2015-01-01 Daily Guidance - Mindfulness of Vedana - 2nd foundation 52:05
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Discernment of Vedana as a key to healing and insight. (Sitting and walking instruction at the end)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-01-01 Mindfulness of Mind 28:00
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk by Shaila Catherine explores the third establishment of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna)—mindfulness of mind—with emphasis on comprehending mental states as wholesome or unwholesome, developed or undeveloped. We learn to examine the condition of our own minds with discernment and non-identification. We develop the ability to clearly know what is present and what is absent. It is through an honest recognition of the state of our minds that we can purify the mind, nurture deep concentration, and realize liberation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-12-31 The Dhamma Is For One Who Feels 55:45
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Insight Retreat Center

2014-12-31 Aching Heart, Aching World 50:14
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Learning to take care of our aching heart, we learn to take care of our aching world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-31 The Brahmaviharas Beyond Meditation Objects 62:34
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Dimensions of understanding and practice of the differing tones in universal empathy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-31 Things Nobody told Me When I was a Teen 46:10
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Dharma conversations I wanted to be having when I was an adolescent.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's TEEN Retreat

2014-12-31 The Bodhisattva Path: "If you knew me, and truly knew yourself, you would not have killed me." 60:42
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
The bodhisattva path involves a training of our hearts to abandon unskillful states and cultivate qualities of love, compassion, and forgiveness--and envision actions to transform the suffering of others and the world. In the Rwandan genocide and the triumph of freedom and democracy in South Africa we see the suffering that comes from cultivating fear and hatred, and the potential for freedom and peace that results from cultivating forgiveness, compassion, and love. These recent events remind us how much our actions matter, and invite us to become bodhisattvas, committed to the awakening and freedom of all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-31 The Turning of the Wheel 45:14
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight :  2014 New Year's Retreat

2014-12-31 Compassionate Approaches to Practice 47:11
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year's Retreat

2014-12-31 2014 Year End Retreat - Meditation 30:42
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center :  2014 Year End Retreat

2014-12-31 Year End Retreat Practice Questions 31:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  2014 Year End Retreat

2014-12-31 Guided Heart Meditation with Instruction: Forgiving Ourselves and Others 33:05
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-31 New Year's Resolutions: May All People Be Peaceful and Happy 59:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-31 Meditation Instructions - Whole body breathing 54:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
3rd morning of a nine day retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-30 Right Thought 48:02
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Insight Retreat Center

2014-12-30 The How and Why of Practice 50:50
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
The first part of this discusses the principles of choice-less awareness practice. In the last part of the talk, the why of practice explores the three characteristics.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-30 "Landlocked in Fur" - Three Domains of Formless Presence 65:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the formless dimension - the pure awareness is our shared source. This talk explores how we can undo the identification with thoughts, emotions and feelings that keeps us landlocked and unable to trust and live from our naturally loving and radiant essence. NOTE: beginning poem is "Landlocked in Fur," by Tukaram, from “Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West” (Ladinksy, 2002)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-30 New Year's Re-solution 46:00
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight :  2014 New Year's Retreat

2014-12-30 Making Friends with Metta Practice 49:07
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year's Retreat

2014-12-30 New Year 2015 47:28
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Making full use of perception of the new year to skillfully look back to where we have been and forward to where we are going. .. and at the same time, collapsing time to the present moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-30 Meditation: The Luminous Space of Awareness 28:24
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation shifts attention from form to the formless source of all Being. Discover and rest in continuous space, filled with the light of awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-30 Mindfulness Of The Body (kāyānupassanā) 40:15
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
A) thoughts on practicing embodiment B) Guided Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-29 Open Heart, Clear Mind 58:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Intentions for a new year
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-29 Not Knowing is Most Intimate 49:52
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
As we move closer to our direct experience, the body-heart-mind is infused with awareness. The simplicity of intimacy reveals the dharma within us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-29 What Matters. 57:13
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on what is truly important
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-29 Why Meditate? 45:08
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
Discussing the basics of mindfulness meditation and why we do it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's TEEN Retreat

