2012-03-16 Choices around suffering 35:37
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream - Dharma Punx group in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-03-16 Choices around suffering - Q&A Session 26:39
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream - Dharma Punx group in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-03-16 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:19:13
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-15 Zen Quotes 55:20
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-15 Third Foundation: Just This 45:09
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Buddha seems to be suggesting to advance ourselves as little as possible in the Third Foundation. When we see what is arising minimally as "just this," we are essentially taking ourselves out of that seeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-15 Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart 55:39
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
A discussion of how the mind is often clouded with unskillful states, the armies of Mara. The Four Powers (Iddhipadas) are ways to develop a more awakened mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-15 08 Mara 56:38
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on the demonic: what rises up and limits us on the path; Mara and Namuci; the parable of the crow and the piece of rock as an alternative metaphor of freedom; the Buddha's response to Mara who appears as a farmer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Lessons from the Kalama Sutta 28:31
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
The Kalama Sutta is most famous for its encouragement not to place total trust in traditions and texts, but it also encourages you not to place total trust in your sense of reason and preferences. So where can you place your trust? This talk focuses on the dilemma posed by the sutta's recommendations, and the way in proposes out of the dilemma.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-03-14 Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing 1:21:03
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
This line from poet Galway Kinnell reminds us of the possibility of meeting our inner life with a loving, healing presence. When we do, we loosen the trance of unworthiness and reconnect with our intrinsic goodness. In turn, we can offer our blessings to others--serving as reminders of the awareness and love that can blossom in all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation - The Dance of Sensations 23:58 Download Listen Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing 57:04 Download Listen

2012-03-14 Feeling Tone 57:09
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Loving One's Enemies III 65:47
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We bring in further practices and perspectives to help us work with "enemies" or "difficult persons" including various ethical, body, heart, and mind practices. We close by examining how we may sometimes project onto others our fragmented parts and thus use practice with enemies as opportunities to find greater wholeness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-14 The Grace of Connection 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-14 07 Conditionality and The Four 58:41
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Insight into conditionality as the core of the Buddha's awakening; reading of and reflection on the first discourse; the process of the four: embracing dukkha, letting go of craving, experiencing the stopping of craving, cultivating the path.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Awakening 54:52
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Beyond I, Me, Mine 41:48
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-03-13 Insight & Diversity 66:31
Ralph Steele	Download Listen
We will use the Four Foundation of Mindfulness as a frame of reference to support the understanding of our relationship with our inner and outer environment.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-13 06 Dukkha and Tanha 60:27
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Definition of dukkha; dukkha and pleasure; "fully understanding" dukkha; the Buddha and Nagarjuna's understanding of the five bundles as not self; definition of tanha (craving); clinging and narcissism.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-12 Ethics, Compassion and Wisdom 44:56
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-12 Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances - Week 1 1:31:12
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 3 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances
The Five Hindrances - Week 1- Course Introduction 16:14 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Week 1 - Meditation 19:35 Download Listen The Five Hindrances - Week 1 - Talk 55:21 Download Listen

2012-03-12 Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening 50:06
John Travis	Download Listen
Through a poem, personal stories, and teachings, the talk explores the seven factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-12 05 Namarupa and Consciousness 61:57
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Meaning of the term "namarupa" in Upanishads and early Buddhism; the Buddha's critique of an unconditioned consciousness; the interdependence of namarupa and consciousness like two sheaves of reeds.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-11 Practice 49:12
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-11 Transforming the Mind 55:41
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-03-11 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 47:06
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-11 Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening 59:40
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-11 04 Experience 57:02
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
The Buddha's criteria for regarding a statement as valid; a pragmatic view of the dharma; the "all" is equivalent to "experience" or "life" -- no need of metaphysical realities; supportive quote by Lucretius; awakening to the delight, tragedy and emancipation of life.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-10 Get a Grip: Concentration as the Antidote to the Flurried Mind 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A review of the hindrances and the way in which the factor of concentration, when applied, steadies the mind and allows for clear seeing to prevail.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-10 Meditations on Mind: Learning to Recognize, Accept, Investigate, and Not-Identify with Mental States 15:32
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This 15-minute recording by Shaila Catherine offers strategies and techniques for meditating on the mind. The acronym RAIN (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Not-identify) can help us work skillfully with mental states.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2012-03-10 Rest in Natural Being 55:15
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Deeply opening to the impact of the characteristics of human existence; anicca, anatta and dukkha, supports us to grow in wisdom and brings intimacy and aliveness to our being. From the silence of being flows the essential radiant qualities of mind and heart; love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Our unfolding is held and nurtured by the supporting containers of awakening practice; sila, samadhi and panna.
Gaia House :  Rest in Natural Being

2012-03-09 Refuge in Recovery 47:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-09 Turning to Beingness - Life Beyond Judgement 47:55
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
"There is a cry deeper than all sounds whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open, to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole, while learning to sing" - Rashani There is an illness in being somebody and and illness in being nobody. When we meet that which is hard to bear in our experience in general, and the force of self judgement in particular, we can come to rest in natural being and open to the fullness of life.
Gaia House :  Rest in Natural Being

2012-03-08 Letting Go of Spiritual Views 52:06
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2012-03-08 Second Foundation: Dissolving Form 48:33
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The second foundation begins to dissolve the form of "I' and the body/mind begins to slowly lose its boundaries revealing the formless.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-08 The Wise and Fearless Heart 56:13
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
This talk explores the nature of fear and how it can be countered by the development of the heart. The spacious heart, trained in kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity, supports us in all circumstances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-08 Opening Talk for Rest in Natural Being 41:52
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest in Natural Being

2012-03-07 Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty 1:27:55
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
We suffer when we forget who we are and get caught in a limited sense of self. This talk explores how we become identified with a sliver of what we are, and the pathway to remembering our wholeness. When we know we're the ocean, we are free to relate to the waves with respect, compassion and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Guided Meditation - Meeting Life with Your Whole Body 26:40 Download Listen Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty 61:15 Download Listen

2012-03-07 Frog Clarity...5 Spiritual Faculties 53:07
John Travis	Download Listen
One of John's Poems. Talk based on 5 spiritual faculties, more based on faith and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-07 Loving One's Enemies II 57:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue to focus on perspectives and practices to help us practice skillfully with those who seem difficult or "enemies." We give attention to further practices and some of the subtleties and complexities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-07 Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different? Part 3 64:01
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-03-06 Living with Calm Abiding and Don't Know Mind 38:18
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-03-06 Take the First Step 58:06
Larry Yang	Download Listen
On walking meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-05 The Perfume of Dharma 62:27
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The beautiful ways the Dharma is being spread across the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-05 Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different? part 2 53:40
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-04 Training the Mind 55:12
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-03-04 Group Discussion: Skilfullness in Practice 49:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long