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Dharma Talks
2007-10-13 Four Liberating Truths 60:28
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tranquility, Insight and Awakening

2007-10-12 Afflictive Emotions 60:28
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-10-12 Guided Meditation On The Five Aggregates 37:28
Myoshin Kelley
This meditation is an experiential exploration of this mind /body experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-12 Dealing With Aversion And Anger 56:46
Ariya B. Baumann
Aversion and anger are states that need to be thoroughly understood. When applying bare awareness is impossible, we can deal with them by using some contemplations or other practical methods
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-10-12 Opening Talk for Tranquility, Insight and Awakening - Connection, Curiousity, Care 56:16
Martin Aylward
This talk explores three essential qualities of awareness: the precision and brightness of moment-to-moment connection, the investigation of experience through Curiousity, and the allowing of things to unfold with Care. These aspects, which in free translation correspond with the qualities of Samatha, Vipassana and Metta are shown to be both qualities we can cultivate, and the natural orientation of the truly meditative mind.
Gaia House Tranquility, Insight and Awakening

2007-10-11 Judgement & Anger 54:40
Donald Rothberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-10-11 Exploration Of The Five Aggregates Or "Who I Am Not" 52:01
Myoshin Kelley
Understanding the five aggregates or components of body mind and experience, can help us to see what it is we are clinging to.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-10 The Three Refuges 1:11:30
Tara Brach
Dharma, Sangha and Buddha - In Buddhism there are three, interdependent gateways to freedom. Called refuges, they are the expressions of truth that carry us home to the essence of what we are. These two talks investigate the way we take "false refuge"--habitual ways of trying to control experience--and the profound happiness and peace in discovering true refuge.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-10-10 Supporting Awakening with Wise Investigation 55:44
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-10-10 The Second Foundation Of Mindfulness 59:42
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-09 Hindrances, Restlesness 44:05
Andrea Fella
The hindrance of restlessness and remorse is a fundamental hindrance out of which the other hindrances can arise. The importance of becoming familiar with restlessness, to see or understand its nature, is discussed. Through having a clear understanding of how it arises in the mind and in the body one can work with its various manifestations in practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-10-09 Mindfulness Of Body 52:49
Mark Coleman
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching on Sattipattana - mindfulness of Body - what is mindfulness, what is its function, and how it illuminates the understanding of suffering, impermanence and selflessness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-09 Breath Meditation 15:30
Phillip Moffitt
A guided basic meditation on the breath, following coming into the present moment through the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-08 Hell, Death & Other Delights 57:10
Wes Nisker
Death, Impermanence, Death Poems, Autumn Melancholy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-10-08 Intimate with Boredom 40:18
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Embodying the Dharma - Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2007-10-07 Insight Dialogue 57:59
Gregory Kramer
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-10-07 Seven Factors Of Awakening - part 1 58:01
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Investigating and learning from the energizing qualities of the mind that lead one to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-06 A Tribute To Rumi 62:01
Christopher Titmuss
Commentary on 4 poems of Rumi on love and ultimate truth - to mark 8 centuries since his birth in September 1207.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Metta 53:06
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-10-05 Conditions And The Unconditioned 51:28
Christopher Titmuss
Let us see into unfolding conditions. These conditions are unproblematic; thus liberation is not trapped in conditions, i.e., the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Questions & Answers On Ultimate & Relative Understanding 53:52
Shaila Catherine
The questions and answers address the balance of concentration and inquiry, the three characteristics of experience, and enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Dealing With Craving And Attachment 55:28
Ariya B. Baumann
We need to see and understand the true nature of craving and attachment in order to abandon them. However, besides mindful observation there are other ways to deal with craving and attachment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-10-04 Closing Session 62:03
Ruth Denison
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-04 Gelehrte Meister des sanften Herzens 51:59
Fred Von Allmen
Asanga, Shantideva, Atisha
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-10-04 Big Mind Guided Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine
Guided meditation, meditation instructions
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Featured Guided Meditations

2007-10-04 Brahma Vihara - Guided Metta Sitting 47:48
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Self, benefactor and dear friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-04 Investigating The Nature Of Mind 51:49
Shaila Catherine
This talk explores various approaches to investigating the nature of knowing, emptiness, and self-construction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-04 Guided Big Mind Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine
This guided meditation explores the vast spacious clarity of awareness. It includes sounds and silence, bells and gongs, intertwined with inquiry into the nature of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-03 Path Of Peace 1:12:35
Tara Brach
Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to respond with compassion to life. The practices of presence allow us to recognize this conditioning and awaken to the truth of our connectedness, to the wisdom and love that make peace possible.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-10-03 Non-Confusion with Feeling 55:17
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-10-03 Body Sweep 48:46
Ruth Denison

