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Dharma Talks
2013-06-02 Joy, Self-Hatred and Gratitude 62:06
Michele McDonald
How joy, self-hatred and gratitude relate to the tenderness of existence itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-02 Guided Meditation - Introduction To Compassion 44:01
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-02 That Which Supports the Truth In Us 28:51
Ayya Medhanandi
There is a fearlessness that we can know, where greed and anger are vanquished. It is a state of equanimity with whatever comes which no one else can pollute, disturb or destroy. There is nothing more difficult - or more noble - for a human being to realize than this indestructible peace of heart. So why would we want to dedicate ourselves to anything less than that? May we realize this precious truth for ourselves and preserve it for the benefit of all beings.
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community

2013-06-01 Getting Beneath The Flood Of Fabrication 56:23
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A discussion of our practice as an attempt to ground the awareness of reality -instead of getting lost in the realm of fantasy that we tend to think of, as our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-01 Evening Talk; Day 1 - Grow in the Master's Way 32:19
Ayya Medhanandi
All conditions of this world have the nature to change: the earth, weather, governments, work, health, leisure, family, friendships and so forth. We observe these variations and consider the most critical change of all. It promises the greatest blessing – but first we must plow the interior field of goodness that yields our heart's deliverance. Faithfully, patiently, as we clear away the dust in the mind, the hindrances of greed, ill-will, fear and delusion fall away, and we abide in the clarity, serenity, and joy of the Dhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Where Body and Heart Meet 58:30
Ajahn Sucitto
The sense of self is an inadequate vehicle for dealing with life, for dealing with dukkha. Where body and heart meet can deal with it – grounded in body, steady and open in heart. Your true power will come through
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Whole Body Breathing 28:43
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Nature as Teacher

2013-05-31 Explanation of Eight Precepts; Opening Talk 51:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-30 Morning Instruction - Mindfulness of emotion 45:02
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-29 Life's redemption from ignorance. 59:46
Michele McDonald
The difference levels of how we misperceive reality and how mindfulness redeems that misperception.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-29 Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out Of Your Own Way" 1:16:31
Tara Brach
The depth and vitality of a meditation practice depends on our sincerity, and an attitude of curiosity and friendliness. With this as the grounds, our practice will cultivate the clear seeing and openheartedness that expresses our deepest nature. This talk covers basic ingredients in a meditation practice, and includes a half hour of questions and responses.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-29 The Foundations of Mindfulness: Why we Practice 51:05
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-28 Questions and Answers 59:58
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-05-28 Being a Companion to the Margins of Our Minds 60:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A discussion of how and why to bring kindness and interest to our relationship with the parts of ourselves that are the hardest for us to connect with.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-28 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 37:53
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-05-28 Guided Metta Meditation - Receiving From Benefactors 41:17
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-28 I-Making & Mine-Making Constructing Self 39:21
Shaila Catherine
How is a sense of self constructed? What is the concept of not-self in Buddhist practice? How do we construct identity? This talk explores the traditional model of the five aggregates affected by clinging and explains how clinging occurs in contact with sensory experience. The five aggregates—materiality, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—represent an early Buddhist model for understanding how suffering forms through misperception. Clinging to misperceptions produces a sense of continuity in experience that we conventionally call "I", and a relationship to experience the we conventionally call "mine". This model clarifies the precise objects contemplated in vipassana (insight) meditation practice. This talk explains each aggregate so that insight may liberate the mind from this subtle type of attachment.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2013-05-27 Feeding The Wolf of Love, Restraining The Wolf of Hate 59:00
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-27 Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 53:58
Greg Scharf
An introduction to the Satipatthana Sutta followed by an investigation of mindfulness of the body with a fixed focus on the four elements
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-27 Morning Instructions and Reflection 14:52
Greg Scharf
Guided Meditation/Instructions and reflection on the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-26 Eightfold Path: When the Rubber Meets the Road 54:18
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-26 Relaxing with Experience 52:19
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-05-26 Reflections on The Path of Wisdom and Compassion 47:30
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Young Person's Retreat: A Path of Wisdom and Compassion

2013-05-26 Meditation Instructions 34:13
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Young Person's Retreat: A Path of Wisdom and Compassion

2013-05-25 A Heart as Wide as the World - Metta Meditation 69:21
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-25 A Heart as Wide as the World - The Practice of Metta and its Relationship to Mindfulness 33:54
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-25 Getting Real; Getting Free 55:49
Pascal Auclair
Getting down with the 3 Characteristics
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-25 Walking Meditation Instructions 12:17
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-25 Exploring Stillness and Movement 44:29
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-25 Retreat - The Story of Loving Kindness 28:56
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-25 Change Your Mind Retreat 62:24
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-24 The Three Refuges 9:42
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-05-24 The Buddha 19:54
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2013-05-24 Body as Liberation 57:57
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-24 Davenning 1:31:47
Rabbi Jeff Roth
True North Insight Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

2013-05-24 What's Going On Here Retreat 57:46
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-23 Opening Talk 39:22
Rabbi Jeff Roth
True North Insight Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

2013-05-23 Welcome Your Body Home 48:05
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-23 Guided Meditation Day 3 50:52
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-23 Faith 50:26
James Baraz
How the practice develops the quality of Saddha, a heartfelt confidence and trust in the practice and in our capacity to wake up.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-05-23 Retreat - Mindfulness of the Body 60:46
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-22 Anyone Feeling Hindered? 52:22
Pascal Auclair
Wisely attending to what hinders life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-22 Being to Being - Loving Beyond the Trance 1:22:52
Tara Brach
We have strong conditioning to relate to each other from a sense of separateness--persona to persona. This talk looks at what traps us in egoic relating and how several simple yet powerful reflections can open us to pure, unconditioned loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-22 Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination 61:30
Donald Rothberg
The last in a series of talks--an outline of the twelve factors of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination, an analysis of the cycle leading from being able to work with suffering through to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-22 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 20:28
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-21 Developing Our Practice 9:20:03
with Anushka Fernandopulle, Arinna Weisman, Ayya Anandabodhi, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Carol Wilson, Jack Kornfield, James Baraz, Joseph Goldstein, Kittisaro, Thanissara

2013-05-21 Worldly And Unworldly Feelings 62:43
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding which feelings condition defilements and which feelings lead to a deeper happiness and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2013-05-21 The Dharma is Not an Escape - The Way Out is In 38:52
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-05-21 Dependent Origination: Name and Form 61:51
Rodney Smith
Consciousness processes the mental formations by labeling and calling them something. Suddenly from a vague appearance arises the names and forms of life as we know it. Nama Rupa (name and form) arises from the fertile ground of mental formations and consciousness whose empty nature is confused by ignorance. To be called something, content requires information imparted about its nature. For example, we say an object is round, red, smooth, and small. Having recognized those traits through memory, we amass the data and call the object an "apple." The name we give separates it from the rest of the content before us. When we are hungry, "apple" rises to the forefront of all other forms. When we are not, it falls back and is barely noticed. The mental formations that encircle the words determine the object's importance to us. Consciousness is now ready to develop a narrative about the relative relationships between the objects, and where there is a story there will be a storyteller.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-05-21 Sustaining Open-Heartedness 14:36
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

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