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Dharma Talks
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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 4 35:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

2016-02-01 The Branches of the Meditation Family 64:35
Richard Shankman
Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Meditation Class at Spirit Rock on February 1st, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-01 Day 2 Morning Instructional Sit 9:54
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-01-31 Cultivating Mindfulness 50:35
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-01-31 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Truthfulness - week 4 57:28
Mark Nunberg
A reflection on right speech
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-01-31 Working with Transforming Judgment Mind 59:00
Donald Rothberg
Working with Transforming Judgement Mind: Welcome, Introduction and Overview.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-31 Day 1 Brahma Vihara Instructions 46:43
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-01-31 Practice in Everyday Life 61:11
Simon Child
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-30 Working Compassionately with Who and What we Are 63:04
Fiona Nuttall
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-30 Meditation as Medicine with Bob Stahl and Steve Flowers 5:08:33
Bob Stahl
This program is designed for people who yearn for more balance in day-to-day life, healthier living, renewal and stress management.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-30 Intro to Koan Practice 64:15
Simon Child
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-29 Working with Awareness 48:51
Fiona Nuttall
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-29 Finding kindness 47:13
Caroline Jones
Guided Metta meditation preceded by some reflections on kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-01-29 Chan History, Practice, Silent Illumination Meditation 1:14:47
Simon Child
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-28 Intoxicated with Reality 56:00
Eugene Cash
The paradox of awareness, impermanence and letting go
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking up in Every World

2016-01-28 Waking Up in Every World 51:26
Anushka Fernandopulle
Continuing practice after retreat, taking a wide angle view to step out of self absorption and into freedom, contributing to collective liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking up in Every World

2016-01-28 Introductory Talk for Retreat 36:04
Simon Child
Gaia House A Taste of Chan

2016-01-28 Essence of Dana that Relates to Our Inter-Connectedness (Dana Series #2) 49:01
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-01-27 Faith 56:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-01-27 Inclusion and Belonging 1:10:56
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-01-26 Seeing Thru Eyes of Love 55:48
Vinny Ferraro
We explore the power of perspective. To give shape to our experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking up in Every World

2016-01-26 3 niveaux de protection du coeur 51:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-01-26 Turning Suffering Into Happiness 61:57
James Baraz
In every moment we have a choice of planting seeds of suffering or happiness. We can understand how to meet it skillfully.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Staff Retreat 2016

2016-01-25 The Way to the End of the World 57:08
Howard Cohn
Body as the way to open to the world, let go of cause of suffering and realize freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking up in Every World

2016-01-25 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 3 1:27:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
Attached Files:
  • Satipatthana: the Direct Path to Realization, Cp 8 "Mind" by Venerable Analayo (Google Doc)

2016-01-25 The Path of Tenderness 41:53
Mark Coleman
Dharma talk by Mark Coleman recorded at the Monday Night Meditation Class on January 25th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking up in Every World

2016-01-25 Guided Meditation from Monday Night Meditation Class 1-25-16 41:30
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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