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Dharma Talks
2007-03-23 Sustainable Love 45:36
Amita Schmidt
Ways to sustain love and find the core of love in every situation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2007-03-23 Opening Talk for Awakening the Body and Heart - Yoga and Meditation Retreat 60:25
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Awakening the Body and Heart - Yoga and Meditation Retreat

2007-03-22 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 2 1:16:10
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-03-22 The Tasks of Being Nobody 40:49
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2007-03-22 Drive Through That Town 48:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
First three nobel truths. Embracing all of our experiences as a path to freeing the heart and mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2007-03-22 Appreciative Joy: The Delight Of The Heart 47:01
Myoshin Kelley
This talk points towards finding joy on the path of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-03-22 Great Heart - The Saboteur 42:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-03-22 Meeting The Hindrances 64:50
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-21 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 30 1:17:38
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-03-21 Effort, Control, Struggle 56:29
Marvin Belzer
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-03-21 Transforming Judgment - part 2 47:28
Donald Rothberg
We review some of the main themes of transforming judgments – the nature of judgments and four main ways of working with judgments, using mindfulness, inquiry, and heart practices. We add some exploration of the cultural dimension of judgments and how to combine inner work on judgments with outer response and how to combine inner work on judgments with outer response.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-03-21 The Thread Of Letting Go 40:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-03-21 Guided Meditation on Sensations 57:25
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-20 Hindrances 58:57
Chas DiCapua
General and detailed practices to working with the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2007-03-20 Mindfulness 62:36
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-19 Contrasting Wise Effort And Right Effort 43:03
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-03-18 Letting Go: The Skill of Release 57:17
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-03-17 God and the Ultimate Truth 57:49
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat

2007-03-17 The Four Mind Changing Reflections 53:10
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-16 Passion, Desire, and the Path 62:22
Rob Burbea
Often in spiritual traditions desire is seen simply as something to rid ourselves of, but there is a very important place for it on the path. We need passion. And we need both to understand desire and to know freedom from desire.
Gaia House Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat

2007-03-16 Guided Meditation on Body Scan and Breath 28:09
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-15 The One Who Knows 51:44
Jack Kornfield

2007-03-15 Differentiating Right Effort from Wise Effort 41:16
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2007-03-15 Intimacy, Acceptance, Release 45:40
Christina Feldman
Intimacy is the heart of mindfulness. This talk explores the power of aversion and the freedom from aversion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women In Meditation

2007-03-15 Home and Homelessness 57:01
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat

2007-03-15 Samvega (Spiritual Urgency) 53:16
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Hermitage

2007-03-14 The Mind and the Way: The Three Refuges 1 59:58
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-03-14 Letting Go of Self-Doubt 1:18:42
Michael Grady
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-03-14 Rescue Remedy 46:43
Ayya Medhanandi
By practising awareness of your breath you will begin to understand your mental and physical processes and develop mindfulness. You will know what is happening as it happens, and you will be able to recognize a hindrance and turn it off. Spiritual regret for past unwholesome actions can develop and you will be able to abandon them and let go of a lifetime’s accumulation of baggage. A talk given at a 10 day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Galilee Centre, Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2007-03-14 Transforming Judgment - part 1 53:55
Donald Rothberg
Working with judgments is a kind of “royal road” of transformation, taking us into our deep and often unconscious views, sense of self and pain. We look at the importance of this work, and the speaker tells personal stories illustrating four ways of working with judgments: 1. mindfulness 2. seeing core patterns of mind and heart 3. metta, compassion, joy – using heart practices, and 4. deep inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-03-13 The Long Journey To A Bow 48:13
Christina Feldman
This talk explores Mana or the conceit of self that manifests as superiority/inferiority or equality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women In Meditation

