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Dharma Talks
2012-06-01 The Heart's Innate Kindness 52:47
Mark Coleman
This talk explores some principles and practices of kindness via the metta practice, its obstacles and what helps to open the heart to oneself and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Weekend Retreat

2012-06-01 Psychologische Entwicklung und Spirituelle Praxis. 1:22:52
Akincano Marc Weber
Geschichte und Verhältnis von entwicklungspsychologischen Modellen und spirituellen Ansätzen.
Atammaya Köln

2012-05-31 Melting into Love 51:49
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-30 Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love 67:10
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioning blocks us from these expressions of inner freedom, and the understandings and practices that enable us to inhabit our full potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-29 Compassion Is A Verb 53:16
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of empathy, compassion and engaged response in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-29 The Urgency To Love 58:21
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
How do we love a world so prone to disappointment? Investigating the purifying relationship between love and disappointment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Rest in the Mind's True Nature 33:55
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-29 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise Intention 58:43
Rodney Smith
Wise intention is the energy that moves all spiritual practices forward. We mistakenly think it is our willpower, but it is always and only our intention. There are two expressions of intention: the primary intention associated with the longing to be free and the secondary intention for gain and acquisition. The secondary is formed by the mind from the primary intention, and that is the reason we believe that satisfaction can come through desire. The mind tells us that. For the energy to be reinvested back into the primary we have to prove to ourselves that secondary gains will never be truly fulfilling. That is what is left for many of us to do.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-05-29 Guided Six Sense Door Metta Meditation 15:33
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A form of loving kindness integrated with our traditional mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-29 Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart 38:48
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the way we respond to life when consciousness is not caught in obsessions or reactivity. Martin explores 4 specifically different dimensions of love (Brahma Viharas) and invokes their commonality in dissolving our sense of separateness; beckoning us into an exquisite intimacy with life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-28 Memorial Day Healing 62:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-05-28 The Confluence Of Love And Wisdom 56:49
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-28 On Clinging to Existence and Non Existence: Freedom From Self and Not-Self 44:14
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the inevitability in language of either reifying or negating existence; "It (self) exists" or "it doesn't exist", and how either view is problematic, inviting us in the living immediacy of life, to discover the middle way beyond existing or not-existing.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-27 The New Bodhisattva path 59:52
David Loy
Notes for a Buddhist Revolultion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-27 The Cause of Suffering and the Unconditioned 57:33
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-27 Présence absence 42:57
Charles Genoud
Ou sommes nous quand nous ne sommes pas présent
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-27 On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self 45:50
Martin Aylward
Martin explores how our various views condition our experience, and keep us locked into viewing and reacting to life in all too familiar ways. We look at the way our views limit our experience of who we are, and how investigating those views can lead us into a more ambiguous, and more liberated sense of our participation in life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-26 Genuine Love, Genuine Wisdom 58:35
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-26 Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts 56:56
Donald Rothberg
We look at several ways to practice when strong, difficult emotions and thoughts are present. 1) Finding antidotes - ways to get unstuck if we are stuck; 2) mindfulness using various tools; and 3) wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 The Practice of Recovery: A Buddhist Approach to Healing Addiction 2:46:58
Kevin Griffin
In this daylong retreat we’ll explore the uses of Buddhist practices and teachings in recovery. Blending mindfulness and the12 Steps we will see how fundamental Buddhist teachings like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Lovingkindness, and others can be used as fundamental tools in a program of recovery. The day will include lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises, as well as an introduction to mindfulness meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-26 Why We Love War 30:16
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 Renunciation as Right Intention 3:16:53
Tempel Smith
Of the three forms of right intention, renunciation helps overcome greed, craving and clinging. Renunciation also helps with cultivating simplicity and ease, and allows us to taste the deep contentment born out of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-26 What's Happening 58:20
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering 27:49
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering - Q&A 33:27
Amma Thanasanti
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Instructions 1 Part Dieu 2012 10:42
Charles Genoud
Introduction à l'attitude méditative
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 The Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 65:57
Kamala Masters
The clear message of the Buddha is that this holy life has as its end the unshakable deliverance of mind. (The Simile of the Heartwood, MN 29 and 30). This talk is about what is to be cultivated in our lives so that this deliverance is actualized. The cultivation of dana (generosity), sila (living a virtuous life), and bhavana (developing the mind through concentration and insight)….these three lead one securely in the direction of nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-25 What is Non-Duality? 55:53
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 The Five Hindrances or Obstacles to Meditation Practice 49:44
Grove Burnett
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-05-25 Right Action2 - Morning Session 63:22
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Buddhism and Ecology 43:32
David Loy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 Right Action 1 - Morning Session 22:45
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind 29:59
Martin Aylward
Anupadana, meaning non-clinging (often translated as letting go), is the very essence of Dharma practice. This introductory talk looks at the specifics of cultivating a non-clinging attitude with respect our physical, emotional, and mental experience.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-24 Institutions and Poisons 1:10:17
David Loy
Our economic system institutionalizes greed; our militarism institutionalizes aggression; the media institutionalizes delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-24 Right View and Dependent Origination 1:34:51
Tempel Smith
The teaching on Dependent Origination shows us how craving and suffering arise from wrong understanding and a lawful process of cause and effect. By bringing wisdom and awareness to each step in this chain reaction, we uproot craving and bring an end to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00
Tara Brach
"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-23 Right Speech and Listening 1:25:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Practicing with Views and Judgments in the Context of Service and Social Action 53:50
Donald Rothberg
For many Western Buddhists, it is challenging and often confusing to know how to work with views, theories (whether spiritual or social) and the judgmental mind. We explore the nature of views and judgements and how to practice with them, especially in the context of service and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-23 Sangha as Refuge 52:21
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-23 The "Lack" of Self 54:02
David Loy
Our most problematic dukkha is due to our sense of a separate self, a dukkha usually experienced as a sense of lack.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism - Vignettes, Challenges, Possibilities 45:49
Donald Rothberg
A second overview of socially engaged Buddhism is offered, through vignettes and stories of engaged practices, a discussion of some of the challenges of connecting inner and outer transformation, and a sense of the great creative possibilities of such an approach. With Q&A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Dhamma as Refuge, the Aggregates 1:10:53
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Tuesday Evening Dharma Talk, May 22nd, 2012 1:20:58
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2012-05-22 Practicing the Dharma with Others 42:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism: Personal Transformation and Social Justice 40:40
David Loy
"The mercy of the West is social revolution. The mercy of the East is insight into the basic self/void. We need both" (Gary Snyder)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 36:07
Anushka Fernandopulle
Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path during the Living Dharma Study Retreat. Subsequent sessions discuss each step on the path in greater depth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-22 Guided Meditation: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral 46:19
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Instructions: Mindfulness of Dukkha 19:14
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Dhamma as Refuge, the Path 51:44
Molly Swan
True North Insight Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

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