2001-07-11 Metta Sutta 60:40
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-07-09 Emptiness and the Four Seals of Buddhism 65:10
Norman Fischer	Download Listen

2001-07-09 Emptiness & the 4 Seals of Buddhism 65:57
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-07-09 The Fruits Of Metta Practice 50:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The qualities of lovingkindness and concentration unfold most strongly from the basic goodness that arises out of our wise effort in metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-07-06 Q & A: Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part Iii 51:58
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
As above.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2001-07-06 Compassion and Wisdom 41:52
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-07-06 Difficulty In Life, Difficulty In Practice 41:52
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen
Difficult times and sudden adversities are potentially very crucial challenges to deepen our practice.

2001-07-06 The Power Of Metta 48:09
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Lovingkindness is the quality of friendliness toward oneself and others developed through the practice of metta. This talk describes how the practice works as a protection, a healing, a purification of heart, and a boundless state of mind.

2001-07-05 Sloth and Torpor and Restlessness 60:12
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Hindrances and habits prevent us from experiencing a natural and peaceful radiance of mind. Meditators learn to make peace with obstacles. We learn to work skillfully with the hindrances. Sloth and torpor and restlessness are common energetic imbalances that either dull the mind into sleepiness and laziness, or agitate the mind by promoting worry and anxiety. This talk examines the causes that produce the hindrances, and provides practical suggestions and tools for working with obstacles and overcoming their force.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks

2001-07-05 Difficulties In Life, Difficulties In Practice 41:42
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen
Difficult times and sudden adversities are potentially very crucial challenges to deepen our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2001-07-04 Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part Ii 52:19
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
As above.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2001-07-04 Mindlessness, Mindfulness and Grasping 58:01
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-07-03 Great Faith, Compassion and Inquiry 46:29
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-07-02 Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part 1 52:40
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Recognizing the deep connection between our practice and the way we live our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2001-07-02 Dharma Talk 47:14
Tsoknyi Rinpoche	Download Listen

2001-07-01 Learning To Live In Real Time 49:46
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2001-07-01 Patient Awareness 50:25
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen
Unless we see and understand all the energy that goes into our attachments and aversions, there won't be any energy left for awareness.

2001-06-30 Opening Talk 43:36
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen

2001-06-27 Emotional Wakefulness 45:43
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-06-25 The Way of the Buddha 68:18
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen

2001-06-25 Taking Refuge 43:56
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-06-24 Equanimity Pt 1 2:04:42
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-06-24 Unknown 1:44:30
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 3 67:41
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 2 1:34:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 1 1:42:18
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-24 There Is No Bad Practice 39:21
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Learning how, when we honor all of our experiences, we shift from an innocent faith to a mature one.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Young Adult Retreat

2001-06-23 Questions We May Ask 29:34
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How meditation practice helps us answer the questions, "Who am I?" and, "What brings me happiness?".
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-22 Opening Talk Of Young Adults Retreat: Wildness And Kindness 32:25
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Remembering how to take care of ourselves, each other, and the world. Talk includes saying precepts together and a guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Young Adult Retreat

2001-06-20 Everyone Is Responsible, No One is Guilty 62:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-18 Freedom Through Letting Go 63:27
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen

2001-06-17 Day 9: Four Kinds Of Horses 4:51
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-17 Meditacion Del Amor Bondadoso 27:24
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen

2001-06-16 Day 8: Untitled 20:41
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-16 Instrucciones para la meditacion vipassana 32:19
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
date estimated

2001-06-15 Day 7: Resetting The Table 15:03
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-15 Connection And Disentanglement 50:40
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Finding our balance by connecting with life as it is, even as we release control over the results.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2001-06-14 Day 6: Dreg Slurpers 6:36
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-14 The Four Noble Truths 53:27
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Understanding how the causes of suffering, and the path of purification, can lead us to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-13 Day 5: Riding Bare Back 8:38
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-13 The Soul and The Cosmos are Dancing 58:30
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2001-06-13 Transforming Fear 59:17
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When we are identified inside the body of fear, our life contracts and our heart becomes hard. With the practices of mindfulness and compassion, we open our sense of being into the loving awareness that has room for fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-13 A Blue Hole In The Heart 53:28
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Understanding the meaning of wisdom and emptiness. Ignorance can seem like bliss, but learning from life experience brings the happiness of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2001-06-12 Day 4: Mind Dwelling Nowhere 44:45
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-11 Day 3: Bodhisattvas And Buddhas 22:16
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-11 Courage and Tenderness 63:46
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-06-11 The Secret To Happiness 51:34
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Cutting through indifference and ignorance so we can live in greater freedom. The secret to happiness is not short-term self-interest, but learning how to liberate ourselves through our life lessons.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-11 Courage And Tenderness: Stories For An Awakened Heart 59:16
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Stories that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which can bring us to freedom. Includes questions and answers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2001-06-10 Day 2: Appropriate Response 31:54
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-10 Cascading Pools of Metta 45:40
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen

2001-06-10 Cascading Pools of Metta 45:26
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-10 Gateway To Freedom: First Foundation Of Mindfulness 48:55
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The essential practice for freedom.
Santa Fe

2001-06-09 Day 1: Opening Talk 23:53
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-09 Nada Practice 42:31
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen

2001-06-09 Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness 52:07
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Paying attention to how concentration and mindfulness work together to provide a foundation for meditative investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-08 Nothing Special 1:37:33
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
date uncertain

