2014-04-20 Compassion As We Take Action 53:08
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Recorded from Spirit Rock's Earth Day Gathering
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration
In collection: Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration

2014-04-20 The Eco-Crisis as a Spiritual Crisis 54:27
David Loy	Download Listen
There are precise and profound parallels between what Buddhism says about our usual individual predicament and our collective ecological predicament today.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2014-04-20 The Way Out Of Suffering, Stress 65:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There are emotions that support the way out of dukkha. These can be summarized as basic clarity, basic heart and basic strength
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-19 There Is Aging 42:06
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Reflections on the process of aging, how it effects us, finding ways of using awareness and mindfulness to make this process conscious
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-19 Purification Through Love 55:53
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-19 Practicing With Views and the Judgmental Mind 62:13
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-19 Balancing on the Tightrope 60:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-04-19 The Path to Freedom 45:36
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  A Path of Freedom

2014-04-19 Recognising the Taste of Freedom (Part Two) 53:34
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Continuing from part 1, this talk reflects how we may approach the perceived absence of freedom in our life in ways that turn the very place of being not free into a possible gateway to greater freedom, and how we may get sensitive to taste freedom in aspects of life where we may not expect it.
Gaia House :  A Path of Freedom

2014-04-19 Reflection On How You Hold Your Practice 6:59
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-19 The Three Poisons Institutionalized 61:01
David Loy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-19 Touching The Earth: Renewal, Letting Go & Compassion (part 2) 1:16:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYIMC 2014-04-19 One Day Retreat

2014-04-19 Out Of the Orphanage 64:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta (awareness, mind psyche) needs skillful "attachment" to be healthy - upright-the basis for liberation. To be motivated towards this - is healthy motivation - not craving
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-19 Touching The Earth: Renewal, Letting Go & Compassion (part 1) 1:52:18
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis that is pushing us to wake up. More than ever we need to have attention grounded in our bodies, take time to relax, renew, let go and open our hearts. Body Awareness/All Pervasive Awareness The Buddha taught awareness of body and breath as a path of enlightenment. Our body is our direct link to the Earth. Bringing attention to the body allows for relaxation, stillness, renewal and letting go. To discover the body is to discover awareness, and eventually, the awakened state. All pervasive Awareness is a direct approach to embodied non-dual consciousness pervading our body and the environment as a whole. This retreat will combine body awareness and All Pervasive Awareness practices to uncover an authentic experience of ourselves as individuals and our connection with all of life at the same time.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYIMC 2014-04-19 One Day Retreat

2014-04-18 Heart Body 42:36
Ajahn Jayanto	Download Listen
Reflections on body contemplation and loving kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-18 Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation 62:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the tendencies to polarize inner and outer practices, the vision of connecting them, some socially engaged Buddhist exemplars, and how the principles of transformation are the same whether in individual, relational or collective domains.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-18 Purifying the Mind with Metta 51:49
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
As we turn deeply into practice we can let go and move through old habits of anger, fear, and insecurity into our original purity of kindness and clarity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Loving Awareness: Metta & Qigong Retreat

2014-04-18 Appreciating What is not the Way 62:17
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-04-18 Recognising the Taste of Freedom (Part One) 62:15
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
The teachings of the Buddha are described as having one taste and one taste only, the taste of freedom.This talks explores how we may understand the concept of freedom in more conventional ways and within our practice, mentioning some of the ways we may experience being not free, stuck or bound.
Gaia House :  A Path of Freedom

