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Dharma Talks
2017-06-02 Contraction & Expansion, Art & Science of Meditation Retreat 66:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Guided Appreciative Joy - Mudita. 43:55
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation on how to practice appreciative joy/gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 Second Morning Instructions, The Art and Science of Meditation retreat 57:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Detailed Meditation Instructions 53:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-02 Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:23
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-02 Finding Refuge and the Wise Heart in Challenging Times (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 6:39:51
Mark Coleman
In every era of human history, people have encountered social upheaval and struggles. From the perspective of the Dharma, what is our response? Buddhist teachings provide a sense of refuge amidst any circumstance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-02 Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:17
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Q and A - June 2017 42:38
Kim Allen
Monthly session with Q&A. Topics include planning/anxiety, Buddhist personality types, and responding to the stress and pain of world events.
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-01 Opening Talk 43:37
Sayadaw Vivekananda
As global relatives, samsara relatives and dhamma relatives - we are inspired by the Candana Sutta and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-01 Four Steps in Transforming the Judgmental Mind 1:10:14
Donald Rothberg
We explore one model of how we follow the trail of judgments, studying them closely, and eventually accessing their generation by (relatively) unconscious limiting beliefs. At a later point, the transformation of these limiting beliefs and the integration of such transformation in daily life become possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2017-06-01 Finding Our Steady and Graceful Heart. 59:51
Rebecca Bradshaw
An exploration of developing equanimity by engaging with grasping, aversion and feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-01 "The Dharma of True Friendship" 47:57
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-06-01 Parami: Resolve 45:57
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-06-01 Dhamma Talks 08 - Practicing with a Broken Heart 1:44:10
Ajahn Achalo
2017, exact date unknown
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2017-06-01 Turn Your Existence Into Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:39
Howard Cohn
Exploring the Buddha's path and understanding of happiness and the causes of happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Practical Tips on Opening Up to Suffering and Exploring Generosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:37
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-01 Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:31
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-31 Intention and Mindfulness as the Basis for Awakening Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:51
James Baraz
Developing true well-being begins with the heartfelt intention and commitment to do so. Mindfulness is the basic tool that will help manifest that intention by weakening unwholesome states, cultivating wholesome ones and amplifying the latter when they arise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-31 Parami: Generosity 42:30
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-31 Nothing Missing in the Lost and Found 25:42
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-31 Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 1 50:36
Tara Brach
There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find liberation, I would not teach about it.” In this two part talk, we will look at the conditioning that blocks happiness and two primary pathways of practice that evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-31 Parami: Intro: Contingency Plans for the Trouble Ahead 26:19
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-31 Our Human Tangle 53:40
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-31 Internal and External Mindfulness 55:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-31 Radical Integrity (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:27:49
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-31 Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:12
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-05-30 Partie 2, 4e fondement de l’attention 56:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 69:54
Donald Rothberg
An overview of the nature of the judgmental mind, the distinction between judgment (in the sense of being "judgmental") and discernment, how the judgmental mind is transformed, and some of the tools and perspectives important in this process of transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2017-05-30 Meditation Mathematics 61:17
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
The incalculable nature, of the path of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-30 Going Against the Stream: Cultivating Wisdom, Compassion and Peace from the Inside Out 1:15:51
Martin Aylward
2500 years ago, Buddha taught meditation and inner inquiry as a revolutionary practice; Training the mind and freeing the heart to turn against the streams of greed, negativity and confusion that we see habitually affecting both our own inner lives, and driving the dominant forces of society. How can we genuinely explore and deeply understand how these currents and habits operate, so as to find an inner freedom and ease, and to make a wise and effective response to the world we live in?
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Going Against the Stream: Guided Meditation 34:59
Martin Aylward
2500 years ago, Buddha taught meditation and inner inquiry as a revolutionary practice; Training the mind and freeing the heart to turn against the streams of greed, negativity and confusion that we see habitually affecting both our own inner lives, and driving the dominant forces of society. How can we genuinely explore and deeply understand how these currents and habits operate, so as to find an inner freedom and ease, and to make a wise and effective response to the world we live in?
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Partie 1, 4e fondement de l’attention 29:47
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-30 Cours du mardi midi 63:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-29 Teaching From The Metta Sutta - Part 1 55:38
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-29 Parami: Renunciation Part 2, By Training 24:37
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-29 D’un esprit affligé vers un esprit libéré 1:19:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-29 Parami: Renunciation: Part 1, By Choice 37:07
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-29 Paying Attention to What We Pay Attention To (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 63:32
Sally Armstrong
Sally Armstrong Monday Night Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-05-28 Bringing Dharma Into Interpersonal and Communal Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:12
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-28 Day 6 Metta Sit: (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Genetic-Temperature-Conditioned=Metta=Warm-up!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-28 Torments Part 2: Released 24:53
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-28 Torments Part 1: Revealed 32:30
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-28 Seeing Things as They are Through Vipassana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Nikki Mirghafori
When we see the nature of reality as impermanent, not inherently satisfying and impersonal, we don't take it all so personally. There can be more ease and freedom when we make peace with the way things are. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-28 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 47:51
Michele McDonald
How to practice Metta with an anchor, the easiest being or place where one can find - and with oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-28 Vesak talk 49:25
Ayya Tathaloka
Dhammadharini

2017-05-28 Day 6 Morning Instructions: SN: "The Lump of Foam" and the 5 aggregates as bubbles, etc. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
Includes Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:32
Brian Lesage
This talk explores some ways to navigate the feeling of unworthiness that can arise in our lives and in our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Day 5 Guided Metta: Radiating Metta for All, Including Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:39
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Rest and Courage 55:07
Michele McDonald
Connecting our attention to the truth: giving birth to insight nd wisdom nd the monarch butterfly.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-27 Wisdom: Right View: Wise Understanding 21:48
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

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