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Dharma Talks
2000-07-06 Five Levels of Bodhicitta 1:33:09
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-06 Early Morning 2 1:14:55
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-05 The Lancet of Sitting Chan - Part Two 1:34:32
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-05 The Nature of Dependent Origination - Part Two 60:04
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-05 The "No" Of Love 41:54
Rodney Smith
We are never sure how love will act once it is released
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-07-04 The Lancet of Sitting Chan - Part One 1:32:03
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-04 The Nature of Dependent Origination 1:29:50
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-03 Investigating Hua-To 1:28:47
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-03 Hua-To Method 1:25:08
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-02 Silent Illumination - Part Two 1:19:21
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-02 Freedom Through Non-Clinging 44:12
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2000-07-02 Freedom Of The Heart 55:32
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2000-07-02 Silent Illumination - Part One 1:26:48
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-02 Early Morning 1 1:34:30
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-07-01 Commentary: Verses From Tao Te Ching 47:25
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2000-07-01 Introductory Talk for Retreat 60:08
Master Sheng-Yen
Gaia House Illuminating the Mind

2000-06-29 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 2 60:43
Tara Brach
Cultivating the natural capacities of our awakening being. Part 2 of 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-06-26 A Gathering Of Elders (Buddhist Commentary Talk) 56:01
Jack Kornfield
Discription of Western Buddhist teachers conference, including the highlight of a visit by the Dalai Lama.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-06-25 A Non-Violent Life 47:55
Michele McDonald
Understanding what conditions bring about peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Young Adults Retreat

2000-06-24 The Red Pill Or The Blue Pill? 33:13
Rebecca Bradshaw
Making the radical choice to be awake in this moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-06-22 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 1 56:46
Tara Brach
Cultivating the natural capacities of our awakening being. Part 1 of 2.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-06-12 Discriminating Wisdom 57:16
Jack Kornfield

2000-06-10 Contemplating The Body As The Four Elements 50:22
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk draws from a number of suttas to demonstrate both the importance of developing body awareness and the skills needed to do it well.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-06-10 Courage, Right Effort And Freedom 54:54
Michele McDonald
Trusting different skillful means to balance our effort in practice on the road to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2000-06-07 Care Of The Body And The Practice Of Vipassana Meditation 1:32:57
Larry Rosenberg
The benefits to Dharma practice of bodily care; the dangers of craving and attachment which can arise with increased energy, health, attachment.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2000-06-07 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding The Wisdom Teachings 54:45
Michele McDonald
Understanding emptiness: leaving no trace of identification with experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2000-06-05 The Kindness Of Renunciation That Leads To Peace 53:03
Michele McDonald
Seeing all aspects of renunciation as kindness rather than deprivation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2000-06-03 Aloneness and Intimacy 20:18
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-06-03 Carry The Practice In The World 1:16:31
Joseph Goldstein
given at Mid America Dharma
Mid America Dharma

2000-06-02 Reflections on Emptiness 45:35
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-06-01 Enlightenment 66:41
Jack Kornfield
date unknown

2000-06-01 Acceptance 42:39
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-06-01 Dignity On The Path 54:34
Michele McDonald
Planting the seeds of love, compassion, joy and equanimity results in the harvest of dignity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2000-05-31 The Five Spiritual Faculties 45:07
Susan O'Brien
Applying these wholesome qualities to the practice of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-05-30 Das ungeteilte Herz 57:18
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2000-05-30 Liberation Through Non-clinging 63:58
Joseph Goldstein

2000-05-30 Love And Hate 49:22
Michele McDonald
Ways of working mindfully with discontent and understanding the importance of connection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2000-05-29 SR/Mon Night 1:34:54
Ajahn Jamnian

2000-05-28 Closing Talk - Motivating Our Practice In Daily Life 61:32
Carol Wilson
Ways to reconnect with our purpose and motivation in our day-to-day practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-05-28 Understanding Lovingkindness Practice 49:19
Michele McDonald
How to deepen our connection to ourselves and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2000-05-27 We Are All Doing Time 66:10
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-05-27 Wise Concentration, with Sister Dipankara 65:34
Jack Kornfield

2000-05-26 The Four Wise Efforts 56:47
Sally Armstrong

2000-05-25 Unknown 58:43
James Baraz

2000-05-23 Freedom From Conflict 58:07
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-05-22 Intention 58:44
James Baraz

2000-05-20 Make Of Yourself A Light: Care And Understanding 47:07
Steven Smith
Approaching experience with a caring, accepting awareness.

2000-05-11 Living Fully In The Present; The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness - part 2 42:46
Narayan Helen Liebenson
continuation of part 1.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-05-09 Living Fully In The Present; The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness - part 1 46:04
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Learning to open fully to life as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-05-08 Respect 57:10
Jack Kornfield

2000-05-07 Wise Effort, Working with Difficulties 50:32
Narayan Helen Liebenson

2000-05-04 Non-Complaining Buddha 26:31
Reb Anderson
Gaia House Retreat with Reb Anderson

2000-05-04 Aloneness and Intimacy 45:09
Christina Feldman

2000-05-03 Endangering One's Truth 23:23
Reb Anderson
Gaia House Retreat with Reb Anderson

2000-05-03 Bowing To The Sacred Within 61:10
Tara Brach
Awakening from the trance of self and recognizing our natural radiance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-05-03 Patience And Courage 47:34
Michele McDonald
Relating to liberating ourselves as a way of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-05-02 Being Realised By All Things 1:29:14
Reb Anderson
Gaia House Retreat with Reb Anderson

2000-05-02 Acceptance 48:22
Christina Feldman

2000-05-01 Intro Talk: Self As Story 32:42
Reb Anderson
Gaia House Retreat with Reb Anderson

2000-05-01 Take the One Seat 59:23
Jack Kornfield

2000-04-30 Being in the Ocean of Life 46:44
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-04-30 Leading From the Heart 56:31
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-04-30 Dharma Gates 51:32
Christina Feldman

2000-04-29 Neither Clinging To Nor Avoiding 42:13
Christopher Titmuss
To touch bare actuality ends problematic existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-29 Afternoon Inquiry 54:28
Christopher Titmuss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-29 Learning How to Read Your Life 49:35
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2000-04-29 The Blessing Of Awareness 58:49
Tara Brach
Relating to pain and pleasure with a wise and healing attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-04-28 Increasing Our Capacity For Life 41:19
Sharda Rogell
When we meet difficult experiences through embodiment rather than transcendence, it increases our capacity to open to the immensity of our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-04-27 Immediate And The Ultimate 46:46
Christopher Titmuss
The significance of awareness for liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-27 Inquiry # 3 40:28
Christopher Titmuss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-26 Am I Committed To Fully Awakening? 41:54
Christopher Titmuss
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center CIMC Wednesday Talks

2000-04-26 Am I Committed To Fully Awakening? 2 30:52
Christopher Titmuss
Q & A
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center CIMC Wednesday Talks

2000-04-25 Wise Attention 41:45
Christopher Titmuss
Mindfulness is not the end but a key to a liberating wisdom..
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-25 Inquiry # 2 66:43
Christopher Titmuss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-24 Emptiness: Poetry Of Nagarjuna 67:54
Jack Kornfield
An evening talk shared with Stephen Batchelor. Speaking from Batchelor's book of poetic translations, Verses From the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-04-24 Inquiry # 1 53:51
Christopher Titmuss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-24 The Eightfold Path 8: Wise Samadhi 38:31
Rodney Smith
Samadhi completes the circle as it contains the wholeness of the path with its oneness of mind.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-04-23 Right Action 36:58
Christopher Titmuss
There are 4 kinds of action. One involves inner development.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and Inquiry

2000-04-23 The Relational Field 67:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-22 Turning Around the Momentum of Karmic Formations 69:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-21 Question and Answer Session 1:16:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-21 The Way of the Bodhisattva 58:40
Jack Kornfield

2000-04-19 Presence Resonates with all Life 53:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-19 Disturbances in Presence 68:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-19 Attachment To Views 59:47
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2000-04-18 Coming Back to Your Central Axis 61:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-18 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 58:37
Jack Kornfield

2000-04-18 Dealing with Mental Difficulties; Dimensions of Breath 1:14:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-18 Sharing of Blessings, Morning Puja Chants 56:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Breathing Like A Buddha

2000-04-17 The Eightfold Path 6: Wise Effort 38:15
Rodney Smith
Applying effort, without the wise overview, leads to the illusion of self-improvement.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-04-15 Remember This time 48:47
Ajahn Candasiri

2000-04-15 Karma: Trusting This Path Through Difficulties 42:34
Arinna Weisman
During periods of doubt or difficulty, the understanding of karma can become one of our deepest supports.

2000-04-14 Infinite Perfect Person 50:39
Eric Kolvig

2000-04-14 The Possibility Of Inner Contentment 49:26
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2000-04-13 Living with the Reality of Aging, Sickness and Death 52:35
Ajahn Candasiri
Our society emphasizes fitness, strength, youth, and vitality, and yet the body runs its own course. We can do things to keep it strong and healthy, but these types of measures are limited. We are blessed to have the Buddhist teachings because they encourage us to come to terms with aging, sickness and death -- fundamental truths of our existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2000-04-13 The Hindrances 44:58
Arinna Weisman
The possibility of the "highest peace" and the obstacles which cover it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-04-12 Living with Ease in a Stressed out world 49:51
Eric Kolvig

2000-04-12 Purifying the Heart 53:57
Ajahn Candasiri
This talk focuses on the Brahma Viharas and what prevents these from freely manifesting.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2000-04-11 Talk 40:21
Marie Mannschatz
given at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center for the Santa Fe Vipasana Sangha
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2000-04-11 Vipassana Meditation Introduction 52:07
Ajahn Candasiri
A guided meditation that introduces basic principles and techniques of Vipassana meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

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