2015-11-03 The Creativity Of The Spiritual Path 39:08
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-11-03 Continua of Practice: Sophistication to Innocence 63:05
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
The ability to enlarge our knowledge base is essential to our success, in our careers, schooling, and home life. Sophistication, the skillful use of knowledge in a civilized and cultured manner is valued, but innocence, which can be seen as guileless and inexperienced, is not. Much of our self-image is formed by how knowledgeable and sophisticated we are and we can find ourselves competing with others to prove how much information we have obtained. When we know something, we place a fixed objective view onto life and freeze it within our past associations. The problem is that nothing is fixed.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society :  Continua of Practice Series
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2015-11-03 Mindfulness of Body 48:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2015-11-02 The Seed Of Faith 54:17
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the importance of faith on the spiritual path and how to nurture it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-02 Practicing with the World and for the World 45:01
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Reflections on motivation and attitude to formal practice when beginning a longer, solitary practice period.
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:30
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Q&A Session 37:16
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Vipassana 38:46
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Developing Samadhi 65:57
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Morning Reflection: 'The Simple Person' from Andre Conte Sponville 39:41
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-30 The Seamless Circle of The Parami of Generosity 69:18
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Brief description of talk: We usually think of generosity as the practice of offering…but in its fullness it's really both offering and receiving. This Dharma talk deeply explores this 'fullness' of generosity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-29 Waking Up with the Hindrances 57:36
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores how to cultivate wise relationship to the energies of desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness and doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-29 "Awareness: A gateway to joy" 57:50
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Our bodies, heart/mind have sensations, impressions, associative memories. All of these arise in awareness are known in awareness and end in awareness. Every moment we have the choice of focusing on the objects of attention or leaning into the awareness that knows the objects of experience. When awareness is our refuge rather than identification with the objects, we discover peace, equanimity and joy.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-29 Morning Reflection: A Path Infused With Contentment and Joy 5:47
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-29 Morning Instructions For Working With Thinking In Meditation 45:25
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This brief talk gives instructions about how to relate to thinking in our meditation practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-28 This is it 68:23
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Stories of awakening towards the end of the Fall Vipassana retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-28 Self-Hatred and Self-Love 51:49
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-10-28 Stay & Soften Part 3 of 3 Fundamentals of Buddhism 54:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This reviews the 3 characteristics of the core understanding of the liberated mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-28 Big Sky Meditation 46:14
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-28 First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 43:23
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-27 Savoring The wholesome 52:22
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the art of opening to the beautiful and the wholesome in our lives and in our practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-27 The Infernal Trio 50:34
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Greed, hatred, and delusion are the members of the Infernal Trio – the destruction of them is liberation, nibbāna.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-27 Awake in the Wild Experience with Mark Coleman, Sara Overton, Tenzin Choegyal 1:24:35
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Tenzin will offer musical meditations with his transcendent vocals and exquisite lute solos. Mark will talk about meditation in nature and how the natural world is a great support for the cultivating awareness, connection and insight as well as opening the heart to wonder, awe and love. He’ll lead practices that invite us to connect with the nature in the midst of the city. Sara will share the vision of the Awake in the Wild Experience to bring the mindfulness in nature practices to every borough of the city and beyond.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-10-26 Emptiness and the Power of Love 61:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How the quiet mind and open heart leads to wisdom, depth, and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-26 Finding the Inner Island in a Mind Storm 56:08
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation on October 26, 2015
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-25 Mindfulness: Why we Practice 46:34
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-25 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Wisdom - Week 3 59:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series
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2015-10-24 2015-10-24 The Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thupten 5:06:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
This daylong explores the magic of awareness as well as how to access it in meditation and outside formal meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-24 Morning Reflection: 'In Praise of Mortality' by Rainer Maria Rilke 40:19
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Offering a beautiful earth centered excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke's magnificent poem, The Ninth Duino Elegy
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-23 Joy and Happiness 58:51
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The importance of developing wholesome uplifting states of mind through sympathetic joy, concentration, insight and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-23 This is Suffering, This is Compassion 38:23
Beth Sternlieb	Download Listen
Compassion and wise inner speech as a bridge back to the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-23 Equanimity 1:13:55
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
In this talk we explore Equanimity as one of the Factors of Awakening; as one of the Brahma Viharas (Divine Abidings) and as one of the two Jhana Factors in the 4th Anapana Jhana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-22 Crossing The Flood 54:47
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-22 "I Didn't Know I Had It In Me: A Talk on Courage" 54:29
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk is about the importance of courage in our practice. In stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zone, we discover an inner strength and confidence that allows us to transform fear into aliveness, realizing our full potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-22 A Love Letter to Mindfulness 56:06
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
We explore the many ways mindfulness is capable of leading to insight and how to relate to practice to foster mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-22 The Responsive Capacity of the Heart 51:50
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-22 with Alexis Santos Home Practice, Qs and As, Legacy of Dana 66:40
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness

2015-10-22 Archeology of Heart: Exploring the Layers of Conditioning 52:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness

2015-10-22 Morning Reflection: One Unfortunate Attachment - Perfection 50:59
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Do you live your life from a conditioned idealized concept of perfection and endlessly strive to attain this…or from the other side of the coin of habitual self-judgment? Offering another view of perfection in this brief reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-21 Dharma Talk 26:47
Doug Phillips	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-10-21 Awakening Beyond Self 1:25:45
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Suffering is our call to deepen attention and discover the truth of who we are beyond the identity of a separate, deficient self. This talk examines how thoughts, beliefs and emotions keep us trapped in a confining identity, and two pathways of practice that serve awakening and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is 25:56 Download Listen Awakening Beyond Self 59:48 Download Listen

2015-10-21 Planting Beautiful Seeds 57:20
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Tending the Garden of the Heart, overcoming obstacles, timeless awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-21 Noble Silence 55:18
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
"There is so much everything that nothing is hidden quite nicely" - Wizlawa Szymborska. It is easy to create an idea of emptiness, but how can we be present and come to know groundlessness? How do we practice this truth? For starters we need to be quiet, still and open.
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-21 Happiness, Hunger, Giving & God 51:41
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-10-21 Awareness: Five Spiritual Faculties in Balance 64:03
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness

2015-10-21 Dharma Wisdom Part 2 of 3 64:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Reviewing the faith verses of the Third Zen Patriarch
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-20 Sure Heart's Release - Part 3 : Bhavana 64:58
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The cultivation of mind/heart through the practices of samatha (concentration) and vipassana (insight) meditations
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-20 Trusting in Your Human Goodness 58:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-20 Death – Our Close Friend 57:59
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
The reflection on death helps us prepare for this unavoidable fact, makes us look at our priorities, and brings much gratitude, joy, and lightness into our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-20 Continua of Practice: Alienation to Belonging 58:53
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
This continuum speaks to the need to belong that is deeply rooted in our social and biological makeup. This need may well be one of the driving forces in our yearning for spiritual completion. Even when we group like-minded people around us, most of us still feel a subtle sense of alienation that we cannot overcome. We seem to be outside observing life rather than embedded within it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society :  Continua of Practice Series
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