2014-12-29 Dependent Arising - Deconstructing The Causes of Suffering 47:44
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An exploration of how we create a sense of self that leads to dukkha.
Gaia House :  New Year's Retreat

2014-12-29 Meditation: Grace, Forgiveness, Gratitude 55:52
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-29 Questions and Answers 37:34
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-29 Settling in as body and the place of walking meditation (Akincano) 57:12
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Day one meditation guidance. Valuing and attuning to the body. How concentration can come about through bearing the body in mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-28 Opening Talk 1:14:53
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-28 The Eightfold Path 30:28
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Insight Retreat Center

2014-12-28 Grandmotherly Mind 45:23
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores how listening with kindness supports our inner wisdom and reveals the possibility of transformation and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-28 The Four Noble Truths 46:47
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year's Retreat

2014-12-28 Refuge 20:29
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Insight Retreat Center

2014-12-27 Deep Peace 27:11
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Everyone seems to wish for world peace and inner peace, yet stress, agitation, and struggle may still dominate our lives. Are you seeking peace in ways that it can realistically be found? Satisfaction cannot be gained in the world of conditioned things, possessions, and identities. Enduring happiness and peace are found when we turn our attention inward, and let go of the causes of suffering and conflict. This talk by Shaila Catherine explores a number of Buddhist approaches to santisukha, peace and happiness, including 1) virtue, 2) guarding the sense doors with mindfulness, 3) concentration and jhana practices, 4) formless or immaterial attainments, and 5) the ultimate peace brought by insight, letting go, release, and final knowledge. The path of peace develops the mind and enables the adept practitioner to live joyfully, without clinging to anything in this world.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-12-27 Softening the Gripped Mind 55:35
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-27 Meditation: Awakening Loving Awareness (with instructions) 47:47
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-24 Embodying Loving Presence (retreat talk) 68:24
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This talk looks at the evolutionary fear-patterning that creates separation in our relationships, and at the practices that open us to giving and receiving love. (NOTE: talk given at the IMCW summer residential retreat on 2014-08-02)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-24 The Practice of Just This 60:56
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-23 Perception: Ideas, Views, Biases 54:32
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk looks at how we tend to form views based on likes and dislikes... and how we extend our views to form value laden statements about the world, the people in it and even ourselves. We move away from the direct experience into a world of fabrication and delusion. Our ideas become more real than the experience they represent.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-22 Coming to Life: Four Noble Truths in Daily Life. 61:17
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Practical examples and tools for living these teachings in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-22 Holiday Season Reflections & Sitting Meditation 1:37:36
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-21 The Journey of Awakening 61:17
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Using as reference points Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey", the story of the Buddha's life, and our own experiences, we outline the archetypal stages of the spiritual journey from the taken-for-granted habitual life, to receiving "heavenly messengers" putting that life in question, to shifting our core life intentions, to working with challenges, to awakening, and, finally, to a return to the "ordinary" world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Taking the Center Seat 49:09
John Travis	Download Listen
Drawing on the Thai Forest Tradition, in particular Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Maha Boowa, we explore the image of the one seat as a pointer to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Kindness as an Act of Recollection 58:40
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Practice of Befriending - A Gentle Turning Towards

2014-12-20 Nothing That Ever Happens Is Wrong!! Everything is Dharma 60:46
Alexis Santos	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-19 The Heart of Mindfulness: The Four Foundations and The Divine Abodes 63:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk brings together the awakened states of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity into our Four Foundations of Mindfulness practice. Filled with stories, laughter and song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Practicing with Darkness and Light 57:27
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At the time of the winter solstice, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poetry, how we can embrace the dark - in stopping and being still, in opening to the unknown and to mystery, in being with difficulties, and in creativity and the coming of what is new - and open to the light, as it emerges from the dark.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Change Is Possible 53:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
A talk focusing on the possibility of changing the direction of our lives and the importance of giving people an opportunity to thrive. This talk includes excerpts from Sean Kyler, one of the graduates give his moving valedictorian speech through a program that supports prison inmates getting their college degree.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks