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Dharma Talks
2013-02-13 The Asavas: Restraining and Using 48:00
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-13 Conditioned and the Unconditioned 56:47
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-02-13 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice 33:47
Sally Armstrong
The Difficult Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-13 Practical Wisdom for Everyday Mindfulness 11:29
Kamala Masters
Sangha News February 2013 Interview
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2013-02-13 Concentration, loving kindness, and peace. 55:27
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-02-13 Morning Reflection: Mindfulness, voluntary & involuntary attention. 4 stages of focus 17:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-13 Morning Instructions, Day 10 24:29
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-13 Marcia Rose: Metta: The Heart’s Release 68:03
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-13 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection Day 3 17:07
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-13 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 3 25:34
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Essential Dharma, Part 2, Week 6, B 46:21
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 2

2013-02-12 Maps of cultivating the mind: Satipaṭṭhāna and 4 distinct phases of meditation 56:58
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-12 Contentment with Pleasure and Pain 56:23
Tempel Smith
The mental Factor of Vedana (pleasure, pain and neutrality) arises in every moment. Through the practice of Mindfulness we can separate our deep sense of contentment no matter the pleasure or pain aspect of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 The Asavas: Seeing and Developing 52:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-12 Brahma Viharas - Forgivness 46:25
James Baraz
Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 Morning Reflection: Body – object- and field-awareness; 3 dimensions of sensation. 19:44
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-12 Morning Instructions, Day 9 9:27
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Morning Reflections Day 2 21:42
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 47:11
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-12 Greg Scharf: Metta Instructions Day 13:19
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-11 Seeing The Asavas 62:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
The Sabbasava Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya 2 (All the Taints), deals with the eradication of the three taints: desire for sensual pleasure, desire for being, and ignorance. The taints are defilements brought about and strengthened by unwise attention. The seven methods are: Seeing, Restraining, Using, Enduring, Avoiding, Removing and Developing. This talk begins a five part series on this sutta. It addresses Seeing.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-11 Living with heartfull presence 58:41
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how mindfulness and metta (love) work together – so we meet ourselves/others and life with wisdom, awareness, and love
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-02-11 Cultivating Wholesome States, Part 1 63:55
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that the cultivating of wholesome states (Kusala) creates conditions for awakening. This talk explores the importance of this cultivation, its place is Wise Effort and how to "maintain and increase" these states as he encouraged.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-11 Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination - Week 5 1:30:41
Mark Nunberg
Understanding the Cycling of Suffering
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Dependent Origination

2013-02-11 Morning Reflection: Breath – up close and personal. With 5 questions 21:13
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-11 Morning Instructions, Day 8 12:55
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-11 Greg Scharf: Walking The Path 58:02
Greg Scharf
Mountain Hermitage February 2013 Wise Attention and Opening the Heart with Greg Scharf

2013-02-11 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions 24:46
Heather Martin
Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-10 How to Feed The Seven Awakening Factors 65:22
Heather Martin
First get to know them, really stay with them and nourish their arising; in particular sustain mindfulness and sink deeply into into experience, in a gentle steady to sustainable way.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-10 Brahma Viharas 64:25
Tempel Smith
Benefactor, Self, Friend
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-10 Morning Instructions, Day 7 - Mindfulness of Thoughts 29:57
Guy Armstrong
Thought
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-09 Guided Meditation on Compassion 37:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2013-02-09 Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life 23:01
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-09 Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions 21:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-09 Self-worth, Selfing, Forgiveness, Wisdom & Compassion 66:32
Pascal Auclair
Various

2013-02-09 Self-worth, Selfing, Forgiveness, Wisdom & Compassion 66:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2013-02-09 Morning Instructions - Day 6 16:52
Sally Armstrong
Morning Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-09 Awakening 42:31
Shaila Catherine
Awakening is the profound aim of the spiritual life. Awakening is not described as a mystical goal, we wake up to the four noble truths. We look squarely at the world and recognize that we cannot fix it, and through this clarity we realize the end of suffering. Enlightenment does not imply a separation from life, instead, it brings us to face the reality of lived experiences without resistance. Profound realization brings a deep equanimity and peace into every encounter; it is defined as the ending of greed, hatred, and delusion. Awakening is known through the result—the end of defilements, craving, and ignorance. This talk teases out the meaning of several difficult "D" words: disenchantment, dispassion, detachment. These terms do not imply an aversive response to experience, instead they play a vital role in the process of awakening. The talk explores profound spiritual experiences. It considers the danger of arrogance and conceit arising, clinging to, and corrupting enlightenment experiences. It discusses how to express, describe, and speak about our spiritual awakenings without identification.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Saturday Talks - 2013

2013-02-09 First morning mindfulness instructions 1:10:28
Gina Sharpe
Mindfulness is ground and support for meta-practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-02-09 Morning Reflection: The "What" and "How" of experience 18:33
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-08 The Wandering Mind 61:39
Andrea Fella
In our meditation practice, we often view the wandering mind as something that we have to overcome in order to deepen in our practice. But we can actually investigate the wandering mind as a mental phenomenon, and learn a lot about the way our minds work, deepening in our practice through this very investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-02-08 The Suffering that Leads to the End of Suffering 55:47
Sally Armstrong
The First Noble Truth tells us how it really is - there is and there will be suffering in any and every life. But this is not just gloomy news, but rather an invitation to turn towards suffering so we begin to understand it, its nature and its causes, so we need no longer to cause our own suffering, or to feel a vicitm of suffering - that we have done something wrong because we are suffering. Opening to suffering also tenderizes the heart, as we open to the depth and the breadth of our own suffering, and the suffering of the world. This is the path to compassion and to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-08 Metta retreat first talk 65:16
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2013-02-08 Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions 62:17
James Baraz
Metta: forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-08 Morning Instructions 15:56
Guy Armstrong
Morning meditation instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-07 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 1, Part C 28:23
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-07 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 1, Part B 17:05
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-07 Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Week 1, Part A 48:52
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhism & the 12 Steps

2013-02-07 Self and Proliferation 61:04
Guy Armstrong
The ongoing re-generation of the sense of self is reinforced by our tendency to proliferating thoughts. This tendency is explored through the Honeyball Sutta (Majjhima 18).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

2013-02-07 Brahma Vihara-Metta 41:24
Heather Martin
Friend
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat

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