2006-01-06 Keeping The Heart Companionable 1:16:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This introduction to Metta practice explores the wisdom potential of the benevolent heart. It presents kind heartedness as both the cause of wisdom and the fruit of wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-01-05 The Evolution Of Insight Practice 46:33
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The practice evolves through phases and stillness deepens.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2006-01-03 The One Who Knows - Part 3 51:59
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-01-02 The One Who Knows - Part 2 68:38
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-01-02 Samvega: Spiritual Urgency 52:55
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-01-01 The One Who Knows - Part 1 1:20:01
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
(Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-01-01 New Year’s Dharma Talk 54:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-01-01 The Bored Mind 48:14
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Mind that configure reality to be boring is without interest. That interest can be aroused by focusing on itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2005-12-31 Talk On New Year's Eve 43:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2005-12-29 Relax, Observe, Allow 48:40
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Relax, observe and allow are three words that capture the complete orientation to meditation. Understanding these words and their near enemies will enhance ones practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  New Year's Retreat

2005-12-29 The Place of Love in Insight Meditation 47:31
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year's Retreat

2005-12-28 Catching the Wave of Compassion 55:11
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
This talk brings together: The 2005 Mind and Life conference findings on the brain with dharma teachings and Sister (?) on compassion.

2005-12-26 The Hindrances 31:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Christmas at Sharpham 2005

2005-12-25 Revising the Principles of Meditation 32:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Christmas at Sharpham 2005

2005-12-24 Question & Answer Session 51:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Christmas at Sharpham 2005

2005-12-23 Exploring Dukkha 43:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Christmas at Sharpham 2005

2005-12-22 Developing the Factors of Enlightenment 46:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Christmas at Sharpham 2005

2005-12-21 Death, Dying and the Dharma 45:28
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-12-17 The Art of Letting Go 56:13
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Art of Letting Go - Insight Meditation

2005-12-14 Slowing Down When Speeding Up 53:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-12-12 Jack Kornfield and angel Kyodo williams 1:13:26
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-12-12 Question and Answer - Three Month Course IMS 3 64:00
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2005-12-11 Taking the Practice Home 65:23
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-12-11 The Voice of Judgment 49:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2005-12-10 Aligning the Mind and Body 42:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2005-12-07 The Practice Of Generosity 57:01
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The near and far reaching benefits of generosity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2005-12-07 What The Buddha Taught - part 4: Generosity 67:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-12-07 What The Buddha Taught - part 4: Generosity continued 59:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-12-06 Relative & Absolute Bodhicitta 52:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Relative Bodhicitta is compassion; ultimate Bodhicitta is emptiness. Within these two, enlightenment is unavoidable.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-12-05 Escape from Samsara 54:38
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-12-02 The Five Aggregates 58:49
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-30 What The Buddha Taught - part 3: Loving Kindness & Going Forth 45:43
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-30 Karma 62:39
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-11-28 Dissolving the Glue of Identity 54:51
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-11-28 Finding a True Refuge from Your Mind 51:27
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-11-27 Gratitude 50:55
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2005-11-24 Mudita, Joy And Gratitude 55:21
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
We develop appreciative joy (Mudita) by focusing on the happiness in others' lives and our life, leading also to a sense of gratitude. Joy and happiness then serve as links that lead onward to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-11-23 True Protection 50:15
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
In an age of insecurity, where to find protection? The Buddha offered 3 ways to train the mind and heart so that we may live in safety.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-23 The Entire Compendium Of What The Buddha Taught - part 2: Mindfulness 65:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-23 Mindfulness 65:44
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-22 Purification and Emptiness 1:29:45
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2005-11-22 Dissolving Concepts 56:38
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-11-22 Compassion and Emptiness 55:26
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2005-11-21 Fear 60:51
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-11-21 Knowing Mind As Mind 46:21
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Looking directly at the original text in the Satipatthana Sutta on the third foundation of mindfulness, how does the Buddha instruct us and what supports this contemplation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-11-20 Disruptive Emotions 69:29
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Listen to tracks Show 5 Tracks
The problems and distractions in the present are not something you simply want to push your way through or get out of the way. You have to understand how they happen, for that understanding forms the essence of insight.
Metta Forest Monastery
Disruptive Emotions: The Story Behind Impatience 16:52 Download Listen Disruptive Emotions: Self-Hatred 12:06 Download Listen Disruptive Emotions: Unskillful Voices 15:28 Download Listen Disruptive Emotions: Intoxication 13:33 Download Listen Disruptive Emotions: Mange In The Mind 11:28 Download Listen

2005-11-17 The Seven Factors Of Awakening 52:37
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
As awareness develops on the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the 7 factors of enlightenment naturally follow.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2005-11-17 The Ground of Faith 40:20
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2005-11-17 The Bodhisattva 53:41
Diana Winston	Download Listen
The Bodhisattva is a being whose life is dedicated to awakening for the sake of all beings. How can we embody this ideal, vow and vision? Can we become bodhisattvas?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-16 The Entire Compendium Of What The Buddha Taught - part 1 64:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-16 Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 2) - Anatta (Not-Self) 56:21
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2005-11-14 Samadhi 58:11
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-11-12 The Five Difficult Energies 53:01
Diana Winston	Download Listen
Wanting, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness and doubt; how do they manifest and how do we work with them and survive a 10-day meditation retreat in India.