2007-10-03 Sitting Instructions Using Investigation and Allowing Metta Practice 56:50
Ruth Denison
Tape 1

2007-10-03 Relationship As Spiritual Practice II 62:54
Donald Rothberg
We continue our exploration, with a review of why, in the contemporary west, it’s important to develop a fuller sense of relationship as practice, and what the prerequisites for this practice are, in terms of Buddhist resources. Then we explore how in relationship there can be a full sense of inner awareness and roundedness (the “I”), awareness of and xxx toward the other (the “you”), and a third “body” (the feid of the “we”. We use experiential exercises to explore this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-03 Ten Unwholesome Actions 64:10
Joseph Goldstein
Ten Unwholesome Actions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-03 Instructional Sit with Body Sweep 57:43
Ruth Denison
A guided instructional sit, beginning with Metta meditation and expanding into the purposes of reflection. Instructions continuing the practice of attending, investigation with allowance and deep appreciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-03 Truth And Duality 61:06
Christopher Titmuss
We believe that the now is more important than past and future, there is an essence behind personality and we have to work through our stuff to get to our Buddha nature. Truth dissolves these dualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-02 Suffering 16:43
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-10-02 Impermanence: The Great Teacher 62:31
Myoshin Kelley
Teachings of impermanence continually surround us. As we open our eyes to this great truth, it becomes the means of whithering away the tendency to grasp and cling.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-02 Body Sweeping With Annica 65:01
Ruth Denison
Teaching on Annica through a guided body sweep.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-02 Love And Non-Self 64:54
Christopher Titmuss
We are preoccupied with self and other. Love needs to be liberated from self and other, popular culture and religion. Authentic love is a liberating force in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Actualities 16:12
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-10-01 Vipassana Meditation The Science Of Mindfulness 60:07
Ruth Denison
Instructional overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, focusing on intentional investigation, your attention with an allowing attitude. Vipassana, clear seeing, as outcome to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Guided Movement Meditation 63:04
Ruth Denison
Cultivating skiils to live closely with this bodily process through sense experience. Practice in lying down, sitting, standing, and moving or walking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Effort + Ease = What Needs To Be Done 52:55
Shaila Catherine
This talk explores the range of skillful effort, from ardent and zealous practice to spacious relaxation. Shaila points to a nondual realization that reveals our freedom in both action and in ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Facing Aggression 54:03
Norman Fischer
Turning away is so natural to us but we must turn toward the aggression within us if we want to overcome it. Our practice is to do this, be patient with what we find, and learn to let it come and go rather than fix it. Then we will be able to act with kindness, and to change this world inside and out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-10-01 Perception And Thought 55:13
Carol Wilson
Thought is often related to as a “problem” in meditation. It is much more useful to include thought as an object of awareness: once we understand the nature of thought, it loses it power over us.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-30 Quarterly Community Gathering: Healing and Protecting with the Five Precepts 46:11
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-30 Seeing through Obstacles to Mindfulness 60:28
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-30 Releasing The Thinking Mind 60:13
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Finding freedom every moment, using the power of mindful awareness of thoughts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-30 Morning Instructions Pg #8 61:22
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Morning Instructions PG #8
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-30 Eight Worldly Conditions 49:00
Christopher Titmuss
Success and Failure, Gain and Loss, Praise and Blame, Pleasure and Pain can haunt our life. All these wordly conditions weave in and out of each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-09-29 The Mind And The World 48:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-09-29 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 64:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House The Presence of Heart

2007-09-28 Mindful Awareness of the Five Hindrances 62:22
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-09-28 Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances 62:22
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses mindfulness and understanding of hindrances as doorways to freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-28 Morning Instructions Myoshin 58:30
Myoshin Kelley
Morning Instructions Myoshin
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-28 Opening Talk for The Presence of Heart 28:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House The Presence of Heart

2007-09-27 The Gang of Three: Greed, Hatred and Delusion 58:26
Ariya B. Baumann
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-27 The View That Supports Understanding 56:58
Myoshin Kelley
What we can look to in our experience to strengthen wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-27 Morning Instructions Joseph Goldstein #5 61:49
Joseph Goldstein
Morning Instructions Joseph Goldstein #5
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-26 The Gift Of Silence 1:18:19
Tara Brach
Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process of the thinking mind. This talk explores practices that allow us to settle in a natural way, the presence which is silence itself, and the wisdom and love that flows freely when we live from that silence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-09-26 Knowing, Awareness And Wisdom 62:16
Joseph Goldstein
This talk illuminates the difference between these factors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-26 Morning Instructions Myoshin #4 62:21
Myoshin Kelley
Morning Instructions Myoshin #4
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-25 Metta - Guided Meditation 42:40
Rebecca Bradshaw
What is Metta? Introduction to self and benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-24 Morning Instructions Joseph Goldstein #2 62:22
Joseph Goldstein
Morning Instructions Joseph Goldstein #2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-23 Birth-and-Death 44:21
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-09-23 From Aspiration To Faith 61:46
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
The journey begins with finding the aspiration to trust ourselves on the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-23 Morning Instructions Myoshin #1 1:19:52
Myoshin Kelley
Morning Instructions Myoshin #1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-09-23 The Roots Of Self-Judgment 60:22
Carol Wilson
Self-judgment is a common and at times almost crippling, mental state. This talk explores some of the conditions that may give rise to this habit of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-22 The Brahma Viharas: Karuna (Compassion) 55:01
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-09-22 Truth - The End Of Programs 35:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-09-21 Creativity Retreat - Flavors of Love 28:26
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-21 Compassion 50:57
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-20 Busy 33:12
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-09-20 Determination 53:55
Ariya B. Baumann
A Strong determination helps deal with strongly ingrained patterns in body and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-20 The Self and the World 54:27
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-19 The Joy Of Conscious Relationships 1:23:42
Tara Brach
We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and gives rise to genuine happiness and inner freedom. This talk explores the teachings and practices that nourish conscious relationships.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-09-19 Mindfulness of the Body 56:38
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-19 Relationship As Spiritual Practice I 62:13
Donald Rothberg
Much of our meditation practice in the west has been focused on individual practice, in silence and often solitude. While there are many traditional Buddhist resources for taking relational, communicative interactions as practice, there is also a need for developing forms to deepen such practice. We identify the Buddhist resources for this practice and offer some beginning exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-19 Identity And You 44:30
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation in Nature

2007-09-19 Mind of Kindness 52:58
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-18 Creativity Retreat - Success 55:12
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-18 Peace And Love 54:34
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation in Nature

2007-09-17 The Feminine In Buddhism 60:15
Jack Kornfield
THE POWER OF THE FEMININE, THE DANCE OF THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE, AND AWAKENING OF THE FEMININE WISDOM FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-17 All Skillful Means Are For The Purification Of The Heart-Mind 57:42
Carol Wilson
The Buddha famously stated that he taught one thing, dukka and its end. The heart-mind of non clinging is one way to describe the end of dukkha. One way of looking at the commonality of purpose in the various skillful means of our path is that they are rooted in the mind of non-clinging.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-17 Ocean of Patience 55:22
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-16 Understanding the Role of Technique 60:09
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-16 Noble Warming 1 40:04
Ayya Medhanandi
Singapore Buddhist Temple Retreat
National University of Singapore Buddhhist Society

2007-09-16 Questions and Answers 46:24
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-09-16 Precious Human Life 42:37
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-15 The Wilderness of Anger 69:48
Ayya Medhanandi
Why does anger cause us so much misery? As long as we feed it, anger insidiously undermines our spiritual work. Mindful and aware, we learn to refrain from feeding that angry dog and we loosen its foothold within the mind. By the power of loving-kindness and compassion, we disarm anger's toxicity and restore peace. These are the supreme medicines that will guide us through the wilderness of anger.
National University of Singapore Buddhhist Society

2007-09-15 The Gift 27:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-09-15 Life Is Fleeting 47:10
Madeline Klyne
Life is Fleeting
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Weekend for New Students

2007-09-13 Fear 57:46
Ariya B. Baumann
Fear is a deep issue and a challenging one. Dealing with fear opens the door to new territory and gives us the courage to jump over the edge.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-12 Three Characteristics In Honor Of Sherry 62:37
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-10 Calling Yourself 59:48
Norman Fischer
The practice of calling yourself and answering yourself as taught by an ancient Zen Master.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-09-10 Calling Yourself 60:07
Norman Fischer
The practice of calling yourself and answering yourself as taught by an ancient Zen master.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-09-10 Viriya - Patience And Courage 54:22
Carol Wilson
Viriya is a quality of mind that is an essential aspect of our path; frequently mentioned by the Buddha. Often translated as “effort” we can easily confuse this quality with one of striving or “efforting” which leads to suffering. Viriya: patient courage supports mindfulness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-09-09 Simple Presence 58:52
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-09-09 Right View 47:11
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

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