2001-06-06 Desire And Awakening Spirit 53:47
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When desire unfolds into craving and addiction, it becomes the source of great suffering. This talk examines the nature of desire, and the attitudes and practices that allow us to relate to this energy with freedom. When regarded wisely, desire is the stream that returns us to the ocean of loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2001-06-06 Purity Of Heart 52:01
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Creating the understanding that purifies love, compassion, appreciation and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-04 Encouraging The Light Of Metta 56:00
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Understanding metta as a concentration and purification practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-03 The Kindness Of Patience 43:19
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
Patience as it supports the practice of the Brahma Viharas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-02 Does Metta Work? 46:10
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Exploring how and why the Loving Kindness practice works.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-01 Freedom and Resurrection 51:56
Nina Wise	Download Listen
date unknown

2001-05-30 Restlessness And Worry 1:13:56
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Contemplating restlessness and worry -- what this mind state consists of and how to recognize it; name it; embrace it; and investigate it according to the Buddhist teachings.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2001-05-27 The Eight Worldly Conditions 57:41
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our lives are always touched by the changing conditions of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, success and failure. How the meditator finds refuge in not clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-26 The Secret To Happiness 48:22
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
The secret to happiness is not short-term self-interest but rather learning how to liberate ourselves through our life lessons.

2001-05-26 Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas 64:27
James Baraz	Download Listen
Right Effort includes developing and increasing wholesome states by recognizing them or inclining the mind to their development. The four states of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity can be consciously developed through practice. (Includes experiential exercises.)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-23 The Buddha Knows The Dhamma 61:49
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our deepest nature is a purified awareness like the Buddha's. This awareness has the power to know and liberate the phenomena of afflictive emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-22 Licht der Erkenntnis 46:15
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Die Täuschung der Unwissenheit durchschauen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2001-05-20 You Are the Buddha 64:48
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-17 Investigating George W. Bush Mind 64:23
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
A talk discussing how to apply investigation in practice and how to skillfully use thought to explore Dhamma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-16 Investigate Down To The Core 66:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Through meditation practice, we become more skilled at identifying what we are experiencing, opening to it with a loving heart, and examining it with an eye to insight. When we connect fully with what we feel, the heart is not troubled and the nature of experience is apparent.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-15 Listening To The Inner Committee 1:29:41
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
A sharing of ideas about an alternate form of self view, helpful especially in terms of depersonalizing emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-14 Wedding of Body and Soul 62:44
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-05-13 Nothing Is Everywhere 66:59
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Ajahn offers reflections on the myth of the adversary practicing with the Four Noble Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-12 Personality View 60:52
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Offering reflections on the Buddhas teaching regarding self view; how it arises and how it is overcome through insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-11 Opening Talk: Refuges And Precepts 45:36
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Offering reflections on the form of retreat and the meaning of the refuges and precepts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-10 Freedom 36:25
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-09 What is the Mind 42:54
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-07 Who Are You Really? 59:43
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
An inquiry into the essence of who we really are, accepting and honoring the totality of ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2001-05-05 Moving from Retreat Life into Daily Life 67:36
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen

2001-05-03 Giving and Receiving 46:23
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-02 Practice is Not For Yourself 46:02
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-02 You Are the Buddha 60:41
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-02 When Things Don't Go Our Way 49:52
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Instead of pretending to be okay when our beautiful dreams get blown apart, can we learn to respond with compassion, ease and balance?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-01 Responding with Wisdom 45:29
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2001-05-01 The Great Heart of Life 50:29
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-01 Is Something Lacking ? 43:43
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-01 Renunciation 58:47
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Renunciation as a path to freedom: contentment and simplicity in everyday life. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2001-05-01 Emotional Wakefulness 45:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Because of the power of our emotions, we are called upon in this practice to cultivate emotional mindfulness and emotional freedom. What is the interface then between experiencing our feelings fully, and maintaining emotional equanimity, or balance? How can we relate to our emotional life in a way that allows the creative power of our hearts to awaken?

2001-05-01 The Five Powers Of Mind 46:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The five powers of mind are confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. This talk addresses how they balance and work together, bringing inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-04-30 Teachings of Ajahn Chan 62:32
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-04-30 The Teaching of Ajahn Chah 63:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-29 Buddhism and the Red Road 30:09
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-29 Refuge 52:22
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Taking refuge is an invitation to explore our inner capacity for awakening wisdom and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-25 Taking Difficulties as a Path 64:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-25 Taking Difficulties as a Path 63:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-24 The Lion's Roar: Strength, Confidence And Wisdom From The Heart Of Metta 63:24
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
"When the heart enters into the mind, the mind then has quite a different quality." Learning to abide in our practice and in our life as a whole with kindness and patience--the heart of metta--we are then able to respond rather than react to what life offers. Stories woven into this talk are from the time of the Buddha and from our contemporary time that exemplify what the Buddha called "The Lion's Roar."
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-23 No 'me', No 'i', No 'mine': Liberation In Not Clinging 65:16
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The essential aim of the Buddha's teaching is toward the understanding that comes through our own direct experience; that there is no person who is a 'self' and no thing- nothing- that is a separate self.
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-22 Suffering: Its Cause And Its End 1:16:57
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Through deep understanding, we can find the end of the restlessness of constant craving and resistance; the end of suffering.
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-21 Seeing the Buddhnature 38:28
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat