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Dharma Talks
2013-03-23 Wisdom, Nature, and Being Part of it All 52:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Calm, Kindness and Wisdom

2013-03-22 The Five things that Lead to Awakening 57:56
Trudy Goodman
This talk is based on the seven factors of enlightenment; mindfulness, investigation of the truth of Dharma, joy, calm, and concentration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-22 Opening Talk 57:46
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Calm, Kindness and Wisdom

2013-03-21 Community Sharing: Questions and Answers 56:27
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-21 The World, Its Arising, Its End, and the Path to Its End 58:42
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-21 Buddhism & 12 steps, Week 7 (B) 38:50
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-21 Buddhism & 12 steps, Week 7 (A) 61:47
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-21 Instructions 60:02
Christina Feldman
Equanimity (Upekkha)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-20 Equanimity and the Mirror of the Heart 52:50
Lila Kate Wheeler
Spring equinox and seeing all things in an unbiased way.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-20 Self Compassion (retreat talk) 0:00
Tara Brach
We can only find love and peace in this life if we are able to hold our inner life with compassion. This talk explores the subtle and therefore often unseen ways that we turn on ourselves, and the pathways to a forgiving heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-03-20 Equanimity and Q&A 63:23
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-20 Discussion and Q&A at the Spokane Buddhist Temple 54:50
Ayya Tathaloka
Discussion and QA with the Vipassana Meditation Sangha at the Spokane Buddhist Temple.
Dhammadharini (Spokane Buddhist Temple)

2013-03-20 Brahma Viharas 1:59:16
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-19 Gates of Awakening 56:04
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-19 Questions and Answers 43:51
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-03-19 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 1 of 6 1:29:25
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-03-19 Q&A 60:17
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-19 Instructions 48:16
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-19 Stand Strong and Love 49:54
Ayya Santussika
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2013-03-19 A Talk on Qi Gong 31:19
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-18 Are You Trying Hard Enough? 54:59
Winnie Nazarko
An examination of wise effort, and how it gets mixed up with our habitual personal and cultural approaches to things. Why surrender is needed and what that might look like.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-18 Appreciative Joy 49:53
Rebecca Bradshaw
How appreciating others' happiness lessens the forces of envy and conceit in our hearts and encourages gratitude and contentment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-03-18 Q&A 69:49
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-18 Spring Awakening 47:14
Nina Wise
An invitation to celebrate spring by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-03-18 Afternoon Session - Formal cultivation of Metta as a practice 2:01:58
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-18 The Path of Metta 50:11
Norman Feldman
An exploration of what metta means, why we begin with self, and the relationship between the three aspects of metta: self, others and all beings. Includes real life examples of the power of metta to transform self and others.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-17 Calm and Insight Working Together 57:07
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-03-17 Q&A 62:08
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-17 The Importance of Vedana, 2 of 2 48:18
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-17 The Importance of Vedana, 1 of 2 1:51:56
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-17 Afternoon Session 2:06:16
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-17 An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete Guide to Practice 2:59:45
Sylvia Boorstein
We’ll use the Metta Sutta, The Buddha’s Sermon in Impartial Kindness, as the template overview for practicing liberation from suffering. We’ll have time to study the sermon, practice both mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, and have discussions and Q&A about obstacles to practice. This program is suitable for beginners.
New York Insight Meditation Center An Afternoon with Sylvia Boorstein: The Metta Sutta as the Complete Guide to Practice

2013-03-17 Instructions 52:21
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-17 Letting Go and Letting Be 43:19
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-16 The Small Crack 50:33
John Travis
Working with the wheel of Dependent Origination
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-16 Opening Talk 47:59
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Brahma Viharas: Study and Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2013-03-16 A Road Map from the Buddha, Guided Practice 1:21:27
Rick Hanson
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it’s suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness, quiet, and concentration. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on what happens within your nervous system. Skillful practice thus means being skillful with your own brain. This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. No background in neuroscience or mindfulness is needed, though teaching are also appropriate for health care professionals. We’ll cover: --- Implications from brain research for steadying the mind... quieting it... and bringing it to singleness --- The brain during the jhanas or other states of deep concentration --- How to help lay the neurological foundation for liberating insight
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-16 Neural Factors of Mindfulness, Guided Practice 1:49:29
Rick Hanson
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it’s suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness, quiet, and concentration. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on what happens within your nervous system. Skillful practice thus means being skillful with your own brain. This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. No background in neuroscience or mindfulness is needed, though teaching are also appropriate for health care professionals. We’ll cover: --- Implications from brain research for steadying the mind... quieting it... and bringing it to singleness --- The brain during the jhanas or other states of deep concentration --- How to help lay the neurological foundation for liberating insight
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-16 The Buddha's Path 54:14
Norman Feldman
A very brief summary of the Buddha's early life, with an outline of The Four Noble Truths and discussion of The Three Characteristics.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-15 Part 2: Not Stealing, Lying and the Pabhassara Citta 48:30
Trudy Goodman
An exploration of the fifth and third precepts from a contemplative perspective: what intoxicates? What nourishes and sustains our practice?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-15 Opening Talk for the Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 61:30
Norman Feldman
This talk also includes Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2013-03-14 Buddhism & 12 Steps Week 6 (B) 60:27
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-14 Buddhism & 12 Steps Week 10 (a) 60:27
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-14 The Five Reflections 50:07
James Baraz
The Five Reflections from the Upajjatthana Sutra are: 1 - I am subject to old age, 2 - I am subject to illness, 3- I am subject to death, 4 - I must be parted and separated from everyone and everything dear and agreeable to me, 5 - I am the owner of my karma and the heir of my karma.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-03-14 Five Rivers Running Through 63:16
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-14 Morning Instructions 46:11
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-13 Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness 69:39
Tara Brach
Part 1: In this two part series we explore the evolution of consciousness through the lens of three key capacities: A forgiving heart, inner fire (conscious aspiration toward freedom) and self-inquiry.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-03-13 Compassion to Wisdom 48:55
Lila Kate Wheeler
Deeply conditioned clinging to self does not survive investigation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-13 Distortions of the Mind & the 3 Gateways to Liberation (with Q & A) 1:23:34
Akincano Marc Weber
How does ignorance operate? On the distortions of mind (vipallāsa) as the psychological mechanism of not-knowing / confusion (avijjā). The 4 objective and 3 subjective modes of distortion. Three gates of liberation on the basis of practicing with the characteristics of anicca, dukkha, anatta.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-03-13 Renunciation 50:38
Christina Feldman
Exploring the process of letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

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