2007-08-08 The Eight Fold Path 58:27
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
An overview of the Eight Fold Path with emphasis on the ways we practice it on meditation retreats and with a special focus on effort and mindfulness.

2007-08-08 A Holiday At Home - 'knowing' meets 'self' 27:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-07 Morning Instructions / Q&A / Walking Instructions 60:34
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Morning Instructions / Q&A / Walking Instructions

2007-08-07 Equanimity 63:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The balanced, spacious, caring, experienceof resting the mind before it falls into extremes
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-07 Equanimity Instructions Day One 1:13:31
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity Instructions Day One
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Understanding Defilements 61:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Understanding Defilements
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-08-06 Morning Instructions / Q&A Monday 8-6-07 60:22
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions / Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Metta Instructions Forgivemess Day Two 64:00
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions - Forgiveness - Day Two
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Sitting On Your Cushion 50:15
John Travis	Download Listen
Being responsible for our body.

2007-08-05 The Brahma Viharas: Metta 52:40
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-05 Second Morning Instructions with Q&A 61:00
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Relax body, relax mind, recognize present moment
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-05 Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor And Friend 1:13:04
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor and Friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-05 Faith 65:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Faith
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Morning Instructions - First Day 54:43
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions and guided sit
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Further Sitting And Walking Instructions 49:09
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Further guided sitting and walking instructions. Day one 10:00 AM
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Mindfulness: Tranquility, Insight, Understanding 62:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Mindfulness or awareness is the foundation for development of seclusion, liberating insight and peace of mind. The distractions in practice makes the difference.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Compassion 49:13
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-04 Nudging The Spirit 29:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-03 Opening Talk - The Power Of Purification Retreat 44:54
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Opening Talk - The Power of Purification
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-03 Rich Beyond Material Wealth - The Seven Treasures Part Two 1:12:34
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-03 Deepening Into Impermanence 44:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-02 Rich Beyond Material Wealth - The Seven Treasures Part One 65:34
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-02 Concentration As A Return To Centre 41:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-01 The Art Of Loving 1:29:16
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 29:58 Download Listen The Art Of Loving 59:18 Download Listen

2007-08-01 The Mind and the Way: Chapter 17 and Reflections on Loss 56:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-08-01 Perception 61:30
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
East Bay Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-01 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 4 and the Vow Ceremony 58:09
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the nature of the Bodhisattva, in its archetypal expression, its manifestation in extraordinary and ordinary human exemplars, and in ourselves. We focus on the qualities of wisdom and skillful action especially and end with a short ceremony in which the participants develop their own version of the Bodhisattva, and express some of them publicly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-08-01 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part Two 58:49
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-01 Return To The Mind Itself 22:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-07-31 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part One 63:13
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-30 Sacred Journey 57:57
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Initiation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-30 Compassion 64:46
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-30 Who Do You Think You Really Are? 62:15
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-29 If It’s In The Way, It Is The Way 49:43
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-07-29 How Do You Want to Be? 62:43
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-28 The Ecology Of Compassion 64:40
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Understanding the terrain of compassion in our inner life in relationship to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-28 How Do You Want To Live Your Life? 55:00
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-27 Impermanence: The Gateway To Freedom 50:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Deepening our understanding of impermanence with implications for our meditation practice and our lives.

2007-07-26 Wisdom And Compassion 51:19
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
An exploration of the power of seeing more deeply as the basis for wisdom and compassion to arise. This is through the understanding of non separation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Family Retreat

2007-07-26 Understanding Insight: Dukkha And Anatta 61:30
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight or the dawning realization of the three common characteristics rests on the continuity of mindful awareness. They offer the understanding of how to live at ease with all conditions and to do well in life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-25 The Mind and the Way: Relationships 54:46
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-25 Practice Dying 46:27
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
The cycles of birth and death in physical life and moment to moment practicing dying during our life as a way to freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Family Retreat

2007-07-25 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 3 56:33
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After an overview of the Bodhisattva path, and of the perfections of vow – intention, patience, and meditations, we look at the perfections of wisdom and skillful action. We end with an experiential exercise designed to a different situation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-24 Courageous Effort 52:01
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
This talk is part of the series on the Satipatthana Sutta on the enlightenment factor of energy – or viriya.

2007-07-24 Taking Practice Home 54:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-23 Resting The Mind Before It Falls Into Extremes 58:55
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity supports clarity of understanding through a spacious, balanced and calm mind. It leads the way for compassionate action that can be powerfully effective because it is free from aversion and attachment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-23 Liberation 2:18:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-22 Understanding The Defilements 57:31
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Wisdom removes the defilements. Awareness is the foundation for growing wisdom. Defilements are visitors to the mind that cause suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-22 The Seven Factors of Awakening 40:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
A description of the Seven Factors and how they balance each other. The overarching importance of the Factor of Awareness is stressed.
Gaia House :  The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-22 Satipatthana 4: The Four Noble Truths 1:27:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-21 Knowing, Awareness And Wisdom 55:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Understanding these differences helps deepen our understanding and insights into the nature of this body and mind.

