2001-12-30 The Seven Factors Of Awakening 54:18
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The Path of Awakening is available to all. This talk describes how to cultivate innate qualities that lead to inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-29 Steves Ordination Talk 52:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2001-12-26 Kindness Is Contagious 40:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-17 Sitting Practice And Its Effect On Our Life 44:34
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The techniques of sitting meditation effects our attitude to life itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2001-12-13 Q&A 59:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-13 Q&A 54:52
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Starts Abruptly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-12 Self Knowing - A Quiet Passion (3) 1:54:22
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2001-12-12 Talk 52:37
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-12 Who Will Stay Awake With Me? 54:42
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-12 Reflections On September 11Th 43:30
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Is September 11th about retaliation and patriotism or unending violence of the human mind?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2001-12-10 Equanimity 59:03
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-09 Departure 65:21
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-09 Practice In The World: Living It Fully 65:46
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Practicing the Dharma, after a retreat, with the same alive attention and nurturing wisdom that was learned during the retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-07 Equanimity 51:30
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-06 The Great Web 54:22
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Realizing how our deep understanding of the impersonal nature of experience connects us to the universal web of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2001-12-06 Death, The Great Motivator 43:04
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-12-05 Aspects of Not Knowing 45:34
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-12-05 Dharma Talk 67:22
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-05 Faith 57:36
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-04 Opening Our Heart 44:29
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-12-04 Equanimity: A Guided Meditation 44:36
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Developing one of the four boundless states, equanimity, in our relationship towards all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-03 Here We Are 46:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-12-03 Sympathetic Joy 61:55
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-12-02 The Ultimate Resolution - Bodhicitta 57:41
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Resolving, on the eve of the new millennium, to practice and live for the happiness and welfare of all.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-12-01 Concentration: Two Streams of Meditation 55:02
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-29 The Sure Heart's Release 65:43
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Developing a mature practice through concentration and the wisdom, which can bring about the release of our "sure hearts."
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2001-11-29 Since Feeling Is First 58:23
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explores the role of heart practices in general, and the brahma viharas in particular, in our overall dharma practice. When we ask, "Is insight enough?" our answer might depend on our relation to the bodhisattva ideal.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-28 Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion 61:00
James Baraz	Download Listen
Exploring the different spiritual paths that use the fundamental themes of non-greed, hatred, delusion, love, service, and remembrance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-28 Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion 60:19
James Baraz	Download Listen
Connecting the Buddhist values of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion with another spiritual axiom: "Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-26 Compassion 65:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-26 Determination 53:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Recognizing how determination and dedication help us undo the habits of mind that lead to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-25 Q&A 1:13:28
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-25 Faith And Awareness 50:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
When we let go of our habitual strategies of greed and aversion, we discover in meditation a spaciousness that can be unsettling at first. As we explore the openness, we find our refuge in an awareness that is the very nature of the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-23 Delusion 46:26
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-22 Thanksgiving Talk For 2001 57:57
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Acknowledging the ability of the human heart to move past intolerable suffering in order to mourn, remember, care, learn, create and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-22 Generosity And Gratitude 59:02
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
As we invite the qualities of generosity and gratitude into our lives, they help us to gladden our hearts and minds, becoming the seeds of joy in the journey of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-21 Self Knowing - A Quiet Passion (2) 1:50:36
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2001-11-21 Gratitude 66:42
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Gratitude for the Triple Gem, spiritual teachers, parents, friends, good fortune, difficulties, etc.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2001-11-21 The Brahma Viharas 34:15
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-19 Liberation through Non-Clinging 62:11
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-19 Loving Kindness 62:10
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-18 Doubt 54:33
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-17 What Are We Doing Here? 53:53
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Reflecting about the first day of retreat: common thoughts and experiences, remembering our potential for happiness, and the three characteristics (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2001-11-16 What Are You Expecting? 34:05
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Opening retreat comments inviting yogis to use the retreat to examine their plans and expectations. Plus brief remarks regarding the retreat and the precepts as voluntary limitations to be seen as a vehicle toward our destination. Ajahns Amaro and Sundara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center)

2001-11-14 Anything Is Possible 61:33
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
When we open to the quality of trust -- anything is possible! Strengthening trust through learning to work with hope, fear and doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-12 The Power of Intention 58:48
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-10 Working With Afflictive Emotion 46:14
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Working with our intense emotions by using a Dharma perspective.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-09 Aspiration 46:07
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-09 Unleashing The Compassionate Heart 50:27
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2001-11-07 Give Me Your Hand 50:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-11-07 Give Me Your Hand 52:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-07 The Strength Of The Still Forest Pool 58:25
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
What is mindfulness and what are the qualities that make mindfulness such a good friend to have? We discover the simplicity of mindfulness and how we can strengthen it in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-06 Guided Compassion 43:07
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Learning how to direct compassion toward one's self, a difficult person, and a benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 2

