation of Mind 31:54
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-05 Ordinary Mind States 49:04
Wes Nisker
Thinking problems and emotional problems - and how to work with them

2007-11-04 The Brahma Viharas: Joy 47:41
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-04 Dharma Punx 41:36
Noah Levine
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-04 First Noble Truth: Suffering 56:12
Guy Armstrong
Suffering becomes a noble truth when it is fully understood. Then it is seen as a universal experience that connects us through compassion with all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-04 Meeting the Challenges - Practicing with the Hindrances 62:39
Yanai Postelnik
A reflection on how to work with the challenges we all encounter in meditation. by recognising craving, aversion, sloth, restlessness, and sceptical doubt as visitors which obscure our deeper truth, we can free ourselves from their grip, revealing the natural pure radiance of the heart and mind.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-03 Meeting Life With Awareness 35:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-11-03 Becoming Unhindered: The Five Difficult Mind States 57:04
Sharda Rogell
When we are identified with these five mind states they are called hindrances to seeing the way things actually are. Each one is explored along with skillful antidotes to overcome them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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