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Dharma Talks
2003-12-12 Loving Kindness 45:41
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-12-11 Final Q&A 58:56
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-11 Q&A 56:16
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-10 Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom 28:03
Ayya Medhanandi
In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberated. Likewise, those who rightly love wisdom and contemplate death without fear see the emptiness and impermanence of all conditioned things. Realizing the futility of all clinging and the inevitability of death, our wisdom and faith in the Dhamma ripen and reveal the doors to the Deathless. This is the path of awakening.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2003-12-08 Joy 58:40
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-12-07 Taking The Refuges and Precepts 51:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-06 Dynamics - Locked States 46:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-06 Big Mind Meditation 47:28
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-06 The Dynamics of Breathing 65:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-05 Unseating the Inner Tyrant; Guided Meditation 1:29:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unseating the Inner Tyrant - a retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2003-12-05 Coming to Our Senses, Part 2 of 2 31:16
Jon Kabat-Zinn

2003-12-05 Coming to Our Senses, Part 1 of 2 1:27:18
Jon Kabat-Zinn

2003-12-03 The Buddha's Journey: The Sacred Journey 60:41
Joseph Goldstein
The meaning and significance of the Buddha for our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-03 Spiritual Friendships 61:19
Carol Wilson
The Buddha often said that keeping company with lovely and wise people is one of the most supportive qualities for our path of awakening. One of the first of our sincere practices, where we can also begin, is to be lovely friends for others in this world. How our practice is developing the qualities that make a spiritual friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-02 Guided Equanimity Meditation 43:25
Joseph Goldstein
a guided meditation recognizing the spacious and balanced unfolding of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-12-01 Qualities Of The Heart 69:01
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Metta Forest Monastery

2003-11-29 Release 66:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-11-28 The Power Of Metta 58:52
Guy Armstrong
The practice of metta brings five wonderful qualities into our Dhamma practice. It makes the heart softer and more responsive; it purifies the heart; it brings us into connection with all of life; it develops concentration; and it leads to happiness. Lovingkindness is the quality of friendliness toward oneself and others developed through the practice of metta. This talk describes how the practice works as a protection, a healing, a purification of heart, and a boundless state of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-27 Lust And Hate 68:34
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-27 Dana - The First Of The 3 Pillars Of The Dhamma 31:03
Kamala Masters
How to develop the virtue of generosity in oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2003-11-27 Generosity, the 1st Pillar of the Dharma 50:27
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-26 Cultivating Wise Speech 47:16
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-24 Q&A 65:47
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-24 Q&A 66:14
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-23 Giving 42:25
Arinna Weisman
We are often blind to our own generosity, to the gift of our practice and efforts. The Buddha invites us to contemplate this beautiful quality of our minds, and its wholesome results, as part of the practice of growing and sustaining.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2003-11-22 Patience 45:03
Arinna Weisman
Patience is one of the Paramis and gives us the strength to endure through difficult experiences. We can be inspired to practice it through contemplating leaders such as Mandela or the Dalai Lama who have faced extreme challenges in their lives without retribution or revenge, but with kindness and wisdom.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2003-11-20 The Obscurations of Faith 63:06
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-11-19 Transforming Judgments 62:43
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-19 Liberation through Non-Clinging 60:29
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-19 The Brahma Viharas 60:53
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-18 Guided Mudita Meditation 42:32
Carol Wilson
Turning the attention to genuine joy and happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-18 Truthfulness 43:43
Arinna Weisman
The commitment to truthfulness is a mirror which highlights our deepest intention to bring harmony and peace through kind and useful words. Also it shows us the sneaky seductions of lying, flattery and unkind speech.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2003-11-16 Outside The Box 1:13:06
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Metta Forest Monastery