2001-11-05 Love 55:44
Nina Wise	Download Listen

2001-11-05 Compassion 53:41
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-05 Love 51:33
Nina Wise	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-11-04 Four Reflections 58:02
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-04 Four Reflections:Training Mind Towards Dharma 59:28
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-03 Renunciation Paramis 53:26
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
There are some things in life we can do without. By understanding the power, practice and wisdom of renunciation, we discover the joy of simplicity and letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-01 First Sangha Of Nuns 65:25
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-11-01 Why Meditate? 46:33
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Exploring the four facets of meditation.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2001-10-31 Faith in Goodness in Complex Times 1:24:59
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-10-31 Karma 62:37
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-31 Faith in Goodness in Complex Times 66:06
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-30 Buddha Dharma At People Of Color Retreat 60:39
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the way of the Dharma—including the Four Noble Truths and foundations of mindfulness from the elders of the Forest for Retreat Practice—to nourish our own practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-30 Metta and Meditation 13:21
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-29 Embracing Contradiction 60:16
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-10-29 Embracing Contradiction in a Time of War 52:18
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-29 Our Next Breath 53:48
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Understanding the multidimensional layers of reality: the relative and absolute levels of existence where freedom can happen in any moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2001-10-28 Happiness And The Greatest Happiness 56:45
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Understanding the happiness of sense pleasures and the greater happiness of equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-27 Sangha Jewel 50:31
Michele Benzamin Miki	Download Listen

2001-10-27 Letting Go Of Knowing 58:34
James Baraz	Download Listen
Most of us want to know the right answer to complex situations. This post-September 11th talk explores the value of letting go of prematurely trying to figure things out, and replace it with patiently listening inside to our wisest understandings and responses when they are ready to be heard.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-26 Die sieben Qualitäten des erwachten Geistes 57:49
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Achtsames Gewahrsein, Erforschen, Enthusiastisches Bemühen, Freudiges Interesse, Ruhe, Sammlung und Gelassenheit
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2001-10-26 Aspiration And Compassion 56:29
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Intention is the seed of kamma; when we consciously hold in our minds our highest aspirations, they inform our present moment decisions and give us courage and vision. In the light of awareness, the compassionate response shines forth as our natural response to life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-25 Path Of A Bodhisattva - The Power Of Caring 57:31
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Touching the source that awakens our hearts and is of benefit to all beings.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center

2001-10-24 Finding Refuge in Trust 59:13
James Baraz	Download Listen

2001-10-24 Q&A 58:48
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-24 Finding Refuge in Trust 52:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-24 Meditation, Mortality, Awakening to Life 53:50
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2001-10-24 Q&A 56:23
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-23 Metta Meditation 42:19
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-23 Awakening From The Trance 58:56
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The sense of being a "separate self" seems quite real and both filters and contracts our moment to moment experience of life. This talk investigates how the compelling show of separate self arises and how we can recognize and relax into our naturally radiant, compassionate and unconfined awareness.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center

2001-10-22 Forgetfulness & One Who Knows 56:11
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-10-22 Forgetfulness and one Who knows 52:37
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-22 Feeding Our Hearts With Love And Wisdom 59:07
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Recognizing how love purifies understanding and how understanding purifies love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2001-10-21 Where Language Stops: Insight Jhanas 59:13
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Developing a meditative process that purifies the mind and creates subtle openings for insight and happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2001-10-20 How Mindfulness Heals: Working With Thoughts And Emotions 52:34
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Disentangling ourselves from getting lost in thought stories and afflictive emotions with the power of mindfulness.

2001-10-19 Opening To It All 1:56:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-18 Dependent Origination 60:45
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-17 Fear 66:47
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-17 Working with Fear 26:09
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-17 Exploring Impermanence 60:06
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to impermanence-- the changing nature of things-- as one of the basic laws of nature. The events of September 11th have highlighted this truth dramatically for us. This talk encourages the possibility of softening, seeing clearly and being present to the truth so that we can continue to learn through deepening our understanding of this law of impermanence.
In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-15 Working With The Heart In Troubled Times 56:30
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How do we work with the energies that are touched in us by the terrorist attacks and all the upheaval in society and the world since then? This talk is an offering of teachings from the Buddhist tradition intended to support us in addressing events wisely.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-15 Working With The Heart In Troubled Times 56:38
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How do we work with the energies that are touched in us by the terrorist attacks and all the upheaval in society and the world since then? This talk is an offering of teachings from the Buddhist tradition intended to support us in addressing the current situation wisely within ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-14 Courage Of Heart 52:15
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Focusing on faith, energy, patience and renunciation--four qualities of mind that stream through our awareness and power our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month Retreat Part 1

2001-10-13 Courage, Forgiveness and Acceptance 60:41
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2001-10-13 The Three Natural Treasures 48:44
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-10-13 Genuine Acceptance 44:10
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-10-13 Courage, Forgiveness And Acceptance 60:06
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen
In an era of terrorism, vengeance and a thirsting for enemies, the practice of insight meditation offers the possibility of a trustworthy and transformative response to the heartbreak of these times. Following the talk is a guided forgiveness meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-12 Working with Fear 26:54
James Baraz	Download Listen