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Dharma Talks in English
2006-07-12 Guided Meditation - Posture 17:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-12 Connecting Body To Mind In Terms Of Energy 44:39
Ajahn Sucitto
The kind of effort energy that is often brought to ‘trying to meditate’ lacks balance. Guidance is given to establish a steady upright posture with the external frame of the body. Energy is sensed at chakra centers to support its free flow through the body.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-12 Terrorist In The Bushes 46:45
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery Vassa Retreat

2006-07-12 Understanding Right Effort #2 54:08
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-12 Listening, Part 1 27:57
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-12 Mana: The Conceit of I 44:15
Fred Von Allmen
Our innate dignity and freedom is revealed in understanding and letting go of conceit.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-12 Compassion, The Heart that is Open and Engaged 51:27
Myoshin Kelley
MK137, MD157
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-07-12 Guided Meditation – Posture 17:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance to use attention to set up a steady, relaxed frame. Breathing sustains a sense of flow throughout, clearing blocked areas.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-11 Metta: Freeing The Heart From Clinging 51:16
Sharda Rogell
What keeps our heart from expressing pure lovingkindness? Understanding "tanna" or clinging, that gives rise to attachment & aversion, is the obstacle.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-11 Untying The Knot Of Contraction 46:12
Rodney Smith
Contracting around either the comfortable or uncomfortable aspects of life will inevitably cause conflict. The resolution of that conflict is the Buddha's teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-10 Selfless Persons 65:18
Ajahn Sucitto
On this Path, there is release, and there is also awakening into something vaster. Wherever suffering occurs, that’s the place of release. Apply yourself to the restricted places, and effortlessly, the revelation arises.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-10 Gladdening The Heart 48:52
Christina Feldman
The liberation of our heart from ill will and hostility rests upon our discovery of what it means to abide with equanimity in our emotional world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-09 Understanding Right Effort #1 58:10
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-09 Opening Vipassana Retreat with Rodney Smith and Fred Von Allmen 34:51
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-08 Healing the Heart Through Compassion 1:20:33
John Peacock
How compassion can become a healing way of being in the world, and how it affects all of our inter-relationships with others.
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-07 Patterning Samsara 1:18:55
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-06 A Sense of Possibility 49:47
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-07-06 Varieties of Cultivation 1:17:37
John Peacock
A guide to the varieties of meditative practices, and the difference between them.
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-05 Dependent Origination and Craving 1:19:37
John Peacock
An examination of the Buddha's most profound teaching, and what it means to us in everyday life.
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-04 Change and Impermanence as a Way of Being 1:16:16
John Peacock
One of the greatest challenges that confronts us is how we are to live with impermanence and not attempt to evade it.
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-03 The Path to Awakening 1:10:58
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-02 The Inner Critic 27:22
Chas DiCapua
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat

2006-07-02 The Body of Awakening: Three Stages of Practice 39:23
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-07-02 The One Who Knows - part 1 1:20:10
Ajahn Amaro
Day long on discovering the one who knows. Part One
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-02 The One Who Knows - part 2 68:47
Ajahn Amaro
Day long on discovering the one who knows. Part Two
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-02 The One Who Knows - part 3 52:07
Ajahn Amaro
Day long on discovering the one who knows. Part Three
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-02 Habit, Character and Love 1:14:01
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-01 The Transformative Power Of Intention 43:57
Anna Douglas
Understanding right intention as the bridge between our sitting practice and our life in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-01 Four Kinds Of Happiness 39:09
Rebecca Bradshaw
Described for teens four kinds of happiness the Buddha taught: living an ethical life, concentration, sense pleasures and peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat

2006-07-01 The Ethics of Love 67:42
John Peacock
Gaia House Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-06-30 Closing: Q&A 41:42
Larry Rosenberg

2006-06-29 Closing Talk 29:13
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-06-29 Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves III 46:37
Larry Rosenberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-28 Understanding, Letting Go And Love 37:52
Corrado Pensa
Starting from right understanding and right intention, the relationship between equanimity and love is examined.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-27 Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves II 45:19
Larry Rosenberg
Same as Part I.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-26 Trusting The Practice 36:42
Corrado Pensa
Practicing with suffering is being considered through different angles
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-25 Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves I 42:43
Larry Rosenberg
The teachings are guides to living. We test these teachings in the fire of living out our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-25 Spiritual Qualities, Worldly Values 36:42
Ajahn Metta
Gaia House Foundation in Mindfulness

2006-06-24 The Jhanas - part 8 2:00:06
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-06-24 Teachings Of The Buddha To Rahula 35:00
Corrado Pensa
The talk describes both, Buddhist teachings on everyday's action (body, speech and mind) and teachings about meditation, with strong emphasis on anatta and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat For Experienced Students

2006-06-24 The Five Hindrances 53:58
Ajahn Metta
Gaia House Foundation in Mindfulness

