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Dharma Talks
2005-07-02 Going Home 49:49
Sharon Salzberg

2005-07-02 I'm Saturday Morning 52:03
Ajahn Sumedho
Noticing mundane experiences can help us realize the difference between conventions and reality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-07-02 Mother Earth, Father Sky, & The Middle Way 66:13
Ajahn Sumedho
Practicing with the Middle Way & the 4 Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-07-01 Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 5 45:21
Larry Rosenberg
SAME AS TALK 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2005-07-01 Listening To The Sounds Of The Morning 64:37
Ajahn Sumedho
Instructions on how to open up to pure awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-30 Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 4 60:57
Larry Rosenberg
SAME AS TALK 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2005-06-30 A Sense Of Relaxed Attention 67:43
Ajahn Sumedho
Learning to balance effort in our practice takes the application of our intuition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-29 Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 3 48:21
Larry Rosenberg
SAME AS TALK 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2005-06-29 Suffering is Your Friend 1:27:23
Lila Kate Wheeler

2005-06-29 That Which Is Inclusive 66:25
Ajahn Sumedho
Noticing the sound of silence and space which are open and inclusive forms of reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-29 It Is The Way It Is 1:12:01
Ajahn Sumedho
The value of reflecting on thought and thinking other than merely thinking about thinking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-29 Closing Talk with Questions And Answers 2:29:52
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-28 Developing a Generation of Kalyana Mittas 1:35:27
Sayadaw U Pandita

2005-06-28 Developing a Generation of Kalyanamittas 1:38:46
Sayadaw U Pandita

2005-06-28 In Awareness There's No Dukkha (AM Instructions) 1:14:55
Ajahn Sumedho
When we dwell with Mindfulness and Awareness we can realize freedom from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-28 Where Jackals Cease 1:12:55
Ajahn Sumedho
Using awareness of consciousness to realize the Third Noble Truth of cessation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-27 Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 2 51:01
Larry Rosenberg
SAME AS TALK 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2005-06-27 From A Tender Mind To A Mature Mind 1:33:25
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-26 Space & Conciousness 61:36
Ajahn Sumedho
Contemplating Space & Conciousness in the here & now as the path of practice, and using the sound of silence for realizing Dhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-26 Unconditional Love 66:22
Ajahn Sumedho
The importance of starting practice from the unconditional, and Metta as unconditional love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-26 Five Controlling Factors And Five Strengths 1:36:49
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-25 Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 1 50:01
Larry Rosenberg
What is the purpose of practice? Awakening. What is Awakening? Living in intimacy with all things.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2005-06-25 Death & Deathlessness 67:33
Ajahn Sumedho
The Dhamma is something ordering, but we constantly over-look it and get stuck in the world of ideas and rational thought. Developing awareness of feelings and welcoming the totality of experience grounds us in the Deathless.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-25 Five Spiritual Faculties - Beginning Of Series 53:40
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-24 Letting Go of Patterns of 'I' 54:33
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2005-06-24 Opening Talk with Doug Phillips 31:50
Larry Rosenberg

2005-06-24 Awakened Awareness 45:52
Ajahn Sumedho
Introductory teaching and Instructions for a ten day retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-24 Stopping And Cutting Off The Currents 1:17:52
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-23 Love 52:52
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2005-06-23 Asava 1:20:22
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-22 Stepping out of Self-Deception 46:51
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2005-06-22 Anqulimala Sermon & Forgiveness 49:47
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-22 One Dhamma 1:12:58
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-21 There is a Field Beyond Right and Wrong 54:29
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2005-06-21 The Three Awakenings 42:18
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2005-06-21 Desire And Responsibility In Practice 69:28
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-20 The Time of Our Lives 56:11
Wes Nisker

2005-06-20 Practicing Persistently (Sakkacca Kiriya) 1:14:16
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-19 What Does it Mean to Be Here? 53:59
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2005-06-19 Practicing Respectfully (Sakkacca Kiriya) 1:35:07
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-18 Relax, Observe, and Allow 48:48
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2005-06-18 Negligence And Vigilance In Sila 1:16:13
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-17 Refined Form Of Negligence And Vigilance In Doing Dana 1:10:55
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-16 The 3 Trainings To Free The Mind 51:26
Anna Douglas
Keep your daily practice on track with three essential elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-16 Negligence And Vigilance - part 2 1:11:24
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-15 Negligence And Vigilance - part 1 68:40
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-14 Protecting Others Through Metta And Karuna 69:16
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-13 The Wheel Of Dhamma 17:12
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Four Noble Truths as a guide for dealing with experience so as to put an end to suffering.
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series

2005-06-13 Moral Shame And Moral Fear Of Wrongdoing 69:22
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-12 Seven Motivations In Asking Questions, Sati Spreading Over Object 60:37
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-11 Five Qualities Of Fire 1:11:27
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-10 Rushing Towards An Object 1:13:19
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-09 Teachings For The Fire Worshipers 68:03
Ajahn Jamnian
Recommend first listening to the talk, "The Middle Way - Keeping the Mind in the Middle". In "Teachings for the Fire Worshipers", Ajahn Jumnien displays a picture of a father, mother and child with a band of light surrounding them. Teaching given in Thai with English translation by Amdee Vongthongsri and Joseph Kappel.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2005-06-09 The Wholesome And The Unwholesome 1:16:51
Ajahn Jamnian
Cravings; Wholesome and Unwholesome acts. Teaching given in Thai with English translation by Amdee Vongthongsri.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2005-06-08 65 Min Of Being High 49:31
Sylvia Boorstein
What I know after 50 years.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-08 Anger Reveals The Five Aggregates 47:34
Ajahn Jamnian
The five aggregates together create a sense of self. To separate from this sense of identity, use Pure Awareness. Teaching given in Thai with English translation by Amdee Vongthongsri and Joseph Kappel.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2005-06-08 Qualities Of Mindfulness (Sati) 66:46
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-07 Forgiveness And Joy 45:31
Rebecca Bradshaw
NO CD: This talk discusses how forgiveness emerges out of understanding of our own and others suffering and how the suffering in this world is balanced by the third Brahma Vihara of sympathetic joy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-06-07 In-Line With The Dhamma 17:40
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The problem with delusion is that it's always threatened by reality. If you learn to admit reality, act in-line with the way things actually are, then there's nothing threatening.
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series

2005-06-07 Satipattana 66:40
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-06 Equanimity and Going Home 1:11:38
Eugene Cash
Gaia House Illuminating the Awakened Heart

2005-06-06 Letting Go 59:07
Jack Kornfield

2005-06-06 Establishment Of Mindfulness (U Patthana) 1:10:25
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-05 Mudita - a Feat of Joy 58:24
Eugene Cash
Gaia House Illuminating the Awakened Heart

2005-06-05 Unseating The Inner Tyrant 62:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Overcoming inner self-criticism.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2005-06-05 Impurities Of Insight - (Vipassana U Pakkilesa) 1:16:07
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-04 Passion, Compassion, Dispassion 55:25
Eugene Cash
Gaia House Illuminating the Awakened Heart

2005-06-04 How to Live 1:35:04
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2005-06-04 Up For The Challenge 17:28
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
A long line of people going back over 2,500 years have been up for the challenge of the practice. Are you going to join them?
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series

2005-06-04 Way Out (Niyyana) 1:12:13
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-04 Learning How To Live: Self-Knowing In Action - part II 1:10:25
Larry Rosenberg
see above
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center CIMC Wednesday Talks

2005-06-03 Mindfulness and the Brahma Viharas 47:35
Eugene Cash
Gaia House Illuminating the Awakened Heart

2005-06-03 Dukkhanupassana Nana - Anattanupassana Nana 1:13:31
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-02 Developing a Generation of Kalyana Mittas 1:54:23
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-02 Emotions - Energy In Motion 51:25
Diana Winston
Practical tools for working with emotions. How to connect with emotions when they seem elusive or unavailable to you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-06-02 Anicca - Anupassana Nana 69:12
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-06-01 Unlearning Dualism 37:59
Jose Reissig
Dualism can be described as a polarity project. We polarize our options as desirable or undesirable, and lose interest in that which does not fall into either extreme. This duality provides a footing for clinging and for the birth of the I. Seeing through this charade helps us unlearn it.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2005-06-01 Overcoming Latent Defilements 1:10:43
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-31 The Middle Way - Keeping The Mind In The Middle 1:44:07
Ajahn Jamnian
The root cause of suffering. The Middle Way. Keeping the mind in the middle. Sati and Mahasati. In the talk, Ajahn Jumnien refers to medical illustrations of human anatomy. The teaching is given in Thai with translation in English by Phra Somchat, Amdee Vongthongsri and Ginger Vathanasombat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-31 The Dhamma Uplifts The Dhamma Practitioner 65:54
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-30 Buddha's Victory Over Mara 1:16:01
Ajahn Jamnian
Four aspects of Dhamma. Path of practice discerned as The Eight Fold Path. The Buddha's victory over Mara. The teaching is given in Thai with English translation by Ajahn Passano.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-30 Conquering Oneself With Sila, Samadhi, And Panna 1:11:24
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-29 Accomplishing The Four Noble Truths Simultaneously 1:25:09
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-28 The Value Of One Moment Of Mindfulness 62:39
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-27 Self Control 16:49
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
One of the reasons we focus on the present moment is so we can see our intentions as we act and learn to take control of our choices.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-05-27 Impermanence 1:10:07
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-26 Liberated From Taints: The Buddha's Instructions 55:45
Sylvia Boorstein
This talk uses classic scripture accounts of spontaneous liberation happening just through the hearing of Dharma truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-26 Discerning Cause And Effect 67:31
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-25 Insight and Freedom 47:52
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-25 The Barking Dog, Seeing in a New Way 64:44
Sylvia Boorstein

2005-05-25 Nature Of Insight 61:06
Carol Wilson
What is insight—how does it arise? An exploration of the spontaneous nature of insight and its inability to be forced. Aspects of our path and practice that support the arising of insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-05-25 Wise Effort 58:00
James Baraz
Wise Effort is a key issue in Dharma practice. Am I doing enough or too much. This talk explores how to develop balance with regard to effort as well as the classical Four Right Efforts pertaining to wholesome and unwholesome states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-05-25 Endowed With Learning 1:11:43
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-24 The Simplicity of Letting Go 44:08
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-24 Eight Virtues Of A Spiritual Friend 69:46
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-23 How To Know What Is Time And What Matters 53:50
Sylvia Boorstein
This talk describes Mindfulness as the balancing factor that restores the upset or confused mind to a state of expansive and benevelent peace. It is a awakening of the point of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-23 Liberating Oneself Versus Saving Others 64:20
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-22 Buddha Day 1:37:06
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-21 The Karma Of Self & Not-Self 17:21
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
When a sense of self is a useful strategy for finding happiness, and when it's not.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-05-21 Seven Virtues Of A Spiritual Friend 69:54
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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