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Dharma Talks
2015-05-27 The Two Wings of Awareness 1:20:05
Tara Brach
The two wings of understanding and love awaken as we learn to recognize what is here in the present moment, and to allow experience to be just as it is. This talk includes a guided reflection and a brief period of questions and responses.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-05-27 Afternoon Session: Day 2 59:54
Joanna Macy
Calling for Shambhala Warriors
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of all Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2015-05-26 Existence et mort 29:43
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2015-05-26 Citta-itis: The Heart's Response to Ever-Changing World 59:23
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Seeing and appreciating the heart's defense mechanisms and learning to help them unbind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-26 Individual yet Not-Self 34:32
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-05-26 The Three Hungers 43:47
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-26 Continua of Practice: The Unified Mind 56:01
Rodney Smith
In the Third Foundation of the Satipatthana Sutta the Buddha asks us not to weigh in and attempt to change or alter the mind no matter what its current disposition. “Notice,” the Buddha says, “When the mind is delusional or not, confused or not, etc.” He does not encourage us to change the mind, just to notice how it is regardless of its configuration. What is the Buddha trying to show us in this instruction?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society Continua of Practice Series
Attached Files:
  • The Unified Mind by Rodney Smith (PDF)

2015-05-26 Day 1 - Part 3 With comment 15:23
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of all Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2015-05-26 Day 1 - Part 2 4:43
Joanna Macy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of all Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2015-05-26 Day 1 - Part 1 49:16
Joanna Macy
The Story of Prajnaparamita
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of all Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2015-05-26 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, Sebene Farewell 54:20
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2015-05-25 Equanimity: The Gateway To Enlightenment 54:18
Joseph Goldstein
Exploring the understanding and practice of equanimity in our meditation and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 1 to June 14 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-05-25 Intimacy And Concentration In Listening 19:37
Gregory Kramer
Speaking, Listening, Intimacy, Sensitivity, Sound, Meaning
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-25 Metta Instructions for Self and Easy Person 44:24
Rebecca Bradshaw
Focus on receiving! Some introduction to the practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-25 Physicality Of Speech And Listening 21:27
Gregory Kramer
Exploring Loudness & Pitch/Feeling Muscles Of Speech
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-25 Sila And The Container Of The Retreat 20:52
Gregory Kramer
Sila, Container of the Retreat, Noble Silence, Right Speech, Continuity of Mindfulness, Ups And Downs Of Retreat Experience, Variability of Partners
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-25 Impermanence 38:59
Gregory Kramer
1 - Exploring Open In A Group of Three; 2 - Trust Emergence / Exploring Impermanence; 3 - Walking Outdoors In Groups of Three While Observing Impermanence; 4 - Trust Emergence / Experience Of Major Change In Personal Or Professional Life; 5 - Trust Emergence / "What Plans Do You Have Now?"; 6 - What Is Emergent Now?
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-25 Coming Home To The Body 26:10
Gregory Kramer
Guided meditation on coming home to the body
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-25 Morning Reflection - Mood and Emotion 15:03
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 1 to June 14 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-05-24 You Are Worthy: Freedom 63:58
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz (Insight Retreat Center) Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion

2015-05-24 Joy and the Brahma Viharas 45:03
Jenny Wilks
Some reflections on how we can overcome suffering and cultivate appreciative joy.
Gaia House The Joy of Awakening

2015-05-24 Citta: Qualities of Mind 26:16
Gregory Kramer
1 - Observing Qualities Of Mind -- Presence Or Absence Of Lust, Hatred, Delusion; 2 - Observing The Meditating Mind -- Is The Mind Agitated Or Calm, Bright Or Dull; 3 - Is The Quality Of Mind Cultivated Or Raw, Surpassed Or Unsurpassed;
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-24 I Am The Heir To My Actions 7:47
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (Samish Island Campground) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-05-24 Day Six: Morning Instructions 42:14
Steve Armstrong
Awareness of Kamma, resultant Body, Mind, Sense Door, contact...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-24 S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday 1:41:39
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, sometimes followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and often a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-05-23 Guided Equanimity Meditation #2 45:12
Mark Nunberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-23 Pure exploration - the awakening factor of investigation - part 2 55:01
Michele McDonald
The willingness not to know what our moment to moment experience is -conceptually. How to investigate our experience non-conceptually - that leads to insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-05-23 Gratitude and Generosity 59:14
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House The Joy of Awakening

2015-05-23 Love Sex, and Awakening 46:35
Amma Thanasanti
Ajahn (Amma) Thanasanti's personal journey and interest in the topic. Believing enlightenment is where everyone loves me. Various kinds of suffering. The way that Dipa Ma's life was an inspiration. The hunger to connect and the way that love and sex can be used for connection. Sex as life force. Separation and dissolving into pleasure vs dissolving into emptiness. Love and sex addiction underlying other addictions. The difference between mind states that resolve with observation and those that need engagement. Attachment theory. Pleasure evokes lack. Making use of the complexity.
Shakti Vihara (Against The Stream / Dharma Punx New York)

2015-05-22 Guided Equanimity Meditation #1 46:26
Mark Nunberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-22 Natural Liberation 45:42
Nina Wise
Nature of Mind and Metta. Awakening is the deepest form of relaxation. From the awakened mind, lovingkindness arises naturally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-05-22 Metta - The Heart of Insight 53:13
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz (Insight Retreat Center) Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion

2015-05-22 Day Four Morning Instructions 11:08
Steve Armstrong
Awareness: thoughts, mental activity. Just instructions as power went out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-21 Q & A on Daily Life Dharma Practice 58:46
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-05-21 Guided Equanimity Practice 46:39
Mark Nunberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-05-21 Working with Hindrances and What Brings Us to the Practice 62:41
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz (Insight Retreat Center) Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion

2015-05-21 Day Three Morning Instructions 61:25
Steve Armstrong
Awareness: Attitudes of Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-20 Guided Metta Meditation 45:14
Mark Nunberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-20 Developing a Wise Relationship with Change 47:56
Grove Burnett
Change, evolutionary biology, and the sixth extinction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-05-20 Part 2: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity 1:18:57
Tara Brach
From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundly vulnerable. Our habitual reaction to insecurity fuels separation, and limits our capacity to live and love fully. These two talks explore the blessings of wisdom, love and freedom that naturally arise as, instead of resisting, we learn to open directly to the insecurity of impermanence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-05-20 Dharma Talk 1:17:18
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-05-20 The Wisdom Way 1:20:54
with Alex Haley, Jean Haley
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-05-20 The Two Truths 42:21
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-05-20 Mindfulness - How it Supports Liberation 62:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-05-20 Day Two Morning Instructions 58:39
Steve Armstrong
Awareness, Remembering to Recognize the Present Moment
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-20 5-20-15 Morning Session, Mindful of Diversity. Ruth King PART 01 42:34
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Dedicated Practitioners Program Retreat

2015-05-20 5-20-15 Morning Session, Mindful of Diversity. Ruth King PART 03 23:42
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Dedicated Practitioners Program Retreat

2015-05-19 Guided Metta Body Scan 45:56
Mark Nunberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Field Guide to the Mind: Practical Abhidhamma for Meditators

2015-05-19 The Giver, Gift. and Receiver 21:10
Shaila Catherine
The Discourses of the Buddha include instructions on how to give so that the act of generosity will be most fruitful. This talk by Shaila Catherine explores the significance of the inner motivation of the donor, the quality and appropriateness of the gift itself, and the virtue and purity of mind of the recipient. The motivation, context, and result each play a role in the practice of generosity (dana).
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-05-19 Self View and Insecurity 39:17
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

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