2003-05-13 Non-Dual Awareness 62:52
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
According to the Dzogchen teachings, an aspect of the nature of mind is non-dual awareness. But the Theravada understanding is that these is a distinction between consciousness and it's objects. How can we reconcile these views?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-12 Bodhisattva Path: Plus Rigpa & Nirvana 63:51
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Two talks in one. The first describes my faltering steps in bodhisattva. The second examines different understandings of nirvana in the Buddhist tradition and compares them to the nature of mind described by Dzogchen.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-11 Relating With Emotions; Plus Mindfulness, Consciousness And Awareness 64:43
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This is really 2 talks in one, the first suggests different ways to work with strong emotions in both vipassana and dzogchen styles. The second relates the qualities of mindfulness and consciousness as used in Pali Suttas to the innate awareness of rigpa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-08 Concepts and Reality 60:09
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen

2003-05-07 The Four Noble Truths 63:32
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen

2003-05-07 Teaching with Joan Borysenko 61:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-05-05 Seductions of Mind 61:50
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-05-05 Seductions of Mind 60:54
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen

2003-05-04 What's The Breath Got To Do With Freedom? 56:08
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breath leads to the potential for accurate understanding of mental and physical experience. This simple mindfulness can lead us to the end of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-05-03 The Four Elements 38:08
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-04-30 Working Skillfully With The Paradox Of Connecting And Detaching 46:51
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Understanding how to work with love and longing, detachment and indifference.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-27 Praktische Tipps und nützliche Werkzeuge 48:16
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
für Meditation und Retreat
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2003-04-23 The Shamanic Heart 69:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-23 Buddhas Leben 58:07
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Seine Bedeutung für uns heute
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2003-04-16 Let's All Get Liberated 26:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-16 Praxis als Feier 57:11
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Ehrerbietung, Geben, Mitfreude: Ausdruck der Offenheit und Hingabe
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2003-04-14 Big Band, The Buddha and the Baby Boom 1:19:21
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-11 The Great Heart Of Life 53:00
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Our hearts capacity to love all beings and ourselves unconditionally, is discovered through understanding forgiveness, and the truth of interconnectedness. Freeing ourselves from fear, anger and hatred, reveals our life's capacity for a remarkable greatness of heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-04-10 The Awakened Heart 48:13
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The heart cannot open when it is on a journey in time. Love is found when we add nothing to this moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-04-09 5 Spiritual Faculties 65:26
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-09 Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit 43:24
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Um das Dasein zutiefst verstehen zu können, müssen wir es wirklichkeitsgemäss wahrnehmen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2003-04-08 Exploring the Edges of Weirdness 37:58
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2003-04-08 Task-Centered & Heart-Centered Meditation 47:21
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The movement from task-centered practice to heart-centered awareness contains the whole of the spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-04-07 Brahma Viharas in Time of War 1:10:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-04-06 Insight and Non-Grasping 46:01
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2003-04-06 The Search For Meaning 45:05
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
We search throughout our lives for what is meaningful, only to find it in front of our eyes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-04-05 Intention 46:39
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2003-04-02 There Will Be a Next Fall 63:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-29 The Buddha's Advice On The Four Noble Truths 50:39
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-28 The Nature Of Awareness 56:21
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-27 The Accommodation Of Separation 46:44
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-27 The Spirit Of Questioning 48:45
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
To hold a question is to keep the mind unformed and resting in stillness. Seeking an answer reconfirms the person who knows.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-26 Discussion and QandA Session 47:35
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-26 The Contemplative Way Of Life 45:30
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-26 Deep Happiness And QandA Session 53:36
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-25 Responding to War: The Bodhisttva Path 61:50
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2003-03-25 Purity And Purification 52:46
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
A useful way to view the unfolding of practice is through the two truths, conventional and ultimate. The purity of our true nature is revealed until a conditioned pattern of mind is encountered. When met with acceptance, the pattern becomes purified.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-24 Making A Journey 40:06
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-24 Wanting: The Payoff And The Pain 44:56
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The whole of desire must be understood—what it gives us and its inevitable pain—in order for it to be put to an end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-23 Living With Our Heart 41:53
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2003-03-19 March 19th, 2003 39:29
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2003-03-17 Right Intention & Mixed Motives 59:30
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Right intention is the point of freedom in life. Its cultivation is how we come into meaning and relatedness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-16 Working With Fear: A Meditative Approach 55:43
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Applying the practice to the energy of fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-03-15 Lost In Thought 55:55
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
The four root causes of how thinking carries us away.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-03-13 Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats - Iii 55:36
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
As above.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-12 Acting out of Presence and Non-Attachment 58:13
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-12 Spiritual Urgency 1:13:57
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2003-03-12 Spiritual Urgency 1:13:38
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen

2003-03-12 Being Awake, Living Life Fully in the Here and Now 45:33
Michael Grady	Download Listen