2003-11-14 The Garden of Mindfulness 57:09
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-14 Awakening Concentration 56:33
Guy Armstrong
This talk discusses the nature of samadhi, or concentration, in our practice and how to recognize its presence. It also touches on the benefits of samadhi and ways to develop this wholesome quality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-13 Learning 46:32
Rodney Smith
Reflect on how generosity is related to equality. When you offer a gift to someone you perceive as unequal is that generosity or pity? Feel the difference between these two forms of giving. How does the heart feel and how does the mind hold the offering in a generous act and in pity? When you perceive someone as a human being regardless of their present condition you can only perceive them as equal. When you give to the less fortunate, you are lost in the pain of the circumstances. The generous heart feels that pain but gives to the human being. This week find several occasions to give something away to someone less privileged. Before you do, release the projections and allow equality to surface. One person giving to another. Look the person in the eye when you hand them the gift. Let your heart meet theirs. Feel the humility of true generosity. Feel the joy of release. Notice the qualitative difference between giving with humility and the self-importance of "helping the disadvantaged."
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2003-11-12 Embracing Paradox - The Middle Way 44:05
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-12 Compassion 1:41:38
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-12 Compassion 42:59
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-11 The Laws of Karma 59:14
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-11 Morality 48:07
Arinna Weisman
We have a tendency to see the world through success-failure, enemy-friend, good-bad. It is also possible to hold, with love, the ambiguity of life and our own ambivalence. Without splitting, we are able to live within the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha’s teachings.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2003-11-09 Using All Experience As The Path 59:42
Carol Wilson
looking at our willingness to use everything that comes our way as part of our spiritual practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-08 Breathing In And Out 64:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-11-07 Judging Ourselves 57:16
Guy Armstrong
Harsh judgements of ourselves in practice and in life may be connected to an underlying sense of not being good enough. The talk explores remedies in the moment (mindfulness and reflection) and long term (metta, selflessness).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-11-05 The Eightfold Path and Daily Life 58:03
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-11-05 Friendship 33:17
Arinna Weisman
The Buddha said sangha and spiritual friendship is the holy life. This practice involves learning to experience our own beauty and Buddha nature, and through this, the beauty of others.
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2003-11-04 Four Noble Truths 63:04
Sarah Doering

2003-11-04 Meditation: An Art And A Science 57:16
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-11-02 Silence and Space 36:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-11-01 The Power Of Mindfulness 53:55
Guy Armstrong
Mindfulness is our doorway to reality, or nature, which reveals its truths to us. The qualities of mindfulness, effort and concentration, are at the heart of the meditative path. As they develop, they bring our hearts and minds ever closer to the awakened mind of the Buddha. Only mindfulness can stem the tide of conditioned thought patterns that sweep us into sorrow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-10-31 Opening Talk 48:11
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-29 Coming Home (Part 2) 47:37
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-10-28 The Happiness Of Insight 68:01
Steven Smith
Inspiring metaphors and stories for retreat practice and daily life about the happiness & joys of insight meditation not dependent upon what's happening in the world around us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-27 Training and Discovery 46:58
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-10-27 Urgency, Ardency, Passion for Practice 49:49
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-27 Bodhicitta And The Transformation Of Mind 54:51
Joseph Goldstein
arousing the power of mindfulness by learning to see in a clear, direct and simple way
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-27 Bodhicitta And The Transformation Of Mind 51:00
Joseph Goldstein
arousing the power of mindfulness by learning to see in a clear, direct and simple way
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-26 Body Wisdom 45:37
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-10-26 Inevitability Of Groundlessness & Love 69:55
Michele McDonald
Valuing healthy connection and detachment while facing our inloveability fear of nothingness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-25 What Matters? 40:44
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-10-25 Resolving Suffering From within 69:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-10-22 Concepts & Reality 61:51
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-21 Metta Practice, Loving Kindness, Difficult Person 44:29
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-21 Being Present 48:09
Christina Feldman
What does it mean to be genuinely present and awake in our lives? Meditation is an exploration of the causes of disconnection and the letting go of those causes. Learning to be present is the first step on the path and a step we return to many times. It is the home of calm, joy and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-10-20 Sustaining Mindfulness - Part 2: Patience And Renunciation 65:45
Steven Smith
Patience and renunciation: what they are and how they support the development of mindfulness and the path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-20 Roots of Buddhist Psychology VI 63:54
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-10-20 Compassion - The Heart Beat Of The Buddha's Teaching 1:13:40
Marcia Rose
Compassion - one of the two wings of liberation: It's the heart felt connection to beings, and our way of being in this world that ensues from this. Compassion: Arising out of a clear and deep understanding/knowing of Dukkha (the unsatisfactoriness of all phenomena); the root cause of this suffering and the way of it's end. Compassion--the heart of tenderness, openness and great strength. As we turn our capacity to unconditionally open to and accept towards suffering, we connect with our courage and strength to genuine care and move towards the alleviation of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-10-19 Comparing, Compassion And Gratitude 60:19
Michele McDonald
Perfectionism, self-judgement, self-hatred, our eating habits and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-18 Deliverance – the Essence of Things 65:36
Ayya Jitindriya
Amaravati Monastery