2007-03-12 Ethical Footprint 27:47
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we calm the mind in order to not be overwhelmed by thoughts and emotions? We can learn to live skillfully by realizing how the mind and body really work. Don’t be angry with your anger, don’t be caught up with your desires, don’t be overwhelmed by your delusion. But, go beyond and find an island of peace that can result in the ethical perfection that is known as enlightenment. A talk given during an Ottawa Buddhist Society 10 day retreat in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2007-03-11 The Threads of Your Life: Guided Death Meditation 17:49
Ayya Medhanandi
When you move towards what is fearful step by step with courage, it is possible to overcome the darkest moments breath by breath.  Draw together all the threads of your life, and let each one go strand by strand. A guided meditation on death at a 10 day retreat, Galilee Centre, Arnprior, Ontario Canada.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2007-03-11 Co-Creative Talk: Shunyata, Anatta and Anicca: Practice in Everyday Life 50:54
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-03-10 Creativity, Love, Generosity 40:42
Martin Aylward
Gaia House A Revolution in the Heart

2007-03-09 Opening Talk Woman's Retreat 47:58
Christina Feldman
A Background to this practice of Insight Meditation, Precepts, Beginning Instruction
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women In Meditation

2007-03-09 Insight 51:55
Martin Aylward
Gaia House A Revolution in the Heart

2007-03-08 Wisdom and Love 46:21
Martin Aylward
Gaia House A Revolution in the Heart

2007-03-07 The Mind and the Way: The Eight-Fold Path 57:23
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-03-07 Wisdom Of Disappointment 44:31
Christina Feldman
Disappointment is one of the hearts most frequent visitors. It can be a doorway to despair and bitterness or acknowledged as being the starting point of every a journey of liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women In Meditation

2007-03-04 Questions and Answers 51:46
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-03-03 Acceptance and Transformation 43:30
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-03-03 Entering Dhamma - A Natural Process 60:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-02-28 The Mind and the Way: Right View & Right Intention 55:59
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-28 Learning How To Live - part 3 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 57:45
Larry Rosenberg
Part 3 continues the same theme The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-27 Q&A 02-27-07 53:28
Michael Grady
Question and answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-26 The Path Of Meditation And Nature 49:37
Mark Coleman
What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-26 Learning How To Live - part 2 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 52:37
Larry Rosenberg
Part 2 continues the same theme The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-26 The Path Of Meditation And Nature 49:15
Mark Coleman
What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-02-25 The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom 53:31
Michael Grady
The power of mindfulness and self knowing frees our hearts and minds of the burden of past conditioning, opening us to a creative process learning and unconditional relaxation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-24 The Art Of Acceptance (2 Of 2) 65:22
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-24 Learning How To Live - part 1 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats 48:22
Larry Rosenberg
The Buddha Dharma suggests a way to live. Practice and living are not seperate. Retreats and daily life: the same or different - these issues are explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-02-24 Four Noble Truths 46:24
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom

2007-02-23 Through The Looking Glass-The Reality Of No-Self 61:54
Marcia Rose
Can we look into the clear mirror of the dhamma? Can we face the "looking glass" with a willingness and humility and keep looking into this mirror of our 'self' without interpretation or judgement? It is only then that we begin to see and know the impersonality of presently arisen thoughts, censations,feelings and states of mind. Can we keep looking until we begin to experience and know that it's not all about "me" and teach the heart/the mind of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-23 Opening Talk for the Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom 1:18:27
Jake Dartington
this talk also includes Caroline Jones and Chris Cullen
Gaia House Young People's Retreat - Awakening to Freedom

2007-02-21 The Mind and the Way: Realizing the Cessation of Stress 60:48
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-20 Selfing, Love and Compassion 53:16
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-19 Habits 53:37
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-18 Contact and Feeling 49:07
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-17 You Are Not It; It Is You! 67:10
Eugene Cash
How the three characteristics function to reveal the mystery of everyday life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening Natural Wisdom of the Heart

2007-02-17 Meditation in Everyday Life 53:10
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation for Daily Living

2007-02-16 Mindfulness And Transformation Of Emotional States 1:15:39
Marcia Rose
The Buddha offers us a recipe for cultivating a strong and clear mindful attention that's grounded in kindness and patience that meets the experience of the moment and sees it clearly, just as it is. We can learn to experience afflictive emotions without getting caught up or swept away and overcome by them. It's as though we learn to see them so clearly, that we see through them, just like we see through the colors of a rainbow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-14 The Mind and the Way: Letting Go of Attachment 55:30
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-13 Spiritual Passion 52:02
James Baraz
Passion for practice fuels our effort. There are different sources of spiritual passion (four Iddhipadas) that correspond to different temperaments: zeal, effort, love of the Dharma and urgency.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-12 Preferences and Desires 49:51
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-11 Speech, Impermanence & Beauty 51:19
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-02-10 The Body In The Body-The First Domain Of Mindfulness 63:40
Marcia Rose
Paying attention...a non-judgemental, non-manipulative, non-grasping, non-rejecting, kind of attention to the body in the body...just the body as such...not one's feeling, ideas, concerns, or interpretations about it. How do we know the body? How are we established in this first domain of mindfulness? Are you looking in the right place and in the right way for the happiness that you are seeking?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-10 Being who You Are 52:24
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who You Are