2006-06-23 Luminous Mind 56:06
Eugene Cash
Exploring identification and attachment obscures the natural radiance. How dis-identification reveals the nature of mind. Buddha described a luminosity of mind. This talk explores the attachments and conceptualization that veil this luminosity and points us directly at the radiance of mind. Includes a guided meditation. The Buddha point to the luminous nature of mind. Our practice allows for recognition and realization of our natural luminosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-22 Opening The Heart Center 54:20
Adrianne Ross
Awakening the qualities of lovingkindness, compassion and joy - reconnecting with true nature as a path to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-21 Love Cannot Be Taught 1:25:07
Corrado Pensa
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2006-06-19 Buddhist Psychology - Aversion 61:51
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-18 Questions and Answers 43:43
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-06-17 The Jhanas - part 7 1:38:34
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-06-17 Glorious Failure 57:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Over time we experience of the limitations of body and mind. What we rely on doesn’t actually work. Life is a failure, but we can make it a glorious failure. The practice of Dhamma-Vinaya helps keep the spirit bright and impeccable in what we do. Dhamma means to establish ethical clarity, mindfulness, lovingkindness; Vinaya is bringing these ideals and aspirations forth into a living context.
Cittaviveka

2006-06-17 Refuge in Awareness 38:07
Sharda Rogell
There is no need to be afraid of our personality....embracing all the condtions of our experience brings us to deeper levels of understanding. By recognizing times of deep contentment in ourselves, we plant a cellular memory of happiness that allows us to more easily find a natural resting place for the mind.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2006-06-16 Reflections on Requisites 1:15:57
Ajahn Vajiro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-06-15 Restraint and Spontaneity 43:13
Sharda Rogell
How do we express ourselves authentically, without falling into the extremes of indulgence and repression, where our ego is out of control, where we withdraw, hide behind our Buddhist practice, and lose touch with our vitality and our awakeness?
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2006-06-14 Love 52:19
Sharda Rogell
What is your experience like when you feel safe enough to open your heart? When we pay attention directly and we are not rejecting our experience, we can explore the quality of love in three centres of Being - head, heart and belly.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2006-06-12 Beginnings and Endings 46:07
Ajahn Vajiro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-06-12 Roots of Buddhist Psychology - Grasping 66:34
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-12 It Will Never Happen To Me 40:26
Ayya Medhanandi
Shrouded in the cloud of ignorance, we believe that suffering will never happen to us. But when we emerge from that fog into a radical simplicity of heart, suffering becomes our teacher. Our eyes are opened thanks to Right View and direct experience of the Four Noble Truths. At last we transcend the tyranny of fear.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2006-06-12 Opening to the Truth with Mindfulness 58:37
Sharda Rogell
Mindfulness illuminates our present experience and allows for the qualities of openness, curiousity, interest and trust to arise as we explore what it means to be awake to our experience, whether it is pleasant or unpleasant.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2006-06-11 Compassion 49:18
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-06-10 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta Chant 1:17:47
Ajahn Vajiro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-06-10 The Jhanas - part 6 1:18:54
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-06-08 Morning Chant 9:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-07 The Inner Landscape Of Compassion 59:18
Kamala Masters
This talks lays out what compassion is, how it benefits us, and what the near and far enemies of compassion are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2006-06-07 Evening Metta Chant and Instructions 7:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-06 Don’t Stop 35:58
Ajahn Vajiro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-06-06 Don't Stop 38:13
Ajahn Vajiro

2006-06-06 Karma 51:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-05 Equanimity 40:29
George Mumford

2006-06-05 The Perfections 48:41
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-04 Karaniya Metta Sutta 55:04
Ajahn Vajiro
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2006-06-04 Basics of Metta 46:26
Gina Sharpe
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-06-04 Questions and Answers 49:42
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-06-04 The Wheel of Dependent Origination 49:22
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-03 The Joyful Aspects of Meditation 46:54
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-03 The Jhanas - part 5 1:30:24
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-06-03 Process of Release 58:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2006-06-03 Liberation Through Non-Clinging 56:40
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Freedom of Being - A Meditation Retreat for Young People

2006-06-02 Opening Metta Weekend 44:46
Ajahn Vajiro

2006-06-02 Opening Vipassana Retreat 30:15
Larry Rosenberg

2006-06-02 The Mahasi Method 52:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-06-01 Entering the Course 1:17:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation

2006-05-31 Transforming Our Relationships With Opponents and Enemies 2 51:57
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-30 The Body, My Body, Our Body 54:10
Diana Winston
This talk explores the impersonal nature of "the" body, the role of conscious embodiment -- "my" body, and the interconnection of the two in the service of healing our planet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-29 Opening Through the Body To the Golden Wind 50:28
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
How to learn the art of letting go through the body. What might remain when grasping is relaxed?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-29 Letting Go Into The Golden Wind 49:39
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
How to learn the art of letting go through the body. What might remain when grasping is relaxed?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-28 Investigating Suffering 67:13
Ajahn Sumedho
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2006-05-28 Samadhi 51:12
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-05-27 Not-Self 69:01
Ajahn Sumedho
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2006-05-27 The Jhanas - part 4 1:38:36
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-05-27 Going Home 60:10
Trudy Goodman
How to practice at home, how to live the practice even when affected by terror--how to let go of the idealistic practice.

2006-05-26 Paying Attention 17:43
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-25 Transforming Our Relationships With Opponents and Enemies 1 45:07
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-25 Questions And Answers 65:22
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-25 5 Khandhas 25 44:48
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-25 The 10 Perfections 59:03
Jack Kornfield
Connecting with life and reminding ourselves of who we are.

2006-05-24 Questions And Answers 63:13
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-24 The Way It Is 30:52
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-24 Don't Know Mind 1:26:46
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2006-05-23 Questions And Answers 1:10:07
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-23 Reflection 41:49
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-22 Question And Answers - 4 Noble Truths 57:28
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

2006-05-22 Reflection 43:04
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery 10 Day Retreat

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