2003-10-17 Reflections on Appreciating & Honoring Munindra 63:29
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-17 Reflections on Appreciating & Honoring Munindra 63:37
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-10-16 Q&A 47:00
Joseph Goldstein
Year unknown, with Steven Smith and Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-16 Forgiveness: The Most Tender Part Of Love 56:31
Myoshin Kelley
Forgiveness as a practice will often take us to the edge of what we can accept. Drawing upon qualities of lovingkindness, compassion and patience we can learn to open to our deepest pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-16 The Path Of Compassion 59:37
Tara Brach
Our deepest nature is compassionate, yet our habitual self-centeredness is an armoring that confines our heart. The Buddhist teachings free us to be of benefit to all those we touch.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2003-10-15 Morning Q&A 17:02
Joseph Goldstein
Year unknown, with Steve Armstrong and Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-15 Questions And Answers 58:25
Joseph Goldstein
Questions and Answers 3 month course.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-14 Metta Memorial For Munindraji 39:03
Joseph Goldstein
A metta memorial for a beloved teacher- Anagarika Sri Munindra. Remarks by Joseph Goldstein, metta sit and metta blessing chant.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-14 The Roots Of War And The Roots Of Peace - Seven Factors Of Enlightenment - II 61:07
Michele McDonald
How calm concentration and equanimity help us uproot the causes of war and develop the roots of peace within us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-13 Impermanence and Motivation 1:13:48
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-13 Roots of Buddhist Psychology V 63:59
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-10-13 Seclusion 59:24
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-10-12 Sustaining Mindfulness Part 1: Confidence & Courage 64:09
Steven Smith
Part 1 illuminates the fundamental nature and support of faith, or confidence, as a sustaining force in practice. Courageous energy follows, as the courage required to carry Dhamma into depths of one’s being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-11 Openess, Acceptance and Intimacy 59:12
Eugene Cash
Gaia House The Intimacy of Awakening

2003-10-10 Opening Talk for the Intimacy of Awakening 53:49
Eugene Cash
Gaia House The Intimacy of Awakening

2003-10-09 Life Stories 1:15:03
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-08 Right Effort, 3 Kinds of Effort 57:00
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-08 Delusion 46:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-10-07 Delight In The Practice 1:12:01
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-07 The Khandhas: The Whole Practice 1:32:09
Ajahn Pasanno
date estimated

2003-10-07 Body And Mind 57:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2003-10-06 Spiritual Emotions: Power To Liberate 64:00
Steven Smith
Detailed description of each Brahma Vihara, in generating and pervading them through oneself and to others in receiving them. Examples of each - enlightened leadership; using Brahma Viharas as basis for political freedom. How acts of kindness have rippling effects with unknown and mysterious consequences.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-05 Any Moment Of Our Lives Is The Doorway To Enlightenment 59:55
Michele McDonald
What are the qualities of awakening that allow us to open, awaken to any moment of our lives and be truly liberated: with boredom, with rage, with hopelessness, with the breath, with any experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 1

2003-10-04 No Duality, No Separation, No Problem 37:25
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Retreat with Martin Aylward

2003-10-03 Hatred Does Not Cease by Hatred 58:46
Sarah Doering
The suffering caused by hatred can be unending, unless hatred is turned to love. Different methods of meditation practice enable this process of transformation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-10-03 Suffering and Love 39:29
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Retreat with Martin Aylward

2003-10-02 Sakayaditthi: Identity View 66:32
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-02 Sakayaditthi: Identity View 65:27
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-01 Working With the Hindrances 11:45
Joseph Goldstein
A detailed exploration of how the hindrances--desire, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and doubt--manifest in our meditation and in our lives, and how we can transform them into wisdom. Cuts off part way through
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-10-01 Beyond Optimism and Pessimism 50:49
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Retreat with Martin Aylward

2003-09-30 Morning Instructions 30:56
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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