2007-02-09 Taking Metta Into Our Life 54:15
Mark Coleman
Taking the practice of loving kindness into our lives, relationships and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-09 Opening Talk for Being who You Are 1:14:37
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Being Who You Are

2007-02-08 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 4 1:18:47
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-08 Generosity - The Verb of Metta 52:10
Gina Sharpe
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-02-08 Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens 61:59
James Baraz
The five Spiritual Faculties describe the importance of balance as well as explain the process of intensive practice. Faith leads to effort which develops mindfulness, which cultivates concentration which flowers as wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-02-08 Generosity - The Verb Of Metta 52:07
Gina Sharpe
Transforming kindness into action
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-08 Equanimity in Compassion 1:13:36
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-07 Aspiration 54:58
Sharon Salzberg
Aspiration
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-06 Compassion And Mudita 57:10
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how the heart of metta develops into compassion as it meets suffering in oneself and the world and becomes appreciative joy as it meets the happiness of others
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-06 Sunyata and Ethics 66:39
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-05 Equanimity - Evenness Of Mind 59:04
Gina Sharpe
Equanimity - evenness of mind- as a formation and support of metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-04 Love and Emptiness 1:22:52
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-04 Obstacles To Metta 56:49
Mark Coleman
This Talk explores some of the common obstacles to the development of Metta. In particular the force of aversion, self hatred and the "critic"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-04 Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena 34:58
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-03 Metta 50:40
Sharon Salzberg
Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-03 The Power of Equanimity 1:13:25
John Peacock
The Buddha exhorted his followers to live a balanced life. Equanimity (uppekha) is at the heart of balance in an individual's life and is vitally important in our interpersonal relations.
Gaia House Gentle Joy and Equanimity

2007-02-02 Opening Talk Metta 2-2-07 57:43
Sharon Salzberg
Opening Talk
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2007-02-02 Samvega-Spiritual Urgency 53:24
Marcia Rose
What moves you towards spiritual practice? We are stirred and moved and inspired to practice through various experiences that goes on within our own body-mind process and by phoenomena that goes on in the world around us. Listen to stories of people being stirred to a sense of samvega-spiritual urgency from the time of the Buddha, right up to stories from our time-now.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-02-02 Gentle Joy - Mudita 62:40
John Peacock
Gaia House Gentle Joy and Equanimity

2007-02-02 Sunyata 66:01
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-02-02 Faith 44:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2007-02-01 Introduction to Mindfulness, Week 3 49:36
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-02-01 The Practice of Compassion 1:25:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-31 Mindfulness And Papanca - part 2 57:37
Donald Rothberg
We focus, in this record of two talks, on the nature of Papanca or “conceptual proliferation” its roots in compulsive craving and aversion, and a number of different ways to work skillfully with Papanca.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-01-31 Anatta - NotSelf 66:07
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-30 Dependent Origination And Love 1:26:30
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-29 Eight Fold Noble Path - Part 2 5:56
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Given at Kyaswa Monastery in the Sagaing Hills of Burma. Translated by Jake Davis. Year is correct, exact date unknown.
Vipassana Hawai'i

2007-01-28 Tanha and Transformation 44:10
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-01-28 Eight Fold Noble Path - Part 1 11:19
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Given at Kyaswa Monastery in the Sagaing Hills of Burma. Translated by Jake Davis. Year is correct, exact date unknown.
Vipassana Hawai'i

2007-01-27 From Insight to Love 1:19:07
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

2007-01-25 Three Characteristics 53:13
Susan O'Brien
Freeing the mind through understanding impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-01-25 Expressions of Metta 66:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Loving Kindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening (2007)

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