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Dharma Talks
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

2000-04-10 The Eightfold Path 7: Wise Mindfulness 43:53
Rodney Smith
Exploring how mindfulness flows naturally from a wise view.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-04-08 Right Effort 51:59
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor

2000-04-08 The Four Noble Truths 52:25
Ajahn Candasiri
Applying the three characteristics of the Four Noble Truths, and the Eight Fold Path, to our daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2000-04-07 Why We Sit and What it Does 59:37
Robert K. Hall

2000-04-03 Awakening Through Aversion 37:22
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor

2000-04-03 Bodhisattva 61:12
Jack Kornfield

2000-04-03 The Eightfold Path 5: Wise Livelihood 43:15
Rodney Smith
Are we prostituting one-third of our life to fund the other two-thirds?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-30 How Change Happens in Spiritual Life 60:18
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-30 What Brings Change on the Spiritual Path 60:25
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-29 Ryokan 51:05
Eugene Cash

2000-03-29 Opening To Dukkha Is Opening To Freedom 45:37
Narayan Helen Liebenson
The awareness of suffering is a way to let it go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-28 Relationships As Path 57:22
Tara Brach
Delving into how our relationships are the ground of spiritual awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-27 The Eightfold Path 4: Wise Action 39:28
Rodney Smith
Without the integrating the wise view into our actions, our path can remain very conceptual.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-26 Mudita: Sympathetic Joy 49:09
Marie Mannschatz

2000-03-24 Bodhisattva's Aspiration 63:04
Tara Brach
The Bodhisattva is resolved to realize non-separation and live from this truth. On this path, we widen the circle of compassion to include all of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-23 Death, Grief and Practice 29:17
Eugene Cash

2000-03-23 Losing It: How Being Humbled Can Lead To True Humility 56:49
James Baraz
The experience of seeing the confusion in our minds as well as its unskillful expression in words and actions can be very humbling. How can we use our mistakes to deepen our practice and turn them into a noble humility that deepens our understanding and enriches our spiritual life?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2000-03-22 Compassion 1:13:21
Joseph Goldstein

2000-03-21 On Not Knowing 59:25
Jack Kornfield
Learning to rest in mystery, wisdom, and not knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-03-20 In This Very Body 51:54
Marie Mannschatz
Body awareness and the five aggregates.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-19 Desire and Awakening of Our Hearts 55:58
Tara Brach

2000-03-18 Desire and Awakening 56:08
Tara Brach

2000-03-17 In the Seen. Just the Seen 55:01
Eugene Cash

2000-03-16 What We Need Is Here 58:47
Howard Cohn

2000-03-15 Man II 51:11
Marie Mannschatz

2000-03-14 3 Characteristics 49:20
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-14 Three Characteristics 49:50
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-13 Characteristics of Life 39:31
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-13 Awakening from the Dream 63:41
Tara Brach

2000-03-13 The Eightfold Path 3: Wise Speech 39:45
Rodney Smith
We are most often known by what we say, externally, to others; while self-knowledge comes, most often, by what we say internally to ourselves.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-13 Awakening From The Dream 64:03
Tara Brach
Recognizing the prison of our conceptual minds and hwo we can open into our True Nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-11 Renunciation 54:33
Eugene Cash

2000-03-10 Happiness of the Buddha 49:38
Howard Cohn

2000-03-09 Contemplation of the Body 49:54
Eugene Cash

2000-03-09 Self Knowledge And Selflessness 46:46
Narayan Helen Liebenson
The path of awareness and the discovery of no self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-08 Blessing Our Inner Life 57:19
Tara Brach
Learning how to handle the difficulties we can encounter when our hearts become wakeful and compassionate.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-08 Liberation And Path; Noble Truths 3 & 4 (Part 2) 44:10
Michael Grady
Liberation from suffering and the path leading to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2000-03-07 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 61:53
Jack Kornfield

2000-03-06 An Investigative Tool 30:15
Ajahn Amaro
date uncertain

2000-03-06 The Eightfold Path 2: Wise Aspiration 43:57
Rodney Smith
When framed by wise view, aspiration begins the journey to the other shore.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2000-03-06 Insight Into The Nature Of Suffering: The 4 Noble Truths (Part I) 47:11
Michael Grady
Opening to the truth of suffering and its origin (noble truths 1+2).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2000-03-05 Five Powers of Heart 41:20
Narayan Helen Liebenson

2000-03-05 Who Am I, What Am I? What Is? What? 54:29
Ajahn Amaro
date uncertain

2000-03-05 On The Threshold To The Inner World 48:24
Marie Mannschatz
How to arrive in the present moment on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-03-04 Harmony in Solitude 58:26
Steve Armstrong
date uncertain

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 5 48:36
Bhikkhu Bodhi
MN1.05
Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 4 62:13
Bhikkhu Bodhi
MN1.04
Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Immediate And Ultimate 45:46
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 3 51:08
Bhikkhu Bodhi
MN1.03
Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 2 46:18
Bhikkhu Bodhi
MN1.02
Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 1 47:21
Bhikkhu Bodhi
MN1.01
Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Love 1:26:43
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-02 Cessation 45:55
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-02 Trusting Your Buddha 59:59
James Baraz

2000-03-02 Q&A 1:12:11
Jack Kornfield
Date unknown, with John T

2000-03-02 The Third Noble Truth 49:56
Eugene Cash
date uncertain

2000-03-02 A Matter Of Tension 47:03
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-02 From Fear To Love 45:42
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-01 This Is It 45:59
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-01 Process And Liberation 48:45
Christopher Titmuss
Gaia House Retreat with Christopher Titmuss and Sharda Rogell

2000-03-01 Practice as a Prayer 53:34
Sylvia Boorstein

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