2007-07-21 The Practice as a Whole 36:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
The Seven Factors of Awakening are put into the perspective of the practice of Vipassana as a whole.
Gaia House :  The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-21 Being In The Stream Of Dhamma 35:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Sankhara

2007-07-21 Knowledge of Arising and Passing 2:05:49
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-20 Nibhana 46:31
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The 3rd Nobel Truth the Buddha describes as the heartwood of the path. This talk focuses on the insights and renunciations that liberate the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-20 Equanimity 1:24:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-19 The Abundance Of Generosity 42:40
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Opening to the connecting and liberating power of generosity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-19 "Calling All Bodhisattvas" 58:39
James Baraz	Download Listen
We are not practicing for ourselves alone. Everyone benefits from the fruits of our practice. This talk explores how to actively and skillfully express our compassion, held with equanimity, in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-19 The Imperfections of Insight Part 2 1:19:48
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-18 The Mind and the Way: Science of Goodness 55:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Compassion in the Face of Suffering 1:13:52
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Intimacy, Acceptance And Release 45:25
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
In the path of liberating our hearts we learn to be intimate with all things. This talk focuses upon the power of aversion to create alienation and division and the power of mindfulness to uproot ill will.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-18 Mudita: Practicing Joy And Gratitude 61:01
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Appreciative joy (Mudita) is the third of the divine abidings (Brahma Viharas). When directed to oneself, it enhances the sense of gratefulness. This is an important practice because joy is an integral part of the path to liberation.

2007-07-18 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 2 53:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this second session, we first review the path of the Bodhisattva, exploring both the Theravada and Mahayara roots and the qualities (paramis, paramites) developed. We focus on vow – intentions, patience, and meditation, looking at how to make the Bodhisattva training real in our daily lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-18 The Imperfections of Insight Part 1 1:36:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-17 The Three Principles Of The Path 39:03
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Cultivating renunciation and letting go, kindness and compassion and insight into the empty nature of things.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-17 A Purified Heart 50:00
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Our spiritual practices allow us to reconnect with our deepest caring for our own happiness and well-being. When this is awakened, we purify our heart and our caring expands to include all beings everywhere.

2007-07-16 Freedom From Fear And Anxiety 56:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This talk explores in detail the tools and approaches we can develop to work skillfully with fear in our lives, both those fears that are obvious and those that are more hidden. There is a genuine possibility of liberation from the power that fear seems to have to constrict us
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-16 Forgiveness 59:10
James Baraz	Download Listen
Forgiveness is an essential part of Metta practice so that the heart can stay open and the kindness flows out easily. In this talk forgiveness toward ourselves, asking and extending forgiveness with others and forgiveness towards life are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-16 Factors Of Enlightenment 61:13
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The Factors of Enlightenment: A reminder to the heart of our natural awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-16 The Seven Factors Of Awakening, Part2: Calm And Concentration 64:01
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-15 The Mind and the Way Q&A Chap 14 58:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-15 Wisdom Of Boredom 48:04
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Boredom is one of the mental states most difficult to understand yet a familiar companion in our lives. Boredom has much o teach us about the sources of wakefulness and is a doorway to understanding calm and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-15 Metta As Purification 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
As we settle more into our hearts, we find our beauty. How to hold them all in friendship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-14 Freeing The Heart And Mind From Hindrances 50:42
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
How to skilfully work with the five hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-14 The Benefits Of Metta 53:55
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explains how the practice of loving-kindness works to bring five benefits: a tender heart, the purification of heart and mind, concentration, connection to life, and happiness.

2007-07-14 Go Forth into the World 60:40
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Having entered the stream of the eightfold path, one becomes 'independent of the views of others'. This autonomy is the ground for a new way of being with oneself and the world. It deepens insight and expands empathy, leading to compassion and social engagement.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-14 The Development of Wisdom 1:45:22
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-13 Awakening, Love and Compassion 64:54
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the symbols of awakening representing selflessness, showing the importance of love in our spiritual lives, and exploring compassionate activities.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-13 Satipatthana 3: Mindfulness of Mind States 2:00:53
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-12 Reflections On Power 55:31
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is a reflection stemming from the "Money, Sex, & Power" issue of the Inquiring Mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-07-12 Mindfulness Of Mind 56:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-12 Rembrandt's Eyes 64:12
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Rather than four propositions to believe, the four enobling truths are to be seen as injunctions on which to act: Fully know suffering, Let go of craving, Experience cessation, and Creatre a path. Awakening is not, therefore, a 'state', but an ongoing process.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-12 Satipatthana 2: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone 1:20:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-11 Wisdom And Compassion 56:22
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
How wisdom and compassion are developed in the practice of mindful awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-07-11 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 1: Intention - Vow And Patience 59:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The path of the Bodhisattva is both a traditional and contemporary way of connecting inner practice and helping others. After an overview of the Theravada and Mahayara roots, we explore the practice of (1) intention - vows, and (2) patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-11 Breaking Free of Habits 61:54
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring mental patterns.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-11 Satipatthana 1: Mindfulness of the Body 1:26:00
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-10 Turning the Wheel 59:31
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Although initially reluctant to teach, the Buddha goes to Benares and explains to five of his former companions what he has realized. This first sermon, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma (Dhammacakkapavatana Sutta), expands the principle of conditioned arising into the practice of 'four enobling truths'.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-10 The Five Hindrances 1:34:29
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-09 Five Hindrances 52:25
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Five Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2007-07-09 Buddhist Psychology 63:44
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-09 The Seven Factors Of Awakening, Part1 57:34
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-09 The Three Characteristics 50:36
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-09 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension 1:36:52
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-08 The Mind and the Way: Themes For Daily Practice 54:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-08 Meditation Overview 59:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
This Talk is an overview of the meditative path. It includes working with pleasant and unpleasant sensations in thoughts, emotions and awareness itself
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2007-07-08 The Groundless Ground 60:34
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Who was Siddhattha Gotama and what did he awaken to? A reflection on his own account of the awakening as found in his discourse The Noble Quest (Ariyapariyesana Sutta), which identifies 'conditioned arising' as the foundational insight for an awakened life.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-08 Sila (Virtue) 1:21:49
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-07 Opening Talk Poc 61:03
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Opening Talk POC
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat