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Dharma Talks
2010-10-24 Meditation Instructions - Walking and Sitting 58:13
Yanai Postelnik
These instructions also given by Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-23 Joyous Equanimity 61:48
Spring Washam
Freedom and equanimity in the midst of challenges and change. The Buddha's teachings on equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-23 Taking Refuges as a Practice / Prijeti 3-Utociste jako praxe 56:19
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Refuges and Precepts (Call and Response) / Utociste a Predsevzeti (vedeni a odezva) 4:07
Steve Armstrong
Dakota Pension Josefův Důl :  Meditation, Awareness and Understanding

2010-10-23 Vier Ebenen des Glücks 52:46
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2010-10-23 Hard Things That Open the Heart 46:46
Rick Hanson
AM Middle Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 The Hard Things That Open The Heart 34:51
James Baraz
Opening AM Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 Le Kamma de la Liberation 49:14
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-23 Leaning On Noble Supports 54:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Moneyyos Pabbaja 6:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-23 Opening Talk for the Awakening Heart 38:57
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart

2010-10-22 Kamma - Karma 58:43
Marcia Rose
Exploring kamma as a very accessible aspect of the Buddha's teaching... kamma as intention or motivation, which includes will, choice and decision... the mental impetus that leads to actions... both creative and destructive actions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-22 Nous causons de la souffrance pour nous meme 54:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-22 Emptying The Path 18:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-21 Buddha's Advice on Becoming Free from Latent Tendencies 64:10
Carol Wilson
A brief talk on the 2nd sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-21 Metta Bhavana Bienveillance 27:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Lausanne 2010 October

2010-10-21 The Big E. What does it mean to you? 50:25
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2010-10-21 Dignified Unwinding 20:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-20 Compassion 55:51
Joseph Goldstein
Engaging with the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-20 Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series 1:24:15
Tara Brach
Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecure. In this class we explore how to free ourselves from this suffering by bringing a mindful and kind awareness to the stories and feelings that make up our emotional life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-20 Wisdom Everywhere 51:16
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-20 Self and Others 60:51
Stephen Batchelor
Concluding remarks: recap. on namarupa/consciousness, and reiteration that, as a way of embracing dukkha, this account of experience is prescriptive NOT descriptive; example from literature that illustrates the poignancy of this view of life; reflection on Dhammapada v. 80 to illustrate how the self is a project to be realised, a middle way approach that avoids both eternalism and nihilism; reflection on three suttas that provide a foundation for ethics and one's relation with others; how to tend to the Buddha entails tending to those who suffer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-20 Portals To The Deathless 23:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-19 Stepping Out of Our Identities 40:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2010-10-19 Diligence 57:28
Ariya B. Baumann
The Buddha rated diligence (appamada) as foremost among all the wholesome qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-19 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 of 6 1:30:49
Mark Nunberg
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-19 Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings 46:58
Winnie Nazarko
Reflections on the power and value of loving-friendless practice, and its place on the road to awakening. Guided metta practice for all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-19 Nameform / Consciousness 67:43
Stephen Batchelor
Recapitulation on the principle of conditioned arising; the 6, 10, and 12 "links"; an analysis of the passage where the Buddha declares that consciousness is conditioned by nameform [namarupa] and nameform by consciousness; the meaning of term namarupa in Brahmanic thought; a phenomenological account of each of the nama factors (contact, feeling, perception, intention and attention) and their role in consciousness.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-19 Crucible Of Samadhi 29:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-18 Baby Blessing - October 18, 2010 5:55
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Choegyal: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma. 69:13
Jack Kornfield
The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Rinpoche: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma 29:58
Jack Kornfield
Part 1 of 2: The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 Continuing the Momentum of the Retreat in Daily Life Practice 33:54
Donald Rothberg
We explore a number of resources, support structures, and guiding perspectives that can help our daily life practice come alive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-18 Entering the Stream 61:33
Stephen Batchelor
The parable of the ancient city as a template for a secular Buddhism, i.e. how the four truths and conditioned arising provide a framework for a new culture or civilisation; further reflection on "fully knowing dukkha" in terms of its cognitive, affective and aesthetic implications; how stream entry entails autonomy, as well as confirmed confidence in Buddha, dharma and sangha; the humanised Buddha as the appropriate model for one's practice of the dharma not the arahant.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-18 Stillness and Movement 53:46
Catherine McGee
Sometimes we long for stillness and for all activity to come to rest. Sometimes we long for movement and can't bare to be still any longer. In using the practices of stillness and movement of body we start to study this dynamic, and we see the inner life of stillness and movement and how suffering arises through not fully understanding this play: either we get hooked into the things that move because they catch our attention, or we want to reject them for the same reasons. Coming to a wise relationship with stillness and movement brings more rest in a world of things that move.
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-18 Holistic Acceptance 23:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-17 Going Beyond the Hindrances 56:28
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-10-17 Embracing Dukkha 60:55
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the Buddha's first sermon: how the four noble truths are a translation of the principle of conditioned arising into a way of life; the middle way as avoiding the two dead ends of worldliness and religiosity; the four truths as prescriptions rather than descriptions, as a sequence of tasks to perform rather than a set of doctrines to believe; the first truth as fully knowing dukkha both in depth and breadth.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-17 Spaciousness 50:40
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-17 A Place Of Non-Reaction 27:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Second Vassa Group Retreat

2010-10-16 The Great Question, Investigation and Doubt 41:54
Winnie Nazarko
The great question, our deepest personal concern, can empower our practice, and motivate investigation of reality. But doubt can undermine our commitment to practice if we do not recognize it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-16 From Place to Ground 59:57
Stephen Batchelor
An analysis of the Buddha's account of his awakening in the Discourse on the Noble Quest (M. 26) as an existential shift from attachment to a 'place' to the seeing of the twofold 'ground' of conditioned arising and nibbana, followed by a psychological interpretation the subsequent passage which describes how, inspired by the god Brahma, he set off to teach his first sermon in Isipatana (Sarnath).
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-16 Meeting Mind States 50:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2010-10-16 Mindfulness of Body 57:42
Catherine McGee
To know 'body as body' is the invitation of the first foundation of mindfulness. Coming to a wise relationship with our body which neither glorifies nor rejects our body we can begin to know body as a vehicle for profound wisdom.
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2010-10-15 Metta - The Heart's Release 65:43
Marcia Rose
This talk explores ways that Metta practice helps to release the contractions of the heart/mind and the tremendous fullness of energy which is constituted by confidence and strength and a clear straight forwardness that comes from a loving heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-10-15 Metta practice and the Transformation of the Heart 45:37
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of metta practice and how it works-to develop the capacity to lead with the heart, develop in concentration, purify our being and touch our deeper nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-15 Morning Instructions / Istruzioni del mattino 67:24
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-15 Paramis: Householders' Practices of Second Noble Truth / Paramis: le Pratiche quotidiane della seconda Nobile Verità 58:52
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom - Pure and Simple

2010-10-15 How to Hold a Snake 58:22
Stephen Batchelor
Further reflections on the meaning of the term "secular"; the Buddha's comparison of his teaching to a snake; an enquiry into what is distinctive and original in the Buddha's teaching: the principle of conditioned arising, the process of the four noble truths, the practice of mindful awareness, the power of self reliance; reflections on citations from the Pali canon concerning the principle of conditioned arising.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Teachers' retreat at Springbrook, Queensland, Australia

2010-10-15 Opening Talk for Stillness and Movement - Insight Meditation and Qi Gong 1:10:01
Catherine McGee
This talk also includes Brad Richecouer
Gaia House Stillness and Movement Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

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