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Dharma Talks
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 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 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 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

2013-03-12 La quête et ses questions 61:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2013-03-12 Compassion 56:48
Jack Kornfield
How to hold the whole path of awakening with the great heart of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-12 The Clear Light of Your Existence - In Memory of Carlos Ramirez 44:47
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2013-03-12 Dependent Origination: Ignorance 65:04
Rodney Smith
Ignorance, or "ignoring" the facts, begins the conditioned chain of events known as Dependent Origination. Our refusal to acknowledge and look is the essential first cause of the sequencing of conditions that leads to struggle and separation. To reverse this process all we have to do is be amenable to seeing what is in front of our eyes. This, together with our willingness not to turn away from the implications of what we see, are the sole requirements necessary for the interruption of the links of causality. Awareness ends the belief that the world is static and fixed. We usually gloss over the continual unfolding and disarray we call, "our living experience," so we can use ignorance as a life preserver and steady our position by fixing it within the world. How much of this unfixed universe we are willing to see will be determined by our sincerity, but the seeing, and therefore the ending of struggle, is always possible.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-03-12 Morning Instructions - Chitta - mind/heart 45:36
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-11 "Self" Exploration 49:07
Mark Coleman
An inquiry into self identity & self-identification
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-03-11 Saddha 38:59
Winnie Nazarko
Understanding Saddha (faith) the first of the 5 Spiritual Faculties. How this Buddhist version of faith is different from naive faith, authoritarian faith and consumer faith. What is called faith when we practice this capacity of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-11 Energy/Patience 49:50
Christina Feldman
Primarily exploring the quality and dimensions of the Parami of Viriya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-10 The Power of Seeing Clearly 56:37
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-03-10 Morning Instructions 50:29
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-10 Radical Aliveness - Guided Meditation - Part 1 53:57
Amma Thanasanti
from day-long retreat at Maya Sanctuary, Denver CO
Shakti Vihara

2013-03-10 Radical Aliveness - Guided Meditation - Part 2 1:51:32
Amma Thanasanti
from day-long retreat at Maya Sanctuary, Denver CO
Shakti Vihara

2013-03-10 Radical Aliveness - Intro on Refuge and Precepts 20:10
Amma Thanasanti
from day-long retreat at Maya Sanctuary, Denver CO
Shakti Vihara

2013-03-09 The Tattered Self 48:33
John Travis
Poem and then explore aspect of not-self and relative self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-09 Dana/Sila - Exploring the first two paramis 59:05
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-09 Deep Presence 31:36
Shaila Catherine
Mindfulness brings a powerful quality of presence to our encounter with experience. By cultivating deep presence we meet life below the level of superficial concepts. We disentangle the mind from the story of self. More than charisma or social skills, deep presence implies a profound way of being which brings our momentary encounters into the immediate present.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Saturday Talks - 2013

2013-03-09 Who Are You? 44:00
Mark Coleman
An exploration of identification with the sense of self and how to see through this identification.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-03-09 Clinging to and Identification with Views (ditthūpādāna) 21:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Our take on reality. Views: right or wrong ones, conscious and unconscious ones, based on our reflections or simply adopted in unacknowledged ways through lack of proper investigation.
New York Insight Meditation Center Clinging and Identification (upādāna) – Practical Ways of Unbinding

2013-03-09 Clinging and Identification - Practical Ways of Unbinding (Part 2) 1:50:28
Akincano Marc Weber
Our take on reality. Views: right or wrong ones, conscious and unconscious ones, based on our reflections or simply adopted in unacknowledged ways through lack of proper investigation.
New York Insight Meditation Center Clinging and Identification (upādāna) – Practical Ways of Unbinding

2013-03-09 Intro: Grasping as the attempt to avoid suffering. 22:14
Akincano Marc Weber
Different meanings of the term upādāna – Etymology and three notions: "Grasping", "Identification" and "fuel". Four statements and their psychology: "Seeking experience" "I am right; I am competent" "I know the right technique" "Becoming someone"
New York Insight Meditation Center Clinging and Identification (upādāna) – Practical Ways of Unbinding

2013-03-09 Integral Awakening 16:17
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-03-09 Integral Awakening - Q&A 29:53
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara

2013-03-09 Defenses Against Spaciousness 50:33
Martin Aylward
We long for inner space and peace, yet we also defend against it, compulsively filling the open space of consciousness with the endless mental proliferation that gives us our sense of self and world. In this talk Martin explores the 3 major expressions of this inner momentum, showing us ways to recognise, understand, and let go of our demands, defences and distractions, and allowing instead the genuine, wide open spaciousness of our nature.
Gaia House Full Life, Spacious Mind

2013-03-08 Opening Talk 43:58
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-03-08 Part 1: Not Stealing, Lying and the Pabhassara Citta 51:48
Trudy Goodman
First of 2 talks about the five precepts as instruction for meditation practice; as both path to and expression of our pabhassara citta, radiant clear mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-08 On grasping and identification: Overview (with Q & A) 1:17:16
Akincano Marc Weber
On the notion of grasping and attachment (upādāna) in the Suttas; with an emphasis on the Teaching of four specific forms of (i) clinging to and identification with sensuality (kāmūpādāna); (ii) clinging to and identification with virtue, ritual and practices (sīlavatūpādāna); (iii) clinging to and identification with views (diṭṭhūpādāna) and (iv) clinging to and identification with doctrines of a self (attavādūpādāna)
New York Insight Meditation Center Clinging and Identification (upādāna) – Practical Ways of Unbinding

2013-03-08 Opening Talk for Full Life Spacious Mind Retreat 55:15
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Full Life, Spacious Mind

2013-03-07 Buddhism & 12 Steps, Week 5 49:10
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-07 Buddhism & 12 Steps, Week 5 (Forgiveness Meditation) 55:59
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-03-07 My Encounter with Mindfulness 51:29
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-06 Generosity, Discipline & Renunciation 52:24
Lila Kate Wheeler
Practicing the first 3 Paramitas: Giving loving attention, Discipline of being present, Renunciation of loving the life you have.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-03-06 Everything Happens 61:48
Sylvia Boorstein
First 14 minutes was a baby blessing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-03-05 Who Am I? The Question of Identity 54:53
Jack Kornfield
How the practice of loving awareness allows a profound shift of identity from a small limited sense of self to spacious wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

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