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Dharma Talks
2016-02-09 The Power of Lovingkindness 57:54
Guy Armstrong
The practice of lovingkindness (metta) brings many benefits. It makes the heart more responsive, brings about purification of mind, develops concentration, connects us to all beings, and brings happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-09 The Liberating Embrace of Annicca-Impermance 1:13:51
Marcia Rose
The deep knowing & living with impermanence is a gateway to freeing the mind – freeing the heart. The only thing that we can really know for sure is the constancy of change. It's the most basic fact of our existence. Nothing lasts…nothing stays the same. So paradoxically the only thing that we can hold onto is the intuitive insight of impermanence, which arises out of direct experience within our practice and eventually brings a great relief and lightness into our life. We no longer need to haul around such a heavy load.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-09 Day 10 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta-Neutral Person 45:37
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-09 Day 10 Morning Instructional Sit: The Four Foundations 11:31
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-08 Essence of Letting Go 56:35
Mark Coleman
Dharma Talk by Mark Coleman at Spirit Rock Monday Night Meditation Class on February 8, 2016.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-02-08 Getting Equinimity 57:06
Winnie Nazarko
This is a very important quality in Buddhism. The questions are: what is this exactly, and how can it be developed
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Wisdom of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-02-08 The Seven Factors: Working & the 4th Foundation 50:51
Bonnie Duran
One aspect of Right view is understanding when wholesome and unwholesome mental qualities are present. The 7 factors instruct us in what to practice and how to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-08 Day 9 Brahma Viharas: Dear Friend 49:23
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-08 Meditation on Renunciation 36:12
Mark Coleman
Guided Meditation from Monday Night Meditation Class at Spirit Rock on February 8, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-02-08 Morning Reflection: Wise Effort – Right Effort – Balanced Effort 10:47
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-08 Morning Instrtuctions 48:00
Beth Sternlieb
Loving awareness - mindfulness and compassion arising together
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Wisdom of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-02-08 Morning Instructional Sit Day 9: Intention 43:30
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-07 The First Foundation: Exploring the Death-Field 57:10
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-07 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Truthfulness - Week 5 55:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-02-07 Morning Reflection - Investigation 8:55
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-07 Day 8 Brahma Vihara: Metta-Self, Benefactor and Dear Friend 42:15
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-07 Day 8 Morning Instructional Sit: Vedana 45:31
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-06 Equanimity, An Attitude 52:25
Lila Kate Wheeler
Relationship of mindfulness, equanimity, and emotional regulation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Wisdom of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-02-06 Making Friends with the Judging Mind 59:10
James Baraz
Most of us have a strong habit of not measuring up to our idealized standards of who we would like to be. Understanding this habit with compassion and learning to skillfully work with it as practice can become a potent doorway to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-06 The Beauty of Belonging 52:12
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Peace in Everyday Life

2016-02-06 Ways the Wise Heart Responds 62:15
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2016-02-06 Day 7 Brahma Viharas: Forgiveness Practice 43:53
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-06 Instructions: Gathering the Scattered Mind 61:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2016-02-06 Day 7 Morning Instructional Sit 43:59
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-05 Faith: Trusting the Heart of Wisdom 54:07
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-05 The Peace of Letting Go 45:39
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Peace in Everyday Life

2016-02-05 Befriending Ourselves, Befriending Life 56:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2016-02-05 Day 6 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self, Benefactor and Dear Friend 55:25
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-05 Day 6 Morning Instructional Sit 15:54
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-04 Faith & Inquiry 63:54
Kim Allen
This is the first talk in a 5-part speaker series titled "Balanced Practice". In this talk, Kim Allen explores faith, trust, confidence, curiosity, inquiry and doubt, and how these factors relate to our practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Balanced Practice

2016-02-04 Balanced Practice 4:31:20
with Kim Allen, Richard Shankman, Shaila Catherine
The art of Dhamma practice includes engaging skillfully with complementary aspects of practice. Sometimes we are called to actively cultivate qualities, while at other times, letting go is more appropriate. We use both our head and our heart; we engage both inwardly and in the outer world; we need both restraint and boldness. Sometimes qualities that at first appear to be in opposition, are actually inseparable -- like the front and back of a hand. This speaker series explores potential paradoxes and complimentary forces in meditation, as we learn to develop a balanced practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-02-04 Sila (Virtue) "Additional Focus to Wise and Harmonious Speech and Communication" (Series part 3) 54:44
Kate Munding
I’ll be continuing the talk series on The Three Pillars of the Dharma. The theme this week is the second pillar, Sila (virtue). I’ll be giving additional focus to wise and harmonious speech/communication, a topic I’ve been hearing people are interested in.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-02-04 Renunciation as a Support for Practice 56:26
Sally Armstrong
Renunciation can seem like rejection or a penance. But true renunciation is more like relinquishment - letting go of what no longer serves us, allowing the mind and heart more space to open and find freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-04 Introductory Talk 62:03
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Peace in Everyday Life

2016-02-04 The Unchosen Path of Illness 1:10:33
Amma Thanasanti
Given at Sacramento Insight Meditation. There are many challenges as well as opportunities that emerge from illness and learning how to navigate them. Dealing with expectations that practice should be different. Value of devotion, chanting and bowing. Finding different sources of energy other than will and determination. Working with emotional pain as part of the practice. Letting go of stories. Resting in awareness. Enduring overwhelm. Learning how to be OK when things are not OK.

2016-02-04 Day 5 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor 56:52
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-04 Day 5 Morning Instructional 43:59
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-03 Right Effort: Retreats as Training Events for Purification and Cultivation 53:00
Bonnie Duran
This talk looks at different Sutta references on the four right efforts and how to work with them on retreat. includes an erroneous statement on karma. Please excuse. Oops.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-03 Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice 1:18:16
Tara Brach
A key spiritual inquiry is, “In this moment, what most serves awakening?” Rather than a particular style of meditation practice, it is our way of relating to our experience - our attitude - that frees our hearts. This talk explores the attitudes that are an expression of our innately open, wakeful and loving awareness, and that carry us to realization.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-02-03 Day 4 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor 57:48
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-03 Impermanence Continued 63:14
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-02-03 Can I Help? 1:10:10
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-02-03 Day 4 Morning Instructional Sit 16:30
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-02 Identités fluides ou imposés 35:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-02-02 Spiritual Urgency – Samvega 60:55
Marcia Rose
What are the seeds that bring you to practice? What moves and inspires you towards practicing…and what along the way of your practice keeps urging you towards sustaining & deepening in your practice? Samvega is the movement of the heart/an inner response…both within our formal meditation practice as well as outside of our formal practice times.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-02 Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions 57:58
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-02 Morning Reflection - Morning Reflection 8:38
Marcia Rose
15.32 minutes of silence preceding the reflection
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-02 Day 3 Morning Instructional Sit 43:48
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-01 The Need for Sangha, Community and Q's about Ordinary Daily Life 50:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2016-02-01 Delighting in the Wholesome 58:46
Guy Armstrong
Our practice is aimed at developing in three ways: brightening the mind, finding deep inner peace, and understanding the nature of things. The talk explores the role of wholesome qualities in this development: giving, conduct, lovingkindness, concentration, and right view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

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