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Dharma Talks
2009-01-15 Knowing Through Dispassion 37:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness offers the ability to sustain, to notice, and therefore to be wise. Through this we can experience feelings that arise as energy in the body. Stepping back, there is a shift from being in these to a knowingness of them, with resultant dispassion. This is the liberating process of insight.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-01-15 Opening Talk for An Exploration of Mindfulness MBCT/SR Retreat 60:03
Christina Feldman
Gaia House An Exploration of Mindfulness MBCT/SR Retreat

2009-01-14 Generating Skilful Feeling 34:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is about knowing how one is affected. We come to know where impulses and intentions/motivations come from, whether these are spiritual or worldly. With skilful intention, there is the possibility to generate pleasant feeling within ourselves. We can find joy in our own presence rather than through external means.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-01-12 Stories About How Mindfulness Works 45:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Stories about wisdom - how knowing profoundly that everything is changing, that our experience is created by myriad factors beyond our control, that acceptance and compassion create a peaceful mind - and how mindfulness creates that wisdom - paying attention
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Scientists Retreat

2009-01-12 Energy,view and Anapansati 37:43
Ajahn Sucitto
When the mind is relieved from pressure, we can review the experience of what’s running through the mind, feeling the changes in terms of somatic energy. This energy body has primary intelligence, and retains learnt impressions. Through mindfulness of breathing, we calm and soothe this energy body – with resultant clarity.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2009-01-05 Are You Brave Enough To Be Transformed By Lovingkindness? 59:58
Sylvia Boorstein
Lovingkindness is presented as a "subset" of mindfulness: Attention to the third foundation of mindfulness, specifically the presence (or absence) of good will in the mind. Meditation is presented as a technique for letting go of all limiting stories (fixed views) that inhibit us from becoming the fully loving (and tolerant) people we could be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta

2008-12-30 A Taste of Freedom 51:22
Christina Feldman
The Buddha encourages us to find a taste of freedom in the contemplation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It is a teaching that encourages the deepening of insight in the classroom of our lives.
Gaia House Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-19 The Four Domains Of Mindfulness - Part 2 53:46
Marcia Rose
Are you looking in the right place and in the right way for the happiness that you are seeking? Mindfulness of feelings: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral feeling tone Mindfulness of the mind: mental factors/the colorations of consciousness Mindfulness of Dhammas: seeing & knowing experience through the doors of the truth/the way of things
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-12-13 Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness 52:10
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness

2008-12-12 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness Retreat 69:25
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness

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