2003-03-12 Being Awake 45:46
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Living life fully in the here and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-11 Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats - Ii 49:13
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
As above.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-10 Insight Into The Three Characteristics Of Conditions 47:39
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Seeing into the nature of conditioned experiences of suffering, impermanence and selflessness leads to unconditioned freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-09 Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats 47:13
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Retreat daily life provides many rich opportunities to know oneself. If the ordinary retreat activities 'off the cushion' are practiced whole-heartedly there can be great transfer of skill when we return home.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-03-09 Q&A 55:49
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
with John T and Anna Douglas

2003-03-08 Opening Talk with Michael Grady 49:45
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen

2003-03-06 Dukkha And Compassion 50:33
John Travis	Download Listen
The nature of suffering—the result in the human heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-05 Breath Awareness 1:25:17
Matthew Daniell	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2003-03-02 Wisdom And Compassion 42:47
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Through mindfulness, we water the seeds of wisdom and compassion - inherent qualities of our nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-03-01 Generosity First 23:01
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-02-26 Embodiment Of Freedom 40:46
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Understanding emptiness, we learn to embody freedom in all the moments of our lives. The absolute and relative are interwoven--the ground of wisdom and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women's Retreat

2003-02-25 Levels of Insight 45:04
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen

2003-02-24 The Body 39:46
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The body is one of the most constant resting places of the "self". Relationship to our body holds not only the potential for confusion and suffering but also for profound wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women's Retreat

2003-02-23 There's No Such Place As Somewhere Else 48:25
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Martin Aylward

2003-02-21 A Prayer For Peace 53:38
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
How every intention to refocus the attention in this present moment is both a prayer for peace and an answer to the prayer.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-21 Sometimes It's Hard To Be A Yogi 49:38
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Martin Aylward

2003-02-19 Interpersonal Suffering and Interpersonal Meditation 1:50:24
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2003-02-19 Passion For Practice 58:25
James Baraz	Download Listen
The place of passion in practice is expressed in the Iddhipadas (Bases of Power): zeal, effort, love of Dharma and preciousness of this opportunity to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-16 Who Is Suffering 50:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-02-15 Going Home 55:48
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-02-15 Trickery Of Perception 52:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-02-15 Going Home 54:24
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Opening to our experience, having a sense of possibility while being at peace with what is happening. Doing our practice and letting it happen, not making it happen, being witness with compassion and clarity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2003-02-14 The Buddha's Journey 61:38
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-02-11 Selflessness: Uncommon Sense 58:52
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-02-11 Cherishing, Self Cherishing & Self-Cherishing 59:14
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The capacity to care as spontaneous, even or perhaps because of there is no separate self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-10 Eros & Love 63:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-10 Grasping, Aversion, Doubt 54:52
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-02-10 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 61:54
James Baraz	Download Listen
The seven factors of enlightenment are being cultivated as we practice. This talk explores how they can be consciously brought into balance and how they work together.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-09 Patience 39:51
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Using experiences as a child growing up in South Africa, as well as experiences in her daily life, Arinna shares how the practice of patience is an essential part of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-06 Metta And Mindfulness 55:17
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
How these two practices of mindfulness & metta are, in fact, enfolded in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-02-03 The Brahma Viharas 48:13
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
An overview of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity, and how they relate to one another.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2003-02-02 Working With The Hindrances In Metta 63:35
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Recognizing the near and far enemies of metta as they arise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2003-02-01 Purification of Gold 46:25
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2003-02-01 Entering Emptiness Via Perception 1 45:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-02-01 Entering Emptiness Via Perception 2 62:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-01-31 Opening Talk 54:22
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-01-31 Grace and Dying 2 4:53
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2003-01-31 Grace and Dying 1 64:19
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2003-01-29 Not-Self: Taking A Fresh Look 67:19
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2003-01-29 Take a Deep Breath 60:44
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-01-28 The Question Of Non-Self 1:43:04
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center

2003-01-26 The Cultivation Of Generosity 47:54
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk examines generosity, the quality of heart that takes us from self-absorption to open-heartedness. Generosity is one of the principle antidotes for the suffering states of greed, hatred and delusion.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2003-01-25 Contemplating Space 62:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-01-25 Cultivating Calm And Insight 44:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-01-22 Pathways to Peace 1:11:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2003-01-22 Compassion and Emptiness 39:35
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2003-01-22 Working With Hindrances 58:31
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How to work with some of the difficulties we face in our practice and in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-01-21 Investigation 50:12
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2003-01-21 Understanding Contact 53:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-01-19 Don't Expect Second Best 49:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2003-01-18 Non-Doing 45:47
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Carry the statement, "Seek first to understand before being understood," throughout this week. How does this intention create a listening attitude? Experience the effect of listening on your heart, how it opens you to caring. How does your behavior change when you allow actions to flow from listening instead of making assumptions prior to the action? Watch how the phrase interrupts reactive and impulsive thinking. Do you see the potential for changing many of your relationships through this intention?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society