2005-11-12 Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 1) - Impermanence and Dukkha 53:39
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2005-11-11 The Importance of Kindness 38:50
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2005-11-11 Working With Difficult Emotions 57:09
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-11-10 The Four Qualities Of A Superior Person 52:30
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Faith, Virtue, Generosity, and Wisdom are the qualities. This talk is about faith, commitment, and confidence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2005-11-09 Grateful For This Moment 48:41
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-08 Sakkaya Ditthi: Exploring Self-View 49:49
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We are not trying to eradicate our personality, but as our experience becomes more infused with Nibbana, we experience our personality in a fresh way.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-11-07 Pure Mind 64:33
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2005-11-06 Qualities of Attention 37:05
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2005-11-06 Practicing in Nature 60:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2005-11-06 Transformation of the Heart 62:41
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-06 Loving-Kindness 39:01
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The search for and the practice of love. The transformation which occurs when we turn toward that which is most shameful and difficult with friendship and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-05 Working With Conflict As Spiritual Practice 63:32
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-05 Transforming Dualistic Conflict 37:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-05 The Middle Way and the Transformation of Conflicts 41:29
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-05 Faith 41:45
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Faith is not a romanticized protection of a particular experience or person. It is born from the practice of transforming our defended hearts and minds. Faith is one of the great spiritual powers which sustains love and wisdom. Entrusting ourselves to the beautiful qualities of heart, because they only bring goodness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-05 Mindfulness of Mind States 47:39
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2005-11-03 Cultivating Wise Speech 1 - Talk and Practice 1:12:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-03 Cultivating Wise Speech 2 44:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-03 No Cure For Hot And Cold 44:50
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Learning to meet our experience with kindness rather than judgement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-11-02 Establishing Presence Using the Breath 33:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2005-11-02 Energy and Patience 40:36
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
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2005-11-02 Madama Vesells Wisdom 52:27
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-31 Three Personality Types 54:58
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Greed, aversion and delusion have a way of playing into our personalities through habituated patterns. This talk explores how to have a wise relationship with these tendencies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-10-30 The Illimitables And A Contemplative Exercise 57:22
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-10-28 Some Indications Of The Buddha's Character - Life And Teachings And Parinibbana 61:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-10-28 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Death 59:59
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Final talk in the series of eight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-27 Question and Answer - Three Month Course IMS 2 62:59
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-10-27 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Exile 56:29
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Seventh in the series of eight talks.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-27 10 Ox-Herding Pictures 66:10
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
A description of the stages on the meditative path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-26 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Self And Society 55:34
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Sixth in the series of eight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-26 Refashioning Ourselves With Clear Intention 58:28
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
How do we reconstruct or refashion the self into a whole person.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-25 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: From Deer Park To Jeta's Grove 56:36
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Fifth in the series of eight talks.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-25 Selfing, Love And Compassion 62:03
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at how we built positive or negative selfing and how meditation helps us to develop non-grasping love and from that actively manifest compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-24 Perfection of Effort 56:45
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-24 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: The First And Second Sermons 56:46
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Fourth in the series of eight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-24 Dukkha And Its End: Revelations Of The First Noble Truth 46:19
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The First Noble Truth acknowledges two aspects of suffering, one we can change and one we can't change. It also asks us not to personalize our suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-23 What Did The Awakening Consists Of? 64:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-10-23 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Awakening 57:37
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Third in the eight part series.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-23 Awakening 66:59
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Awakening is an exploration of mystical states and insights; a presentation of the four stages of awakening and their relevance to our practice and daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-22 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Renunciation 58:37
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Second talk in the series of eight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-21 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama 7:46:53
Stephen Batchelor	Listen to tracks Show 8 Tracks
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Meditation 65:08 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Renunciation 58:37 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Awakening 57:37 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: The First And Second Sermons 56:46 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: From Deer Park To Jeta's Grove 56:36 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Self And Society 55:34 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Exile 56:29 Download Listen The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Death 59:59 Download Listen

2005-10-21 The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama: Meditation 65:08
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
First talk in the series of eight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: The Life And Death Of Siddhattha Gotama

2005-10-21 The Four Great Efforts 60:33
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk explores meditation as a cultivation of the four great efforts. These efforts inspire us to be more conscious of the inner and outer conditions that underpin our experience and to creatively engage with these conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-21 Anicca 47:30
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses a deep understanding of impermanence as a pathway into freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-10-20 The Erotic, Romantic, Love, Boredom And Celibacy 51:36
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-10-19 Feelings: The Gateway to Liberation 56:39
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Feelings—the quality of experience being pleasant, unpleasant or neutral—are the key to the deepest patterns of our conditioning. This talk explores how to work with them in a way that liberates the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-10-16 Dullness, Lethargy, Restlessness And Pain 62:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge