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Dharma Talks
2013-08-06 The Importance of Attachment 49:59
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-06 Morning Instructions - Day 4 61:36
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-05 The Practice Of the Four Noble Truths 61:52
Mark Nunberg
The Buddha's first teaching is still relevant today as a means to realize freedom of heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-05 Awareness - Guided Meditation 31:35
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-05 ID on Open 22:33
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-05 Guided Metta and Instructions 51:31
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with near and far enemies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-05 Morning Instructions - Third Day 61:13
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-05 Impermanence - The Elephant's Footprint 59:05
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-04 Compassion - Divine Respect 59:00
Kamala Masters
How can we open to the distress in our lives with the balance of courage and care.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-04 Eros & Sexuality as Part of Practice 59:04
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-08-04 Stop Trying - Guided Meditation 21:23
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-04 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 63:37
Mark Nunberg
Preliminary Metta instructions including general overview and introduction to "easy person"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-04 Four Noble Truths - Guided Meditation 45:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-04 S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday: August 4, 2013 1:28:29
Gina Sharpe
S.O.S. - Sitting on Sunday: August 4, 2013
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2013-08-04 Morning Instructions and Q&A 57:55
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Becoming aware of our attitude toward experience. Working with sleepiness and restlessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-04 Living in Uncertain Times 59:09
Kirsten Kratz
This talk explores what qualities of mind and heart we can rely on in face of uncertainty, using our ability and increasing capacity to be present to our experience as a powerful gateway.
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-03 The Role Of Right View On Retreat 57:43
Deborah Ratner Helzer
What kind of skillful understandings help to motivate and support us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-03 Body & Metta - Guided Meditation 44:05
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-03 Foundations of Happiness 53:40
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-02 Guided Metta Meditation 46:26
Vinny Ferraro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Against the Stream Retreat

2013-08-02 Brahma Viharas for Parents 35:28
Betsy Rose
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2013-08-02 Opening Talk 1:13:37
Kirsten Kratz
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik.
Gaia House A Voyage of Discovery

2013-08-01 Kindness 51:06
James Baraz
Dedicated to Spirit Rock caretaker Steve Young who passed away the day of the talk and who embodied kindness. The power of kindness to bring us happiness and being conscious about the consequences of choosing to act or not act from kindness.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-08-01 Living with Intentional Care and Kindness 47:53
Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2013-07-31 Against the Stream 54:02
Noah Levine
The first day of retreat...the Path that leads against greed, hatred and delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Against the Stream Retreat

2013-07-31 The Four Noble Truths 49:29
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-07-30 The Dharma Of Global Climate Change 60:01
Chas DiCapua
How our dharma practice can turn this difficult situation onto an opportunity for practice and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-07-30 Dependent Origination: Feelings 57:27
Rodney Smith
Each feeling tone has a body posture and pose that reveals its occurrence. As pleasant feelings emerge and shape themselves into a psychic force, the body starts literally leaning into the experience with expectations. This can be noticed as a hurried pace, and a forward leaning tilt. Aversion is just the opposite. The avoidance occurs as a kind of backpedaling, a leaning away and tilting back in contraction or a sudden change in direction. Delusion is harder to pin down but is spacey, airy, and glazed over, often only tangentially connected to the earth. Delusion has lost the ground of its experience and because of that is usually more difficult to notice physically. There is of course the vertical stance that is upright and open to whatever comes that the homework is meant to address.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Dependent Origination

2013-07-30 Guided Big Mind and Sound Meditation 48:17
Spring Washam
Guided meditation with bells.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-29 Simplicity & Sympathy 50:58
Jack Kornfield
The simple heart of awakening compassion in this human incarnation...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-29 Questions and Answers 64:40
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-29 Follow the Yellow Brick Road 60:01
Spring Washam
Following in the footsteps of the awakened ones.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-29 Awakening & Mystery 26:43
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2013-07-29 Loving Kindness Meditation 45:35
Matthew Daniell
Includes easy being, self, friend, neutral person and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-28 Morning Meditation Instructions: Working With Thought 61:45
Matthew Daniell
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-28 Ten Perfections Part 5 40:51
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-07-27 Taking Care Of The Moment 58:22
Matthew Daniell
How taking care of the moment is relational and how caring for self and other with mindfulness and care, is an independent and liberating process.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2013-07-26 Introducción a la Meditación Parte 1: El Arte y Ciencia de la Meditación (translation from 2010-10-13) 1:24:22
Tara Brach
La primera sesión define la meditación y describe las enseñanzas budistas que le dan contexto al camino de la practica. Exploramos las dos formas básicas de meditación - concentración y conciencia plena - y luego nos enfocamos en el entrenamiento de conciencia plena: trayendo atención de conciencia plena a la respiración y sensaciones corporales. Las meditaciones guiadas incluyen el establecimiento de una intención y la pausa sagrada; aprendiendo a "regresar" usando la respiración como un ancla; y "estando aquí" con una presencia encarnada.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-25 Practicing With Fear 59:04
Donald Rothberg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2013-07-25 What We Feed Within Ourselves Grows 57:32
Michele McDonald
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-24 Three Gestures of Love 1:22:25
Tara Brach
If we inquire "what is between me and presence" we usually find we've been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This talk explores a simple yet powerful way of arousing loving presence and dissolving the narrow identification that keeps us from inhabiting our awakened heartmind.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-24 Understanding Letting Go 55:56
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-07-24 On Equanimity 67:49
Steven Smith
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-24 Remember, Be Happy! 64:20
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-23 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry (07-23-13) 1:15:03
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2013-07-23 Kindness and Trust Melt Resistance - The Strength of Soft Readiness 55:25
Michele McDonald
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-22 Mystery & the Graciousness of Uncertainty 63:01
Jack Kornfield
Approaching, accepting, smiling with the nature of impermanence and uncertainty
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-07-22 Having a Tender Heart- Nurturing the quality of compassion. 56:15
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence - Week 4 67:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Anicca - Impermanence

2013-07-22 Joy In and of Itself 56:22
Steven Smith
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

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