2014-04-18 Why Buddhism and the Modern World Need Each Other 55:50
David Loy	Download Listen
With comments by Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in Service & Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2014-04-18 The Liberating Embrace Of Impermanence 1:17:22
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-18 The Thermals Of Awakening 53:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The supportive factors of meditation build up to a rising current that carries the mind to greater clarity, confidence and collected samadi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-18 Guided Meditation On Standing 30:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The session deals with subtle bodywork - moving breath through the abdomen, chest and head
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-17 Evening Chanting and Dharma Talk - Count Your Blessings 52:34
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Reflections on patience. How can we develop patience in our practice and in our everyday life situations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-17 Sutta Series: Anatta-lakkhana Sutta - The Discourse on the Not-Self Characteristic - SN #22 53:33
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is the second discourse given by the Buddha to his five original ascetic companions after setting the wheel of the Dharma in motion. The Buddha gives his teaching on Anatta (or not-self), and the five become enlightened.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2014-04-17 Remembering the Most Important Thing 51:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-04-17 Wise Responses to Hindrances 52:48
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  A Path of Freedom

2014-04-17 Reflection On Benefits Of Metta 17:43
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-17 Framed By Awareness 56:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our mind /body is held in the grip of kamma, framed by anxiety, grief and other forms of dukkha. Mindfulness replaces this frame with clear, emphatic awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-17 The Signless Gates Of Liberation 18:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Liberation is signless not a sensation, emotion or thought. The gates are signless, desirelessness and emptiness. "uncertainty" is the approach to these gates.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-17 NY Dharma Punx with Q&A 55:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
NY Dharma Punx w/ Q&A
Shakti Vihara

2014-04-16 Q&A 1:26:32
Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-16 RAIN - Cultivating a Mindful Awareness 1:22:24
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
The acronym RAIN is a powerful tool for interrupting habitual patterns of emotional reactivity and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. This talk explores the components of RAIN, how it works, what makes it transformational and typical challenges people encounter. The teachings include a guided RAIN meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Breath as Homebase 27:00 Download Listen RAIN - Cultivating a Mindful Awareness 55:23 View Download Listen

2014-04-16 Path of Service, Volunteer Dharma Talk 61:56
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
This is a dharma talk that Donald gave for our volunteer sangha on the theme of "The Path of Service," which is also the theme that Spirit Rock staff are working with this year.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-04-16 Guided Metta Meditation 1:14:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-16 Three Levels of Daily Life Practice 57:43
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of foundational, intermediate and advanced daily life practices, we focus on several central practices, working with intention, using the imagination, grounding in the body and taking difficulties as practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-04-16 Questions and Answers 56:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-16 Where is the Buddha? And where am I? 23:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Using a devotional form catalysis a heart energy that is relational. This rather than any image is Buddha"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-15 Movement, Mirrors and Balance 49:47
Ajahn Jayanto	Download Listen
Finding balance and consistency in using the stuff of life to learn how the heart moves and deepens the practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-15 Five Spiritual Faculties & Awareness 60:03
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-15 Reflection On Leaonard Cohen Song 2:18
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-15 Out of the Compulsive world 50:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The effect of the social structures pressures our sensitivity and has to be dissolved. We do this through real organic breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-15 Day 7 - Morning Instructions 62:08
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-15 Opening The Field Of The Refuge 41:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Faith in awakening is the heartfelt initiator of the practice. It envisions that the process of Dharma is beautiful in the beginning, the middle - the end
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-15 Harvard Divinity School - Q&A 29:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA
Shakti Vihara

2014-04-14 Ripening spiritual Authority: The Five Indriya 1:15:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Indriya "faculties" have innate potential for awakening. Details are given on how they are to be developed and combined
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2014-04-14 Perception of Impermanence 58:46
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-14 Buddhist Studies Course - The Noble Eightfold Path - Right Speech, Action & Livelihood – Week 6 1:21:49
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - The Noble Eightfold Path - Part 1 - Right Speech, Action & Livelihood
The Noble Eightfold Path - Right Speech, Action & Livelihood - Week 6 - Meditation 28:17 Download Listen The Noble Eightfold Path - Right Speech, Action & Livelihood - Week 6 - Talk 53:40 Download Listen

2014-04-14 Returning to Daily Life 45:01
Simon Child	Download Listen
Gaia House :  A Taste of Chan

2014-04-14 Metta The Hearts Release 1:11:14
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose